Skating Week...

Thank you so much to the parents who came to help tie skates and those who went on the ice with the students! 

The kids had a blast on the ice! Those who were fairly new at skating were determined to learn and their confidence throughout the week grew! 

We started a new writing project in Language Arts. The students were given an outline which included 12 different topic areas. Throughout the next few months they will choose from these topics and work on writing paragraphs which include a topics sentence, details and a concluding sentence. Once they have been edited, they will type their work so that it can be complied and published into a booklet. It ends up being a great keepsake and the students are excited about this project! 

We have also been reading from our Collections books and the students have been especially excited with this Fairytale series. 

Listen to reading was done on our classroom iPads this week. The students really enjoyed this!

For handwriting this week, we completed the letters Ee and Nn. The students were excited to add many classmates names to the list list of words we can now write. 

We started our next unit in Math, "Addtion and Subtraction". This week we focussed on different mental math strategies such as using doubles and making ten. 

The students were also taught a math game which reinforced finding the sums of the numbers 10-18, in more than one way. eg 6+6=12, 7+5=12, 8+4=12, 9+3=12 

The class was given their instrument project this week. These are due on Monday. The assignment package that was sent home also needs to be complete and brought back to school.

This week in music class, the students used the handbells. We had a chance to watch them in action and they did a fantastic job!

This week we learned about Gandhi and his beliefs. 

To wrap up our unit on India the grade three students spent the afternoon celebrating India culture by rotating through a variety of activities! 

Congratulations to our new Student of the Week!