We started the last day of April with building tasks. Each partnership started with a task card and something to build with - paper rolls, dice, pipe cleaners etc. Investigations began as we tried to determine what would make a good building material. In grade 3 students need to be able to work with a partner to complete a science task - listen to their partners ideas and offer their own ideas. Harder than you might think.
Perimeter work continued today as we measured and wrote about polygons and their perimeters.
Headphones. Many children have lost, broken or taken home their headphones that we used to complete testing in October. We need to repeat that testing in May and all students will need to have headphones again. Please check with your student to ensure they still have working headphones.
Spring photos Tuesday
Monday 30 April 2018
Thursday 26 April 2018
Spring Photos
On Wednesday, May 2nd, we will be hosting our first Spring Photo day. For every student and staff member that has their photo taken, Lifetouch will donate $2.00 to our school. If every student participates, that is over $900.00! As with our fall photo day, proof packages will come home with your student a week or so later. There is no obligation to purchase.
Students will bring home a "Spring Portraits" form; please fill it out with your child's name and class and select a pose. Teachers will collect these forms prior to photo day. We hope everyone will participate. Thank you.”
Ask your student how they are coming along with their letters to their pen pals. We are working on asking thought provoking questions - questions that matter and writing details about ourselves that the other child will be excited to read - going deeper than 'I am a girl.'
We are beginning to find the perimeter of polygons and we have found that there is more than one way to determine the distance around a shape. Next week we will do some investigating of polygons in our own classroom.
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Editing Process
Students began drafting ideas and information about themselves into short paragraphs to their pen pal today. We will be using the editing process to identify misspelled words, capital letters and proper punctuation before putting the work into good copy. Everyone was super excited to get underway.
Fire drill this afternoon led to a discussion about general safety. It has been sometime since we were able to have a drill so it was a good reminder to be listening and thinking the whole way.
We continue to work on division. Great dinner table conversation would be around equally sharing the french fries or equally sharing cookies. Cookies are one of my favorite topics - they lend themselves so well to math!!
Fire drill this afternoon led to a discussion about general safety. It has been sometime since we were able to have a drill so it was a good reminder to be listening and thinking the whole way.
We continue to work on division. Great dinner table conversation would be around equally sharing the french fries or equally sharing cookies. Cookies are one of my favorite topics - they lend themselves so well to math!!
Monday 23 April 2018
Pen Pals
We are so excited!!
We received mail today. In the mail was a letter for each one of us from a grade 3 or grade 4 student at Piitoayis Family School. We will begin learning about letter writing this week and reply back to our new friends. Ask your student about their letter.
Some of us dipped our toes into perimeter today while others finished up their division work. Students used geoboards to create shapes that had perimeters of a certain size. Geoboards are great fun.
We received mail today. In the mail was a letter for each one of us from a grade 3 or grade 4 student at Piitoayis Family School. We will begin learning about letter writing this week and reply back to our new friends. Ask your student about their letter.
Some of us dipped our toes into perimeter today while others finished up their division work. Students used geoboards to create shapes that had perimeters of a certain size. Geoboards are great fun.
Thursday 19 April 2018
Out Toolbelts
Constable Kovacs was in this morning to talk about tools we all have for coping and managing stress. He introduced to us all the tools he has on his duty belt to help him do his job and then he told us about the tools he was born with (brain, eyes, hands, heart) that assist him in his job. He helped students recognize the tools that they have to help deal with their emotions and read us a story. Ask your child what tools they have for dealing with stress.
We read 'One Hundred Hungry Ants' in math to explore the different ways 100 ants could get to a picnic before the food was all gone. Students then worked with the number 20 to see how the ants could be organized into one line, two lines, three lines etc up to 10 lines. Students were then able to challenge themselves with their own number. This allows me to see that your student is able to share items out equally and that they can see not all numbers can be divided equally.
Congratulations to our Pillar Of Care award winners:
Marissa, Yoyo and Logan
No school tomorrow Friday April 20
Wednesday 18 April 2018
Math Night
Thanks to all of you who got your homework done last night!
Math night tomorrow from 6 - 8 please sign up on the school website.
Students starting working with a little book called, 'Wish You Were Here Tunisia.' They began by asking questions, making connections and noting the pictures on the front. They are using the non-fiction text features of the table of content, captions, charts, glossary etc. to answer comprehension questions. In grade 3 we must be able to locate answers to questions and extract appropriate information.
See you tomorrow -
Math night tomorrow from 6 - 8 please sign up on the school website.
Students starting working with a little book called, 'Wish You Were Here Tunisia.' They began by asking questions, making connections and noting the pictures on the front. They are using the non-fiction text features of the table of content, captions, charts, glossary etc. to answer comprehension questions. In grade 3 we must be able to locate answers to questions and extract appropriate information.
