3FT Third Grade Thoughts: Halloween

We enjoyed a great Halloween day together! The day started off with a school wide parade. We headed to the gym to look at all the creative costumes this year and had the opportunity to show ours off too! We did manage to complete a bit of work throughout the day. The students worked on a Journal entry and most of them chose to write about their costume or what they would be doing for trick or treating that evening. We also did a bit of Math and brainstormed words to make BINGO cards for the afternoon activities.

In the afternoon, we played a few Minute to Win It games. The students tried out their skills at Smartie Suckup, Rocket Towers, and Ghost Poop Pickup! There were prizes for the winners and most of the students were very focused and determined.

Thank you to the families who brought food for our party. We appreciate the contributions and the class enjoyed digging in while they enjoyed a movie.

This week, we finished working on our “I Need My Monster” sentences. We talked about different sentence starters to make our paragraph more interesting to read. Then they worked on the chrome books and typed up a good copy to publish for their memory book.

We also read a few books about Remembrance Day and the importance of wearing a poppy. The students talked about peace and what it means to them. They were then asked to put this into writing. The writing was then typed, edited and put together with our art for the week.

In Math, we worked on writing numbers in expanded form. For example, in expanded form a number can be stretched out into numbers or words.

457= 400+50+7

457= 4 hundreds + 5 tens + 7 ones

The teachers and students have all been set up on a website called “Mathletics” which was paid for by Parent Council. The students have usernames and passwords which have been sent home in their agendas. We will be using this program at school but the students are also encouraged to work on this math website at home. This website contains specific activities related to the outcomes that we are working on currently in Math. We will add activities as we move through the Grade 3 curriculum. It also has a mental math component called “Live Mathletics” where the students can play against students in their class, school or around the world.

This week in Science, we continued talking about the different properties of rocks. We worked through the definitions and the students added them to their lapbooks. Next week, the students are invited to bring in a special rock from home for our Rock Talk. They will be able to share their rock with the class and should be prepared to talk about a few of the properties we have been talking about, (shape, size, hardness, luster, streak colour, magnetism).

In Phys Ed., we continued to work on throwing and catching while maintaining control of the ball. We also worked on balancing a ball while moving around the gym. As part of our Dojo shopping, students may purchase a “PE class” to teach for 90 Dojo dollars. This week, one of our students chose floor hockey as an activity to do with the class.

For Art this week, we used the time to finish some projects. The students had some time to draw the monster under the bed to go with their “I Need My Monster” project. They also worked on the chrome books to finish their Remembrance Day writing, search for a Remembrance Day picture and then they created a poppy to go with their chosen picture.

Here are this week’s super readers. We are so impressed with the amount of Home Reading that our class has been doing! We even have 2 readers who have now launched rockets and are flying around the Amazing Race for the second time!!