Potato Descriptive Writing

Our 3rd grade class has been working on descriptive writing. Our first project has been describing potatoes and then having the rest of the class try to figure out which description goes with which potato. Students have been using their 5 senses to help them write fantastic descriptions!

Thanksgiving Feast...yum, yum!

Our 3rd grade class prepared a Thanksgiving feast! Students mashed potatoes, shook butter, and made cornbread. We also made delicious turkey. Our meal was fantastic!

Oral Presentations

Halloween Parties!

We had such a fun day...Ghost Bingo, Painting pumpkins, Relay Races, and some Yummy Cupcakes and Eyeball Punch! Students loved every minute of it :) Thanks room moms for all your wonderful planning and help! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Grandparents Day!

Wednesday was Grandparents Day and students wrote a poem for their special family members. Our poems were a recipe with the ingredients that make up our wonderful grandpas and grandmas. Here is one of our favorite grandparent poems:

100% Grandma

20% Loving
20% Cheerful
10% Spectacular Cookies
10% Hilarious
10% Gardener
10% Tight Hugs
10% Stylish
10% Delicious Cooking
Add it all together, and you've got...
100% Grandma!

Celebration...Small Moment Stories!

What a great way to end a week! Students have worked extremely hard on their small moment stories, so we took a little time on Friday to celebrate all the great writing. As students munched on popcorn, they were able to read their classmates great writing. Mr. Baugh even came for a visit!

Great Ideas for Writing!

Students have been working hard to finish up their Small Moment (Personal Narrative) Stories. We have been editing, checking punctuation and our spelling. Friday we will CELEBRATE all our hard work and will share our great writing with our classmates.

Writing Conferences

Our 3rd grade class loves our Writers Workshop time! Right now we are working on writing Small Moment Stories. Students are writing about real events that have happened in their lives. Friday we met with our writing buddies to conference about one of our Small Moment Stories and to also highlight the "juicy" words used in our stories. This was a wonderful time for students to interact and learn through reading one another's writing.

Our Field Trip Around Amo

We had an exciting field trip last Friday. 3rd Graders took a walking field trip around our very own community, Amo, IN! Students have been learning about communities in Social Studies. Our West Best secretary, Mrs. Estes, was so generous, and took our class on a walking tour through the town. Here are some interesting facts about our town:

*Amo means "love" in Latin

*Our town of Amo is the only town/city with this name in the entire U.S.

*Our post office used to be a bank

*The library used to be a train station that ran from Greencastle into Indianapolis

All About Board

Our student of the week is featured on our "All About Board." The featured student fills out a paper that includes facts all about themself and they also bring in pictures to share with the class. Here, Jersee is sharing her board with our 3rd grade class!

Having some FUN on a FRIDAY!

Fridays mean....treasure box for those students who have stayed on their purple card all week. If students do not have to flip a card they have had spectacular behavior all week long! Here is a fun picture of some students and their new "glasses."

BABY Laptops!

Today we used out baby laptops for the first time. Students did a fantastic job remembering how to log in and navigate around their desktop. I was so proud of everyone. We are excited to be able to use the laptops daily in our classroom!

Oh...how we LOVE to write!

We have been working in our Writer's Notebooks the first week of school on creating lists, Quickwrites, Story Starters, and collecting Artifacts. Our 3rd grade class especially loved sharing all their special Artifacts (which are items that represent US!) they brought in. Our Writer's Notebooks are a place to collect all of our creative ideas for writing. So whenever a student says to Mrs. Egli, "I don't know what to write about...", she can have them turn to their Notebooks where they have thought of countless ideas!

Off We Go....

We have had a wonderful first week of school. Our 3rd grade class has formed our Class Constitution, started organizing and making lists in our Writer's Notebooks, and even have had Dr. Egli come visit our classroom several times! Dr. Egli has taught us a fun way to remember the steps of the Scientific Method :) It has been amazing to see the students' imaginations shine through during Writers Workshop time---it's one of my favorite parts of the day!

Our 3rd Grade Classroom

New Beginnings...

Welcome to our 3rd Grade Class Blog! I am so excited to start a new school year and meet all the new 3rd graders. I hope that this blog will be a fun way to inform you of what we are learning in our classroom.
I am really looking forward to working at Mill Creek West Elementary! Everyone has been so helpful and kind. This school truly is a wonderful environment with motivated teachers.
Hopefully, you will visit our class site often to see what amazing things we are learning!

Hendricks Power Presentation

Mr. Hite, from Hendrick's Power, came to our school for a presentation on Electricity Safety. It was awesome! We discussed conductors, insulators, and what to do in case we see an electrical power line down. Mr. Hite performed some interesting experiments to see whether or not objects were good conductors. Students learned many new facts about electricity!