See you tomorrow -
Tuesday 17 April 2018
Homework for Parents
Homework for parents tonight is described in the letter your student brought home today tucked into their social studies notebook. Please read the letter and sign the notebook and return to school tomorrow. Thank you.
Students completed a little mart project today. Mart being taking a math concept and applying it to an art project. We read, 'Miss Rumphius' again today and then did a multiplication activity with the lupines that she plants around her neighborhood. We talked about the rule of thirds in drawing, 1/3 is the foreground, 1/3 is the middle and 1/3 is the background. Each scene has a multiplication sentence hidden in it. To see our wonderful projects sign up on the school website for a visit on Thursday evening for math night.
We had a look at a video about a boy in Tunisia who rides a camel for sport. We noticed that he lives in the middle of a very dry desert and learned that camels like grape juice!!
Book orders due Wednesday
Pillars of Care assembly Thursday @ 1:15
Students completed a little mart project today. Mart being taking a math concept and applying it to an art project. We read, 'Miss Rumphius' again today and then did a multiplication activity with the lupines that she plants around her neighborhood. We talked about the rule of thirds in drawing, 1/3 is the foreground, 1/3 is the middle and 1/3 is the background. Each scene has a multiplication sentence hidden in it. To see our wonderful projects sign up on the school website for a visit on Thursday evening for math night.
We had a look at a video about a boy in Tunisia who rides a camel for sport. We noticed that he lives in the middle of a very dry desert and learned that camels like grape juice!!
Book orders due Wednesday
Pillars of Care assembly Thursday @ 1:15
Monday 16 April 2018
167th day of January
It feels like the 167th day of January. We are all so so so tired of this snow. I look forward to the day when my coat room is not littered with mitts, toques and snow pants!!
We started today with a personal reflection of our Box Project. Students were thinking and writing about their experience with the engineering process. We will have a look at them at the end of our science unit.
Students are comparing their school to the school of a child in India, Peru, Ukraine or Tunisia. We have done lots of reading, we have textbooks and have seen videos now we are thinking how we are the same and how we are different and if their quality of life plays a role.
Despereaux has broken the most basic and elemental of all mice rules - he has revealed himself to humans. This was the basis of our discussion during novel study. His brother saw what was doing and went to tell father. Students then drew their best mental image of what was happening and wrote a short paragraph about their picture.
Book orders due Wednesday April 18
Math Night Thursday April 19. Please sign up on the school website.
We started today with a personal reflection of our Box Project. Students were thinking and writing about their experience with the engineering process. We will have a look at them at the end of our science unit.
Students are comparing their school to the school of a child in India, Peru, Ukraine or Tunisia. We have done lots of reading, we have textbooks and have seen videos now we are thinking how we are the same and how we are different and if their quality of life plays a role.
Despereaux has broken the most basic and elemental of all mice rules - he has revealed himself to humans. This was the basis of our discussion during novel study. His brother saw what was doing and went to tell father. Students then drew their best mental image of what was happening and wrote a short paragraph about their picture.
Book orders due Wednesday April 18
Math Night Thursday April 19. Please sign up on the school website.
Thursday 12 April 2018
April Scholastic
Scholastic book orders for April went home today. Let's have those back to school by Wednesday next week. If your student wants something from Arrow you will need to look online at their offerings this month - I didn't get those flyers. Scholastic.ca
We are almost finished our box project. Tomorrow we will look at solving a few of the problems that have occurred by asking questions and coming to new understandings.
We are using Mathletics to further our work on division. Athletics is something your student can use at home along with Tumblebooks and Raz-Kids. Reminder that your student should be reading 20 minutes by themselves and 10 minutes to someone else. Everyday.
We are almost finished our box project. Tomorrow we will look at solving a few of the problems that have occurred by asking questions and coming to new understandings.
We are using Mathletics to further our work on division. Athletics is something your student can use at home along with Tumblebooks and Raz-Kids. Reminder that your student should be reading 20 minutes by themselves and 10 minutes to someone else. Everyday.
Wednesday 11 April 2018
Annotation
We took another crack at annotating while reading to help your student refine their understanding of text. We have two symbols we are using - ask your student about them - and we write them right on the text. Annotation is a record of the students thinking and it helps me to see that they were thinking while reading. Annotation also helps when we discuss the text. Students remember what they were thinking at the time. We then wrote a little about our annotations as I am looking for the deeper questions (ones not answered in the text) and deeper connections (connections with details)
Box projects are coming along! Ask your student if they need anything from home.
Jersey day tomorrow
Box projects are coming along! Ask your student if they need anything from home.
Jersey day tomorrow
Tuesday 10 April 2018
What to do with a box...
Students all have a plan of what to do with their box. They have completed a material list and have thought through how they are going to make their project come alive. Reminder that everything they want to add to their box must come from home. Lots of pictures show toilet rolls, popsicle sticks and paper. Please ask your student what they need for their box project.
Looking divisible today. What can a number be equally divided by and how you can tell just by looking. So we have decided that odd and even numbers make a difference, skip counting is helpful and multiplication tables are super important - help your child by working on basic facts at home!
Monday 9 April 2018
Busy Monday
Many great things went on in our classroom today.
We shared raisins during a math activity that had us estimating how many raisins would be in a 40 gram snack size box, grouping them for counting, adding all the raisins at our table groups together and finding out how many raisins we had altogether. One thing that we discovered is in a snack box of raisins there was a range of raisins from 24 to 51! Students were estimating, adding, dividing and multiplying all in one little activity.
We started our box project this morning by talking about our boxes in table groups. We had a close look at the size, shape, special features, holes, flaps openings etc. We analyzed every aspect of the box and our brains said, 'Hmmm...' Students drew and labeled their boxes to include all the special features. Tomorrow we will look at what to do with a box. Reminder that anything your student is going to add to their box must come from home.
We finally got to chapter 1 of the Tale of Despereaux today after much anticipation. We read together and then students wrote a summary, In the story... and then wrote a connection This reminds me of... which lets me know they are thinking about the text.
Thursday, April 12 will be Jersey Day in recognition of the Humboldt Broncos tragedy in Saskatchewan Friday night. To show our care and compassion for those affected, students are encouraged to wear a team jersey, school shirt or green and yellow. Our thoughts are with those families.
We shared raisins during a math activity that had us estimating how many raisins would be in a 40 gram snack size box, grouping them for counting, adding all the raisins at our table groups together and finding out how many raisins we had altogether. One thing that we discovered is in a snack box of raisins there was a range of raisins from 24 to 51! Students were estimating, adding, dividing and multiplying all in one little activity.
We started our box project this morning by talking about our boxes in table groups. We had a close look at the size, shape, special features, holes, flaps openings etc. We analyzed every aspect of the box and our brains said, 'Hmmm...' Students drew and labeled their boxes to include all the special features. Tomorrow we will look at what to do with a box. Reminder that anything your student is going to add to their box must come from home.
We finally got to chapter 1 of the Tale of Despereaux today after much anticipation. We read together and then students wrote a summary, In the story... and then wrote a connection This reminds me of... which lets me know they are thinking about the text.
Thursday, April 12 will be Jersey Day in recognition of the Humboldt Broncos tragedy in Saskatchewan Friday night. To show our care and compassion for those affected, students are encouraged to wear a team jersey, school shirt or green and yellow. Our thoughts are with those families.
Thursday 5 April 2018
Math Homework/Box
Math homework due back tomorrow -
We are working on strategies for division.
We started today with the Calgary Zoo receiving 12 panda bears. The zoo keeper put an equal number of panda bears in the 2 available enclosures. How many panda bears are in each enclosure? We put the 12 panda bears one at a time into the enclosures until there were none left and wrote the division problem in numbers.
Guided practice was provided as students used their own whiteboards to draw and move panda into enclosures.
Students were given 24 counters and four cupcake liners to manage their own 'pandas' and told that they had a shipment of 24 pandas and their job was to figure out how many animals would fit into 1, 2, 3, 4 enclosures. They are to model the division through the objects, draw it in their math books and write a division sentence for each.
Students who did not finish are bringing this home for homework.
What do you think engineers do? was the science question today. We talked to our partner, watched a video and then read 'Rosie Revere, Engineer.' Rosie had to solve a few problems, some that took several attempts, and come up with new inventions. We learned that engineers solve problems. If there are any engineer parents out there we would like to hear from you!
Reminder that everyone needs a box for Monday.
We are working on strategies for division.
We started today with the Calgary Zoo receiving 12 panda bears. The zoo keeper put an equal number of panda bears in the 2 available enclosures. How many panda bears are in each enclosure? We put the 12 panda bears one at a time into the enclosures until there were none left and wrote the division problem in numbers.
Guided practice was provided as students used their own whiteboards to draw and move panda into enclosures.
Students were given 24 counters and four cupcake liners to manage their own 'pandas' and told that they had a shipment of 24 pandas and their job was to figure out how many animals would fit into 1, 2, 3, 4 enclosures. They are to model the division through the objects, draw it in their math books and write a division sentence for each.
Students who did not finish are bringing this home for homework.
What do you think engineers do? was the science question today. We talked to our partner, watched a video and then read 'Rosie Revere, Engineer.' Rosie had to solve a few problems, some that took several attempts, and come up with new inventions. We learned that engineers solve problems. If there are any engineer parents out there we would like to hear from you!
