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Our third grade visited Explore Park this fall.  We had a wonderful time and saw many interesting things.  Ms. Zehnpfennig brought the video camcorder and captured a lot of our day.  We brought it back to school and Ms. Engel’s class added their own special touch.  Please go to the pages section of our blog and click on Explore Park to view our trip.

We visited Explore Park and had a wonderful time.  We want to share with you some of our experiences.  Please select Explore Park on the right side to view our video.

The first colony of the new world was settled 400 years ago in Virginia. Its name was Jamestown. View the links to the right under Jamestown for some survival activities, learning how we know about the settlement after four centuries, determining if you could have survived, create a colony and a few projects to show understanding of this vs: 4 standard of learning.

Please comment on the pages as you work through them. This is a blog which is a space for people to leave their thoughts. Imagine how it would feel to get responses from other people who have navigated through your work. Students love reading about what others think, especially if it is their work.

Welcome to our blog on Native Americans. We will research the Powhatan, Sioux, and Pueblo Indians. Our projects will be a guess the group podcast. Choose the links on the right to learn about each group. Log on with us again in the near future and listen for the facts. Select a link under pages on the left that will provide information and then correctly choose the group that is being discussed.

Welcome to our blog on ancient Greece. This site has initially been created for the third grade students and their study of Ancient Greece. It is a Virginia Standard of Learning in Social Studies 3.1 . The students will need to know about the contributions that Greece provided. We still use and see these contributions today in architecture, our democratic government and sports.Please click on the pages to the left to see and hear some of our work.