The time for the World’s Fair finally arrived. After all our hard work on our Animotos, animal interviews, habitat displays, reports, and everything they did for Miss Girard and the social studies portion, the day had finally come for us to share it with the rest of the school and community. Once we were set [...]
Every year, shortly after our Geography Bee, we also have our school Spelling Bee. The winner of the school Bee has the opportunity to then move on to a regional Spelling Bee. The winner of that then continues to move on until the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which you can actually see on ESPN every [...]
The Edublog Awards were held last week, highlighting some of the best blogs, websites, and tools in education. We were lucky enough to be nominated in three different categories! We were shortlisted for Best Class Blog, Best Use of Audio/Video/Podcast, and Best Educational Wiki (for Student Made Math Movies). The award ceremony was hosted online [...]
The nomination process for the Edublog Awards has closed and voting has begun. When we hopped on to look this morning, we were ecstatic to find we had been nominated in three categories! We need your support to help highlight all the hard work and effort we have put into our blog and wikis. You [...]
Earlier this week, we shared a video about how to find a percent. We talked all about where you might see a percent being used outside of school. One of the places mentioned was at a store. Many times stores will have sales and they’ll offer a discount on an item. For example, a store [...]
We’ve been putting our green screen to great use this year. We’ve been making so many different videos. We made our Math Movie Network intros at the beginning of the year. We’ve also made videos about all different math topics. One thing we’ve found while making them is that things don’t always go perfectly the [...]
The Math Movie Network is back with another tutorial! This week, we’ve been learning all about how to find a percent. A percent means a part of or out of 100. It’s essentially another way to represent a fraction that has a denominator of 100. We’ve been learning about the relationship between decimals and percents. [...]
We’ve always wanted to share a day in our classroom with you. We thought maybe it’d be great to invite people in but not too many people can take a day off to visit our classroom, not to mention, many of you live thousands of miles away! We thought maybe we’d videotape our day and [...]
Mrs Yollis is a very special third grade teacher in California. We have spent much time this year learning from her class blog. She’s also left some amazing comments for us throughout the year. Even though Mr. Avery has never actually met Mrs Yollis, he considers her a great friend. She has helped him in [...]
