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We are intending on starting an art project next week inspired by our visit with Mr. Nelson and the pigeons which requires tin foil! If you have any extra rolls of tin foil that anyone could bring in for next week- it would be greatly appreciated!! We also need yarn for our Peru centers!! Last day for this note: While there are quite a few parents that are signed up to volunteer for different things in the classroom (snacks, field trips etc.), we would always like to expand on our list of volunteers. If you have not received an email from Corrine (our coordinator) that means that she does not have your information/you are not signed up to help out if you were hoping to take part in the classroom. If you are interested in helping out in anyway (and being on the email list) please email Corrine at [email protected] We need volunteers for our upcoming Fish Creek walks (Nov. 3rd and 15th) in addition to Telus Spark (Nov. 8th). Please get in touch with Corrine if you are able to help!! Important Dates: Nov. 3rd: Fish Creek walk with our buddies Nov. 8th: Telus Spark Nov. 15th: Fish Creek walk with our buddies Nov. 29th: Shirley Hill in with grade 3's Highlights: - Ms. Parent was away for the afternoon yesterday -We started science centers and have had a chance to go through 2 of 20 centers so far! -We have continued our discussion around protagonists and antagonists and today we used our pictures from our photobooth to inspire a spooky comic -We talked about vanishing points in art with Ms. Ferrari -We have started thinking about place value, number lines and ways to represent numbers -We have been working on finishing up social studies (Rights of the Child) and our artifact writing -We read a story last week called Fly Away Home and we have been working on comparing Andrew's quality of life to our own quality of life in a Venn Diagram -We did quick sketches of jack-o-lantern faces - We are working on a step-by-step art piece of Jack Skellington -We had a fun party today with LOTS of yummy food (thank you to everyone who helped make our afternoon amazing!
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Congratulations to Rachel who is our student of the week and has earned the teacher chair!
Finuffy has gone home with Callum this weekend and we hope he has a lot of fun with him. We can't wait to hear all about his adventures!! We are intending on starting an art project next week inspired by our visit with Mr. Nelson and the pigeons which requires tin foil! If you have any extra rolls of tin foil that anyone could bring in for next week- it would be greatly appreciated!! There are a few students who still have the coupon books at home (from the beginning of the year) and need to either bring in the $20 for the cost of the book or return the coupon book. This is for a fundraiser and lost/missing books have to be paid for out of the money raised. While there are quite a few parents that are signed up to volunteer for different things in the classroom (snacks, field trips etc.), we would always like to expand on our list of volunteers. If you have not received an email from Corrine (our coordinator) that means that she does not have your information/you are not signed up to help out if you were hoping to take part in the classroom. If you are interested in helping out in anyway (and being on the email list) please email Corrine at [email protected] Important Dates: Oct. 31st: Classroom Halloween Party in the afternoon. Please email our classroom coordinator (Corrine) if you are able to bring Nov. 3rd: Fish Creek walk with our buddies Nov. 8th: Telus Spark Please bring an artifact for Monday Highlights from our day: Yesterday we spent the day with Ms. Temple who said we were amazing students while Ms. Parent was away. We worked on our visual journal activity that outlined shows what we learned and questions we still have about carrier pigeons. We had music We met with all of the grade 3 classes in the field where Mr. Nelson showed us some of his carrier/racing pigeons and shared some interesting facts about his pigeons! We also got to pet a white pigeon and some of us even got to release them to fly home!! Thank you Mr. Nelson!! We loved having you with us today!! We had buddies with Ms. Smith's class where we helped our buddies with a pumpkin scoop! We had PE outside to end our day :) Have a great weekend everyone! Remember you should be reading for 20 minutes every day. Mathletics forms and cheque are due Oct. 27th, 2017
Tickets for the dance went home today! There are a few students who still have the coupon books at home (from the beginning of the year) and need to either bring in the $20 for the cost of the book or return the coupon book. This is for a fundraiser and lost/missing books have to be paid for out of the money raised. While there are quite a few parents that are signed up to volunteer for different things in the classroom (snacks, field trips etc.), we would always like to expand on our list of volunteers. If you have not received an email from Corrine (our coordinator) that means that she does not have your information/you are not signed up to help out if you were hoping to take part in the classroom. If you are interested in helping out in anyway (and being on the email list) please email Corrine at [email protected] Important Dates: Oct. 26th: Halloween dance from 630-830pm (tickets went home today) Oct. 31st: Classroom Halloween Party in the afternoon. Please email our classroom coordinator (Corrine) if you are able to bring Highlights for Tuesday & Wednesday: We enjoyed our music classes! We have been working in our math centers and creating number lines using cards and students We have begun designing a protagonist and antagonist in our visual journals for some spooky story writing We talked about our upcoming science centers (and there are 20 of them!) which will start on Monday We worked with Ms. Smith to talk about our partner venn diagrams and now have been tasked to design a picture that is co-created and represents who we are (similarities and differences) We met Ms. Chris from Teacher's Pet and were able to take part in centers that reinforced ideas and taught us some new things about rocks and minerals We brainstormed some of the main ideas and tasks that we did in our centers with teacher's pet and started writing a paragraph about what we learned and did We finished our artifact writing/drawing We played scoops and balls and started volleyball in PE We had library and signed out new books Ms. Temple will be in tomorrow for Ms. Parent! Power Hour tomorrow: Tye Dye students, please bring in a t-shirt or pillow case etc. to tye dye tomorrow. Mathletics forms and cheque are due Oct. 27th, 2017
