Monster Exchange

We have been working hard on a Monster Exchange Project with a class in England. You can read about it at http://monsterproject3.wikispaces.com/. Today, we made a short video so they could see us working on drawing their monsters. :)

Bill of Rights Rap

We spent a couple of weeks learning about our government, how to be a good citizen, rights and responsibilities. We enjoyed putting together a Bill of Rights rap to end our unit. Enjoy. :)

Mobile Science Lab day 2

Mobile Science Lab day 1

The Relatives Came!

One afternoon last week we were in our classroom talking about the book that we had been reading, The Relatives Came. Our principal called down to us and told us there were visitors outside. We weren't sure what was going on, but we walked out front and were greeted by THE RELATIVES! Our parents, grandparents, siblings, and family friends were waiting for us. They had brought along our favorite books and snacks to share, too! We had a fun afternoon and hope you enjoy the movie that we made.

Being silly :)

We have six Flip cameras for our classroom, and we decided that we needed to try them out. Each table decided what they wanted to do, and Ms. B. recorded us. We are going to learn to do the recording part soon. Here we are just being silly!

Writing about relatives

This week, we are reading a book by Cynthia Rylant called The Relatives Came. We have also been writing about visits with our own relatives.



*Every year I go to Indiana to see my mom's side of the family. I go there for Thanksgiving and Chrismas but at different houses, I also go there for a reunion.The name of the reunion is the Grams Open. Every year when my dad and my brother go golfing I stay at the house in Indiana and go swimming if it's hot enough outside. When we go to Indiana for Chrismas we go a couple of days after December 25th we go like on the 27th. Thats a really fun celabration! We also trade presents at Chrismas. For Thanksgiving we eat really good ham and turkey.There's also really good desserts. When we go to Indiana for the Grams Open we sometimes we get to go swimming. It's really fun! -Allison



*we get up really early to go to my grandmas we pack some pop we hoped in the car and then headed offthe car smelled like vanilla we love vanilla and i have to sit in the middle because i have to brouthers. it took 2 in a half hours to there i love playing with my i tounch in the car then were thereat my grandmas house house.wre my old dog is she jumped up on me and licked me then my grandma and grandpa came out and hug really tight. and we go inside and eat and drink juice and food then we sat down and talked and talked about a bunch of stuff and then we had ice cream then my parents left and we stayed the night me and my bros we played lots of games all night long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALLEIGH

*I went to see my mawmaw.She lives is Frankfort.She has two cats and there reley fat.My mawmaw has the same birthday as me.I brot lots of toys when I went to see her.M mawmaw is verey old.She is verey inportent to me.I love her verey much.She has lots of wild snakes at her house.I wish I could she her often.She has a big creek and I play in it some times.I love her very much. -Halee

*When it was crismes I whent doun to mexico to see my relatives.In my car it smelt like bubelgum and it tast like bublgum.then we whent to go to see my aunt and my uncal.We got to ride a HORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Pablo

*Two weeks ago my aunt came to visit my family. very time she comes she brings her two dogs Tuky and Loki. My aunt's name is Jen but we call her Jen Jen. My aunt's dogs love my dog and my dog love my aunt's dogs. Her dog Loki is an 8 year old yellow lab. She is half blind in one eye and loving, her other dog Tucky is a 3 year old black lab. She is crazy! I so excited because she is comming in two weeks. :) -Emma

Insect Rally!

Ms. B found a video through The Smarties blog and we love watching it! We each wrote a retelling of the story and we would like to share some of them with you.

