School’s Out For Summer!

What a year! We had an amazing class with a group of students that worked so well together. We blogged with so many great classes. We received comments from around the world. It was truly a successful year. It seems like so long ago when we were first introducing...

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...

Expedition Heritage Museum

Thursday was an absolutely beautiful day. The clouds had parted from the day before and the sun had cast its light. Luckily, Thursday just so happened to also be the day of our field trip to Heritage Museum! Every year, the fourth grade takes a trip to these beautiful...