Mrs. Lilly is a very nice teacher. She has short blonde hair and lots of pretty earrings! She enjoys being with kids, she is a great teacher. She loves cooking and likes to teach math. She is a good reader. She reads aloud to us every day! We are listening to the  The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
    One day a month, we make rolls with Mrs. Alexander and Mrs. Gebo. They make the dough and bring it to the classroom. We each get a small piece,  roll it out like a snake and then tie it into a knot. It looks like a snake that got tangled up! The cooks take the rolls that we made back to the kitchen and bake them. Then everyone in the school gets to eat a tasty wheat roll.
    This year is the first year that we have taken the New England Common Assessment Program tests or the NECAP tests. They are tough reading. The hardest part of the test is filling in the dots. The machine that scores them hates doodling on the paper or scribbling outside the lines of the tiny dots.
    We are studying Ferrisburgh in our social studies class. We look at maps on the overhead and also use Google Earth to see what our town looks like. This picture is from a few years ago. You can tell because the boat is still on the playground. Right now, there is a big pile of sand where the boat used to be. We are going to get a different piece of playground equipment.
    There are two museums in Ferrisburgh, the Rokeby Museum and the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. There are 5 towns that border Ferrisburgh: Charlotte, Monkton, New Haven, Panton, and Waltham. There is  one city, that is Vergennes, that borders our town. Ferrisburgh has their own post office and also has a fire department. They are going to build a new town hall where the old Grange Hall used to stand.
    There is only one school in Ferrisburgh, but a while ago, there were 16 different one room schoolhouses. The one room school house used wood stoves for heating. Someone would have to keep the fire going in winter. Students would have to bring a cord of wood for the stove to pay for going to school. Most of the schoolhouses have been moved or turned into houses.
    In third grade, we all have our own Writer. The Writers are used to write stories and to practice keyboarding. We are all expected to keyboard without looking. We are also working on this skill in technology class. We use the program Read, Write and Type in the computer lab.
    In our room, we have an overhead projector. It can project pictures with light on the screen. We have three computers in our classroom. One is on the teacher's desk and the other two are for the students to use.