December 9, 2011

This week we learned "A's" an "C's" in cursive. We are also starting to reherse our parts in The Ginch That Stole Christmas and the Christmas Story. This is for our Christmas Tea with our reading buddies.  We have fairy tale book reports due Dec.16. We have to make an ornament. Audrey

We learned about possessive nouns and how to use 's and s'.We did cursive A's and C's.We are reading Because of Winn Dixie.I like the book. We have to do book reports.We are doing fairy tales. Adam

This week we learned abbreiveations in reading. You can do an abbreiveation with months, Mr., Mrs., Ms., and days of the week.  In music we started doing dance moves for the Christmas play.  We get to use canes and hats. Lindsay

December 2, 2011

We went on a field trip and learned about rocks.  It was awsome we went in a cave.  Joshua

 It was a very exciting trip.  We went to a cave were Jesse James hideout was.  We went  to a rock class and we touched a very old dinosaur poop and it was a fossil.
Mrs. Hanson decorated our room for Christmas. We made Christmas chains and there is a Christmas tree in our room. Kate

We went to  merimac caverans and had lots of fun .  We went to the christmas store on thursday. We got book orders today .We had so so so so so so so much fun.  Grace A.

November 18, 2011

PENNIES FROM OUR POCKETS

Third grade is collecting pennies or change from our pockets for His Glory Orphange in Haiti.  Will you please help us by sending in pennies (or change) so that we can send lots of money to help the children in Haiti. Third grade is in a contest to raise the most money for the orphange.  We are competing against second and fourth grade.  If we win, we get an extra recess.  PLEASE HELP!! We want the extra recess but we really want to help the children in Haiti to be safe. 
Mrs. Hanson's Third Grade

Our Week in Class

I like when we read Two Kettles. It is a good book don't you like it? Well I think it is a well done book.In the story my faviret character is Tiptoe the stunk. He is cute.  Joseph

This week in Social Studies we were put in groups.  We had to reaserch the the American Flag, the Liberty Bell,  the Bald Eagle and the Statue of Liberty.  Then we had to do a triarama with our group.  Abigail.

For November we had four choisess for book reports. Of all of them were a book mark,a wanted pouster,a story quilt,and a puppet.Ezabelle

November 11, 2011

We read Hank the Cowdog and Monkey Buisness.We shared our book reports on mysteries.We started our american symbols webquest.We finished our mystery animal webquest.
Jack T.

This week we are doing nouns so we go on this website and spell are nouns three times and it turns out awesome!  We are working on this website about animals. It is fun!
Kate

This week we learned in math how to figure out what the missing number is in the middle of the problem.  All you do is if it's adding you subtract what you know.  It was fun!
Elliana

November 4, 2011

Hi I'm Grace! This week in school there is a cookie booth. There are lots of cookies. We were raising money for Hati. Today we went to the ACR store. I got a lot of stuff at the ACR store. We played kickball at recess. We lost but it was fun.

Hi! I'm Maddi.  Today we learned how to write an acrostic poem. We are doing book reports. Everyones book reports were awesome. We also did  group projects in science. We just finished our first quarter. I'm making new friends. That's all we done so far today bye.

Hi I'm Layne.We are learning how to do book reports. 

October 28, 2011

Gess what ? in our class  room we have butterflies .We got them when they were eggs to caterpillers to pupa to butterfly it was cool to see there life cycle.
Ashley  

We are doing animal groops.We have to reserch are animal.We have to name the life cycle, what it eats, where it is found, and a lot of other things.  It is cool!
Bella

My favorite thing in class is that we are doing the life cycle of butterflies.  It is cool to watch them hatch out of their pupa!  Butterflies are not my favorite animal but they are cool to watch!  I learned that maconiam comes out when they hatch from their pupa. 
Joseph

October 21, 2011

 I like  how we got to do the mystery report. And how we got to play inside for recess.   Grace

I like how we got to watch Wall.E .And how we had reading buddies. I like doing our  mystery reports. Adam

I liked playing billy ball at P.E. I liked Wall.E.I liked  packaging food for kids in Africa. Jack D.

October 14, 2011

We saw Wall-E this week. We talked about myseries. My favorite part was when took our spelling test.
Joshua

Group 4 won the tally marks. We went in the hall so Mrs hanson could take our picture for our mystery unit. Audrey

I liked watching the movie today. I like having some of my friends in class this year. I like my teacher. I like the science that we do.
Luke

Caterpillers!

