Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Ideas for Step-up Day

I can hardly believe that we just have a precious few days of school left!

Please share some of your thoughts about third grade in our classroom. What are your favorite times of the day? Do you especially like our Thirty Glorious Minutes of Independent Reading? Why? Do you look forward to relaxing on a bean bag and listening to a great chapter book during Read Aloud? How about math groups? Blogging? Voice thread? Podcasting? Glogster?  Parties?  What else?

Please help me will some ideas to share with our rising third graders on Step Up Day! I am planning on sharing this blog post with the future third graders!  Write four to five sentences to the rising third graders of what they have to look forward to next year in third grade!

Mia and Sam during math groups!!!
Julia and Lillian playing cards!!!

21 comments:

  1. I am so exited for school to be out,but I will miss third grade and all the fun things we did.My favorite parts of third grade were probably quadblogging with you.It has been so much fun!!!!!!!!I also had really fun in third grade glogging.It is so cool to experiment with the glog you can do many different things

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    1. I can wait for summer to but I will mis 3rd grade.

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  2. I think the thing I loved most about third grade was meeting the people I didn't know that well before. Like Mrs.O'Connel, Greer, Rivers, Julia, Evan B., Courtney, Aphrodite, Jack, Elizabeth, Perfesora Marina, and Mrs.Talor. I also liked the games we did in P.E., like dodge ball. I will miss my friends and teachers this summer but I'll have fun too!
    BYE!!!

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  3. I love P.E. , recess, blog , parties, and more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I really love are parties. When we have a party we watch a movie, eat cookies and other sweets, and we get to bring blankets, pillows and sleeping bags!!!!!!!!!!! I think for Step Up Day it is a great idea to share the blog!!!!!!!!!!!! I love 3rd grade!!!!!

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  4. My favorite parts of the day are P.E and read twenty minutes. I like P.E. more this year because we get 45 minutes instead of 30 minutes and we play really fun games. I like read 20 minutes because we get to relax and read a good book. I had a great time in the third grade and I hope you will to!!!!

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  5. My favorite parts of third grade were having party's.I also really enjoy p.e especially because of the awesome fun fridays we always had. I've really enjoyed quad blogging because I got to meet new people and It was really fun!!!! I also really enjoyed featured articles I did mine on gremlins movies 1 and 2 It was very fun! But what I enjoy most was Mrs.Oconnell because I've had more fun in third grade more then any other grade I've ever been in!!!!!!

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  6. My favorite parts of third grade were SSR because I could just sit down and enjoy a great book . I also liked it when we had parties they were really fun . I enjoyed doing glogster it was really fun because you can just make your own page and whenever you sign in it will be on the front page . Another favorite thing is P.E. because every Friday we got to play a group game . My favorite group game is matt dodge ball . I really want to thank Mrs. O'Connell for all the fun things we did this year. I will miss all my friends and my teachers.

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  7. My favorite part of 3rd grade is PE and recess. I like feature articles where we study something and talk about the articles. My article was about famous football players. I like doing the blog. I like learning about he Oregon trail

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  8. My favorite thing about third grade is probable the native American studying and pioneer studying and doing articles and glogster its so much fun. I wish we can do all though stuff we did in third grade and do it in forth grade to and do more stuff in forth grade too. Do you know whats one of the best thing is in third grade is our teacher. I think I have the best third grade teacher in the world her name is Mrs. Oconell she is the best third grade teacher that a third grader could have. I loved SSR and listing to a good book during read aloud and having our parties they are the best parties ever. You in coming third graders are gonna love Mrs. Oconell

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  9. My favorite part of third grade was the parties. They were really fun. I also liked recess and P.E. I also really enjoyed trips to the backyard.

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  11. My favorite part of third grade was all the field trips that we took. My favorite one was when we went to the
    Houston heritage society. It was so much fun. I also enjoyed are other field trips when we went to the art museum. I also liked the pioneer unit that we did. I loved pioneer hour! I am happy to say that the rising third graders are going to love Mrs. O'Connell! they are going to learn a lot from her and are going to have the best time ever! Even though I will miss the third grade I can't wait to see what challenges fourth grade brings me.

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  12. I really liked having Parties. The Two moves we watched were so funny!!!! I also liked having pioneer hour and making Native American podcast. Mrs. O'Connell is the best Third Grade teacher ever and she does so many fun things like gives us candy, lets us have parties, and she lets us do home work in class. Mrs. O'Connell is the best!!!!!!!!

