What an Amazing Year! Part One

Blogging got away from me when we hit springtime and for that I'm sorry. I want to post a ton of pictures of your awesome kids and tell you some of the fun end of the year stuff we did.

In a couple weeks I'll be starting a new year with new kids and just want to take a moment to thank all of you for partnering with me last year. Your kids are ready for fourth grade and I'm super proud of them!!

Part One - Wax Museum

These kids did such a phenomenal job with the Wax Museum. After each of them chose someone who has made an impact on our country, they each used multiple resources (books, websites, research portals, etc) to gather research. Using a handmade organizer, they categorized their facts and kept track of them in their folders. 

 After all of the facts were gathered, they had to lay them out into a timeline of their important person's life. This allowed them to see if there were gaps in their important person's life that they needed to fill and required them to really understand how all of the pieces of the puzzle fit together.

 After timelines were created, it was time to draft the biography of their famous person's life in the FIRST person perspective.

 Another important part of the process was the peer conference to give each other ideas and suggestions to improve the writing.

 They also had to do a self review and revision in order to improve their writing. Their final step was to meet with me to go over the flow and see if we needed to make any more adjustments to the piece of writing.

 And of course...the boards. The kids had been working on so many different things throughout this research process. They had created online time lines, they had composed Six Word Memoirs, they had created Thinglinks in the media center with Mrs. Schartner, and had collected so many pictures.

 We rehearsed...

...and rehearsed (dress rehearsal with other third grade classes)...

 ...until it was time to PERFORM!! 

Thank you to all who could attend. I think we can all agree the kids outdid themselves!!

 The Papparazzi!

 The Wax Figures!

PICTURE PALOOZA Take 2

Here is an Animoto video of our Culture Projects from this Fall...this is the project I've told so many of you about that is new to third grade and I JUST LOVED! Click on the link below and enjoy....

Our Culture Projects 2018

Here is another Animoto video...this is a compilation of a lot of fun things we did during the Fall...click on the link below and enjoy!

Fall Fun 2018

Weather or Not?

We would often go out to record weather data at our Weather Station...on this day, we recorded the weather and then we took a quick break on the primary playground...I love this picture below!

Creating Snowmen with our Kindergarten Buddies!

Next post will be EVERYTHING MAKERSPACE!!! Still more pictures to download! 

(It's amazing what you can get done in a double planning period!!)

PICTURE PALOOZA...FAIL...read on to find out why...

I have had such struggles with pictures...I thought I was doing a good thing by downloading all my pictures to my school laptop...then come to find out, for some very odd and frustrating reason...it will only let me download ONE AT A TIME...

So...today I will be slowly but surely, downloading photos...I may also put a few in Animoto which will be like a movie full of pictures...because that may let me upload more than one at a time.

Either way...today you're going to be seeing A LOT of pictures.

In December we had a Winter Theme Door Contest...I let the kids help plan our door...I think they did an amazing job...take a look!

The engineering project for the end of our Weather and Climate unit has been AHHHMAZING!! The kids took all of the knowledge they gained as scientists during this unit and had to plan (in cooperative groups) was to help minimize erosion when heavy rain cause flooding. Their plans were creative and innovative, and we spent most of Friday testing some of them. We will finish testing them tomorrow. Take a look...

Friday was World Read Aloud Day and we were so thankful to have Mrs. Maucher and Mrs. Micheals come in to read to us! We also had Ms. DeGirolamo (our high school intern) read to us, too! It was a fun day of lots of different genres of stories read to us!

ARGHHHH...and now come to find out, I downloaded them onto my laptop while I was at school, but cannot access them unless I am AT SCHOOL...so the group of pictures above is just a teaser...I will try so hard to upload all of the others this week...but I don't often have time to blog while at school, so this is quite a conundrum I find myself in!!

Upcoming things of interest...the Science/Social Studies Fair is coming up in late March...your child is encouraged to conduct science fair experiment/project (it is not mandatory)...but just to let you know...they will ALL be doing a social studies project for this fair...AT SCHOOL...more to come on that later this week. And more info and a website with all things Science Fair will be coming out soon, too.

Happy Super Bowl Day! Fingers crossed this coming week is a lot more normal than last week!!