'Fly Away Home' is a story by Eve Bunting about a boy and his father who live in an airport. We read it this morning as a forum to begin our discussion about what quality of life means. It is important for students to realize that when we compare Canada to India, Peru, Tunisia and Ukraine the idea of quality of life does not mean how many video games and TVs we have. We then had a presentation from the Mustard Seed about what they do to help improve the quality of life for Calgarians. Ask your child what they thought -
The written math SLA was our task this afternoon. A lot of us found it to be difficult but we did the best we could. Tomorrow we will complete the written portion of the Language Arts.
Everyone has new library materials for reading 20 minutes to themselves and 10 minutes to someone else tonight. Yah! a new book💙💜
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Adding ten to any number
Investigation took place today to determine what happens to the digits on a hundreds chart when adding 10 to any number. After careful work we decided that when any number is added to 10 the number in the ones place remains the same and the tens place increases by 1 or 10. Children were then writing in their math journal to explain to one of our friends when was away today what we discovered and why it is important.
SLA testing began today - ask your child how they feel about their work. We started with the digital reading comprehension and after a few technical problems we all got right to work. Tomorrow we will have a look at the written math component.
SLA testing began today - ask your child how they feel about their work. We started with the digital reading comprehension and after a few technical problems we all got right to work. Tomorrow we will have a look at the written math component.
Friday, 13 October 2017
Grade 3 SLA
My apologizes for not putting out a blog this week we have been super busy and we have accomplished a lot!
We have been practicing for the grade 3 TESTS next week. We will complete a digital math test and a written math test as well as an online reading comphrension and a written story. We are all feeling confident that we know what we are doing.
No school Monday October 16
Tuesday October 17 is picture day
Book orders due Tuesday
Have a fun filled weekend!
We have been practicing for the grade 3 TESTS next week. We will complete a digital math test and a written math test as well as an online reading comphrension and a written story. We are all feeling confident that we know what we are doing.
No school Monday October 16
Tuesday October 17 is picture day
Book orders due Tuesday
Have a fun filled weekend!
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
Knew and New
I hope you all had a great family weekend! Your children came back full of turkey and ready to learn. We had a great day.😍
Students were using base ten blocks to cement their understanding of how ones, tens, and hundreds relate to the number system. We were very busy with blocks and whiteboards to show our understanding of number.
We looked at a very old but still relevant video to introduce Rocks and Minerals in science. The humor of the video was corny and most of it went over the heads of our students but the information was great. They are creating a T chart in their science notebooks with what they 'knew' before the video and what was 'new' in the video. By using this format they will be showing me that they were thinking while watching the video not just being in the audience.
We had a look at the grade 3 SLA for Reading Comprehension as a whole group and then practiced by ourselves. Important elements were pointed out such as: read everything, look at the picture, use the sound track where it will read to you and read all the choices there might be two right answers but one is better than the other. If your child does not have headphones at school now is the time.
Fun Lunch orders by Friday
Headphones and rock now.
Monday Oct. 16 is a system wide PD day
Students were using base ten blocks to cement their understanding of how ones, tens, and hundreds relate to the number system. We were very busy with blocks and whiteboards to show our understanding of number.
We looked at a very old but still relevant video to introduce Rocks and Minerals in science. The humor of the video was corny and most of it went over the heads of our students but the information was great. They are creating a T chart in their science notebooks with what they 'knew' before the video and what was 'new' in the video. By using this format they will be showing me that they were thinking while watching the video not just being in the audience.
We had a look at the grade 3 SLA for Reading Comprehension as a whole group and then practiced by ourselves. Important elements were pointed out such as: read everything, look at the picture, use the sound track where it will read to you and read all the choices there might be two right answers but one is better than the other. If your child does not have headphones at school now is the time.
Fun Lunch orders by Friday
Headphones and rock now.
Monday Oct. 16 is a system wide PD day
Thursday, 5 October 2017
Directed Drawing
This afternoon we did a little art activity using directed drawing and our work is stinking cute!!
Directed drawing is a great exercise for listening and following directions. The students know they have to stay focused and follow the directions, or their drawing won't turn out. Everyone was listening this afternoon and all our pictures turned out. Directed drawing will raise the confidence of our little artists as they see that they can draw something and it does look like a scarecrow! We finished off our work with pastels and we apologize if it got on our clothes. We were working hard!
Asking questions is a great way to start a new investigation. So, we brainstormed questions we would ask the four children who live in India, Peru, Ukraine, and Tunisia if we could meet them. We then learned the words hemisphere and equator as we looked at a world map. I used my nesting sock monkeys (ask your child what they are) to teach the concept of continent, country, province, city and community. It is hard for us to understand, but we are working on it😅 We are now working on our first map - labeling and coloring.
