Important dates:
March 21st: Jugo Juice fun lunch March 21-22nd: Spring Concert March 23rd: Org. day (no school) March 26-30th: Spring Break (no school) Homework: Read everyday for at least 20 minutes Ms. Parent's computer acts funny sometimes when she takes it home and she has to wait until she is back at the school to plug it into a blue chord so it works again. If you were wondering some of the things we did to finish up our week...they included: Drawing a leprechaun, designing a trap and writing about how we thought it might help us to catch a leprechaun. Selecting materials for our build, building our traps and decorating them in a way that might entice a leprechaun. We created pages in our visual journal to share about our experiences at the Glenbow museum! We created a stormy art piece using mixed mediums! We had a fun health lesson that looked at speech bubbles and thought bubbles. We introduced more information about bridges and Tunisia! Today we: Created misty art pieces! We worked on our Glenbow pages! We read some Harry Potter! We went over the expectations for our bridge pages in our visual journals, completed a sketch, labelled a bridge and found critical facts about the bridge our group choose. Some of us were even able to start building the bridge with K'nex pieces. We had some DEAR time and then had a little bit more time to finish up our bridge page and/or build. We spent the majority of the afternoon in the gym where we practiced for our concert! Field trip forms for City Hall will be going home tomorrow!
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Important dates:
March 21st: Jugo Juice fun lunch March 21-22nd: Spring Concert March 23rd: Org. day (no school) March 26-30th: Spring Break (no school) Homework: Read everyday for at least 20 minutes We were at the Glenbow all day! Ask me to share 3 things I learned, 2 things I loved and 1 question I have :) Thanks to Ms. Tara, Ms. Dale and Mr. Tim for helping us out today! Also a special thank you to Callum who had a wonderful comment during our Blackfoot presentation that was very well received :) It looks like our weekend blog didn't post so I will do a summary of some of the things we have been doing in grade three!
Important dates: March 13th: Glenbow Museum (Thank you Dale and Julie for helping us by volunteering your time!) March 21st: Jugo Juice fun lunch March 21-22nd: Spring Concert March 23rd: Org. day (no school) March 26-30th: Spring Break (no school) Homework: Read everyday for at least 20 minutes Concert tickets went home today- please let us know tomorrow if you require extra tickets! We have been working with our buddy classes on a routine for the concert and a Robert Munsch reader's theatre. We went snowshoeing! There were some of us that wondered if the snowshoes would keep us on top of the snow but we soon discovered that was not the purpose of the snowshoe. We had Ms. Joy come in for an author's visit! We learned how she gets her ideas, how she maps out her stories and ways that she seeks feedback to help her improve her writing (such as asking other authors and avid readers what part of her book might be boring!). We had some time to play a math game online and as a class, we learned that we were solving equations with missing parts...and that is actually related to algebra!! Pretty cool huh?! We have also been working on our math board game project and our budgeting project :) We had some time researching on Friday with Ms. Very. We have been looking at Google Earth and a couple of short videos of a drone flying through Tunisia to get some initial ideas about our new country! We saw the set of where Star Wars was filmed today! We have been working on our performance in music! We started a new sacred teaching: the teaching of truth! We talked about some of our stops on our adventure map, had some time to add colors and worked on a journal entry. We've also worked on our handwriting. We are talking about structures, shapes and stability. We watched a Bill Nye video and used that to start talking about important features of structures. Ask me 3 things that I learned! Please bring boots, snow pants and mittens/gloves for tomorrow! We are going out snowshoeing in the afternoon!! If students don't have boots then they will not be able to use the snowshoes!
