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Welcome to our third grade Wiki for Mrs. McSwain's class.

(this is the 2008-2009 website - for the 2009-2010 site go to https://3rdgradebears.wikispaces.com/)
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Name the puppy contest. We need to name him/her before the year ends. If you have a great idea for a name for our new wiki mascott (see top left corner), then write the name down and give to Mrs. McSwain by noon on the last day of school. The name will be revealed on the wiki, so check it out over the summer!

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 by Brandon G. and Madyson first we went to mrs mufukas class and made candy shushi we swiched classes we did adverbs then we went to england and leaned about big ben and thequeen we got cokkies and tea then we whent to our 3rd grade place japan and learned about mt.fugi and japans flag the rising sun we saw ms hadden to show ous how to paint a fish an put it on paper norway and saw people dance and got a sample.then we saw mexico and learned spanish words we learned the nubers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 we got a sample then we did not get to go to italy we went back to the classroom and played stop the bus and ate cookies and draink tea at the end of the day Check out what we did this week! (week of April 27th) Monday, April 27th by Sarah H. Today we came in and we did our spelling investigations .our pattern was ible and able.then we did independent reading while listening to japense music.we also learned all about Japan today and did a kwl chart about Japan. After we did all that we made oragami jumping frogs. then it was dismissal and we waited for our rides. media type="custom" key="3701241"[|Ocean Persuasive Papers] media type="custom" key="3695235" or try this link [|voicethread - adoption papers]

Class Musical Parents, this Thursday (4-23) our 3rd graders will be putting on a musical. Mr. Nettles, teachers and the kids have been working very hard to make this show a success. Please have your child here by 5:45 in the music room. The show starts at 6:00 in the cafeteria. Hope to see you there!

Check out what we did this week! (week of April 13)

Wednesday, April 21, 2009 by Adison and Bailey First we did our daily language we practiced our helping verbs then mrs.mcswain went on eekoworld.com and showed us what we could do and we became eeko freindly.then we worked on our persuasive papers after that we we completed from trash to treasure in our readers notebook.we got back our spelling test adison got a A and bailey got a B.After we got our spelling test we went to a assembly by JEA. Go green assembly and this guy named reduce told us ways to help the world then we went to the computer lab and did earth day activities on the computers. All the websites are on the class wiki Cool websites page.

FRIDAY APRIL 17, 2009 by:Kaydee and Kate This morning we had to put our spelling words in our Dictionary`s. After that,we had our spelling test I think we got 100s! Next, we went to the "NO BULLY"asembally it talked about bullys and how their not welcome at NBE (the student counciul put it together). Then, we took our chapterbook test my book was "Muggie Maggie". Oh my gosh I just remembered that at 11:05 we went down to coach and did the mile run test.Later, we went to lunch then came back up and packed up! This was the best FRIDAY EVER! Then,when we took the mile runMRS.MCSWAIN RAN 2!:) :) :) :) :) 

Thursday, April 16, 2009 by Dillon and gabby In the morning Miss. Mcswain was on the wnbe news and she was great.First we learned about helping and main verbs. Then we finished reading our charper books.After that we met in our literature groups and talked about our books. Then we wrote in about our persuade writing. Lastly we practiced our play.

WEDNESDAY,April 15,2009 by:Tyler This morning we did our daily language which is "Helping verbs and Main verbs". After that,we did our reading groups. Mrs. McSwain met with some of the reading groups today. Then we worked on our persuasive writing papers. We wrote our introduction and our reasons. Then Lamia and Adison shared their papers. Once we got done with that at 10:45 we had art in art we learned the "Egyption"alaphabet. When art was over we went to lunch at 11:45! (YEAY)! Later, when lunch was over we went outside for 15 min.Then,we came inside and packed then we switched.

Monday, April 13, 2009 by Brandon C. Today we did spelling investigations. The pattern was vcv. Then we did our literature groups and responded in our readers notebooks. Finally we did persuasive writing. We were each given a picture of a pet. We are supposed to write a persusasive paper about adopting a pet. That was today. Tommorrow is class picture day. Outstanding Cereal Boxes media type="file" key="Cereal Box Book Reports.wmv"

__//Fight the Couch!//__ Are you logging your activity minutes? Anytime your active and not sitting on the couch needs to be logged in! Turn each Monday so we can record our class minutes.

WHAT HAPPENED IN CLASS TODAY? (week of April 6) Monday, April 6, 2009 by Kate This morning we didn`t have spelling investigations because it`s a 4 day week of school.Our spelling words of the week are the names of some numbers.After, we went over our spelling words together as a class,we talked about fight the couch and went over the activity log on how to do it.Then, we watched a vidio of seals. Next, we learned are new vocabulary words of the week and read half of Seal Surfer.After that, we responded to the book we just read,by ansewering this question:What are some of the challenges and risks the young seal faces?We also learned Persuasive genre and made a list of ideas in our source books.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 by Kate and Ale This morning we did our daily language and it was about helping verbs. And then we finished a book we where reading called Tiger Rising. Next we went into persuadive writing and we learned how to organize it and how to pearsuade someone really well. After that we went to the computer lab and did an activity on ReadWriteThink.org.

Thursday,April 9,2009 by Kate and Gabrielle This morning we put our spelling words in our dictionary.Afterthat, we set up for our spelling test and then we took it.Next,we took our reading benchmark test and in the middle we went to lunch.Then, after lunch we went out to recess for 20 min.Later,after recess we went back to the class, logged in our activity minutes and finished our test.After, every one finished we went to an asembally.Then, when we came back from the asembally we all ate like rabbits with lot` s of food mostly fruit.Then we cleaned up and packed up.