First the wasp came out, then the dragonfly, next the bee, then the fly and the snail, and finaly the ladybug. the dragonfly got out first, next the wasp, boom next bee went down, bamb then the fly is down, and the ladybug turned aroud and went ha ha hahaha . then the ladybug hit a stop sign and fell to the ground and died .So all thats left is the snail, and the snail won .Their is one more insect and its an ant he was the ref. ,and when the snail won tons of snails gathered around and started wiggling ther eyeballs. The snail family and freinds lived happily ever after. -Natalie

All the bugs get ready to race get mark get set and there. off dragon flys in the lead what ladey bugs tring to get rid of dragon fly no he's DOWN. now ladey bugs in the lead now bees down know.ladeybug,fly, snail waspe. ohhh! now waspe is down know it's just oooooohhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!. FLYS DONW. know it's just laydeybug, snail thay. are the last contestins no now it's just snail and now is the winner he's so happy. Alex

The bee flee out then the Latalebug then the Snall then the Drangfly then the fly then the wasd and then all the Animals were going to a race it eand up that they all stard and they all got there wend up and tuck off with a wsssssss and then the Drangfly dies and then the bee dies and then the wasp dies the snall wends yesssssss Joy

All of the bugs are geting ready to race. The bee, ladybug, snail, fly,wasp and the Dragon fly. the they stared makeing werird sounds then on your markes get set GO!!! Crash!!! the dragon fly went on the side of the road Smak!!! the bee went in to a hay stack Boom!!! the wasp hit a rock the snail is alive! Crash!!! the fly hits the grass of the road then thehit the STOP sine. It ends up that the snail won Garrett

The first few days

We started school on August 11th, 2010. Today is the 6th day of school. So far, we think school is kind of fun, great, fun, cool, awesome, wonderful, both hard and easy, and amazing. We are excited about the cookie fair, Christmas, going bowling, going on field trips, Entrepreneur Fair, Field Day, and the last day of school. Come back and visit our blog often!

News from Room 25!!!

Book Reviews
---Hi I am Emily from Ms D room. I am writing about a book called H ow To Steal A Dog. It is about these people that live in a car and sleep in a car. Their dad is rich their mom is not.She has two sons. The older brother is going to steal a dog. -by Emily

---Hi i'm alainey in ms.ds room. i read a book about Al Capone the main people are a boy named matthew and his sister natilie.his dad worked at the jail,and his mom stayed at home. al copone was one of the people in prison. -by Alainey

---Hello my name is jillian. I would like to tell you about a story called Ellie Mcdoodle. I'ts a great book. Well i think you should go to the libray and look it up. I'm on page 145. It's awesome. So if you ever read it I'll bet you'll like it alot - by Jillian

Summer Plans
---The first thing I am doing this summer is celebrating is my birirthday. I might go to West Virginia.And go to Tennesee. I am also going to Hawaii! -by Abby

---I am going to swim in my pool this summer.And play with my dog.Play at the park with my friends.And go to the ymca with my cousin. -by Matthew

---Im going to write about my summer plans. Im going to go out west. We might go to yellowstone but I don't know. I hope we go. Its going to be great. We might by a camper for the trip. I think we are staying for two weeks! I can't wait!-by charlie

---Hello world! This is what I want to this summer and what Iwill do. I want to go to newport ,to New york,and to OH.I am going to the beach to do a play. See you later Sam

---This summer I'm going to MYRTLE BEACH. Were going to mini golf there ( my dad always wins.) We also go surfing.Our most fun momentis making holes in the sand. One time we made a hole as big as my brother!- By Hunter

Cookie Sales
---Today ,May 17th we are having our 3rd grade bake sale. I am in the company Crazy 4 Cookies. Our company is located in our 4 and 5 grade hallway by our Science bulletin board.Our Chocolate Chip Cookies cost .50 and our Make Your Own Cookies cost $ 1.00. And we will be having 2 raffles for GIANT COOKIES!-by McKenna.

