Happy Birthday Mrs. Yollis!

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...

A Time to Reflect

As we enjoy another snow day, it’s a great time to look back on some of our projects that we’ve done so far this year. Each student has grown so much since the beginning of the year, both educationally and physically! Let’s look back upon some of the...

Emotions in Motion

In class we have been working on ways to make our writing more descriptive. We often discuss ways to “paint a picture” for our reader. Chris van Allsburg was a master at this. Each student agreed that we could imagine the way that his books would look even...