Instrument Projects...

The students had the opportunity to present their instruments that they constructed at home. They described how they made their instruments and demonstrated how to control the volume and change the pitch. They were all creative and a lot of thought was put into the construction.

Our next unit in Science will be a "Survivor" themed unit. We will cover the concepts "Building with a Variety of Materials" and "Testing Materials and Designs" of the grade three curriculum. This week, the students were put into tribes and worked together to think of a tribe name. Over the next few months, the students will be given weekly challenges, which will require them to work together to make conclusions based on the curriculum outcomes of these two units. They are VERY excited to get started!

This week in Math, we talked about addition and subtraction equations. Students were given questions and asked to find the missing numbers. They were able to use a variety of strategies to find the answer. Example questions... 4+ ___= 11,     5+___= 10-2  

They will be given a review assignment on Monday.

Students also played a math game to review addition and subtraction equations. 

In Language Arts this week, we continued reading our Collections series. We have read numerous fairy tales. We have been really focusing on comprehension by stopping frequently throughout the stories to discuss what is happening. We also have been working on making predictions based on what we have read.

We also spent some time typing the good copies of their first "All About Me" paragraphs. The students used their chrome books to type and change the font, size, colour and layout of their paragraph. These paragraphs will be compiled into a booklet that will go into their year end memory books. 

We work on Spelling each day to give the students as much practice as we can on their weekly words. This week, the students also spent a bit of time testing each other.

For handwriting this week, we did the letter Mm and Vv.

In Art, we did a directed drawing of a cardinal as we talked about the foreground and background of pictures. The students then painted their drawings.

We had one student fly to Ukraine this week. 

Congratulations to our new Student of the Week!