---we are having a cookie company sale and it is going to be very cool. we are going to have 2 special cookies too. it is going to be a very good time. and thank you for listening. -by Brevan

---today my friends&I are selling cookies.we will be selling whipped cookies(2 cookies with a browne in the middel and whipped cream on top),cookie sandwich,cookies,&brownies.They cost 50&75. we will be in the lobby of our school.the cookie sandwich is 2 cookies with icing in it. I hope to see some of you there. -by Trevor

---in class doing cookie campanis. Were also learning about economics thats what started cookie campanies. Cookie campanies are were we set up are desks and sell baked goods such as cookies,pretsels and even cupcakes! Everyone in the school has a chance to buy are goods. The cookies I sold cost 50 cents for a plain choclate chip cookies and $1.00 for a decerated cookie. -by Maddie

---In class everyone is doing a cookie company. We are learning about economics. Everyone is going be selling cookies or somthing. Only 3rd graders are doing the sale. Are desks will be in the hallways. My group will be selling suger and chocolatechip cookies.
I will be having to do money. -by MACEY!

---Cookie Sales is when every 3rd grade class makes posters & cookies (or brownies). Then people go to the presidents house (not the real president) and make cookies! Finally your group gets to pick a place & start selling! Then you donate the money anywere that needs help.- BY HEATHER!

Cookie Productions
---we first went to Abby`s house and then we made suger cookies and then we played while they were cooking and then we put iceing on them and we put marshmellows on top and then we played until our moms came to pick us up from Abby`s house!!!!!!!!! -by Audrey :)

---On Saturday May 15, 2010 my cookie company group went to Abby's to make our cookie. Our kind of cookie is a sugar cookie with strawberry frosting and a marshmellow on top. Our price is a dollar per bag. There are two cookies per bag. Sorry you can't order on line. - by Natalie

Economics is FUN!!!

Check out our new wiki-

We'll check back in with pictures and a summary after our Cookie Company sales on Monday.

http://cookiecompanies.wikispaces.com/

Branching out...trying new things :)

This week we received a package from the Smarties, our lunch exchange class in Western Australia. Inside we found two packages of Caramello Koalas, a jar of Vegemite, a book about Australian food, lots of stickers, an Australian flag, and a card for each of us! We thought the chocolate was DELICIOUS, we really enjoyed the story, thought it was cool getting a personalized card, and decorated our desks and folders with the stickers. As far as the Vegemite, we were really thankful to get to try it. :) It was like nothing we'd ever tasted before and we weren't really sure what to think. A few of us said we'd eat it again, but most decided we'd rather stick to the chocolates. We ALL agreed that this was an awesome end to a fun project!

Third Grade Authors

We have had some cool things going on in our classroom lately and would love to tell you about them.

Thursday- JDRF Walk by Jillian and Natalie
Natalie and Jillian walked around the school Thursday morning after we earned money to help find a cure for diabetes. To earn money we would go door to door asking for $1 or more to help diabetes. A lot of other kids in the school did it too.

Thursday- Entrepreneur Fair by Maddie, Hunter, Charlie and Macey
We have an Entrepreneur Fair every year. We have a lot of candy that the 5th graders sell. They also have games that the 5th graders sell too. Plus they even have prizes that you can win or vote on. Some of the stuff for sale are flip flops, tattoos, balloon hats, pretzels dipped in chocolate and a lot more.

Math Tiles- by Chase, Mason, Sam
Math tiles are little laminated tiles with numbers on them. They also have sheets with problems that you put the tiles on. There are 20 sheets in a set. There are 21 types on problems. Some are hard- the longer you go, the harder they get. Math tiles are really fun. Math tiles also make you get a lot smarter and get good math grades.

My Hippo Has the Hiccups - by Brevan, Trevor, Seth and Matthew
Poetry was very fun today. Our class watched a lot of poetry from a book called My Hippo Has the Hiccups. It was fun listening to the poetry and we also listened to My Nostrils Smell Awesome. And it was very funny.

We got mail! by McKenna, Heather, Abby and Emily
Today, March 23rd, we got a package from Australia! We were so excited when we found out that we finally got the package from Australia. We got Vegemite, chocolate, stickers, cards, and a flag. Our class is super excited to eat our treats! We will post pictures soon.

