Nov 29th

We had an extra music class today.  Mrs. Bessemer assigned us instruments to play for our Christmas concert.

We wrote our spelling assessment this morning.  Next week our spelling groups and words will look a bit different.  Stay tuned.

We spent time with our kindergarten buddies today.  We had fun drawing them and they had fun drawing us!

Drawing done by Charles.

In genius hour, we worked on Chromebooks with Room 15.  

Nov. 28th

Just a reminder that we will have a spelling assessment tomorrow.  

A Honey fundraising newsletter went home yesterday.

Thank you to everyone who has donated food for the Mayor's Food Drive.  There is still time left to donate.

Today we continued to work on our persuasive writing.  Your child may try some of their arguments out on you this evening.

In math, we were practicing dividing using arrays.  The statement 8÷4 can be read like this:   If 8 is split or divided into 4 rows, how many will be in each row?

Have your children try to answer the following division problems using arrays:

6÷2
10÷5
8÷4
9÷3

We also talked about remainders.  Have your child explain to you what a remainder is in division.

We made cards for SunHee, our student educational assistant as it was her last day with us.

Nov 26th

We are continuing to collect food for the Mayor's Food Drive.

We made Christmas Cards for our Canadian troops who are serving overseas. This is a school-wide project organized by a grade 3 student and his mom.  What an amazing way to show our support.  

In math, we read the book entitled, The Doorbell Rang.  We completed the division questions outlined in the story as we read. Students now understand that division is a number split up into equal groups.  In the story, the cookies were constantly being shared amongst different numbers of children.

Ask your child what they learned about in science today.

Nov 25th

Over the next week, we will be working with the spelling words we received 2 weeks ago.  We will write an assessment this Friday.  Today we played games with our words and then drew a picture with our words hidden inside.

We began looking at persuasive writing and brainstorming ideas of what we might like to persuade someone else to do.  A few of the us thought we might light to persuade Mrs. Nayyar to give us more computer time or longer recesses.

In math, we began looking at division.   We realized that 15 ÷ 3 is the same as asking, "If 15 were divided equally into 3 groups, how many would be in each group?"  

Students can work on the following problems using the above making groups strategy.

4÷2=

8÷2 =

10÷5=

12÷4=

In social we began to look at the country of Peru and wrote down questions about what we wanted to learn about it.

We started our new read aloud, which the students are very excited about.

Christmas Concert Lyrics!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBr9T0ZBKUM

Let’s all Sing for Kwanzaa:
(Kwanzaa) On December 26th
(Kwanzaa) We will celebrate
(Kwanzaa) Our Self-determination
(Kwanzaa) Creativity and Faith

(Kwanzaa) We will work collectively
(Kwanzaa) Let us all unite
(Kwanzaa) With purpose and cooperation
(Kwanzaa) We’ll light a candle each night.

CHORUS
Come visit our home, we will make a feast,
And tell stories long into the night
Drink from our unity cup, Sing our songs together,
Follow our guiding light
Let’s all sing for Kwanzaa


CHORUS

Come visit our home, we will make a feast,
And tell stories long into the night
Drink from our unity cup, Sing our songs together,
Follow our guiding light
Let’s all sing for …

(Kwanzaa) On December 26th
(Kwanzaa) We will celebrate
(Kwanzaa) Our Self-determination
(Kwanzaa) Creativity and Faith

(Kwanzaa) We will work collectively
(Kwanzaa) Let us all unite
(Kwanzaa) With purpose and cooperation
(Kwanzaa) We’ll light a candle each night.

We Light the Night Skies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf3ttAgHrM8

Note:  The lyrics (and the title) have been altered.  Students will need to sing their version over top of the recorded words.

CHORUS

We light the night skies  - colours burning brightly

There’s love for you and love for me

We light the night skies – colours burning brightly

We hope for peace and harmony

Our families come together to celebrate

We dine and give thanks

Our families come together to celebrate

We sing and we dance

Coda

We light the night skies  - colours burning brightly

There’s love for you and love for me

Nov 20th

See you all at conferences tomorrow!  You still have time to book if you haven't done so already.

Nov 19th

Remember to book your parent/teacher conference for this Thursday.

No school on Thursday or Friday for students.

We had an interesting fire drill today.  Ask me how great we were at exiting the school so quickly.

Mayor's Food Bank Reminder





Our day was filled with multiplication games, writing, music, gym, and reading.  

In math, we worked to finish up our multiplication monsters and we played a game called Close to 100.

In writing, we worked hard to finish up our special someone writing, along with portraits of our special someone.

In gym, we are learning all about field hockey from Ms. Brady's student teacher.  Ask me about the special challenge we learned today.

In music, we are practicing our songs for the Christmas concert.  They are sounding wonderful already.

Nov 18th

Please remember to book a conference for this Thursday if you haven't done so already.
We continue to collect food for the food bank.