Rocks and Minerals Materials Required for Upcoming Activities – Your child will be participating in numerous Rocks and Minerals Science centers and activities over the next few weeks. The following is a list of requested materials that your student will need. Please have materials to school by Friday October 20. - an egg carton - plastic lids (i.e. yogurt container lids, margarine lids etc.) - a rock the size of your child’s palm, but no bigger than their fist; Smoother rocks will work best for this activity. Thank-you in advance! Important Dates: Oct. 24th- Book Orders Due Oct. 24th- Rocks & Minerals field trip (in class) 12:30-2:30pm Oct. 25th- Fun Lunch: Little Caesar's Pizza Oct. 26th- Halloween Dance 630-830pm *must purchase a ticket (deadline was today!) Highlights: We had our weekly circle; sharing about our weekend and learning about Finuffy's exciting adventures with Ella :) We reviewed our success of our goals last week, reviewed how to select good fitting goals and talked a bit about the classroom learning environment and how we can strive to make it great for everyone. We shared our artifacts and started our journal entry We cleaned and organized our desks (phew!) We worked with a number line in math today! We organized ourselves with the number we were given, identified the pattern in the number and used our number line to add and subtract numbers together. We played with a scoop and ball today in PE; we played a racing game with this as well- ask me how it was played. FYI Reminder: bring in an artifact to share on Monday (if you want) Congratulations to Madi on becoming student of the week and to Ella for having Finuffy for the weekend Rocks and Minerals Materials Required for Upcoming Activities – Your child will be participating in numerous Rocks and Minerals Science centers and activities over the next few weeks. The following is a list of requested materials that your student will need. Please have materials to school by Friday October 20. - an egg carton - plastic lids (i.e. yogurt container lids, margarine lids etc.) - a rock the size of your child’s palm, but no bigger than their fist; Smoother rocks will work best for this activity. Thank-you in advance! Important Dates: Oct. 24th- Book Orders Due Oct. 25th- Fun Lunch: Little Caesar's Pizza Oct. 26th- Halloween Dance Highlights: - We continued our research on computers on the number 0 (We also warmed up with typing games) -We had a review lesson on Venn Diagrams with our buddy class - We created a venn diagram with our buddy to see what we have in common and what is different between us - We had snack and a read aloud -We went outside for PE Realized the blog went into my drafts this morning! Sorry grade 3s!! FYI
Rocks and Minerals Materials Required for Upcoming Activities – Your child will be participating in numerous Rocks and Minerals Science centers and activities over the next few weeks. The following is a list of requested materials that your student will need. Please have materials to school by Friday October 20. - an egg carton - plastic lids (i.e. yogurt container lids, margarine lids etc.) - a rock the size of your child’s palm, but no bigger than their fist; Smoother rocks will work best for this activity. Thank-you in advance! Important Dates: Oct. 24th- Book Orders Due Oct. 25th- Fun Lunch: Little Caesar's Pizza Oct. 26th- Halloween Dance Highlights: -We had library with Ms. England's class -We had computers where we: practiced our typing skills worked on some french skills and we did a bit of math research into the number 0; looking at the history, what it can mean in math and we talked a bit about why it was such a controversial number -We had power hour -We worked in our literacy centers -We had outdoor PE -We had read aloud Dear Parents and Families of Grade 3 students,
Unfortunately there have been a couple of incidents recently of an unknown individual who has posted inappropriate words and comments on our blogs under another student’s name. We removed the comments as quickly as possible, and now have set up our blogs as such that all comments are subject to approval by homeroom teachers before they are posted to the blogs. We are using these incidents as a learning opportunity for students. We have spoken to our classes about how physical actions and words greatly affect other people. This is an opportunity to talk about our responsibility in digital citizenship and online safety. One way you can help is by viewing and responding to the classroom blog with your child. Thank you for your support as we learn and collaborate together. Sincerely, Jennifer England Karin Lauf Tammy Parent Rocks and Minerals Materials Required for Upcoming Activities – Your child will be participating in numerous Rocks and Minerals Science centers and activities over the next few weeks. The following is a list of requested materials that your student will need. Please have materials to school by Friday October 20. - an egg carton - plastic lids - a rock the size of your child’s palm, but no bigger than their fist; Smoother rocks will work best for this activity. Thank-you in advance! We have Power Hour & library tomorrow! Important Dates: Oct. 