Smarties' Blog- by Haley, Alainey and Audrey
When we saw the Smarties blog we were excited to learn about their country. It was really exciting when we got to hear their voices talking about the goldfish that we had sent them! It was fun because we got to see how the Smarties dress and look.

Our lunch project movie

Happy SUNNY Friday!

What a fun, busy day! This morning, we had a visitor from 4-H. Mr. Andrew was here to talk to us about soil and all the things that it is used for. He said if we didn't have soil, we wouldn't even be here! It must be pretty important! He had some examples for us to pass around and touch. He said that our next lesson will be at the end of April, and it will be about entomology. He promised that we would like it! Leave a comment on our blog if you find out what entomology is!

We talked about what we had learned through our lunch exchange with Western Australia, and made a list of similarities and differences that we found out. On Monday, we'll be putting this on the "what we have learned" page as well as making some voice recordings for them to listen to. Earlier in the week, we packaged up some Goldfish crackers and a book to send to our friends overseas. We hope they like it!

After math tiles and lunch, we had a "in school field trip" from the Explorium. The title of the lesson was "Water, Water EVERYWHERE" where we learned that the water that we have on Earth has been around forever! We got to make a cloud in a glass jar, which we loved.

We also got to spend some time outside in the beautiful sunshine!!!!

KING OF THE CLASSROOM for the week- Sam! Sam is a fun, outgoing, smart kid and our classroom certainly wouldn't be the same without him. He always participates in class discussions and is a good friend to others. Thanks for being a great kid, Sam!

What an eventful day!!

We started off the morning with a visit from the Explorium! We have these in school field trips once a month. Today the focus was on forces and motion- Ms. K brought us lots of "toys" to play with so we could explore science concepts. We also had science for our special class today and we got to create electricity!
During math time we learned about a webiste called Tutpup. Ms. D found out about this from our friends in Australia, and we absolutely loved it! It is a math website where you get to play math games with other kids all around the world. We versed Argentina, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and kids in the United States as well. A couple of us even got paired up with other kids in our classroom! (Moms and Dads- if you want their login information so they can play at home just let Ms. D know!)
Since it is Friday, five of us got to have lunch in the classroom for Lunch Bunch. Macey's dad ate with us because he was here to help with math tiles. We also took some more pictures for our lunch exchange project. We are really enjoying that! There are so many foods eaten in Australia that we had never heard of! The Smarties also asked us some really interesting questions about our lunches. Apparently they do not have goldfish crackers there, and they call ketchup "tomato sauce."
At the end of the day, we got to go to the gym to see the play "The Red Badge of Courage." This was put on by the local children's theatre and we thought it was pretty cool.

Happy Valentine's Day

After the snow...

We had a good break from school due to the snowstorm, but we are glad to be back to normal. We learned a lot today and would love to share some of these things with you!
In math, we are finishing up a unit on multiplication and division. We go to other classes for math, but all of our groups work on the same things. We are just beginning a unit on fractions and decimals.
This afternoon we worked on a program called Science Court. Through this, we put together electric circuits using a battery, wires, and a lightbulb. Once we had mastered that, we figured out how to add a switch. We learned that we could open and close the circuit by using metal brads and a paper clip! Some of our groups also made a buzzer buzz, and created vibrations as well.
This week is "Bring Your Family To School Week" and we had some adults come read with us at the end of the day. We also had several adults come on Monday. If you did not get to come but would like to, shoot Ms. D an email and we can work something out for next week!
In art class this morning we made special Valentine's Day pattern quilts. Some of us decided to take them home today, and some left them so we can use them as decorations for tomorrow's party.
Thank you for visiting our blog!

Our first post!

We are really excited to start our blog! We were inspired by a year two class in Western Australia. We will be communicating with them soon and we can't wait!
This blog will be a place where we can share what we are learning with you- our audience. We may post pictures, publish our writing, and inform you of special things going on in our classroom. We'd love to read comments that you leave for us!