Spell-a-thon Champions

Our students wrote the Spell-a-thon test last week and all of the marks were totaled up this week. Our class tied with KW pm for the most 100% scores!! Dairy Queen helped us celebrate by donating a cake for us to share with the kinder class!

Wow!! Excellent effort and creativity was put into the bridges our students built for the Bridge the Gap assignment. The students presented their bridges to the class and were asked various questions about the construction and structure. We had a variety of beam, arch, truss and suspension bridges.

On Wednesday, we Rocked our Socks for World Down Syndrome Day. Our class participated in a variety of activities regarding inclusion and the well-being of people with Down Syndrome in our community and around the world. We watched a few short videos about accepting others, we read about Down Syndrome and created our own socks. 

We worked on an Easter Cursive Writing book where our students had to complete Easter words without interlined paper. The size of their letters needed to be much smaller than they are use to as well. They did great with this activity and brought their books home to practice more over the break. 

We finished our read aloud of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and then watched the movie during lunch to compare and contrast the book to the movie. After Spring Break we will begin "The Mouse and the Motorcycle". 

For Math this week we used the number line to show multiplication and we modeled multiplication using arrays. We talked about rows and columns and the commutative property to find missing products. 

The students learned a new math game to help them with their multiplication facts.

In Gym, we played Easter Tag and we also did fitness stations. The class rotated through a variety of strength and cardio activities.  

Congratulations to our Super Readers this week. We hope all of our students are able to read a lot over the break and fly to new countries when we return!

St. Patrick's Day!

The students celebrated St. Patrick's Day a little early by dressing up in green!

Thank you to all of the parents who came to Student Led Conferences and spent some time completing curricular activities with our students. Five centers were set up around the classroom for the students to complete and a variety of projects were displayed around the room and in the hallway.

Language Arts~Making Words and Writing
Science~Survivor Challenge
Math~Rounding Robots and Domino Revolution

This week was our Spell-a-thon test! The students completed another pre-test at the beginning of the week to make sure they knew which few words they still needed to work on. They also completed a Fancy Word page, designing their words into bubble letters, block letters or with stripes and polka dots. 

We were so impressed with the improvement they made over the course of two weeks and were SOOOOO PROUD of them all. Way to go, 3B!!!

We spent a little more time working on improving our keyboarding skills with Typing Club. 

In Language Arts, the students worked on typing their St. Patrick's Day limericks to display on their pot of gold art projects.

We also worked through a few non-fiction reading passages about St. Patrick's Day, rainbows and leprechauns. After reading the passage together as a class, the students answered comprehension questions by reading back and pulling out important facts. 

 

Our St. Patrick's Day Dictionary Dig was a favourite. The students worked in groups to find St. Patrick's Day words in the dictionary and record the definition, make a sentence and draw a picture about the word.

In Math, we worked on drawing pictures to represent equal groups and multiplication equations. They were also able to write equations after given a visual representation. We read through a number of word problems and solved them using the process of multiplication. 

 

We also started a Star Wars multiplication book that the students love! 

In Science, we continued to test different kinds of joining materials. The students were given twelve toothpicks and used puffed wheat, plasticine and marshmallows to make a cube. They found that the plasticine was the strongest and held the most weight.

 

We also competed a challenge to determine the strength of shapes and how to make a shape stronger. We concluded that if you add a diagonal to reinforce the shape from corner to corner, it will be stronger. Peter Caron talked about this during our bridge building workshop last week and the kids were able to test it this week. 

In PE, we learned about handball and the students practiced the side pass, hip pass and overhand pass. They also had the opportunity to use their passing skills in a few games of handball.

In Art, the students completed an Art Hub drawing of a Leprechaun.

Congratulations to this week's Amazing Race readers!