Welcome to 3rd Grade!

Welcome to our blog. We are very excited about our upcoming year in 3rd Grade for the upcoming 2009-2010 school year! We can not wait to meet our new students at Orientation on Friday, August 21st. (Any posts that you view prior to this entry reflect our 4th grade experiences from the 2008-2009 school year where we traveled "Around the World in 180 Days".) We hope that all of our former and rising students have had a restful and enjoyable summer and we also hope that everyone is ready to put forth 100% effort in the upcoming year.

Exploring Simple Machines

Click HERE to explore four areas of a house and identify 40 different simple machines.

There are 10 in each room: Garage, Bathroom, Kitchen, and Bedroom.

Have fun!

May4-8 News Show

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Weekly News Update April 27-May1

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Part Two of Chets D.C. Adventure

Well, the time has come to head back to Jacksonville. I had a great time in Washington DC! Let me see if I can pick up where I left off on my last post... On Friday, I got to go back to the math conference. I got to meet Stuart Murphy, the author of the MathStart book series that we have in our classroom. He was a lot of fun. He even autographed a few books for Mrs. Phillips' sons! I got to meet the lady that wrote our Calendar Math program and the man that wrote our Math Investigations program! I told them how wonderful all of you are and how great you are in math. They were both very impressed. I even collected a few cool things from the vendor booths to sell in our Auction. I think you are really going to like them!

I went out to a fancy restaurant Friday night and tried Calamari for the first time. Have you ever had it before? I also had the most yummy chocolate dessert with strawberries on top. It was the best!

On Saturday, I got to tour the Arlington National Cemetary. It was amazing. I got to see the Eternal Flame where President Kennedy is burried and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and watch the changing of the guards. There were a lot of veterans from World War II there. Everyone clapped for them and thanked them for their service. It made me very proud to be an American bear! None of my ancestors are burried at Arlington. Are yours? After that, I went to the National Portrait Gallery and saw some amazing portraits of our past presidents. It was amazing.

I headed back to the airport Saturday afternoon and we made it into the Jacksonville airport at midnight. I had a great trip, but boy am I tired. I missed you all and am glad to be back at school with you!

Love, Chet

Weekly News Update April 20

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Chet Goes to DC!

Hello everyone!I am so excited to share with you the first two days of my trip. It is very late tonight. I am staying up way past my bedtime so that I can share the pictures I took of my trip with you. Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Ross and I woke up on Wednesday morning at 4:00 A.M. to drive to the airport and fly to Washington DC. It was warm when we left Jacksonville, but very chilly and rainy when we got to DC. We got to ride in a taxi to our hotel. It was a little scary for me because the driver drove on the wrong side of the road a few times and I had to close my eyes. We went to dinner at a restaurant called the Sequoia that overlooked the Potomac river. We saw a lot of secret service and a motorcade while we were there. We even saw the Presidential helicopter fly over. It was a lot bigger than I thought. After dinner, I headed to bed. I was very tired from all of my traveling.On Thursday morning, I woke up and went with Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Ross to the lobby of our hotel to get breakfast. There were more secret service men there too. They were everywhere I looked! I don’t know who was in our hotel, but they sure looked important. I got to spend my morning at a math conference where Mrs. Phillips let me listen to all of the really cool new things she gets to teach you when we get back. I pinkie promised her that I would not tell you about them yet.
In the afternoon, I got to go on a tour of Washington DC. Mrs. Phillips let me hold her camera and take all of the pictures. Check out the pictures I took below. Leave a comment if you know anything about any of the places I visited. I would love to learn more.
Love, Chet

April 13-17 Weekly News

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