Reminder that everyone needs a box for Monday.
Wednesday 4 April 2018
New Project
Announcing our Magnificent Box project!
We all need a box. Any box. Big box. Small box. Interesting box.
For Monday April 9
The box will be transformed into something magnificent.
Anything that is added to the box to transform it will come from home.
Share Dance 2018 is the website of Canada's National Ballet School that the instructors gave to students to have a look at their dance! Ask your student about their ballet experience!
We all need a box. Any box. Big box. Small box. Interesting box.
For Monday April 9
The box will be transformed into something magnificent.
Anything that is added to the box to transform it will come from home.
Share Dance 2018 is the website of Canada's National Ballet School that the instructors gave to students to have a look at their dance! Ask your student about their ballet experience!
Tuesday 3 April 2018
Great Beginnings
We had a day full of great beginnings! It was nice to see everyone back again rested and ready for the last three months of grade 3. Hard to believe right?
We began our new science unit with a discussion about the difference between learning and understanding. Students today get information from a variety of sources but it is what they do with that information that is important. We will start a unit on building and testing materials in science so we talked about understanding means that we can take some facts that we know and make sense of them by applying it to our work. We can ask questions, make connections, gather information and add facts to our brains. We have much work to do in this area.
Division had begun in math. Today we read, 'The Doorbell Rang' a great story of sharing cookies among various friends. Students are retelling the story using pictures, numbers and words. We have already linked division to multiplication and are able to write math equations both ways.
Five pictures were presented to students to draw and then the question was put to them, "What to these items have in common and how might they tell a story?" and so we began a novel study today that is a favorite. Students have been told if they are familiar with the story not to spoil it for everyone else and if they have seen the movie to know that the book is very different from the movie version. Ask your student what the novel study title is.
Return the Sharing Dance form we begin tomorrow
We began our new science unit with a discussion about the difference between learning and understanding. Students today get information from a variety of sources but it is what they do with that information that is important. We will start a unit on building and testing materials in science so we talked about understanding means that we can take some facts that we know and make sense of them by applying it to our work. We can ask questions, make connections, gather information and add facts to our brains. We have much work to do in this area.
Division had begun in math. Today we read, 'The Doorbell Rang' a great story of sharing cookies among various friends. Students are retelling the story using pictures, numbers and words. We have already linked division to multiplication and are able to write math equations both ways.
Five pictures were presented to students to draw and then the question was put to them, "What to these items have in common and how might they tell a story?" and so we began a novel study today that is a favorite. Students have been told if they are familiar with the story not to spoil it for everyone else and if they have seen the movie to know that the book is very different from the movie version. Ask your student what the novel study title is.
Return the Sharing Dance form we begin tomorrow
Boost Athletic – After School Sports Programs
We’d like to invite all students to our After School Soccer Program at Beddington Heights School!
Boost is excited to be offering our 1st program at Beddington Heights School! For the 2018 Spring Season, we will be offering Soccer. The programs are led by Boost Athletic founders Andrew Fleming and Phil Malone and our sport-specific technical staff. All kids are eligible to join, whether they already play or not! We’d love to see new faces out on the field! Our program cost is $50 for each 6 week program and financial assistance is available for those who are in need, we will not turn any kids away because of cost!
If you are interested, please register online to hold your place at www.boostathletic.ca. All students must register online, but payment can be made on the first day via either cash, cheque or debit/credit through our mobile card readers. If you require financial assistance, please email Andrew.fleming@boostathletic.ca after registration and indicate that it is required.
Each program has limited places for the Outdoor Season. We will limit programs to the first 75 registrations.
Programs
www.boostathletic.ca
We’d like to invite all students to our After School Soccer Program at Beddington Heights School!
Boost is excited to be offering our 1st program at Beddington Heights School! For the 2018 Spring Season, we will be offering Soccer. The programs are led by Boost Athletic founders Andrew Fleming and Phil Malone and our sport-specific technical staff. All kids are eligible to join, whether they already play or not! We’d love to see new faces out on the field! Our program cost is $50 for each 6 week program and financial assistance is available for those who are in need, we will not turn any kids away because of cost!
If you are interested, please register online to hold your place at www.boostathletic.ca. All students must register online, but payment can be made on the first day via either cash, cheque or debit/credit through our mobile card readers. If you require financial assistance, please email Andrew.fleming@boostathletic.ca after registration and indicate that it is required.
Each program has limited places for the Outdoor Season. We will limit programs to the first 75 registrations.
Programs
www.boostathletic.ca
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Outdoor Soccer
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Thursdays 2.30-3.30
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April 26th – May 31st
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