1998-1999

 A Power Point Presentation of our class field trip to the Washburn-Norland Living History Museum. Our trip to the Norland's by Tiffany.

 Our winning CyberFair Web site about the local business and organizations of our community.

Our National Semiconductor entry web page about the Lewistons of the United States. Your Home, Our Home, Lewiston.

2000-2001

 Our CyberFair 2001 Project is a web site about the local attractions of Lewiston, Maine. On this site the class focused on festivals celebrated throughout the year in Lewiston. Some of these festivals help the citizens of the community continue to practice their cultural heritage. The Festival de Joie helps our citizens enjoy the deep cultural ties to our French Canadian ancestors. It was a finalist in the CyberFair competition.

 2001-2002

This year our CyperFair 2002 Project was to create a web site about products that are made in the Lewiston- Auburn area. Mainely Our Own Local Specialities is the name of our web site. We learned that many items made here in our community are shipped to all regions of the world.

2002-2003

Our major projects this year have included producing a play. We performed James Howes' Scared Silly for the the school. This year's CyberFair 2003 Project was to create a web site about our Community's Friends and Helpers. We learned that many organizations in our community have programs to help the citizens of our community.

2003-2004

Three continents one classroom was our theme for our global virtual classroom. We collaborate with schools school in New Zealand and Ireland . Our Virtual Classroom produced an awesome collaborative web page. However that was not all we did. Our class also participate in Project Citizen. We focused on a school policy that we thought could be improved. The"No Recess" for second and third quarters was the topic we decided to research. We learned a lot about the necessity of recess. Visit our web site to learn about the value of recess. Our web site is called The 4 R's of Education...Reading, Writing ,Arithmetic, & Recess!.

We presented our finding to Mr. Levesques the Superintendent and to Mr. Whitfield our school Principal.

"Dinner With Aliens" see third grade students reporting a news breaking story by clicking on the image to your left after viewing click on the back button. (Please be patient this movie may take a few minutes to start.)

3 Continents, 3 Countries 1 Global Classroom

The was a year challenges, of sadness, of changes, of cooperation, and accomplishements. This year was like no other year. Our class produced TV commercials for a new product, a Crash Proof Plane.

You can watch our commercial on this quicktime movie.

Use this link to read all about our year at Martel.

2005-2006
Special World Future Society Award Winners!

Expanding Obesity Shrinking Our Lifespan

This was a year of publication. Our class colloborated with two published authors and created wonderful books. Author Jan Plourde helped up created the YABA DABA Do School Bus where third grade students saved their perfect attendance recorded by using their strong leg muscles and getting the bus to school.

Martel's very own published author, Dion, helped us create a colloborated story about making life changes that help us be healthier and happier. O is for Obesity was also a part of our Project Citizen Civic Project. We presented our project to the Lewiston School Board, at the Healthy Androscoggin board meeting, and in Augusta in the Kids Consortium sponsored competition for Project Citizen. Our project focused on childhood obesity. It was titled Expanding Obesity Shrinking our Lifespan. Mr. Dick Gleason from Gleason media came to our classroom and aired our keypoints on CNN radio !

Healthy Androscoggin donated bus fare and tee-shirts for students to wear for their Presentation in Augusta on May 19, 2006. Students presented their proposal advocating for more physical education instruction and year round recess weather permitting.

2006-2007

Volunteer Be A Responsible Citizen

Our web theme this year was being resposible citizens. Students visited local areas of interest where volunteers play an important part of their organizations. A good citizen needs to be active in his/her community. Good citizens give back to the community by sharing his or her skills and time.

2007-2008

The Good Old Days Are Today 

Our web theme this year focuses of the present and reminding ourselves that we are currently making special memories ! Our web page is in progress