Even and odd numbers continue to be a problem for us so today we read Even Steven and Odd Todd and created an anchor chart for ourselves to we can remember important facts. We played a game of Buzz and learned that even + even= even and odd+odd=even and odd+even = odd. Interesting.
Headphones and a rock for next week please.
No school tomorrow or Monday
Have a great family weekend!
Directed drawing is a great exercise for listening and following directions. The students know they have to stay focused and follow the directions, or their drawing won't turn out. Everyone was listening this afternoon and all our pictures turned out. Directed drawing will raise the confidence of our little artists as they see that they can draw something and it does look like a scarecrow! We finished off our work with pastels and we apologize if it got on our clothes. We were working hard!
Asking questions is a great way to start a new investigation. So, we brainstormed questions we would ask the four children who live in India, Peru, Ukraine, and Tunisia if we could meet them. We then learned the words hemisphere and equator as we looked at a world map. I used my nesting sock monkeys (ask your child what they are) to teach the concept of continent, country, province, city and community. It is hard for us to understand, but we are working on it😅 We are now working on our first map - labeling and coloring.
Even and odd numbers continue to be a problem for us so today we read Even Steven and Odd Todd and created an anchor chart for ourselves to we can remember important facts. We played a game of Buzz and learned that even + even= even and odd+odd=even and odd+even = odd. Interesting.
Headphones and a rock for next week please.
No school tomorrow or Monday
Have a great family weekend!
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Location of Four Countries
In our first little unit of social studies we are looking at the communities we study (Tunisia, Ukraine, Peru and India) and their locations in the world. Our textbook (Pearson) introduces us to a child from each country and gives us a little bit of information about each one. Today we wrote about ourselves in the same style and drew a few pictures like they did - even a Canadian flag which believe you me is not easy to draw! Tomorrow we will locate the four countries on a map and label important places.
We all have new reading material as we visited with Mrs. Paolini this morning. We love going to the learning commons!
Using the poem Scarecrow from yesterday we answered a few comprehension questions which will lead us into writing complete sentences next week. A lot of us seem to think a sentence is well written when it says, "Because it does." Yikes. Much work to do in writing.
Headphones need to be at school next week as we will be practicing for the SLA's starting Tuesday.
Everyone will need a rock next week as well.
No school Friday or Monday
We all have new reading material as we visited with Mrs. Paolini this morning. We love going to the learning commons!
Using the poem Scarecrow from yesterday we answered a few comprehension questions which will lead us into writing complete sentences next week. A lot of us seem to think a sentence is well written when it says, "Because it does." Yikes. Much work to do in writing.
Headphones need to be at school next week as we will be practicing for the SLA's starting Tuesday.
Everyone will need a rock next week as well.
No school Friday or Monday
Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Four Strikes and You're Out
We play a lot of games in room 11 because they motivate certain children and are a great way to sneak in practice without anyone realizing what is happening! Today I introduced 'Four Strikes and You're Out' to our math centers. Ask your child how they did. I believe I won the first couple of games, but then they caught on and won a few themselves. Ask your child to play with you after supper tonight.
Punctuation is an on-going hurdle for some students to over come. Today we made an anchor chart for our classroom on how to use periods, commas, exclamation marks, question marks and quotation marks. First we talked about what they looked like, their names and how they were used. Then we used Cynthia Rylant's book Scarecrow to find examples of each one. We loved the story and so we brainstormed what we knew about scarecrows and I gave them a poem about scarecrows that I had taken punctuation out of. Their job was to put it back. All went well so we will begin becoming punctuation detectives and I will be looking for it in all their writing.
Everyone needs a rock at school next week as we begin our Rocks and Mineral unit in science.
No school Friday - system wide PD
Book exchange tomorrow morning - all books should have been returned today.
Punctuation is an on-going hurdle for some students to over come. Today we made an anchor chart for our classroom on how to use periods, commas, exclamation marks, question marks and quotation marks. First we talked about what they looked like, their names and how they were used. Then we used Cynthia Rylant's book Scarecrow to find examples of each one. We loved the story and so we brainstormed what we knew about scarecrows and I gave them a poem about scarecrows that I had taken punctuation out of. Their job was to put it back. All went well so we will begin becoming punctuation detectives and I will be looking for it in all their writing.
Everyone needs a rock at school next week as we begin our Rocks and Mineral unit in science.
No school Friday - system wide PD
Book exchange tomorrow morning - all books should have been returned today.
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