Monday 8 October 2018

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. I hope that everyone had time this long weekend to do what matters most-spend time with family and thank God and one another for all your blessings in life.

Our class pushed over 100 marbles! Marbles are pushed from the square container to the apple jar when compliments are given to our class as a whole. For example, if the teacher on lunch duty tells me that our class was the most respectful class out of the 4 she was responsible for, I push over 5 marbles.If the Principal comes to tell us that she did not even notice our class in the hallway because we were so quiet, I push over 10 marbles. So now that we've pushed over 100-we celebrate and start all over again. As a class, we will come up with an incentive. It could be invite another class into our gym time with us for a challenge, it could be a board games block, it could be a movie and popcorn block, it could even be have a picnic lunch outside with the other grade 3 classes. Stay tuned to find out what the class voted for.

Another cause for celebration! Our school participated in the Terry Fox Walk this past Monday. Please do not let the below photos influence your perception of how good our class felt in doing this and how much fun everyone had! A special thank goes out to Luke and Lukah's mom for helping all of us stay safe.

Here are a few books that were read to the class as they were snacking. The one I liked the most was the one called But It's Not My Fault. The main idea that we discussed was how important it was to not blame others for your actions and to accept responsibility for the choices you made. This connection comes in handy when students tell me that their parent forgot to pack their homework book. Instead, I tell them not to blame their parent but accept the responsibility of packing their own book.

In Math,we are finishing up our unit on data management. Here, in the photo we are conducting a quick survey to see what everyone's favourite meat alternative is? See how clever we are! We are making cross-curricular connections.


We continue to dive into RECOUNT text. Feedback was given that most student excel at describing the events in order so as a class, we concentrated more on the INTRODUCTION and CONCLUSION. Take a look at our first shared writing recount. They did a great job!

In Science, we continue to look at STRUCTURES. The purpose of this experiment that these budding scientists are doing was to see which tube was more stable. We conducted the short experiment twice and came up with the same results. Look by Rose's foot to see where the tall tube ended up.


A few things to remember.....

  • I am still waiting for some students to bring in small inexpensive earbuds/earphones so that Daily 5 will run smoothly.
  • Pizza and Subway special lunches can be ordered through the school website on the cash on line icon. October 21st is the last day to order.
  • Picture Day at St. Rita is on MONDAY OCTOBER 15th.

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