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May 2: Fun Lunch (Booster Juice) May 2: Elder Shirley Hill May 7: Music Monday May 9: Weaselhead Preservation Field Trip May 9: Grade 3 presents to School Council!! May 14: Elder Shirley Hill May 16: Elder Shirley Hill May 16: Fun Lunch (Wok Box) May 18: PD Day (no school for students) May 25: Volunteer Tea Today was a busy day in grade three! We started our day on computers where we had some time working with columnar multiplication (up to 3 digit by 1 digit) and then moved into some research on Ukraine! We have the same category so we will be able to draw some conclusions around the similarities and differences between the countries we are studying. After recess, we looked at a presentation of some of the different flowers in Ukraine- looking at the symbolism and legends that are attached to different flowers. We each chose a flower to create a page for in our visual journal and that will be the inspiration for our felt art pieces with Ms. Ferrari. After lunch, we had some DEAR time and then started our Tunisian presentations. We thought of some good feedback to provide on the presentations and each had to write down 1-2 facts about the different areas that everyone is studying. This will help us create postcards about Tunisia :) We played capture the chicken in PE and then completed another presentation before the bell rand for home time. Thanks for a great day everyone! I will upload Harry Potter party pictures tomorrow! PJ day on Friday and bring a movie snack as we will watch a bit more of the movie :)
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IMPORTANT DATES
May 2: Fun Lunch (Booster Juice) May 2: Elder Shirley Hill May 7: Music Monday May 9: Weaselhead Preservation Field Trip May 9: Grade 3 presents to School Council!! May 14: Elder Shirley Hill May 16: Elder Shirley Hill May 16: Fun Lunch (Wok Box) May 18: PD Day (no school for students) May 25: Volunteer Tea We had an amazing day!! To start our day we had our time on 10 monkeys! Then we had a circle for Ms. Very :( We are so sad to see her go but we know any students that gets the chance to have her as their teacher will be VERY lucky. We gave her some of her favorite treats, some gift cards for yummy teas and coffee and a beautiful book with kind messages from everyone :)Thank you so much Ms. Very for being so kind, extending yourself to provide the best for every student and for being an incredible friend and team partner! We wish you all the best as you continue on your journey to having your own classroom. It is Harry Potter day! We had a Harry Potter party to celebrate our time reading the book so far! We colored ties and chose a house we thought we would fit into :) We played pin the scar on Harry! We watched the first hour of the Harry Potter movie and had some yummy Harry Potter themed treats! Happy birthday to Ella, Gavin and Ashlee this weekend :) Have a great weekend everyone! Darn! Our blog didn't post yesterday!
IMPORTANT DATES April 26: PoWer Hour begins May 2: Fun Lunch (Booster Juice) May 2: Elder Shirley Hill May 7: Music Monday May 9: Weaselhead Preservation Field Trip May 9: Grade 3 presents to School Council!! May 14: Elder Shirley Hill May 16: Elder Shirley Hill May 16: Fun Lunch (Wok Box) May 18: PD Day (no school for students) May 25: Volunteer Tea Here is a summary of our last couple of days! We have been creating watercolor art pieces for our thank you cards! We have been using the Calgary city line as our inspiration :) We have been working on our 6 room poetry! We worked together to create descriptive short sentences about different aspects of what we noticed (sound, sight, questions, light etc) and from that we are creating beautiful poetry about beaches! We have been working on catch up and working through some feedback in our visual journals! We have drawn Dumbledore, thought about how some of the characters have changed and continued to document the story in our visual journals. We had our first power hour today! Our PE classes have been outside as it has been SO nice outside. We are continuing our work on story beginnings :) Next week we will start our typing/writing! We have been working on multiplication, some of us have moved into division and had chances to look into some geometry games. We have been editing our slides on Tunisia and we will have a chance to present next week! Tomorrow will be Ms. Very's last day :( It has been so amazing having her in our classroom over the past 8 weeks. It will be Very sad to see her go but we know she is ready to be an amazing teacher in her own classroom. <3 IMPORTANT DATES
