Week 4

It is hard to believe that we have completed our first month of school!

Reminders:

Monday:
Adventure Logs are due

Orange Shirt Day


September 30th has been declared Orange Shirt Day annually, in recognition of the harm the residential school system did to children's sense of self-esteem and well being, and as an affirmation of our commitment to ensure that everyone around us matters.

For more information about Orange Shirt Day please visit http://www.orangeshirtday.org/

Tuesday:
Library- please return library books

Thursday:
Earth Ranger Assembly

What we did this week:

We welcomed a new student to our class.  Welcome Halima!

Terry Fox Run


Thank you for your generous donations!  We surpassed our goal of $50 for the Terry Fox Foundation. In total, our classroom raised $133.25!!  Our class earned their movie and as an added bonus, I decided to provide some treats to go with the movie.   (We decided to watch the movie Jumanji)

Great job guys!!  The school grand total for donations has not been calculated yet.

Language:

We continue to work on our personal narratives.  We also did some Terry Fox activities.  For one of the activities, students were asked to complete the sentences:

Terry Fox is a hero because....

Terry Fox inspires me to....

We started off by brainstorming some responses:

Some of our completed work:

Math:

We wrapped up our unit on data management (graphing).  Students complete a "Show what you know" assessment.  They will be sent home to be signed early next week.

Next week we will start to look at patterning for our new math unit.

Social Studies:

We started our unit on Communities in Canada 1780-1850. We discussed what we would see in our communities today, and what communities might have looked like 100 years ago.   We will start to look closely at some of the Canadian First Nations communities prior to European contact (the Wendat and Anishinabe) next week. 

Drama: We started to do some drama games this week

Books we read this week:

 

Week 3

Greetings families!!

What a gorgeous week we had weather wise!!  

I really enjoyed meeting my students families on Tuesday evening at Meet the Teacher.  I hope you enjoyed visiting our classroom!

Reminders:

Monday: Adventure Logs due

Tuesday: Library- Please return library books 

** Please note, I will be away today due to an appoitment.  I will be back on Wednesday.  

Thursday: Terry Fox Run (rain or shine--- please dress for the weather)
Terry Fox donations due.

Friday: First week for pizza.


What did we do this week:

Today we attended the Terry Fox Run kickoff assembly.  OnThursday Sept 26 (rain or shine) all students will be participating in our annual run.  Classes were asked to establish a fundraising goal and a reward (if goal is met).  Our class decided on trying to raise $50.  If successful, we will earn a movie.  Students are asked to bring in any donations by Thursday.  

Congratulations Grade 3s, we filled up our marble jar!!  We earned a class prize and the prize chosen by the class was a Pajama Day!  Keep it up Grade 3s!  

Language:  We continued to work on our personal narratives. If you want to practice at home, have students pick a topic like recess, favourite trip, favourite holiday, etc...  have them brainstorm what happened.  Then pick one of the ideas and focus on it.  Describe what happened, how did they feel, who was there, etc... Students are encouraged to use transition words such as first, next, lastly.... to describe the sequence of events.  



We also did some working with words work by playing Boggle!!   How many words can you make? 

We also started to look at making connections with the texts we read.  We read Howard B Wigglebottom Learns About Bullies and looked for connections.

Math:  We continue to work on data management (graphing).  I hope to wrap up the math unit next week and move onto patterning. 

Want more practice, visit this link for some math exercises on data management and review terms and the important information that needs to be displayed on a graph.

Grade 3 math data management

Science: We are still working on our Forces unit.  We started to discuss the different types of forces that use pushes and pulls.  We will be examining these forces a little more closely in the upcoming weeks.

- gravitational force

- electrostatic force

- magnetic force

- muscular force

- buoyancy

- friction 

- natural force (i.e. tornados)

Health: We started our unit on healthy eating. 

Having a turn and talk discussion about what healthy means

Art: We discussed warm and cool colours this week.  Students were asked to colour a fall leaf design using warm colours for the leaves and cool colours for the ourside.  Next week I hope to start some drama activities. 

Here are some examples:

 

Gym:  Continued to play cooperative games with the grade 1/2 class.  

Social Studies:  I hope to start social studies next week.  Our first unit will explore First Nations and Pioneers/early settlers.  

Books we read this week: