January 30

Reminder:  There is no school tomorrow for students.

I will put in a scholastic order on Monday.

On Monday the Grade 3's have the company Safe4Life working with them.  They will be learning all about self-defense and personal safety.  This is an amazing opportunity for children this age.

Today we played math games, finished off some paragraph writing, did some research on the Sahara Desert, played basketball in gym and learned a little more Ukelele in music!  What a way to finish off the week.

Have a great weekend everyone and remember to read at least 20 minutes each and every day.

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January 29th

Reminder:  There is no school for students this Friday.
Field Trip to Glenbow will be next Wednesday.
Spelling assessment tomorrow.
Fun lunch tomorrow for those who ordered.

Mrs. Dixit was our guest teacher this morning.  

We continue to work on measurement and paragraph writing.  Students are doing an amazing job researching the 3 geographic regions of Tunisia.  Ask them what animals currently live in the Sahara desert and how they are able to adapt to the hot climate.

Spelling words (Jan 27th)

Scholastic book orders went home today.  I will put in an order on Monday.

There is no school on Friday for students.

Spelling Words (long I patterns) igh, ie, y, i_e, i, io

flight

drive

July

child

replied

surprised

described

identify

quiet

pioneer

midnight

Valentine's Day

FYI: 

Classrooms will recognize Valentine's Day on February 12th.  Students are welcome to bring in Valentine Cards for their classmates, however, please remember, there can be no candy attached to the Valentine Card.

Kaden

Nastusha

Emily

Bryn

Noah

Rehan

Raazia

Zahra

Elias

Titus

Mary

Karsyn-Lee

Abby

Friesja

Sahaj

Charles

Andrew

James

Indy

Rafael

Ryan

Cameron

January 27

Reminder:  There is no school for students this Friday as it is a PD Day.

In math, we counted up the money our class raised for the Koalas and Kangas.  We used play money to make it more realistic.  Ask your child if they remember the total amount.  We also created a creature on grid paper and measured its perimeter.

We read aloud some great paragraphs written by Room 16 that outline our personal goals for 2020. We continue to discuss the importance of editing our written work.

We watched a video about Chinese New Year!  We then played a boggle game to come up with words that related to this topic.

Ask your child what they created in Science today.

A list of the new spelling words will be on the blog tomorrow.  The assessment will be on Thursday this week.

January 24

Before the end of school today, we drew a picture of Ruby, a character from "The One and Only Ivan."  Next, we are going to paint our picture.



We wrote our spelling assessment today.  On Monday we will get 5 new words.

We had Genius Hour and only some of the laptops were working.  We still got lots of planning done.

This morning we watched a Kindergarten assembly.  It was so adorable.  They did an excellent job!

Have a great weekend and remember to read for at least 20 minutes every day!

January 23

We had an opportunity to buddy write again today.  We can't wait to read our writing aloud to the class.




Today we had Math Games Thursday!  Have your child teach you our new games at home.

In social, we used chrome books to research the different geographical areas of Tunisia.  We are looking at the climate, water sources, vegetation, animals, etc.

Spelling assessment tomorrow!

January 22

We started a Minecraft perimeter activity today.  Ask your child to find the perimeter of a polygon whose sides measure  12cm, 18cm, 10cm, 8cm and 11cm.

We continue to work on paragraph writing, looking at ways to edit our writing to make it more detailed and interesting.

In science, we continued with our building.  Ask your child for specific details.

Sadly, we finished our read aloud "The One and Only Ivan."  We are all looking forward to the release of the movie later this year.

January 21

Building in science!


In music, we learned a little bit about how to play the ukelele!  Ask your child what note they learned to play.

In social, we talked a little bit about what it means to be a global citizen.  We realized we are being global citizens by helping out the Koalas and Kangas in Australia.  We also worked to finish up our geographic maps of Tunisia.

In math, we measured the perimeter of a tile on the floor and a book in the classroom.  We are keeping in mind our mental math strategies as we add up the length of each side of the object.  Have your child calculate the perimeter of a square that is 22 cm on each side.  Next, have them calculate the perimeter of a rectangle the is 12 cm on two sides and 15 cm on the other two sides.

New spelling words

We continued to measure today!  We looked at perimeter as we attempted to measure the distance around our tabletops.

We are doing some great work writing our paragraphs and making sure they are loaded with good details.  Students are also working hard on a topic sentences and closing sentences.

In science students are continuing to build.  Ask them what the strongest shape is and how they used it in their building today.

New spelling words went home today.  We looked at various ways we might see the long e sound in words (ee, ea, y, e_e)

heavy
peach 
three
teacher
funny

squeeze
breathe
concrete
really
wreath

January 17

Report Cards went home today!  Please check your child's yellow folder or backpack.

Please refer to the previous day's post for Coventry's newest fundraiser!

Today we completed logic puzzles with our kindergarten buddies!  

In Genius Hour, we began planning our projects.  Be sure to ask your child what they have decided to work on.

We spent the last part of our Friday "Rolling a Picasso" to create the interesting faces below.  

Help support the Koalas and Kangas!

Remember to hand in field trip forms as soon as possible.