April 19: Student Led Conferences (evening) April 25: Spring Photos April 26: PoWer Hour begins Homework: Read for at least 20-30 minutes everyday :) If you need to meet with Ms. Parent and have not booked a separate conference- please do so online :) Over the last two days we have been: We have been logging on to 10 monkeys and we completed our Tunisia slides on the computers! Today we learned how to add comments to a document that has been shared with us. We gave and received some feedback on our slides and we were to ask a question that would encourage the group we were working with to complete some additional research. We have been working on adding details to our sketches and entries from City Hall School (titles, dates, labels, thoughts/ideas) and going through our first visual journals to respond to feedback provided :) Some of the feedback required us to complete unfinished work etc. We read a story called Niño after recess. Ask me what I did in music. We cleaned our desks! Wow that took us 45minutes to finish!! Some of us had time to tidy up the student and teacher material bins. In PE we are skipping! We used our designs in our visual journals to start building our bridges today! We should be finished by tomorrow :) Have a great night!! IMPORTANT DATES
April 18: Fun Lunch (Little Caesar) April 19: Student Led Conferences (evening) April 25: Spring Photos April 26: PoWer Hour begins Homework: Read for at least 20-30 minutes everyday :) Forms for Spring Photos went home today! We had a busy day back! We started the day playing multiplication games; some of us wanted to try up to 9x9 even though that is not an expectation of grade three! Then we worked in our visual journals to create a CSI thinking routine that represented our time on Day 3 of City Hall School. We had laptops after recess! We started on 10 monkeys and then most of us finished up our Tunisian research! Tomorrow we will start creating our Google Slides so we can teach the other students about what we have learned :) After lunch, we had some DEAR time and then had a circle! We talked about our science build coming up and looked at the expectations in for our visual journal pages before PE. We did have some time to start working on our visual journal pages for our builds prior to PE. In PE we played a never ending game of dodgeball. Once we came back we completed our visual journal pages (we were documented the materials, our hypothesis, our bridge design and how we will test the materials fairly). Tomorrow we will get to start the building process! Some of us helped Ms. Very with some quotes for our art board! Tomorrow we will finish up with adding details, thoughts and labels to our City Hall School pages! Ms. Parent has a couple of appointments tomorrow so she will not be here :( Ms. Temple will be here to help Ms. Very :) IMPORTANT DATES
April 15: PJ Day April 18: Fun Lunch (Little Caesar) April 19: Student Led Conferences (evening) April 25: Spring Photos April 26: PoWer Hour begins Homework: Read for at least 20-30 minutes everyday :) Did you know…April 16th is National Wear you Pajamas to work and school day!! So on Monday, April 16th, Prince of Wales will be swapping our jeans, t-shirts and work clothes for somethings a little cozier :) Please join us in wearing your favorite pajamas on Monday! Today was a great end to our first week back in the classroom! We spent 30 minutes practicing our multiplication skills on 10 monkeys and then we were able to use 10 minutes of our earned time before going to PE. In PE today we had two student volunteers to teach the class some of the basics of lacrosse! Thank you to Jarrett and Tristan for sharing your knowledge and skills with us :) They showed us how to cradle and how to catch and pass the ball! We had music! We partnered back up with our social studies partner to find out more about Tunisia! We are soon going to share some interesting facts with our classmates with a short google slide. Congratulations to Luke for earning student of the week! Thank you to Tristan for being able to take Finuffy home for the weekend. Remember to read everyday for at least 20-30 minutes!
