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In Room 3218...


   
     
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Many People Help Behind the Scenes to Help Make your Child's Education, the Best Anywhere! Thank You to Bruce for helping Correct and Record and Organize Student Work. Thank You Bruce!
Welcome parents, students, family, friends, and visitors! This website is filled with some wonderful activities that we are and/ or shall be experiencing in third grade.  Isn't technology great? Students will be getting their sign on login information this week! How exciting!!!

Andrea Miller came to our room 3218 last school year to help us in a lot of different ways. Some of the ways she helped us was just talking to us about how she see things in this world. We couldn't believe hearing how MEAN the kids were that she went to school with! She has been a cancer survivor since she was one year old but that comes
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Welcome to Your Best Year Ever! You will learn more than you ever learned before and have fun doing it!
with great pain. After she had her radiation and chemo treatments, her hair fell out. The kids at her school would make fun of her and call her names because when her hair did grow back in she had a bald spot in the back. We learned to never make fun of people for the way they look for there are many reasons that we may never know about why they are like that. She taught us COMPASSION! Thank You Andrea and come back again please?

Please feel free to reminisce with us through photo galleries of the past events and activities we'd like to share with you.



Image Gallery: Oct. 29th - View the Hannah Montana Concert Ms. Johnson went to with her grandson!

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Image Gallery: October Reading with Our Kindergarten Reading Buddies

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Image Gallery: Our Class Works Hard

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Image Gallery: Our Class Seems to Grow Everyday!!!

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Image Gallery: Justus Celebrates his 9th Birthday with the class. His Mom and Dad bring in pizza and cupcakes for all!
Thank You to Ms. West and Mr. White for being way generous!
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Image Gallery: We Went to The Como School Planetarium to Learn About the Planets with Mr. Brinkman

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Image Gallery: Students Make Dioramas to Represent the Favorite Part of Their Book They Read


Image Gallery: Room 3218 Make Paper Dolls to Kick off the new B2G Program at Ames Elementary
Students in Room 3218 Put a Lot of Hard Work into making their dolls advertising about B2G: Breakfast to Go...
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Image Gallery: Mrs. Schunk Teaches a Reading Class!
Thanks Mrs. Schunk


Image Gallery: Our 2009 - 2010 Kindergarten Reading Buddies

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Image Gallery: Reading with Mrs. Schmerler is FUN in the Library!!!

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Image Gallery: We Learned About Honey Bees with Mrs. Osborne's and Mrs. Weestrand's Room

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William L. Ames, a History of One of Our Founders...
Click on the hyperlink to read information about one of our founders...
Resource: History of St. Paul and vicinity: a chronicle of progress and a ..., Volume 2
By Henry Anson Castle

Resource: http://books.google.com/books?id=M4QUAAAAYAAJ&dq=William+L.+Ames,+Jan.+10,+1846&output=text&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Pinhole Cameras
Nothing to do on a boring day you say? Tinker around with the items located in this section;
*Oatmeal Box Pinhole cameras
*Rays
*Ray Tracing

Room 3218 Third Graders Perform a Martin Luther King Rap
Students in third grade worked hard after getting back from Winter Vacation. In just 4 days these amazing kids rocked the Auditorium of Ames! Click on title bar to view a few pictures of them performing...

To See Our 2005-2006 Playground Dedication... Click here!

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Contact Me Anytime:
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Ms. Gloria Johnson
Third Grade Teacher
Ames Elementary
1760 Ames Place
St. Paul, MN 55106
651-293-8970
gloria.johnson@spps.org

Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall?
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Click on the leaves to go to a website that describes what happens during the fall when leaves change colors, by Science Made Simple.

Homesteaders Honey
10 Cups sugar                           
1 tsp. powdered alum                  Mix together, boil slowly
2 1/2 cups boiling water               10 minutes

 Drop in:    30 white clover blossoms
18 red clover blossoms
18 fireweed blossoms (rose petals can be used)
Steep 5 minutes.  Strain.  Pour into a can or clean jar.

This recipe was used by the Grandma of Melissa and Jeremy.