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! 

Happy New Year!

We started 2016 with a brand new seating plan. We also started fresh by organizing and decluttering our desks! 

After a two week holiday, Christmas and New Years, the students had a lot to write about in their Journals! 

 

We talked about our favourite memories from 2015. After the students had some time to reflect, they completed a project for their portfolios. 

We then read a book titled, "Squirrel's New Year's Resolution" and the students came up with some goals for the New Year. They put their ideas in a graphic organizer and then compiled them into a paragraph. 

For spelling this week, the kids had an opportunity to explore some different options with "word work". Some chose to stamp out their words, some created their own "scrabble spelling" and some made a "word search". These are all fun and effective ways to review the words of the week. 

We completed another Star reading test. This is one of the methods we use to test the students on their reading and comprehension. It gives us information about what level they are reading at and strategies to use in each individual circumstance. 

In Math this week, we started off by playing an addition game. Students were given questions and had to colour in the answer. A hidden picture was revealed after they had completed all of the addition problems! 

We also continued working on our "Mathletic" review booklets. This week, the students were working together to count coins. This was a great review for all of them! 

They were also taught some basic multiplication strategies to complete a crossword in their booklets. 

In Science, we talked about the different instrument families and how they make sounds. We then watched a video and the students completed a worksheet sorting the different instruments. 

The students had a blast rotating through some sound centers. They experimented with tuning a glass, paper cup telephones, creating vibration with a ruler and elastic bands, rubber band music, sound travelling through solids/liquids/gas and creating sound waves. 

The students concluded that:

Sound waves are caused by vibrations. 

The faster the vibrations, the higher the pitch. 

The slower the vibrations, the lower the pitch. 

Sound waves travel through solids, liquids and gas. They travel quickest through solids. 

For art this week, we made snowmen as seen from an aerial view. The students used pastels to blend the edges, to give dimension to each snowball layer. They finished them off with a patterned scarf, carrot nose, twig arms and eyes. They turned out great!

Congratulations to a few of our students who reached their goals over the holidays! 

Congratulations to our new Student of the Week!