Hello everyone,

Even with 2 snow days and a PD Day to round out the week, our class still managed to get some good quality learning in.

In Math, we shifted our focus to money. Because we lost some math time blocks due to the snow days, our class will jump right into working toward the grade 3 expectation of counting and representing the value of a collection of coins and bills up to $10; and adding and subtracting money amounts to make simulated purchases and change for amounts up to $10.

We have moved onto Media Literacy in Language. The students already seem to be very media literate and realize all the techniques used by advertisers to get someone to buy a product.

Here, the students were experimenting with gravity for our Science unit called Forces and Motion. Most students predicted the book would fall faster than the paper to the ground but they were challenged to come up with the explanation of why the paper moved side to side but the book fell straight down. They also experimented with putting the paper right on the book and dropping them together. Ask your child what happened, but more importantly, get your child to explain why that observation happened. We have many budding scientists in our midst.

Our class moved over 100 marbles once again. This time, the students chose to have a "fun block" which consisted of a dance party and a board game block. A good time was had by all!

A few things to remember......
*Pizza/Subway orders for March to June is available to do on-line on Friday February 1st.

Hello everyone,
Take a look at what we've been doing in our class.
In Math, our class has spent a lot of time practising the skill of telling time.

 Ask your child what steps were needed to play this time game. This way you get to see your child apply their procedural text skills as well.

Here, students had to correctly answer a time question in order to receive a clipboard to answer the time questions that were posted in the hallway. (Thanks to Mrs. G for showing us this activity!)
 Our class will be having a formal assessment this week on time before we move onto money this week.

We are also wrapping up our unit on procedural writing and moving onto a Media Literacy unit in Language. The focus for this unit will be on what techniques are used in print and digital media to attract a specific audience. I hope you had a chance to look at your child's procedural text on how to visit this blog. I sent them home last Thursday. I think the students are going to be faced with a challenge to be able to explain what the purpose of media literacy is. So far, each unit we've explored really only had one main purpose. Ask your child what P, I  and E stand for.

Ask your child what game was played in gym is this photo.  Ask them to explain how the fourth person on the team plays when there is only 3 markers per team.

A few things to remember.......

• -25°C is the benchmark set for children to stay inside at recess
• P.D. Day this Friday January 25th. No school

                                                        H A P P Y  N E W   Y E A R

Ask your child what their New year's resolution is?

We wasted no time!
In Math, the class has been practising how to tell time to the nearest five minutes. Together, we constructed a class clock to familiarize ourselves with the hour and minute hand and some common times such as quarter past the hour and quarter to the hour.

The students practised telling time by doing worksheets, by playing time games and by challenging themselves on websites about time on the internet.

With the cold temperatures this week, it was a no brainer to introduce temperature. We answered the question of what the "whir" sound was in our classroom? Our classroom furnace ran all day on Thursday and Friday!

 We explored common temperature benchmarks. Ms. Natalie was brave enough to go outside on Friday to show the kids, who were looking through the window, what happens when boiling water hits freezing cold air.

Our unit of study in Language is procedural text. The students seem to have a really good foundation of this.

 We did a shared procedural text together. We used one of our very own student as a model for the photos! Ask your child who the lucky student was.

The class had plenty of practice looking at examples of procedural texts. Here, the students used the guided reading book we all read on origami to create their very own frogs by following the steps in the book.

 Here, the students made airplanes by following procedural text that used primarily diagrams.

In Science, the students started a new unit on Forces and Motion. We managed to use procedural text here in Science to create our marshmallow launchers. This experiment showed us how a push and/or  a pull  is the basis for all force and motion. Take a look at the students trying to shield themselves from the marshmallows coming their way!

Ask your child why they were on the floor in the gym in this photo.

Things to remember.....

• New Year Mass this Wed. January 16th at 1:30 pm. All are welcome.
• P.D. Day on January 25th
• Hold the dates: Swim to Survive for our class is March 20th, March 27th and April 3rd
• Please continue to check and initial agendas daily 
• Please continue to review homework with your child and review and sign assessments that come home in that book.