Intermediate School Trip!

We spent some time Thursday on a tour of the Intermediate School! We got to meet Mr. Murphy, Mr. Bondy, some of the teachers and toured the whole school! Our final activity was meeting with some fourth grade students who shared books they had written for us. Their books were titled How to Survive Fourth Grade. This trip made us excited about going to fourth grade next year!!

Chapin Forest

We had a great time at Chapin Forest!! We went on an "off trail" hike, crawled through a cave, saw Lake Erie and did some experiments on soil! It was great!! Check out this link to learn more and visit for yourselves!! http://www.lakemetroparks.com/select-park/chapin.shtml

Literacy Day

Literacy Day is about Middle Schoolers meeting up with Third Graders. The Middle Schoolers made books for their third grade buddy and the third graders read at least 1 chapter from the book they are reading to the Middle Schooler. At the end the third graders got a book that their Middle Schooler book buddy wrote. It was a TON of fun! By, Ben

New Podcast! How to Survive Third Grade!

Click here to listen to our newest podcast...How to Survive Third Grade! We wrote these hints for our second graders here at Gurney!

Teachers for Tomorrow Link!!

Garth Holman, a teacher at Beachwood Middle School, and I have a conversation about technology in the classroom!! Listen to our conversation and take a look at his blog!!

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Morning Meeting!!

We are taking turns leading Morning Meeting this month. Today was Eric's turn! Take a peek at what a Morning Meeting looks like in our classroom!!

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iPod Touch Lesson

Click hereto see a short video of us using our iPod Touches! We created a Podcast of the poem "American's Baseball," by Gina Hodges. We then downloaded the poem onto our iPod Touches and listened to ourselves!! We had a blast!!!

Junior Achievement with Mr.Sadowski

In our class we have Junior Achievement with Mr.Sadowski!!!! He teaches about the city and much more!!!! In the picture abuve we built a city. We have so much fun!!!!:)