Happy Birthday Rachel :)
Jonah enjoyed his first day of using his teacher chair for earning student of the week last week!! A white information sheet on field trips and a pink volunteer form went home today 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. 11th- Fun lunch - Subway Oct. 12th- Power Hour Oct. 13th- Author's visit Oct. 16th- PD- No School Highlights: - We set personal goals for the week (ask me what I will be working on) - We had music - We had a "Just Write" period today and were able to free write about anything we wanted! - We reviewed what a thinking web was and used that to start our free write - We read a bit of another series; Junie B Jones - We played a couple of new math games - We played crab soccer in PE - We started a new literacy center - We had timbits for Rachel's bday
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Jersey day tomorrow :) 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! Terry Fox Run: October 6th- Don't forget to bring in your toonies for Terry! Important Dates: Oct. 6th- Terry Fox Run Oct. 9th- No School- Thanksgiving Day :) Oct. 11th- Fun lunch - Subway Highlights: - We started our day with a quick read to self - We worked on computers: dance mat typing, duolingo, research on Terry Fox - We set up a visual journal page for our novel study - We talked about quality of life and things that we have access to that improve the quality of life here in Canada - We read a story called Where Will I Live to make comparisons with the quality of life in other countries that are not as fortunate as us - We worked in our math centers - We played two variations of dodgeball in PE - We finished our first literacy center Don't forget to wear red/white for tomorrow! FYI:
Pj day tomorrow :) 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! Green PoWer Hour Notices - Please read through carefully with your child, select 3 options (they are not ranked), and return to school as soon as possible. Terry Fox Run: October 6th- Don't forget to bring in your toonies for Terry! Important Dates: Oct. 6th- Terry Fox Run Oct. 9th- No School- Thanksgiving Day :) Oct. 11th- Fun lunch - Subway Highlights from our day: - We started our day by finding Finuffy reading a book with all of the quiet critters - We had music at 8am - We had 12 minutes of silent reading - We watched a Bill Nye video on rocks and minerals and then used the information from the presentation and the film to compile a list of things we have learned - We had some individual selections on a rock museum after reviewing vocabulary to describe physical features of a rock - We had library with Ms. Cornford - We started a whole class math problem that looked at handshakes in a classroom and the rule was an increasing pattern; we are still remembering to document our learning in an organized manner - We played capture the chicken with safe spaces in PE - We started our literacy centers 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! Green PoWer Hour Notices - Please read through carefully with your child, select 3 options (they are not ranked), and return to school as soon as possible. School Pictures - Orders due on or before October 4. Terry Fox Run: October 6th- Don't forget to bring in your toonies for Terry! Important Dates: Oct. 6th- Terry Fox Run Oct. 9th- No School- Thanksgiving Day :) Oct. 11th- Fun lunch - Subway Highlights from our day: - We started our day with our math centers :) - After math, we went to music! - We finished our social studies activity, Create a Planet, and had a discussion about the importance of needs vs. wants, we talked about the difficulty with eliminating items from our lists and why we might value different things. - We finished describing the physical features of our second rock from the rock museum -We welcomed Mr. George into our learning space for the afternoon! He shared a presentation about rocks, minerals and soil :) - We ended our day with an outdoor PE at the playground Please tell me one thing you enjoyed about the presentation! FYI:
Due to the possibility of bad road conditions, we were advised to leave shortly after the bell rang dismissing the students hence why the blog is a little bit later today! :) We will be having a rocks and minerals presentation tomorrow with Mr. George :) 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! Green PoWer Hour Notices - Please read through carefully with your child, select 3 options (they are not ranked), and return to school as soon as possible. School Pictures - Orders due on or before October 4. Terry Fox Run: October 6th- Don't forget to bring in your toonies for Terry! Highlights from our day: - At circle, after sharing, we learned that Finuffy helped Abby paint in her house! - We watched a short video on Terry Fox and his inspirational attempt to run across Canada in hopes of raising money and awareness in finding a cure for cancer. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjgTlCTluPA -We talked about different images, symbols and colors that reminded us of Terry's journey and then created a CSI entry in our visual journals. Then we paired up with a partner that we don't often work with and shared our entries. - We had an indoor recess at both morning and lunch recess -We read a book called Shi-Shi-Etko with snack -We talked about the physical properties of rocks and some of the vocabulary we can use when describing rocks. -We examined, sketched and described a rock from our rock museum in our visual journal -We reviewed our literacy centers that will begin tomorrow - We started one of our math centers in patterns Noticed that Thursday's blog didn't post so I thought I would highlight both days in one!
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! Green PoWer Hour Notices - Please read through carefully with your child, select 3 options (they are not ranked), and return to school as soon as possible. School Pictures - Orders due on or before October 4. Terry Fox Run: October 6th- Don't forget to bring in your toonies for Terry! Highlights over the past two days! - We worked with Ms. England's and Ms. Lauf's class to finish up last minute assembly prep! - Ms. Lauf came in and taught us about Adventure Maps while Ms Parent shared a journalling experience with artifacts in Ms. Lauf's class. - We started The One and Only Ivan and talked about how we will use this book to begin examining the concept of quality of life - We walked to Fish Creek with the other grade three classes and created an adventure map along the way. Thank you to Ms. Tara and Ms. Dale for joining us! - We played capture the chicken - We practiced for the assembly - We put on the assembly for the whole school and received lots of amazing feedback :) - We worked on computers! We signed up for our school gmail accounts, sent an email to Ms. Parent, worked on typing skills and had a few minutes on Duolingo. - We had PE with our buddies outside after the assembly |
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