An end to the first 9 weeks...

We ended our first 9-weeks with a BEE Boppin' Bang!  What a great week...outside of the super long assessment in Science.

A local author visited us!

So many interesting things happened last week!

We were thrilled to host local author, Lisa Martin, to 3rd grade today!  She shared many experiences with us about creating characters, researching information, writing and publishing a book.  What a pleasure to have an author read to us from her own published story!  We'll begin reading Anton and Cecil, Cats at Sea as a read aloud book very soon!

 Lisa worked on this book with her Aunt!  What a special way to write a book.  They shared ideas by email and Skype, since Lisa's Aunt actually lives in New York.

 Lisa's characters, Anton and Cecil, are based on her own cats, TJ and Albert.  We can all get ideas for writing from special things in our lives.

Stories aren't very interesting unless there is a problem!  Lisa talked to us about how to develop a problem in a story.

Lisa Martin's book will be on sale at 

Over The Moon Bookstore in Crozet 

Can you believe we are in our first week of October?

Hi everyone!  It is so hard to believe that we are already into October.  Whewy have we been on a roll!  Please read through the content tabs to see what's been happening in class this past week and what we will be up to in the upcoming week.

I will be going to Colorado for my nephew's wedding this week, so I will have a sub on Thursday and Friday.  I will prepare the students for this, but wanted parents to know as well.

I will NOT update my blog next weekend, so look for detailed notes on the blog this week that will cover the content for the next two weeks.

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions that you have about the content, though.

Lastly, in lieu of a Halloween Dress-Up party, students are asked to leave their purchased costumes at home, but instead dress up as something we have studied, if they'd like to dress up.  Last year I had a student come with decomposers (worms and mushrooms) in her hair and glued to her cheek.  I also have had several maps and globes walking around during the day.  Please make these costumes yourselves, as they are more creative that way and it's a way for students to be thinking about all that we've learned this year! 

Check out these zipliners!