Tuesday was our Second Annual Third Grade Cranberry Day – did your students tell you all about it?? In the morning, students visited 6 different stations to learn more about (and celebrate!!) Massachusetts’ official state berry! Students were split into…
A Fellow Georger!
I received an email this morning from Charlie V., whose dollar bill Mr. Brooks found this morning when he went golfing… It was nice of Charlie to take the time to write to us!! Hello Mrs. Brooks! I am writing…
Salty Science with Louise the Computer Cart
Another video! Students enjoyed another hands-on day of science this afternoon. Check out the video to see all the fun we had, and the beautiful art we created!! Thanks to Miss Heather, who hung up all of our artwork/science experiments…
Science with Louise
Today we had a great time in Science. Mrs. Brooks is trying to review the steps to the Scientific Method, as students learn a little more about it each year. She decided to use an interesting polymer (similar to those…
Imagine Whirled Peace!!!!
Today was International Peace Day – and we decided as a school to participate in Pinwheels for Peace. Each child at Mullen created a pinwheel during the past week. Pinwheels were decorated with wishes for peace at school. Today, we…
Make Your Mark
Today, if you didn’t already know – was International Dot Day… We started out by reading Peter Reynold’s book, The Dot. Students made some great connections to Ish, another of Peter’s books. We talked about making our mark in the…
More Book Talks
We’re into our third round of book talks — I’ve posted more if you haven’t checked them out, yet!! Click on the green image below:
Arts ARE Alive!!
Today in Arts Alive, students learned about Michaelangelo. Michaelangelo was born in 1475. As an artist, he was multi-talented—he sculpted, painted, designed buildings and even wrote poetry. His favorite type of art was creating sculptures. He spent a great deal…
Arts are ALWAYS Alive!
Mrs. Evans and Ms. Rodgers-Hebner came in to help us with a new Arts Alive artist — Michael Albert. His website is a great place to start: CHECK IT OUT!! First of all, thank you to all of you who…
Visitors From Afar….
Well, Thursday afternoon, our worms, crickets and anoles finally arrived. In our classroom, we have 6 anoles, and the kids are head-over-heels already. After seeing 18 students swarm around the flag table, it became clear that we needed a viewing…