Thursday 24 November 2016

Friday - Wear School Colours

As a finale to our bullying awareness and prevention week, let's show our united school spirit by wearing school colours on Friday.

Monday 21 November 2016

Structures and Mechanisms - Final Task

We will soon be wrapping up our science unit on Structures and Mechanisms.  A final task will be building a structure out of cardboard that will consider all of the concepts we have learned. Should you have any cardboard boxes, paper towel/toilet paper cardboard please send in with your child in the next day or two. Construction will begin on Wednesday.  Thank you!

Collaborating with Ms. Nihmey's class

We worked together with Ms. Nihmey's class on Thursday on the following math problem:

Could someone be 10 000 hours old?

It was great to see students work together in small groups finding strategies to solve the problem.  Students discovered that someone can indeed be 10 000 hours old and they were able to justify their reasoning.  

Guess the Musical Artist - Congratulations Mikayla!

Mikayla figured out that it is Enya who has been serenading us over the past few weeks.  Way to go Mikayla!  Who will our next artist(s) be?


Tuesday 15 November 2016

Homework November 14-17

Students were given two pages of math to complete this week relating to time.  These pages are due on Thursday, November 17. Due to the long weekend, students will have the weekend free of homework and the next round will be assigned on Monday, November 21.  It will be due on Thursday, December 1.  

Monday 14 November 2016

Remembrance Day


Our grade 3 class was fortunate to have Caleb's dad come and speak to us on Remembrance Day.  He shared with us many details of his job and travels in the military.  The students asked some excellent questions and gained a better sense and appreciation for our troops and the work they do.  Thank you Mr. Clark!




Thursday 10 November 2016

Math

We have just finished up our studies in Patterning and Algebra and have moved on to Measurement (more specifically time and temperature).  

Please take the opportunity to practice telling time with your child from an analogue clock.  The expectation in grade 3 is that they can read time using analogue clocks to the nearest five minutes. 

We are also investigating the relationships between minutes and hours, hours and days, days and weeks, and weeks and years.  

For temperature, we will identify benchmarks for freezing, cold, warm, hot and boiling temperatures as they relate to water and for cold, cool, warm, and hot temperatures as they relate to air.  

Homework

Homework initially due today can be handed in on Monday morning.  A number of our friends require more time to complete the math and language tasks.  As a result, homework will not be assigned tomorrow but on Monday and will be due on Thursday, November 17.  There will only be math assigned next week.  

Monday 7 November 2016

Science - Structures

We have been conducting experiments in Science class to determine how we can make a structure more stable.  Students worked with straws and masking tape to complete a series of experiments to see how much weight their structures could hold.