Field trip forms went home yesterday- please return them asap :) Important dates: March 11th: Daylight savings (1 hour ahead) March 13th: Glenbow Museum (please let Corrine know if you can volunteer) March 21st: Jugo Juice fun lunch March 21-22nd: Spring Concert March 23rd: Org. day (no school) March 26-30th: Spring Break (no school) Homework: Read everyday for at least 20 minutes We need volunteers for upcoming field trips (4-5 each trip)! If you are not signed up to volunteer but would like to help us in being able to attend our off-site learning opportunities, please phone the school to ensure you have the proper paperwork and to be added to our room mom (Corrine)'s list. Thank you so much in advance. I will be sending home a letter to individual parents as well. Grade 3's need Pringles containers for the spring concert! Have a fun treat with your families if you can and bring in the container for us :) Speaking of the concert: We are excited to present our Spring Performance of Water Dance on March 21st and 22nd. The staff and students have been working hard on songs, dances, and artwork. Students with last names beginning with A to L will perform on Wednesday afternoon and Wednesday night. Students with last names beginning with M to Z will perform on Thursday morning and Thursday night. We ask that the students wear blue or green shirts without any letters, images, or logos and dark pants. If your child is not able to attend the evening performance, please contact your child's teacher and let them know. Highlights from our day: We started our day in music! Ms. Gray came in and talked about snowshoe safety/expectations :) Ms. Very explored Google Earth with us and we were able to see some of the landscape in Tunisia! We worked on a thinking routine in our visual to share some of the things we noticed. After recess, we were able to participate in an extra PE class! All the grade threes played a 4 way game of capture the flag!! We finished our Hermione sketches in our last few minutes before library! After lunch, we had DEAR time and then talked about the teaching of Truth and read a Annishinaabe legend called "The Legend of the Turtle Shell" We had handwriting with Ms. England to finish up our day. See everyone tomorrow! Reminder- Ms. Parent has an appt. on Friday so Ms. Very will lead our day with the support of Ms. Bolton. Please bring boots and snow pants for Thursday! We are going out snowshoeing in the afternoon!!
Field trip forms went home yesterday- please return them asap :) Important dates: March 7th: Extreme Pita fun lunch March 11th: Daylight savings (1 hour ahead) March 13th: Glenbow Museum (please let Corrine know if you can volunteer) March 21st: Jugo Juice fun lunch March 21-22nd: Spring Concert March 23rd: Org. day (no school) March 26-30th: Spring Break (no school) Homework: Read everyday for at least 20 minutes We need volunteers for upcoming field trips (4-5 each trip)! If you are not signed up to volunteer but would like to help us in being able to attend our off-site learning opportunities, please phone the school to ensure you have the proper paperwork and to be added to our room mom (Corrine)'s list. Thank you so much in advance. I will be sending home a letter to individual parents as well. Grade 3's need Pringles containers for the spring concert! Have a fun treat with your families if you can and bring in the container for us :) Speaking of the concert: We are excited to present our Spring Performance of Water Dance on March 21st and 22nd. The staff and students have been working hard on songs, dances, and artwork. Students with last names beginning with A to L will perform on Wednesday afternoon and Wednesday night. Students with last names beginning with M to Z will perform on Thursday morning and Thursday night. We ask that the students wear blue or green shirts without any letters, images, or logos and dark pants. If your child is not able to attend the evening performance, please contact your child's teacher and let them know. Highlights from our day: We had a class discussion about flags after our newsletter from City Hall. We wanted to think about what makes a good flag, why Canada's flag looks the way it does, what a flag represents etc. Afterwards, we sketched symbols that represent who we are and started created a personal flag. We had music! We finished our science builds and did our final testing! Our shapes with triangles held the most weight! We read from Harry Potter and started drawing Hermione :) Afterwards, we tested any structures that were altered due to mixed shapes. We had DEAR time and then talked about what it means to have someone observing you while you perform a skill. Students were able to relate to Ms. Very as many of them have evaluations for sports such as dance or hockey. Ms. Barb came in to watch Ms. Very teach both math and PE this afternoon. We talked about regrouping when there are zeros for placeholders and we have all started a budgeting project to design a bedroom with a $1000 limit. This will allow us to practice addition and subtraction in a real-life situation :) In PE, we had some different level racket challenges! Afterwards, we continued working on our math projects. Have a great night everyone! Important dates:
March 7th: Extreme Pita fun lunch March 11th: Daylight savings (1 hour ahead) March 13th: Glenbow Museum (please let Corrine know if you can volunteer) March 21st: Jugo Juice fun lunch March 21-22nd: Spring Concert March 23rd: Org. day (no school) March 26-30th: Spring Break (no school) Homework: Read everyday for at least 20 minutes We need volunteers for upcoming field trips (4-5 each trip)! If you are not signed up to volunteer but would like to help us in being able to attend our off-site learning opportunities, please phone the school to ensure you have the proper paperwork and to be added to our room mom (Corrine)'s list. Thank you so much in advance. I will be sending home a letter to individual parents as well. Grade 3's need Pringles containers for the spring concert! Have a fun treat with your families if you can and bring in the container for us :) Speaking of the concert: We are excited to present our Spring Performance of Water Dance on March 21st and 22nd. The staff and students have been working hard on songs, dances, and artwork. Students with last names beginning with A to L will perform on Wednesday afternoon and Wednesday night. Students with last names beginning with M to Z will perform on Thursday morning and Thursday night. We ask that the students wear blue or green shirts without any letters, images, or logos and dark pants. If your child is not able to attend the evening performance, please contact your child's teacher and let them know. Highlights from our day: We started our day reading a newsletter from City Hall School that asked us to think about whether we think Calgary should make a bid for the 2026 Olympics, whether we would want to compete in a future olympics or if we would want to volunteer/work at a venue if the Olympics were to come to Calgary in 2016. Ask me something I learned from the article. Thank you to Ms. Shelia for keeping us engaged as we await our time at City Hall School :) After responding to our journal prompt from the newsletter, we were given some time to improve and finish up our Harry Potter writing prompt. We reviewed the importance and intention behind feedback and then had another author's chair. Thank you to Rachel, Gavin and Tristan for sharing their writing with us today. It was too cold to go out at recess so our grade 6 buddies played a new story game with us. After recess, we had a snack before listening to Ms. Very read from our novel study. Afterwards, we had a group conversation about some of the things we know about Ron Weasley, before working in our visual journals. Some of us had about 15 minutes to go through our checklist of things needing to be finished. After lunch, we had a short DEAR time before having circle. We reviewed triple digit addition and subtraction with Ms. Very. Some of us also continued/started some work designing a dream bedroom on a $1000 budget to apply what we know about addition and subtraction. In PE, we worked on our racket skills in Tennis! Afterwards, we continued working in our math tasks. Important dates:
March 7th: Extreme Pita fun lunch March 11th: Daylight savings (1 hour ahead) March 13th: Glenbow Museum (please let Corrine know if you can volunteer) March 21st: Jugo Juice fun lunch March 21-22nd: Spring Concert March 23rd: Org. day (no school) March 26-30th: Spring Break (no school) Homework: Read everyday for at least 20 minutes We need volunteers for upcoming field trips (4-5 each trip)! If you are not signed up to volunteer but would like to help us in being able to attend our off-site learning opportunities, please phone the school to ensure you have the proper paperwork and to be added to our room mom (Corrine)'s list. Thank you so much in advance. I will be sending home a letter to individual parents as well. Highlights from our day: We started our day on mathplayground.com where we are practicing mental math skills in all operations! Next we worked on our social studies research for the rest of the morning! After recess, we had snack and read from Harry Potter before identifying problems and solutions we have seen so far. We also did a guided drawing of Ron to add to our visual journal. After lunch, we had DEAR time and then reviewed our criteria for our math board game. As some students had misplaced their documents, we had some working time in our visual journals to finish up our pink shirt day and paper reflections. In PE, we played capture the chicken! After PE, we worked with our partners on our board game design. Ask me what we are working on! |
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