Friday 29 April 2016

Road Race, Watching Swamped, and Finishing Up

Another busy week in Grade 3!

This week in Language, we read "Au camp d'été" for our shared reading. We continued to work on narratives in writing and comprehension of descriptive texts in reading. 


Word work

Cursive writing

Writing narratives

In Math, we continued to work on our unit on measurement. We did a short lesson on converting units so that we can compare cm to cm, m to m, and km to km. We also continued to finish up/review addition, subtraction, and money. 

Measurement

Playing Prodigy

Playing Blockcraft (like Minecraft, but free)

Playing Multiplication Zap

Daily Math Problems

We were unable to use the gym this week because of the K-2 Musical so we played outside and practised our dances for Celebration of Dance which is coming up on May 10th. 

In Science, we did a short quiz on forces. The students corrected them after and looked up any incorrect answers in their work. Look for the unit/rubric to come home next week. Please remember that it includes all group work, experiments, and other class activities and discussions in addition to the quiz. 

In Social Studies, we finished up our unit on Living and Working in Ontario. We will be beginning our unit on Pioneers shortly. 

In Art, we are finishing up our optical illusions. Tjose who were done had the opportunity to try drawing and colouring some other optical illusions. 



On Wednesday, it was the Bayridge Road Race. The 7 students who were still at school worked on Catch up activities, independent and partner reading and writing, and Blockcraft in Math. 

We were able to go see Swamped, the K-2 musical on Thursday. The class were great audience members. 

Have a great weekend!

Wednesday 20 April 2016

Catching Up!

I feel a bit behind after missing last week's blog. I've got lots of photos for the past two week to update everyone with. 

In Language, we read "La capture de l'adversaire", "Un drôle de docteur" and "Le loup qui voyageait dans le temps" for our shared reading. We did lots of follow-up activities on Le loup qui..., using the Smartboard, iPads and the book to access the text. We started a new cycle of Daily 5 literacy centres. The students will be working on comprehension of descriptive texts in guided reading. In guided writing, they will be working on writing different types of narratives as well as proper paragraph format. 









In Math, we had a short test on addition and subtraction. We will be moving on to our next unit on measurement of time, temperature, mass, and capacity. We will also continue to practise subtraction with regrouping, especially with zeros as some are still struggling with this.






In Science, we looked at the forces of wind and water. We watched a few short science videos on these. We also looked at a slide presentation on these forces and had several discussions about them. We finished up with these natural forces. Next week we will be doing a review of the unit and the students will do a short quiz about forces before we move on to our last science unit.  









In Social Studies, we finished up the graphs to compare the population of Ontario cities and their outdoor spaces. The students were then asked to make their own map of Ontario based on all of the information and maps we have seen in the unit. They also had access to a variety of maps from different sources as examples. 




Thank you Simon, for the special treat and recipe last week. 


Here is a great website and App where once you register your child, they can build a profile and read free books. There are only 6 levels of difficulty at the moment but I'm hoping they'll add more. 


On Thursday, we went outside to do a community clean-up for Earth Day. 



The class went to Swim to Survive the last two Fridays and are now done the program.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

Monday 18 April 2016

Quick Update

Unfortunately I was sick over the weekend and did not get a blog post done for last week. I will include information/pictures for both weeks in this week's post. 

Tuesday 5 April 2016

Fairy Tales and Apple Cake

This week in Language, we read "Le loup qui découvrait le pays des contes" for our shared reading. Loup was looking for a recipe to take to a party when he encountered a variety of characters from fairy tales. We made apple cake to go along with the recipe he found and made. Almost everyone tried it and most wanted seconds. We doubled the recipe and got some math in doubling the ingredient amounts. 







Guided reading 

Practising decoding and fluency

Reading to self

In Math, we continued with our unit on addition and subtraction. We worked through a problem together to go over the problem solving process and strategies for solving problems. 







In Science, we looked at static electricity. The students did a short experiment using small pieces of paper and a comb. We then discussed the difference between forces that require contact and forces that do not require contact. 





In Social Studies, we finished comparing Kingston and Dryden. We made a slide for the smartboard together about why Kingston is important. On Friday, while I was away sick, the students looked at the populations of various Ontario cities and looked at the amount of parks and playgrounds in those cities. 

Playing Snakes and Ladders in gym

Using the yoga balls