In the Studio: Math Review

As an end of the year assignment, students were given a project. Their assignment, work as a group to create a video about any math topic that we learned about this year. One of our goals for math this year was not just to learn but to learn the subject area well...

Mystery Skype – Who Could it Be?

Today we had a chance to Mystery Skype! The students had no idea what class we were skyping with. Their goal was to cooperate as a team to try to figure out the location of that class. There were a few rules to the Mystery Skype. Students had to ask closed questions...

Happy Birthday Mrs. Yollis!

Mrs Yollis is a very special third grade teacher in California. We have spent much time this year learning from her class blog. She’s also left some amazing comments for us throughout the year. Even though Mr. Avery has never actually met Mrs Yollis, he...

Angry Bird Angles

Read the Full Post Below  Angry Bird Angles Last week, we spent a lot of time talking about angles. We began by reviewing acute, right, and obtuse angles. We remembered that a right angle is 90° and that you can make a square inside of it. We discussed that an...

Natalie Visits Okefenokee Swamp

This is a student post written by Natalie Over April vacation, my family and I drove all the way down to Brunswick, Georgia. It took two days to get down there. It seemed like forever but we finally got there. On our first day there, we drove about 45 minutes from my...