24th- Book Orders Due Oct. 25th- Fun Lunch: Little Caesar's Pizza Oct. 26th- Halloween Dance Highlights: We had music today! We shared our artifacts and completed a journal entry about our artifact We talked about differences and similarities with Ms. Smith and collaborated on some of the similarities and differences between Ms. Parent and Ms. Smith using a venn diagram. We got into partners and started a venn diagram to show some of the things that are the same and different about us. We read a chapter of The One and Only Ivan We had a sharing circle We answered some thinking questions about the artifact we sketched from the curiosity case We read a book Whoever You Are which was followed with a discussion about the importance of recognizing that we all belong to the human race; regardless of our beliefs, the way we look on the outside, the languages we speak etc. we should treat everyone with kindness. We watched a couple of short videos about the Rights of the Child and reviewed some of the basic rights we should all be afforded. Then we started an entry in our visual journal to show what we know about rights and how they impact the quality of ones life (with our without them). We played capture the chicken in PE We will be sharing artifacts on the first day of every week (things that are special or students want to share); this is not mandatory but it is meant for students to continue to develop and share more about who they are and what their interests are :)
Rocks and Minerals Materials Required for Upcoming Activities – Your child will be participating in numerous Rocks and Minerals Science centers and activities over the next few weeks. The following is a list of requested materials that your student will need. Please have materials to school by Friday October 20. - an egg carton - plastic lids - a rock the size of your child’s palm, but no bigger than their fist; Smoother rocks will work best for this activity. Thank-you in advance! Picture Orders going home with some students. Scholastic Book Orders: have gone home today! Orders are due Oct. 24th, 2017 Important Dates: Oct. 24th- Book Orders Due Oct. 25th- Fun Lunch: Little Caesar's Pizza Oct. 26th- Halloween Dance @ 6:30 Highlights: -We had math centers today -We had music today -We reflected on our goals from last week and put them into our journals -We sketched the item from the curiosity case in our visual journal -We played tic tac toe with hula hoops and pinnis in gym -We read about the teachings of respect and learned that the buffalo represents respect and then sketched a buffalo in groups which will go along with a reflection regarding how we show respect and what it means to us - We did a first draft of our paragraphs on the best part of us -We set new goals for the week Peruvian Artifacts - We are currently studying the country of Peru. If you have any artifacts related to this unit of study that you would be willing to lend to our classroom it would be greatly appreciated. Artifacts could include pictures, dishes, art, paintings, sculptures, toys, books, clothing, tools, jewelry, etc… Students will sketch these artifacts, try to determine what they were used for, as well as how they are similar/different from artifacts here in Canada. Please send items to school with your child with a brief written explanation. It would be helpful if you did not explain details of the artifact to your child, as they will be taking part in the sketching, observation, and inquiry process of the artifact with their classmates. We promise to take extra special care of your personal items!
Important Dates: Oct. 13th- Author's visit Oct. 16th- PD- No School Oct. 25th- Fun Lunch: Little Caesar's Pizza Oct. 26th- Halloween Dance @ 6:30 Highlights: -We got a mindful Peruvian coloring sheet for morning work -We shared our artifacts and wrote a journal entry about the item we brought -We had computers and we were able to try out an educational website -We had library with Ms. England's class -We had a virtual field trip and Ms. Parent will give us a bit of recess time tomorrow because it ran into our lunch recess today! -We had silent reading for 10 mins -We had our first Power Hour -We listened to a story called Mechanimals and did a reader's response -We had some cooperative game time FYI:
Peruvian Artifacts - We are currently studying the country of Peru. If you have any artifacts related to this unit of study that you would be willing to lend to our classroom it would be greatly appreciated. Artifacts could include pictures, dishes, art, paintings, sculptures, toys, books, clothing, tools, jewelry, etc… Students will sketch these artifacts, try to determine what they were used for, as well as how they are similar/different from artifacts here in Canada. Please send items to school with your child with a brief written explanation. It would be helpful if you did not explain details of the artifact to your child, as they will be taking part in the sketching, observation, and inquiry process of the artifact with their classmates. We promise to take extra special care of your personal items! Important Dates: Oct. 12th- Power Hour Oct. 12th- Virtual field trip Oct. 13th- Author's visit Oct. 16th- PD- No School Highlights: -We started our day in music and then we worked in our math pattern centers -We listened to a story called Different Just Like Me with Ms. Smith - After recess we had snack and talked about our virtual field trip/watched a short video -We listened to a few pages of The One and Only Ivan and created a new stop in our adventure map -We finished our Needs and Wants page in our visual journal -After lunch we had 10 minutes of silent reading and then talked about Andrew Larsen, the author who will be coming in on Friday morning. We came up with a few questions to ask him - We played tornado and doctor dodgeball in PE -We had literacy centers and played a new math game called 10 counters |
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