WELCOME TO THIRD GRADE!

Welcome to the 2016- 2017 school year! This is our class blog. You will be able to follow what we are doing in class and stay informed about your child's year!

I cannot wait to work with each and everyone of you this school year!

I know it's going to be great!

Miss Buss

School's Out for Summer!

What a fun-filled last day of school we had! We began our day at the DePere Cinema watching The Peanuts Movie. Then, we moved on to Legion Park to play and have lunch. We had an awesome game of kickball going with the whole 3rd grade! We then walked back to school to sign yearbooks, eat some deliciously cute summer cupcakes, and of course we had to take some selfies! We ended the day with an all school assembly and ventriloquist! It was hilarious!

I hope you all have a relaxing and fun summer! It was wonderful getting to know all of you and your children this year. I will cherish my framed tree with all of their fingerprints for years to come! 

Thanks for a great year! 

Heritage Hill

What a beautiful day we had at Heritage Hill.
We were able to get our lesson in the school. The students learned that it was MUCH more strict back then. The ladies sure loved walking ladies first everywhere though!

We were also able to experience the Belgian farm, where there bathtub hangs on the wall in the kitchen! Oldest first gets to take a bath on Saturday nights!

Another stop was Fort Howard. The students found out all sorts of different reasons that soldiers would end up in jail. We popped over to the hospital. Man, were the students glad that they didn't live back then! The way they treated sick people, was definitely not up to our standards nowadays. From there we stopped at the print shop and visited the blacksmith. We even got into Tank Cottage, which used to sit right on the Fox River. This was a very fancy cottage that used to be a part of the fur trade.

I hope your child came home last night and shared their 3 favorite parts of the trip or 3 things that they learned!

Here are some photos from our day.

Welcome to Our Colonies!

Our third graders are working so hard learning about the original 13 colonies. Students were broken up into groups of 2 and given one of the 13 colonies. They have been reading about their colony in reading while also reviewing our informational text features. Students are now creating a persuasive poster trying to get people to move to their colony! 

Here is my sample poster and the letter every "colonist" received!

Have your child take you into their google classroom account in order to see their poster! They are creating them in google slides and man, I'm impressed with how tech savvy they all are! I can't wait to see the finished products!

The Lightning Thief!

We had a lot of fun today at the Weidner Center! Take a look!