We are beginning a new project on Famous Inventors. We will research the inventors with partners and make a book out of them. However, this book will be shared with the whole world. We will use our research to create a book called Famous Inventors on Wikijunior.

The purpose of Wikijunior is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12. Wikijunior is a sub-project of Wikibooks, which is a community working to create a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks is a sister project of Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia in the world.

By contributing our researh to Wikijunior, we are making a permanent contribution to the world. Children all over the globe will be able to learn from and add to what we will have done on this project. What a great legacy to leave behind here at the end of our 3rd grade year.

We just started using .

Study Island is a test prep site that allows our 3rd graders to play games with questions that test what they learn this year.  It looks fun and is accessible through the internet at home or school as long as they have their log-in username and password.  It looks really good, and will allows use to better assess how our kids are doing individually.