Science The students are finishing up their inquiry research. Many are using their Google Drive to display their learning. We have shared with the students how to be a Samaritan on the Digital Road. Students know how important it is to follow the 'must-haves' when using technology and when using their personal Google Drive. We have enjoyed watching them grow as collaborative learners who are asking questions and learning how important it is to be critical thinkers during this process. We cannot wait until we see their sharing out! Mathematics We are finishing up our unit on patterning. Students have learned that organizing their work helps the reader to fully understand their math thinking. Using a t-chart or numberline and using arrows to tell where the numbers they are using come from helps to make their thinking visible. Literacy We are continuing our focus on descriptive writing. As a class we have developed some of the must haves for descriptive writing. They include:
Samaritans on the Digital Road We continue to focus on Jesus' parable about the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) and how it relates to being a positive digital citizen when online.
Religion: This week is Bully Awareness and Prevention Week. Students will hear many texts linked to bullying and will revisit and reflect on ways to prevent and stop bullying throughout the week. Students will also actively participate in our school board's initiative called Samaritans on a Digital Road, where they will review ways that they can be safe while using technology and learn about the things that they can do to be a positive digital citizen. These activities will take place during our Religion and Literacy times. Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate and display their learning about the topics of bully prevention and how to leave a positive digital footprint in a variety ways, many of which are linked to our Media Literacy expectations. Also in Religion this week, students will hear and reflect on the Gospel from this past Sunday and will continue to research and record findings about the parts of the mass. They will also work to complete their Remembrance Day pointillism art work and Peace writing that they began last week, Literacy: Last week in Literacy, students listened to a variety of texts about Remembrance Day and used their five senses to visualize what was happening in the text. This week, they will continue to record what they are visualizing while they are reading and will also start to think about what authors do to make their texts easy for the reader visualize. Through descriptive read alouds, students will begin to develop a list of criteria that descriptive texts should have and will have an opportunity to highlight descriptive text features in the texts that are read to them, as well as the texts they read during literacy stations. We are now finished with our word wall focus on homonyms/homophones. This week we will begin a focus on contractions. Students write their weekly word wall words in their agendas each Monday. Students should review them at home during their nightly homework routine and are encouraged to work with these words in order to be able to spell them accurately in their daily writing activities. As a class we have brainstormed many activities that students can do with their word wall words. Invite your child to take the word wall words of the week and complete one or two word work activities with them throughout the week or on the weekend. On Friday, students listened to and thoroughly enjoyed our sixth Global Read Aloud book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal entitled "I Wish You More." Afterwards, students wrote their own inspiring versions of "I Wish You More" in their reading response notebooks. Many of the students wrote truly heartwarming versions that show just how well they understood the message of this special book. Below is the story for you to enjoy with your child. Math: During our Math time last week, students explored number patterns on the one hundreds chart and discovered that depending on which ways you move along the one hundreds chart (horizontally right and left, vertically up and down, diagonally down, diagonally up) the numbers in the one's and ten's places are doing different things (e.g increasing, decreasing, repeating). After exploring a variety of different patterns students worked on describing different patterns on the one hundreds chart, as well as stating the pattern rule for a set of numbers. As a group, students agreed that when you are stating a pattern rule for a set of numbers you must think "How did I get from one number to the next?" or "What did I do to one number to get to the next?" This week we will continue to solve problems involving number patterns, as well as continue to create and describe patterns on the one hundreds chart. Please see a sample of writing down a pattern rule and describing a pattern in our resource section. Science: Our Science journey took an exciting turn last week, as we had researchers who were visiting our school board office to share a project that they are involved in, dropped in to our classroom to see our grade three students/scientists in action. When they visited, students were engaged in gathering information about their soil inquiries within their small groups. Students were spread out across both classrooms, as well as in our pods and caves. The researchers circulated and talked to students about their inquiries and students were thrilled to talk about the Science "soil" journeys that they have embarked on. Our special guests stayed for the majority of our Science block and even took the time to sit back and listen in on our knowledge building circle, where students shared their findings with their peers. Students lead the knowledge building circle while their teachers and special guests (including our Director of Education Mrs. Andre and Deputy Director Mr. D'Amico) sat back and listened in awe! The feedback that Mrs. Green received from the researchers was impressive. One researcher said that she could not stop thinking about the learning she witnessed in our grade three classroom! Hats off to all of our grade three students in 3A and 3B who truly are putting their best effort into becoming collaborative 21st century learners, who show a tremendous amount of character each day they walk through our classroom doors. Health Update- Most students are close to being finished their personal safety presentations and are ready to build the knowledge of their peers by sharing their presentations out. Since this is a short week, we likely will not get to begin these short presentations until the week of November 23rd. That is how our week looks for now. Thank you for all you that you do to support your child on their journey of learning!
We have just returned from our beautiful school-wide Remembrance Day ceremony. Here is a song and video that students viewed during our ceremony. They were moved by it and requested that we place it on our website. Take a moment to enjoy it with your child. "Lest We Forget."
Today we read the Global Read Aloud book from last week entitled Exclamation Mark by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Students thoroughly enjoyed hearing this humorous story and could easily identify what the author's message and purpose was. After hearing the story, students had the opportunity to tell how they will make their mark on the world using Padlet. It was wonderful to read about all of the ideas students had about how they want to make their mark on the world. This book truly has an important message for people of all ages. Enjoy this little glimpse of the story. What an exciting way to end October - our Annual School Dance-a-thon! The students looked amazing in their wonderful costumes. We got to see all the dance steps they've been learning in school used during the Dance-a-thon! We ended our day making amazing creations with pastels and warm colours. Hopefully it's up on one of your walls!
Mathematics: We have been busy graphing 'How St. Cecilia gets to School". It took quite a while to survey the whole school. Now, the students have compiled all the data and have finished graphing the results. While compiling the data, they learned a variety of strategies to add such large numbers. Some students added all the hundreds, then the tens and then the ones. Others added two numbers using the algorithm and then took the sum of those two numbers to add to the next number. It took a lot of GRIT to add all the numbers together. When creating their graph they had to pay very close attention to the scale. We discussed how a scale can look like a numberline - meaning that each tick mark or grid mark must go up by a consistent number. To help consolidate all the learning, the students received a chart to fill out this weekend to help link our graphing to the real world. What better to graph than our Halloween candy collection! If your child goes trick-or-treating please get them to fill in the sheet this weekend for homework. On the back, get them to use their graphing skills to create a bar graph! Lastly get them to write conclusions about the data. We have spent a lot of time practising using words from the title, categories and labels when stating conclusions. Literacy We listened to Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse and created a shared 'Somebody Wanted But So Finally' last week. The students also had the opportunity to create their own after hearing a Halloween story. We also continue to focus on leads and descriptive detail in our writing. Since the students had the amazing opportunity to be part of 'Maker Mobile' many students wrote persuasive letters to Mrs. Green about getting the Maker Mobile back again. Others wrote recounts or procedural pieces on their experience at Maker Mobile. This week, we will continue to focus on homonyms. We will also revisit run-on-sentences. You will see a small task for them to fix run-on-sentences in their homework this week.
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