science lab

Today we had a science lab. We did experiments with chemiluminescence. Is another way to say cemicals mixed to make light. We also learnd about difernt kinds of luminescence like Biolumenescence is where it is made by nature. We also made slime! We mixed different chemicles like glue, water and glow powder and stirred it fast untill it got thick and then we took it out of the cup and put it in the bag. We had so much fun today!!!!

by: Kayla and Delaney and Luke

Colonial America

Today in gifted we talked about Colonial America and what life was like for colonial kids in the 13 original colonies. Click on the links and learn more!

Dancing with the Star!

What an exciting night I had dancing the night away with J at Adventure Landing!  Stay tuned for the full story of my adventures.

Love, Chelsea/Chet

Open House

Thank you to all who attended our open house last week. In case you weren't able to attend, please enjoy the slide show below.

President day in gifted

Today we had a president day! We got to make buttons, motto's, and signs to make students in our class vote for us. We also researched diffrent presidents. Our teachers went to a website to show us that one vote can make a big diffrents! Evreybody had very creative ideas for the buttons. We had a lot of fun in gifted today!!

by Kayla and Abigal

Presidents

Can you name 10 American Presidents? Which president got stuck in the tub at the White House? Which presidents were not actually elected into office? Who was the 1st president to be the son of another president? Which president had a pet parrot? Do some research and share what you learn with us!

Germs or no germs?

Today we did a experiment that was called Germs or no germs. We got a patato and rubbed it on the place that we thought had the most germs. We had partners. It was a little gross, but we lived. My object was the tetherball, and it's more germier than I had thought. My object was the toilet handle, it was really wierd and gross. But we will find out next week what the germiest place in school is.




By, Jessica and Anna

Musical

We are doing great in our musical.We have done 15 songs there are 1 girls only and 1 boy song it is the best musical.My favs are Rocking Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu,and Have You Seen Her. Our misical is in January please come its going to rock.JJ

videostreaming from the cummer museum

Today we got to go to the media center and see the Cummer Museum without going there! We saw a panting that was a cityscape.We saw a boy flying a kite. There were a lot of sail boats.We do not no why. There was a kid spining a wooden hoop.Then we aksed some quetions and then went back into are classroom.   -James

I thought that I would add on a bit to what James wrote about in his blog post, which is very good already.  I am so proud of the profound insights that these fantastic third graders shared during our videoconference with the Cummer Museum.  For those of you who may not know, we were so fortunate to have the opportunity to chat live with a docent at the Cummer, while never even setting foot outside of Chets Creek.  We took part in this conference as a follow up to the field trip that we took to the Cummer Museum last week. While sitting in the comfort of out media center, we spoke back and forth with a wonderful docent who stood in the museum and shared a work of art with us.  As James mentioned, she shared a beautiful painting of a cityscape in the Netherlands. The painting included many small details which we discussed throughout the videoconference.  We spent time looking at the painting and posing questions about it to our docent, who answered them very well.  We plan to spend some time over the next couple of weeks researching more about some of the questions that came about in regard to this painting.  Stay tuned!  Mrs. Zawis

Field Trip To Cummer Meauseum

We went on a bus,to a meauseum called,THE CUMMER MEAUSEUM We had SO much fun!First,when we got in the building we went to see all the diffrent art gallerys.Then we went to see the garden.We lerned about the forground, midground, and background.Then we got to explore the ART CONNECTIONS. We did a city skape project next. It was a lot of fun!

BY,JESSICA AND Emily

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Weslandia

Welcome back to our gifted blog today we did some thing called weslandia. in Weslandia we made maps of a fake places. And used 15 geographical terms in it. We made the paper look old by puting water of tea bags.









christian





luke

a great gifted day!

Today in gifted we shared our glyphs and our freinds tried to guess what they ment. Then we did flip flop figure.we looked at a sheet of paper with 12 triangles on it.We tryed to make the shapes on it with our small sheet of paper.next we did some thing called weslandia. this is based on a book. what we did was,think of a land. we partnered up and we got we got a sheet of paper,and drew what we wanted our land to look like. it was so much fun!
from Madison and Emily w.

WESTLANDIA

We read a book called Westlandia.A kid made his own civlazation and we are doing the same thing.We had to make geografical terms,our own lanuage and a map.ITS SO COOL!! Civlazation's are fun!! We did a civlazation made of sweets.Its made out of deserts,rivers,vallys,forest,oceans,rivers and streams,mountains and glaicers.


JJ and James

The First Day of Gifted

Today was the first day of gifted. We started practicing our musical called Top 40. It was so so so much fun! We did something called Riddle Rebus. For Creative Expresson, we painted a picture like Van Gogh's Starry Night. We drew with yellow and white and then painted navy blue over it. Did you know that Van Gogh cut off his ear? Do you know what he did with it? Why don't you google "Van Gogh" and find out. It was an awesome day!! Check back next week...

The Awesome 3rd grade gifted class!!

Welcome Back!

Dear Third Grade Friends,
We are so excited that our school year is about to begin! Our journey this year will take us around the world in 180 days. Together, in gifted, we will virtually explore our world and have lots of fun along the way. In preparing for our journey we would love to know where you want to go. If you could learn more about our world or travel anywhere, where would that be?? Please click on the comment box below and directions will appear as to how to add a comment. Be sure to add you name at the bottom of your comment. We can’t wait to hear your ideas!

Your travel guides,
Mrs. Zawis and Mrs. Skipper