Happy Halloween!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

We had a room full of happy, excited kids with some great costumes!

Thank you to our wonderful parents who supplied the delicious food for our party!!! 

 We enjoyed a few rounds of Halloween Bingo!

"Minute to Win It" was a favourite activity at the party. The kids were all so focused!!! This is also a fun game to play with the family. Your child may want to challenge you!!!

Our Halloween celebration ended with a school wide drumming performance.

In Language Arts this week, we spent some time working on some Halloween writing. The students learned about using adjectives to describe nouns and adverbs to describe verbs. We brainstormed a list of words that they could use in their writing. The students filled in a Halloween story with descriptive words to make it their own. After writing their unique stories, a few were shared with the class.

The class also wrote paragraphs describing their Halloween costume this year. They were encouraged to use juicy and descriptive words to give the reader a clear picture of what they would be wearing.

We were lucky to have an opportunity this week to "buddy read" with the students in 4B. All of the students in our class will have a chance to read with a grade 4 student over the school year.

The students have been practicing a Halloween Readers Theatre, working on their fluency and expression.

In Math, we continued to work on creating numbers with base ten blocks. The students demonstrated their ability to show the same number in three different ways.

We also learned a new card game, comparing three digit numbers.

In Science, the students were given a video to watch with a fill in the blank assignment. They reviewed the three rock types and the rock cycle.

We finished an art project that was started last week called, Monster Mama! We introduced the activity by reading the story called "Monster Mama".

The students were then guided through a portrait sketch. The drawing was then filled in with wax crayons.

The next step was to make the crazy monster hair. They did this by blowing paint droplets through straws.

We also had another art project to prepare. The Fundraising Committee has organized a Christmas card sale. We worked on our cards this week. You will be able to view your child's card next week at Parent Teacher Interviews. Order forms will be available that evening. 

For gym this week, we played "wall soccer". We also played "Small Court Handball". This is a game where the students had to pass the ball to their teammates and try to throw it into the opponents net. They could not take any steps when they were holding the ball. They really enjoyed this game!

Congratulations to our students who have read 600 minutes! Please help your child reach this goal, if they have not already met it.

Congratulations also to our reader who has completed 1200 home reading minutes!!

The entire school gathered to say good-bye to Mrs. Becker. We all miss her soooooo much as she was such an important member of our school community. A beautiful song was sang to her by the students and a lot of tears were shed. The students and staff created a book for her. A plaque and bench was also made in her honor.

Anti-Bullying Rappers

Our Grade 3 class did an awesome job at the assembly as they shared an important message about respect and being a bully-free school. We have a great group of rappers!

The students enjoyed the Word Work this week as they used a variety of materials and manipulatives to build this week's spelling list.

We read "Catfish Palace" from our Collections series. The students are feeling more confident reading to the class. We have been working on using rules to sound out unfamiliar words and talking about how to figure out the meaning of words we don't know. 

The students are always engaged during this part of our Daily 5 program!

"Read to Self"

"Listen to Reading"

"Read to Someone"

In Math, the students grabbed one of the collections from our classroom. They worked together to count the objects by grouping them into 5s, 10s, and 100s. Some groups also chose to count by 1s.

Great teamwork!

We also spent time working on place value and representing numbers to 1000 using base ten blocks. 

The class learned a new game called, "Roll'n On Place Value". They used Stratedice to create the largest 3 digit number.

In Social, we worked on labeling the provinces in Canada. Using the chrome books, the students googled images of our country to find the names and correct spelling of the provinces and territories.

They also worked on a province unscramble and word search to help familiarize themselves with the names of the provinces and territories. 

Congratulations to our new Student of the Week...