Wednesday September 18

Next week the grade threes are going on their first field study. In preparation for this field study we have been working on journaling. This is an independent activity where students have a small task that they independently work on. The tasks vary from sketching, asking questions and thinking about what is around them. Today in the afternoon, we went outside to practice this skill. Each student found a spot away from another and worked on their task. In their journals, students were asked to look around and record what they saw, what they thought about and new wonderings. Many things were recorded to what they saw, many students could write about what they were thinking and some students were able to think of wonderings. Ask your child what they wrote about.

Reminders:
- Early dismissal tomorrow for parent teacher interviews
- Field study forms need to be handed in
- We still need 2 volunteers to participate in the field study next Wednesday. Please email the teacher if you are able to support

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Thursday October 3

This week has been a busy week. Students are working hard on their 'Who Would Win' books. Today we started to create our rubric. This will help students know where they can improve their work and how they can provide feedback to a peer. We have 3 categories; content (the sentence and what is in it), mechanics (punctuation, capitalization, spelling) and the picture. It was nice to hear students say "I know I need to add more information to my page to make it a 3." Ask your child where they think they may be on the rubric. Student Voice: "Today was fun lunch and we had little ceasars" (KC) "This week we had a building challenge and the kids built their challenge with paper and it had to be 4 cm above the ground" (SW) "Today at Math we were learning rounding to the nearest 10. Rounding up or down" (DD) "Today for Science we did our writing in our visual journals and we were writing down if our structure were structure or not a...

Tuesday November 5

Wow, I must apologize to all of you. I have not been keeping you up to date with the comings and goings in room 7. Language Arts Students have recently completed their Who Would Win books. Using the co-created rubric, each student self assessed their work and commented on their strengths and areas where they would improve next time. The Who Would Win Books will be available to read at the Parent Teacher Interviews as well as the rubric in which students used throughout the project. Our next project is creating a brochure to inform and teach others about a famous building in one of the 4 countries we are studying. We began this project creating questions to guide our research, we have started to conduct our research, and are beginning to look at how to write detailed sentences with the new information learned. Some students have been brave in sharing their work with the class to receive feedback and improve their sentences. I hope more students will begin to feel comfortable in sha...

Friday September 6

Students have had an amazing week getting to know each other, the class routines and reviewing concepts taught last year. For example . . . . . . in Math we have been playing two Math games to review place value. Have your child teach you either 'guess my number' or 'place value war'. By the end of grade three students in grade three should be able to understand, represent and say numbers up to the thousands place value (9 999). One of the key things that we worked on when we say numbers is to avoid using the word 'and'. Have your child explain why. . . . in Art we have been reviewing colour. We already know colours but we reviewed which colours are considered primary and secondary colours. We then identified warm and cool colours. We should have our art pieces completed for parent teacher interviews. . . . in writing we are getting back into the groove of remembering capitals at the beginning of sentences and periods at the end of sentences. Students comp...

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