Third Grade Explorations in Learning
Today is our last day of school before summer vacation! We have had a great year together and have learned so many things. Luckily we have the blog to remember it all. You can always re-read posts, watch videos, or listen to voicethreads from the year by using the “tag cloud” or the archives on the [...]
Our last science unit was about natural resources and conservation. Natural resources are things we get from the environment that we use for survival or for fun. Some examples are trees, water, oil, and metals. Conservation means things we can do to save natural resources and not waste them. For example, using both sides of a piece of paper to conserve [...]
A few week’s ago our classmate Anthony went to Hershey Park for a family vacation. * Hershey Park is located in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It was started in 1905 by Milton Hershey as a relaxing park for the people that worked at the Hershey Chocolate Company. Now it is a popular family theme park with roller [...]
We have had a lot of visitors to our blog this year! Since the beginning of the school year in September, we have had over 52,000 visits! More than half of those visits have come from the United States, but we have also had thousands of visitors from around the world. In fact, 143 different [...]
This week we went on a field trip to Spellman Pond with our friends Mr. Dewire and Mrs. Sullivan from NatureScapes. They have taught us so much about plants and animals this year, and this was our last visit with them. It was fantastic! We got to explore a pond habitat and check out all [...]