"Awesome project!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Hello! It has been awhile, and I have some outstanding projects to show you all.  As you know we have been studying Ancient Greece.  I posted a project way back before all the snow days and the students were so excited!

"Awesome project!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" -Sage

"I got more in to Greece and its wow"  -Carly

"ancient Greece is awesome" - Nic

"most awesome project EVER!!!!" -Grace

"alot of fun thanks mr.ridgley" -Maryam

"I looooovvvvvveeeeeee this project 😊😀😄😊😍😊😌😄😀" -Claire

"super fun! thx Mrs.Ridgly" Caroline

These comments along with 24 others made my heart melt! What teacher would not want to hear so many enthusiastic thoughts about an assignment? They had a great time researching and learning about the contributions of Greece.

ALL the projects completed were impressive! Here are just a few peeks!

Remember to check Google Classroom to see your child's projects!

 Have a safe, warm weekend! 

New Year Goals

Welcome back! This week we discussed a lot about goals. We thought of goals for school, home, health, and friendships. I always stress to them that they should try their best and if they are doing the best the can, I will always be happy with them. I think some of the kids were very had on themselves and set really high expectations. I tried to talk to all of them about setting realistic goals. After we brainstormed as a class, we set out to create our own. Students wrote thier goals and then published them to Chatterpix. They had a great time doing it and it allowed us to get some artwork in as well!

 

     

For more information on Chatterpix click the icon. 

Don't Forget!

We live in a world surrounded by technology. And we know that whatever field our students choose to go into as adults, their ability to succeed will increasingly hinge on understanding how technology works. But only a tiny fraction of us are learning computer science, and less students are studying it than a decade ago.

That’s why our entire school is joining in on the largest learning event in history: The Hour of Code, during Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 7-13). More than 100 million students worldwide have already tried an Hour of Code.

See http://hourofcode.com/in for details, and help spread the word.

And..........

    Remember to wear purple tomorrow!

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Hour of Code

Next week is Computer Science Education Week and we will be participating in Hour of Code. 

To read more about it watch this video and go to the free website. The students are already working with code and are very excited to be participating in this event. They can also be doing code at home!

Just go to Code.org to try it out!

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There are also some Blackburg Code events! Make sure you register. 

STEM workshops that are now open for RSVP registration are:

• Thursday December 10 5-8pm @Rackspace – LCBB: Make Your Own Autonomous Arduino Robot!

• Friday December 11 5-7pm @Rackspace – Coder DoJo: “Collaborated Hour of Code”

• Saturday, December 12 9am-noon @Radford University – 100 GoC: “Unplugged Coding Workshop”

I hope you can participate! I will post some more photos of us next week!

Megan

Tree Project and Book Fair Fun

Tree Project

Tree Project

SOL 3.12

Last week our entire third grade completed a project about themselves. I enjoyed hearing everyones presentations this week!

Make sure to visit the book fair!!!

Update: The kids had a blast at the book fair and we were gifted several new books for our classroom library! Thanks to all who generously donated!!!

Our class monster was my personal favorite, but we did not win the popcorn party.  Maybe next time!

I hope you found some fun books!

October Fun

We were so excited to begin our science experiments when we got back from specials! We ran into one problem, the Candy Corn Bandit store our Candy Corn!!! The kids had to use inferencing skills to find the  next clue, and then the Candy Corn.  They had a blast!

I hope you all had a great October!

James and The Giant Peach

We went to see James and the Giant Peach this week and it was such a great play! I saw students at the edge of their seats, heard them laugh out loud, and were beaming with excitement as we left the show!

If you have a chance to see it this weekend you should go! Lucas and I will be going on Saturday!

They had so much fun!!!

Enjoy your weekend