Serving Our Community While We Learn

Third Grade Beach Sweep 2002

The beach Sweep is for the common good because ware helping people so they don't get hurt. Also, it helps the animals so they don't get sike or stuk in the garbig. It helps fish and birds. The beach sweep helps a lot. My jobs where caring one of the bags. I was caring a heve one. Also, I was picking up sticky gue garbig. I picked up grows garbig too. But my favorite job was doing the tales. I felt good because I was helping the common good. ...Jami

My class went to the beach sweep we picked up trash for the common good and helped our community. We picked up trash at Arcadia school. Also we found a lot of trash it weighed 38 pounds. We cleaned the beach so the birds and deer and all the animals don't get sick. Also we did it for the people who go on vacation. We do it for the common good and the cmunty. My job was to be a reporter and pick up trash with gloves. We were there 1 or 2 hours. We went home and we were prowd. ...Emily P.

We helped clean up for the common good. We helped the animals at the beach by cleaning it up. The beach gives us a good place to play, swim if we clean it up. The animals won't get sike if we clean it up. My job was to record people picking up. That was so much fun. I felt grat about the beach sweep. ...Joshua G.

My job was to carry the bag. Also to write the garbig down. Also to pick up the garbig. The beach sweep is for the common good because it helps us learn not to throw trash out. Also to help us to be a good citizen. Are gob was to clean up the beach. The common good was us and the animals. I learned childrens hands can make a difference. ... Tyler

My job was to carry the bag of garbidgh and mark of what you found and to pick the garbidgh up for the beach sweep. It helped the common good by picking up garbidgh for all of the people. We were doing it for the people the birds the fish and all the Animals. We did it for our community and for the common good. The Beach Sweep is for the common good because we picked up garbidegh for everyone and everything. The Beach Sweep is for he common good because we helped the Animals. I did this job for everyone and all the animals and people. ... Lindsay N.

The above Type 3 writing samples came from Mrs. Goins' class. The FCA's are:
  • 1. Use 7 complete sentences 25 points
  • 2. Why the beach sweep is for the common good 25 points
  • 3. Explain what your job was 50 points

Next we used the scale and weighed our "trash" , after that we made a tally and charts.

Mrs. Goins Main Page

September 2002
Arcadia School

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