Today we: Went on 10 monkeys to practice multiplication. We met at the carpet to have a snack and go over the expectations in our jigsaw project for Tunisia :) Then we got into groups and started our research on our assigned topic. We listened to a story and then we worked on our City Hall pages in our visual journals. We had library! We had DEAR time and had some catch up time to finish our adventure maps, 3-2-1's and anything else that was not done. We played a hockey game in our jerseys to remember the players, coaches, trainers and bus driver of the Humboldt hockey team. We reviewed day 3 and day 4 of City Hall School Over the past two days we have been... Logging on to 10 monkeys to practice our multiplication skills :) We had an hour in music on Tuesday and we had music again on Wednesday! We have been looking at the climate and land features of Tunisia. Ms. Very took the time to read some information on Tunisia and together we practiced what it meant to summarize (vs copy) and how we decide what is important information. After completing our research notes, we were then tasked with creating a visual representation of what we might pack in our suitcase if we were taking a trip to Tunisia; considering the weather and landscape. We reviewed what we did on our second day at City Hall school and created an adventure map in our journals. We are going to be working on a 3-2-1 for day 2 where we will write/draw three things that we learned, two things that surprised us and one question we could ask Amber Steward and Councillor Demong. We have been working on different multiplication strategies (arrays, groups, skip counting and repeated addition) in math. We have been playing multiplication games with partners. We have been playing different team sports in PE as we have the gym to ourselves! We played basketball on Tuesday and capture the chicken on Wednesday. Ms. Very's adviser came in and watched her teach :) Ms. Very is doing VERY awesome in our class and we are all so happy she is here :) We know you are all excited to hear all about the week at City Hall School- but we are in the process of brainstorming and will share our thoughts this week...please stay tuned!
Today we... Reflected on day one of City Hall School :) We created an adventure map in our journals after having a classroom discussion where we all shared something we did or something that stood out to us! In order to help us create a map that shared the adventures and the learning- we did a walk to view other student work and to seek feedback about our own adventure maps. We talked about story beginnings and why it is important to consider the person reading your story as you begin to write. We talked about 4 different strategies for starting stories: sound, dialogue, thoughts or worries...and I know there was one more...who can tell your parents what it was?? Next we went on a scavenger hunt to find how different authors have started stories! We were then challenged to write a short story beginning for all four strategies (2-3 sentences) We had a circle :) We had some DEAR time. Afterwards, we used what we had learned to write a story beginning inspired from one event at City Hall (day one). Next, we partnered up and shared our story with our partner- again, seeking feedback that helps move our learning forward. In PE- as we have the gym to ourselves, we are going to have a week of intramurals!! Today we played soccer :) Afterwards, we logged into our 10monkeys accounts (mathematics challenge) but there are no home hours and we learned that it isn't available after 2pm (weird right?!) so we played some demo questions with addition, subtraction and multiplication. What a great first day back! We had a wonderful day downtown at the Municipal Building as we spent our first day at City Hall School!!
Thank you to Ms. Stephanie, Ms. Tara, Ms. Noelle and Mr. Nelson for supporting us on our first day! We are so grateful for your support!! Some of our highlights included: Getting set up with our lockers, getting reacquainted with Ms. Sheila and learning some of the basic expectations of working in a building that is shared with more than 2000 employees! We were able to join a short portion of a council meeting to get started with our day! We were welcomed by one of the members of council (sorry- I can't remember his name) and we were invited to stand and be on the closed circuit cameras! The meeting today was looking at whether or not council will be passing a bill to ban the use of cannabis in public places. This committee was being lead by Councillor Dianne Colley-Urquhart who was an RN for many years before joining the municipal government. We talked about how old we thought someone should be if they wanted to be a councillor (oldest and youngest) and why someone might be interested in representing their ward. Next we walked to the Famous Five statues (which is our muster point) and we learned that the artist wanted to put a secret message on each of the five statues to remember people very important to them. Ask me who was special to the artist and where we found their names. Next we met with Amber Stewart who use to be our School Trustee in Parkland and now is a Neighborhood/Partnership Coordinator for Legacy and Parkland. She talked about Neighbor Day (June 16th) as well as about the types community and how communities are based on people. We wondered what the story of the community of Parkland School would be in 20 years. We had some playtime outside before having a 30 minute Q & A with Councillor Demong (who is the councillor for ward 14. The students impressed Councillor Demong with all of their great questions and even told them about an essay writing contest he holds for all grade 6's in the area he represents! We finished the day with some sketching of an artifact :) Did I mention we rode a city bus to and from our classroom?! Have a wonderful night everyone! |
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