WINTER WEATHER IS UPON US....
Please dress appropriately for the weather- Snowpants, hats, gloves/mittens, scarves, boots, warm coats. We will be doing some outdoor activities over the next few months.
Reminders:
Monday- Adventure Logs are due
Tuesday- Library (Please return library books)
Thursday: Scholastic book orders due. I will be placing an order that evening.
Thursday Nov 22 and Friday Nov 23: Parent-teacher interviews (interview times were sent home with progress report).
Friday Nov 23: PD Day- NO school
If you have any empty LARGE Pringles cans, please send them to school with your child. We will be using them in December for an art activity with the other grade 3 classes. We will be making Nutcrackers!!!!
We had a busy day on Wednesday.
We had 2 special presentations. We were fortunate to have a grant to provide us with a FREE Chris Mckhool concert ("Let's Celebrate in Canada"). He came to our school and sung us songs about various celebrations and introduced us to various instruments from around the world.
Listen to Chris McKhool's Celebration songs at the following link:
Later in the afternoon Mrs. Tsiolas invited us to join her grade 3 class for a presentation about The Nutcracker. We will be doing an integrated unit with her class over the next few weeks. Mrs. Tsiolas's daughter Eleni is a Grade 9 student. She happened to come to our school for Take our kids to work day. Eleni is a trained dancer. She showed us some wonderful ballet moves. We were able to try a few. Thank you Eleni and Mrs. Tsiolas!!
First position:
Second Position:
Third position:
Fourth position:
Fifth position:
Other ballet moves:
Ballet slippers and point shoes:
Let's try some ballet moves!!
Wednesday was also World Kindness Day. Roberta Bondar School celebrated by wearing red and my writing a statement about how we are kind. All of the statements were taped up in the Rotunda in a bucket.
Math:
We have been wrapping up our unit on place value for Number Sense and Numeration. Students were given a test today (Friday). Those who were not at school due to the weather will complete the test on Monday.
On Monday we will start exploring addition and subtraction (Number sense and numeration strand).
A wonderful website with online math manipulatives, such as base ten blocks is http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html (you will need JAVA to use this site)
Please play around with this site. Lots of fun manipulatives. There is a section under both grades for addition and subtraction with the base ten blocks.
- Select Number and operations under your child's grade
- Select either Base ten block addition or Base ten block
Language:
We are finishing up out Monster description writing. We will be moving on to letter writing.
Social Studies:
We are still working on Celebrations and First Nations.
Gym: We decided to play outside for gym today with M. Leroux's class. We had lots of fun in the snow!!!
Books we read this week:
