It is hard to believe that 2 months have already gone by!
We have a new grade 3 friend who joined our class this week. Welcome, Ava!
Please check your child's homework bag and agendas. As we are approaching progress report time, I have sent home some marks this week. Please look over the rubrics carefully. Some of the items I ask that you sign and return to me. I will be sending home a few more marks this upcoming week.
More school information please visit:
https://twitter.com/BondarBlazers
https://robertabondarps.ocdsb.ca/
Reminders:
Adventure Logs are due Monday.
Tuesday is library. Please bring back your library book!
Wednesday is HALLOWEEN! If you choose to wear a costume, please make sure it doesn't have a mask, weapons or involve violence (school rules). If you prefer not to wear a costume, feel free to wear orange and black!
PLEASE KEEP CANDY AT HOME. We want to promote HEALTHY EATING SNACKS AND LUNCHES!
Wednesday the primary division will be having their annual Hallowe'en rotations. Students will be mixed up with students from other classes and participating in fun Halloween activities.
Do something fun, take a picture or write it down to share with the class. Feel free to email pictures of your Halloween Candy Fun to lorie.hamilton@ocdsb.ca
Now that the cooler weather is here. Please ensure your child is dressing according to the weather.
Please have your child practice the 2 Remembrance Day songs. We will be singing them on November 9 at our Remembrance Day assembly. The lyrics are displayed in the youtube videos.
The Highway of Heroes
Light a Candle For Peace
Math: We have been doing some math talks as well as our pumpkin investigation booklets. Students make predictions and worked on measurement activities. To wrap up the week long activity, we estimated how many pumpkin seeds were in the pumpkin. We made a plan after reading the book "How Many Pumpkin Seeds". We decided to count our seeds by 10s. We ended up having 413 seeds in our pumpkin!!
Science: We did an exciting activity on Friday while in the Rotunda. Students in grade 3 have been exploring Forces. We ended up conducting an experiment on elastic force. Students identified that the force that elastics use was a pushing force. They had to complete the sentence "If I place elastics around the center of the pumpkin then...." Students had a turn and talk discussion. They came up with the hypothesis that the pushing force of the elastics will cause the pumpkin to Pop!!
After placing 136 elastics around the pumpkin the pumpkin indeed POPPED!!! The class was ecstatic!!! Many students and staff who passed by were very curious as to what was going to happen to the pumpkin.
Language: This week we started descriptive writing. Students are using their 5 senses to make their writing more interesting. For example, instead of saying I see the tree, students would ad adjectives to describe the tree. I see the bright orange and yellow leaves on the tree. It looks like it is on fire!!
We read the book "Fletcher and The Falling Leaves" to inspire our 5 senses writing.
Students have been writing about the 5 Senses of Fall. We will start next week describing monsters in our writing, and create Lost Monster posters!
Have your child verbally tell you descriptions of objects in their environment using their 5 senses (taste, touch, smell, hear, and see). Be sure they use descriptive words and not just say I taste an apple. Have them pretend you don't know what it tastes like (or whatever sense you are focusing on) and have them tell you. The apple tastes juicy and sweet.
Review concept of descriptive writing with this video: (We watched this video in class)
Art: With Halloween approaching we words on symmetry and line work to decorate sugar skulls (The Day of The Dead). Students were given a blank skull and had to design it ensuring it was symmetrical and focused on different lines.
This week we read and discussed the following books:
Please take the time to discuss books with your child.
When I was Eight
We have a new grade 3 friend who joined our class this week. Welcome, Ava!
Please check your child's homework bag and agendas. As we are approaching progress report time, I have sent home some marks this week. Please look over the rubrics carefully. Some of the items I ask that you sign and return to me. I will be sending home a few more marks this upcoming week.
More school information please visit:
https://twitter.com/BondarBlazers
https://robertabondarps.ocdsb.ca/
Reminders:
Adventure Logs are due Monday.
Tuesday is library. Please bring back your library book!
Wednesday is HALLOWEEN! If you choose to wear a costume, please make sure it doesn't have a mask, weapons or involve violence (school rules). If you prefer not to wear a costume, feel free to wear orange and black!
PLEASE KEEP CANDY AT HOME. We want to promote HEALTHY EATING SNACKS AND LUNCHES!
Wednesday the primary division will be having their annual Hallowe'en rotations. Students will be mixed up with students from other classes and participating in fun Halloween activities.
Halloween Candy Fun !!!!! 
With my candy I can ?
Count it
Sort it
Graph it
Do experiments with it ( what candy floats and what candy sinks?)
Make art with the wrappers.
Be Creative
EAT IT !!!!!! (Oh and share it)
Do something fun, take a picture or write it down to share with the class. Feel free to email pictures of your Halloween Candy Fun to lorie.hamilton@ocdsb.ca
Now that the cooler weather is here. Please ensure your child is dressing according to the weather.
Please have your child practice the 2 Remembrance Day songs. We will be singing them on November 9 at our Remembrance Day assembly. The lyrics are displayed in the youtube videos.
The Highway of Heroes
Light a Candle For Peace
Math: We have been doing some math talks as well as our pumpkin investigation booklets. Students make predictions and worked on measurement activities. To wrap up the week long activity, we estimated how many pumpkin seeds were in the pumpkin. We made a plan after reading the book "How Many Pumpkin Seeds". We decided to count our seeds by 10s. We ended up having 413 seeds in our pumpkin!!
Science: We did an exciting activity on Friday while in the Rotunda. Students in grade 3 have been exploring Forces. We ended up conducting an experiment on elastic force. Students identified that the force that elastics use was a pushing force. They had to complete the sentence "If I place elastics around the center of the pumpkin then...." Students had a turn and talk discussion. They came up with the hypothesis that the pushing force of the elastics will cause the pumpkin to Pop!!
After placing 136 elastics around the pumpkin the pumpkin indeed POPPED!!! The class was ecstatic!!! Many students and staff who passed by were very curious as to what was going to happen to the pumpkin.
Language: This week we started descriptive writing. Students are using their 5 senses to make their writing more interesting. For example, instead of saying I see the tree, students would ad adjectives to describe the tree. I see the bright orange and yellow leaves on the tree. It looks like it is on fire!!
We read the book "Fletcher and The Falling Leaves" to inspire our 5 senses writing.
Students have been writing about the 5 Senses of Fall. We will start next week describing monsters in our writing, and create Lost Monster posters!
Have your child verbally tell you descriptions of objects in their environment using their 5 senses (taste, touch, smell, hear, and see). Be sure they use descriptive words and not just say I taste an apple. Have them pretend you don't know what it tastes like (or whatever sense you are focusing on) and have them tell you. The apple tastes juicy and sweet.
Review concept of descriptive writing with this video: (We watched this video in class)
Art: With Halloween approaching we words on symmetry and line work to decorate sugar skulls (The Day of The Dead). Students were given a blank skull and had to design it ensuring it was symmetrical and focused on different lines.
This week we read and discussed the following books:
Please take the time to discuss books with your child.
When I was Eight