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  13. My favorite thing about third grade is well everything parties,specials,P.E.,podcasting,Book buddies,math group,independent reading,EXT. But really I liked learning with my friends. Bye!!!

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  14. I am so mad that I'm leaving third grade. I wish I could do it again and again till I am so tired of it I start falling asleep in class. I have no idea where to start, I love everything about school! We have just been introduced to glogster and it is so much fun making pages with fun things and facts that you can show everyone, I already am in love with it!!!!!!!!!! I also like all the animations you can put on glogster to fancy your page to make it look even cooler! Another web activity is the blog itself! going to see hot links that Mrs. O'Connell had put on would take you to such exciting things. The quad blogging was so much fun because you got to interact with so many people from millions of miles away through the blog! Art is especially mu favorite!!! The art car parade was so much fun, and to have eight real art cars come to our school personally was amazing! My personal favorite was the banana car. Even though we made our car with cardboard, little do dads, and many other things, I think every one of them was very unique and had its own style and personality to make it fit in right with the creator. Also all the other projects we did were awesome! I can not believe how much fun it is, and to say it is more like AWESOME CRAFT CLASS than just art.
    Pioneers and native american research was extremely fun and pioneer day was really really fun presenting our project to our parents and relatives. My favorite part was reading my journal to my mom and dad while eating biscuits with honey, butter, and some beef jerky. Math for me has been taken to a new level. It went from sorta liking it to loving it!!! Learning new methods in math like lattice multiplication was really fun. I love parties. BEST. THING. EVER. I rate Mrs. O'Connell #1 best party planner ever! She sure does pick out the funniest movies too!! I am extremely sure people will be begging to be in Mrs. O'Connell's class, not just because of the parties!!!

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  15. My favorite part or this year was when we started quad blogging. My second favorite part was when we had a party. The party was really fun. We ate junk food and watched a movie. Those were my favorite parts of third grade.

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  16. I love third grade because of everything but i am so mad that I'm leaving it because it was so fun. MY favorite thing of third grade is Having parties rather it was a party for earning complements or Halloween party there all fun. Then my second favorite thing is recess a time to play and chat with friends. And my third favorite thing was P.E. it stands for Physical Education. It is really fun there are lots or games like dodge ball of capture the flag, also for all you rising third graders3rd grade is really fun. And the play ground is a bite different than yours so you are going to need to get used to it. And right after P.E. you have lunch at a different time but still the same food. Also near the middle of the year you will start to work on a blog and later on you will quad blog which is where you work with people from other countries it is really fun and you also get to see there blog. And i am sure you know about the field trips but thees field field trips are different than yours. Like you will go to the art museum And the Houston society where the people who work there will show you stuff from the past and things that they used. Also you had units that you studied like the first thing you did was learn about Indians and there way of life then you had a party and you showed your podcast to the hole class and later on you worked on pioneers and them traveling on the Oregon trail then after you worked on it for about about a month you had pioneer hour and you got to show your parents how you worked on Indians and pioneers and there were biscuits and bacon it was so fun . And then the last project of the year was working on featured articles where you got to pick something to study like you could work on 9/11 or football anything is fine and then when your done with that it is pretty much just working there aren't any big projects you do start book like you did last year and then you have your end of year party where a few moms come and you get cookies and then schools out! Mrs.O'Connell class ROCKS!!!!! ii hope you love third grade!

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  17. My favorite part of the year was GLOGING!If you are wondering why this is why!I love GLOGING beacause it is like making a blog but it is not a blog!Also you can edit them!I love reading and I do not know why AND I LOVE QUAD BLOGGING!And I love parties.I love to eat the do nuts.For some reason do nuts taste best at parties!

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  18. My favorite thing this year is parties. they are really fun. I love watching the movies at the parties. I also loved pioneers it was really cool. I loved writing in our journals. My favorite everyday thin is P.E its really fun. I love fun fridays. I am going to miss quad blogging. But most of all I am going to miss 3rd grade and Mrs.O'connell.

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  19. My favorite things we did this year were PE and class parties. They were really fun. In the class parties we got to watch movies like the Master of Disguise. In PE we did boomer ball and fun stuff like that. I also liked quadbloging with other countries. I also think Mrs. O'Connell is the best teacher ever! She is fun and teaches you a lot!!!

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