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.