Christmas Elves

The Grade 3 classes have taken on the job of collecting, sorting and delivering the Christmas Elves food bank donation items for this Christmas season. It ties in with our Social Studies unit on Global Citizenship. Our class created the donation box and will be responsible for delivering and sorting the food at the Christmas Elves depot. They are also encouraged to bring in a donation item. Thank you to all of you who have already sent in items!! 

Our new unit in Social Studies is India. 

We have finished our passports, they have been stamped for New Dehli and we are now traveling around India with Ravi. The students began their travel journals and have been learning how to pull important information from the text they read. We have learned about Ravi's home life and what it is like in the city and country.

For Science this week, we started our new unit on Hearing and Sound.

We began the unit by reading the Listening Walk.

We then headed out around the school...on a Listening Walk. We were paying close attention to the sounds we could hear and the students were quite surprised at how many there were! We then went outside and circled the school, listening to outdoor sounds. 

We learned the letter Uu and Ww in handwriting this week. The students can now spell words like "dug" and "wig". 

We are continuing on our novel study of Freckle Juice. We did a group reading of Chapter 3. The students worked on their own freckle juice recipe and also in partners to find all the nouns (person, place, thing) in that chapter.

In Math, we continued with skip counting. We worked on counting by 5's, 10's and 25's using coins. Please review money counting at home with your child.

This week we learned that the national bird of India is the peacock. We read two stories, a fiction and non-fiction, to introduce our Art project.

As a class, we completed a quick draw of a peacock. The students then picked different designs and colours of scrapbook paper to make the beautiful feathers. 

 A few of our classmates took part in Twin Day on Friday!

Congratulations to our students who have now read 600 minutes!

Way to go!!! You have read 1200 minutes and have landed in India!

Congratulations to our student who has read 1800 minutes, flying to Tunisia! 

WOW! Excellent job on reading 2400 minutes!!!

Congratulations to our new Student of the Week!