The CHS “Coventry Cares Club” is asking students and families to support our latest initiative “Koalas & Kangas” by bringing a loonie or a toonie to school between January 20 and March 19, 2020. The students thought that this would be a good way to be global citizens and make a difference by helping and supporting animals that have been affected by the current Australian wildfires. With your help, we hope to send a really BIG cheque to one of the charities currently rescuing and nursing injured koalas and kangaroos. The BEST part of this project is that Mrs. Verstraete’s daughter, Miss V., is currently teaching in Brisbane, AU, and can personally deliver our money to the charity of our choice. She will also send us back some pictures of our money in action! Thanks for your help and support of “Koalas & Kangas”!

In math, we learned 2 new card games, Sneaky Place Value, and Go Fish.  Have your child teach you these games.  It only requires a deck of cards!

As a class, we practiced writing a paragraph with all the ingredients.  We also practiced editing it to make it even better.  

In social we began looking at the geographic location of Tunisia.  We are applying our knowledge to our inquiry project as we scout out a great place to build a zoo.

We continued our buddy writing in Daily 5.  Tomorrow we will have an opportunity to share what we have written so far.

January 15th

Popcorn went home today with those who ordered.

Please return field trip forms as soon as possible.

Just a  couple more days of cold weather to dress warmly for this week, hang in there everyone!


We started a new project in math!!  This will be more of an inquiry project that will involve working across the curriculum in multiple subjects.  We had a mini-lesson in measurement today to kickstart our planning.  Next class, we will look more at units of measurement and the proper way to measure.

We took a deeper look into paragraph writing that included a topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding sentence.  We are working to make our sentences within the paragraph more interesting.

In science, we continue to explore in our building unit.

New spelling words

Remember to dress extra warm for the weather this week!  It looks like we are home free next week:)

Please hand in field trip forms to the Glenbow Museum as soon as possible.

Spelling words for this week follow the long a sounds (ai, ay, a_e):

rainbow
April
birthday
became
array

hesitate
prairie
against
stadium
complain
potato

In math, we worked at solving division problems.  We focused on how certain information given in problems is not important when looking for the solution.

We continued to work on our resolution writing, creating paragraphs with details.

In social we continued to research the Peru flag using chrome books.



Ask your child about their buddy writing time and what they are writing about.

January 10th

No school on Monday.

Please return field trip forms, to the Glenbow Museum, as soon as possible.

Scholastic book orders will go in on Monday.

We started out our day with our spelling assessment.

In social, we used Chromebooks to research the Peru Flag.  We then coloured the flag and began writing about what the different colours and symbols represent.

In genius hour, we began thinking about a project we would be interested in working on.  Ask your child about their ideas.

We started buddy writing today.  Ask your child about the story they will write with their partner.

January 9th

Field Trip forms are going home today!  Please fill out and return as soon as possible.  If you are able to volunteer please email me.

There will be no school on Monday as it is a PD day.

We continued to write about our new year's resolutions.  Today we began to write about ways that we could achieve these goals.

In math, we read the book "A Place for Zero."  Ask your child to explain to you where zero finally found its place.

In science, we began our building unit.  

January 8th

There will be no school on Monday, October 13th as there is a PD day.  

We will be going to the Glenbow Museum on Wednesday, February 5th.  If you are a cleared volunteer and would be available to accompany us, please let me know via email: fanayyar@cbe.ab.ca . The forms will be going home soon.

In math, we learned a new math game that involved place value.  All you need is 2 people and a deck of cards.  Ask your child to show you this game.

We started writing about our New Year's resolutions.  Ask your child about the goals they will be setting for themselves this year.

Calgary will be in the deep freeze!

Please ensure your child comes to school prepared for the weather!  Even though we may be having Blue Days, students NEED to come prepared for the weather in case we have to evacuate the building.  

Bussing families need to be prepared too.  IF the bus breaks down, students might have to walk, so they should have all their gear on or in their backpack!

January 7th

Scholastic book orders went home today.  I will put in an order on Monday.  If your child did not bring home the flyers, and you would like them, please have them take one home tomorrow.

We wrote a short division and multiplication assessment today in math.  Next week we will begin a culminating activity that involves math (multiplication, division, fractions, geometry, and measurement) as well as science, social and language arts.

We edited our holiday writing today and read them aloud to the entire class.  As a class, we pointed out all the adjectives that we heard.  This was a great way to add more details to our writing.

Ask me about what we did in science with Ms. Fagnan.

In gym, we practiced dribbling with both hands both high and low.

Ask me about music today.  We had a guest teacher.

January 6th

Welcome back!  I hope everyone had an enjoyable, restful time with family and friends.

The students spent some time writing about their winter holidays. We had to remind ourselves about interesting beginnings, complete sentences, proper punctuation, and adjectives.  We also took the time to edit our work.    At home, it is important for students to practice their writing, as well as their reading.  A great idea would be to incorporate their spelling words for the week into their writing when practicing at home.  Tomorrow we will have a chance to share our writing with the class.

In math, we reviewed multiplication and division and worked to solve some word problems.  

We got our new spelling words for the week.

can't 
wasn't
I'm
isn't
don't
product
quotient
mathematics
division
product

At the end of the day, we read our read aloud, The One and Only Ivan.  Students began a visual journal page that they will add to each time we read together.