Today we got 22 catterpillers one for each person in my class.  Everybody got one to themselves. We got to feed them for the first time. We put in there new homes and put our initials on the bottom. 
Cade

This week we got cute cattipillers to our selves. We have gotten a surprise if we turned in our morning work. It was a jolly rancher or mint. If we tell someone we don't get candy.
Zoe

This week we had Mrs. Martin's class come into our class so we could get our  catterpillers situated.  Then we partered up to practice our memory work.It was so fun!
Lindsay

First Beginning of the Year Post!

One of the most exciting things that hapened this week is in science. In science we are put into pairs and we are in a classifcation group, an life cycle group, or an basic needs group. I am in a classification group.
               Grace K.

This year we have the nicest teacher Miss Hanson. She always tells us what something means if we dont under stand. She is so nice.
Abigail


For the last couple of weeks in science. We have been learning about the life cycle of a plant! Mrs. Hanson is so nice.

Jack L.

The school year is off and rolling and we are finally starting our classroom blog!  Yea!  We have also started inidividual blogs for our journaling and writing.  Right now only our classmates can view the posts but we hope to eventually open it up to our parents and friends.  I am blessed to have an awesome group of third graders to work with this year!  I am so excited for all the fun projects and activities that we will do!  Third Grade Rocks!! :)

Mrs. Hanson

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Science Center 2011

May 6, 2011

Tonight we are going to the Science Center and sleep over there.  It is going to be awesome!  We did our book reports on science fiction.  The choices were a hanging mobile, a clay model, or a written book report.  We read a book called Aladdin.  It was not like the movie at all. 
Kari

We did Mother's Day projects.  We get to use the Smart Board for english and math this week.   We are reading about Aladdin.  We are working towards a pizza party by being quite and earning the letters to spell pizza.  So far we have P and I.  We got our year books this week.  We are going to spend the night at the Science Center tonight!  I can't wait!
Casey 

Today we went to the Disneynature movie called "African Cats."  I learned that Cheetas can run faster than I thought they could.  I'm happy because it is getting close to the end of school. 
     Aaron

  This week we are learning about poetry.  We went to see Disney's "African Cats."  I learned that lions like to travel in prides and cheetas travel alone.  Another thing I learned is that if a lion gets hurt sometimes the pride has to leave the lion.  In math we learned about liters, pints, cups, half gallons, and gallons.  Next week we are going to the Science Center.  We got to make encouragement cards for our classmates.  That was really fun!
    Abigail

Third Grade Biographies

In writers workshop we're learning about how to make good stories.  In math we just took a big test.  We have been studying for a science test over fossils, different kinds of rocks, and minerals.  A week ago we did a living biographies that you can listen to. We are voice threading those now.  They will be posted next week. 
by Lexi Jo

We had an unusual week this week.  We had two days off - Tuesday and Wednesday because of ice and snow.  Many went sledding and played out in the snow.  Some of us even had sleepovers and did not want to come back to school.  On Friday we had volcano eruption day.  See our fun video!  We also had Super Bowl Dress Day on Friday.  We didn't have to wear our uniforms!  Yea!  We are still learning about Pompeii and what happened to all the people that lived there.   

Hi, my name is Gabrielle.  This week we learned about soil.  We learned that topsoil is darker and holds more water, plus it has smaller particles.  Subsoil is lighter and has some rocks.  It's particles are bigger.  Bedrock is just rock.  It is a big sheet of rock.


We are reading the book Socks it is about a cat who got adopted by a family and they go on vacation.  When they get back they have a baby.  We are getting read to write our own stories.  When we are done we get to publish them and have our own book.We are getting ready to read about Pompeii and Friday, February 4th is volcano eruption day for third grade!  I can't wait!
                                                                               by Anna

Non-Fiction Stories

We have been reading non-fiction stories this week.  That is stories that are real.  Last week we read about the Titanic.  It was really interesting!  We learned that the Titanic was called the "Rich Man's Special."  It sank in 1912.  After the Titanic hit the iceberg five of the watertight compartments flooded.  If only four would have flooded then the ship would not have sank.  There were 2,227 passengers and only 705 were rescued by the ship Carpathia.  It was really sad.    About 73 years later a scientist by the name of Robert Ballard found the Titanic again.

This week we read a story called Patrick and the Great Molasses Explosion.  In 1919 in the city of Boston the Purity Distilling Company's huge tank that held molasses exploded.  People and horses were covered with molasses.  The city was a sticky mess.  When Patrick went home his mom didn't believe his story until his dad came home covered in molasses too!