Welcome Back to School!

We have had a very busy start to the new school year. Everyone came into 3rd Grade with big smiles! We started reading our first read aloud "Judy Moody Was in a Mood, Not a Good Mood, a Bad Mood". The class found themselves laughing  a lot, while I read this story. It's a funny book about a girl "Judy Moody" starting 3rd grade. 
We also started some grammar and cursive lessons. Everyone really enjoys writing in cursive. 
We have played some fun team work games, such as the "ball game". This is everyone's favorite!
Math has begun with the class learning how to round numbers and different ways to add three digit numbers. We have also started playing some math games that reinforce these skills.
Mrs. Piericles has started teaching some science lessons. We are watching our seedlings grow everyday!
The class has also started studying Massachusetts. We learned some of the state symbols and are currently working on making a poster of them. 

Here are some pictures of some other activities that we have done the first few days of school...

The class is really enjoying reading and writing poetry these past few weeks. 

I am proud to say that our class won the Coin Challenge in March. I forgot to post these pictures so here they are...
The class also won an extra recess along with our shiny trophy!

The class will be doing some pretty exciting things in Science during the next few weeks. Today they worked with human skeletons! Here are some pictures from class.

Election Day Workout

Since voters were voting in the gym, class was held in the science lab! The class still had fun though getting in a good workout with some fun music.

Moose Hill Field Trip

Today we went back in time and learned about how the Native Americans started collecting sap from maple trees. Then we learned how sap was made into syrup during the colonial times. We also got to learn how it is done today. We went into a sweet smelling sugar shack and even got to taste some Moose Hill Syrup! It was very sweet! Even though the weather was a little cold we all had fun! A special thank you to Mrs. Thoren and Mrs. Campbell who braved the cold weather with us! Here are some pictures from our trip.

Have been having a lot of fun in third grade lately! Recently we learned all about Benjamin Franklin and even got to meet him (sort of). We learned about what he was like as a boy, and as an adult. We learned about some of the things he invented too. Here are some pictures from our PTO funded experience.