Today we met our kindergarten buddies.  We had a lot of fun with 
them!

 


Our multiplication monsters are really coming along!  Today we also wrote a short multiplication assessment.




We continued to work on our writing piece, including editing the good copy.  It is a work in progress.

In science, we learned about the rock cycle!

Nov 15th

Bookings for Parent/Teacher conferences opens today, November 15th at 6:00pm.
Conferences will be held next Thursday.  There will be no school for students on Thursday or Friday.



Today we worked on our writing. Students are doing a great job of making sure their writing has plenty of details before beginning their published copies.

In math, we made multiplication monsters.  Have students explain how their monsters were created.



We had Genius Hour with Room 15.  Today we planned an object that could be useful to us.  We then built it with maker space material.

Nov 14

We had a great afternoon of art with an instructor from the Leighton Art Center.  We created an animal out of wire and cloth.

Nov 13th

Reminder:  Parent/Teacher conferences next Thursday.  There will be no school next Thursday and Friday.

Tomorrow, Leighton Art Centre will be coming in to do some art work with the grade threes.

In math, we did multiplication using skip counting and repeated addition.

In science, we made rocks out of clay.  There were three types of rocks (metamorphic, igneous, sedimentary).  Ask me about all the actions.

Today we played a new game in spelling to practice our new words.

We are bringing home our poppies!

Thank you parents, for sending such healthy snacks to school with your children!  It makes such a difference in their learning throughout the day.

Nov 12th

The following items went home with students today:
1.  Class pictures 
2.  Fundraiser holiday order form
3.  New spelling words
4.  Spelling assessments

Today we spent a lot of time working on our writing piece about a special person in our lives.  We will continue the work on this piece throughout the week.

We got a new list of spelling words today.  Have your child cut out their words and sort them under their headers

In math, we looked at how we could figure out a multiplication expression using skip counting.

The following display shows the 4 different ways we learned to show multiplication.

Nov 8th

Thank you to all the parents who attended our Remembrance Day Ceremony, and for listening to your children sing our songs at home.  The students did an amazing job showing respect and honoring those who fought to give us the life we cherish in this Country.

Following our ceremony, we completed our spelling assessments then completed some finish up work.

Next Thursday, the Leighton Art Centre will be doing an in-school art project with us.

Scholastic book orders are due next Wednesday.

Have a fantastic long weekend.

Remembrance Day Ceremony tomorrow at 10:30am

Remembrance Day assembly will be tomorrow at 10:30 am.  

School Pictures went home today to those who ordered.

Scholastic book orders went home today.  I will put in an order next Wednesday.

We will write our second spelling assessment tomorrow.

In math, we worked a bit more on repeated addition as a strategy for understanding multiplication.  Next, we will work on skip counting and multiplication.

In writer's workshop, we began writing the beginning for our special writing piece.

In social studies, we read the book Real kindness.  We then wrote about what it means to have a good quality of life.

Nov 6th

Remembrance Day Ceremony will be held this Friday at 10:30am.  Please continue to practice your songs.

Mrs. Nayyar's son came to school this morning for 'Take Your Kid to Work Day'.  It was a lot of fun having a tall grade 9 student in our classroom.

In math, we worked more on repeated addition and how it related to multiplication.  Have your child figure out the following multiplication questions using repeated addition.

 example:  5 x 4  can be read as:   Add 5 four times (5 +5+5+5=20)

3 x 5

2 x 4

5 x 6

4 x 4

In writers workshop, we looked at how to grab our reader's attention with our opening sentence.  Ask your child what those different methods are (question, fact, dialogue, sound, action, problem).  Tomorrow we will try to incorporate one of those beginnings into our next writing piece.

We looked at the poem, In Flanders's Fields and thought about what it meant to us.

In Flanders Fields

BY JOHN MCCRAE

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

    That mark our place; and in the sky

    The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

    Loved and were loved, and now we lie,

        In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

    The torch; be yours to hold it high.

    If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

        In Flanders fields.

November 5th

In social studies, we read the book Fly Away Home, to go along with the social unit of Quality of Life.  Students then had a discussion about what one needed to have a good quality of life.  Have your child tell you what this story was about.

In math, we looked at how we could multiply using repeated addition.  For example, 4x3 can be looked at as  4 + 4+ 4.

In spelling, we practiced our words by creating a long train. Ask your child to show you how.

November 4th

Notice:  Remembrance Day ceremony is this Friday at 10:30.  Please ensure your children are practicing their songs at home.

In writers workshop, we continued planning our writing piece about our special someone.

In math, we worked on arrays and making groups for our multiplication questions.

In gym, we played body bingo.  Ask me about it!

In science, we got back our items we made last week.  We are bringing it home to surprise you.  Hint, it has crystals!

In word work, we practiced our spelling words by hiding them inside of a picture we drew.