Winter Walk

It was a beautiful day to participate in our school wide winter walk. We joined up with 1A and walked the route through Devon. We came back to the school to enjoy hot chocolate and timbits from Tim Hortons. 

On Tuesday we had a special performance ~ "Early Bloomer".

"Maisy Daisy faces the embarrassing and exciting challenges of blossoming a little sooner than her pals. With the help of Principal Gardener, her parents and her fellow daisies, Maisy figures out how to stand tall, be proud and discover a new found be-leaf in herself! It is a sweet and funny look at puberty that celebrates the uniqueness and awkwardness of every young person’s journey to become a young adult."

For gym this week, we played soccer with 3D. 

In Math, we discussed different mental math strategies to use when solving addition questions. The students shared their favourite method with the class. 

We also played a new game called "Around the World" to practice their basic math facts of addition and subtraction! This is a fast paced game that the whole class enjoys playing together. 

In Language Arts, we read another story from our collections series. The Finding Princess had a great moral and the students loved the discussion we had about it. Ask your child to share with you what made the princess truly happy. 

We started writing our spin off stories of the "Three Little Pigs". We have been working on this in sections so that we can focus on building a good sequenced story. After each section the students conference with us to edit their work. We will continue writing these stories next week. 

For handwriting, we did the letter Zz and then we reviewed the decending letters. 

We continue to complete a weekly Morning Message. Students copy a short paragraph containing many spelling mistakes and missing punctuation. We recently started unscrambling words. After we have corrected the paragraph, we count the number of mistakes, making this our mystery number for the day. We then use this number to play "How Many Ways" where students come up with math equations that equal our mystery number. This week, we added 100 to our mystery number (28) to give the students a challenge. It looks like a few of them are ready for multiplication! 

Over the year, the students work on a monthly "memory" page for their portfolios. They use a Google slide document to create memory pages for each month. The students worked on their January pages this week. They have become very familiar with font, text size, changing colour, adding background colour and resizing pictures. We have been compiling their completed pages into their portfolio and they will become a great keepsake of their grade 3 year.