Friday, April 10, 2020

April 14-17

Tasks for the Week

You can find more detailed instructions for each task in our Google Classroom under ‘Classwork’, but here is a brief overview:

Literacy Tasks
Task 1:

  • Creative writing with a picture prompt
Task 2:

  • Daily Reading and Journal Response 
Task 3:

  • Word Work - using the given words of the week students will practice spelling

Math Tasks
Task 1

  • Subtraction Review
Task 2

  • Subtraction Equations - students will pick and solve 5 subtraction equations
Task 3

  • Word Problems - students will pick and solve 1 word problem

Thank you again to everyone for your continued support! ðŸ’•

Sunday, April 5, 2020

April 6-9

Tasks for the Week

You can find more detailed instructions for each task in our Google Classroom under ‘Classwork’, but here is a brief overview:

Literacy Tasks
Task 1:
-       Write a letter to your teacher about what you have been up to over the past few weeks.
Task 2:
-       Daily reading. Write a reading response based on something you have read this week
Task 2:
-       Making Words. Using the letters provided try to make as many 2-10 letter words as possible.

Math Tasks
Task 1
-       Esti-Mysteries Review. Students will work through the slides and use the clues provided to guess how many items are in a jar.
Task 2
-       Students are going to create their own Esti-Mystery but first they need to create their picture. They will need a see-through container and some house hold items.
Task 3
-       Students will work through the slides to create their own Esti-Mystery. They will have to come up with 5 clues.

Please let us know if you need any clarification on what is expected or have any questions!

Thank you again to everyone for your support through all of this. We are super excited to get started and connect with your children again!

Our Google Classroom

Welcome to our Google Classroom!

We will be posting weekly tasks by Monday of each week. You can access weekly tasks through the tab 'Classwork'. This will look the same on Ms. Hatchette's Google Classroom only it will say Ms. Hatchette. 




When you click on 'Classwork' you will see the Weekly Tasks.


When you scroll down you will see a list of various resources that you can use to support your child's learning at home. These resources are not part of the weekly tasks but rather support documents and ideas for things to do at home. 





Please check out Epic Books under Reading Resources. We will be using this platform in the future and it is a great online reading resource for your child. 




Tuesday, March 17, 2020

March 9th - 13th




Hello Grade Three Students and Families,
We miss you a ton already and hope that you are all keeping well.

MATH
Over the past week we began working on the concept of estimation in math and were working towards building our very own exciting esti-mysteries! Check out what an esti-mystery is here: https://stevewyborney.com/2019/09/51-esti-mysteries/










ART
In art we took our knowledge of 3D shapes and mixed it with our wishes of Spring! We brainstormed ideas of what Spring reminds us of... camping, flowers blooming, sunshine, warmer weather, rain, puddles, baby animals and playing outside more! Students were then challenged to take their idea and create a 3D sketch.

WONDER read aloud
We continued to read Wonder by RJ Palacio and students did a personal connections response to the first few chapters we read. Ask your child how they felt they personally connected to the story and what they wrote about. We left off on page 66, with the chapter titled Apples.

WRITING
We continued to work on our RCMP Name The Puppy letters this past week. Students were expected to finish their rough draft, check the task criteria, complete the editing checklist, conference with their teacher and then begin their good copy.


As for our UP COMING IMPORTANT DATES section...well it is unfortunately very crazy and uncertain times right now :(  
Here are some ideas/links for things you can be doing at home until we get further direction from the CBE.








Sunday, March 8, 2020

March 2nd - 6th




This week we have been reviewing Expected vs Unexpected behaviour in our Grade Three classroom. By this time of year EVERY student should be setting themselves up for success by demonstrating the following:

  • not sitting beside peers who we will talk to during large group discussions at the carpet
  • using their time wisely to get their work completed in the time given
  • listening to directions and following the group plan
  • referring to task the criteria and giving their best effort
  • asking for help when they need it
  • showing good manners


This week we started reading the book - Wonder by R. J. Palacio. August, also known as Auggie, is a 10 year old boy who was born with a facial deformity that has made life a little more challenging for him as well as more difficult for him to make friends. As we read about Auggie we begin to learn more about his incredible character and his courage.


The Royal Canadian Mounted Police needs your help to name the next generation of police dogs.  The chosen names will be given to 13 German Shepherd puppies born at the Police Dog Service Training Centre in Innisfail, Alberta.
We are taking on this exciting writing challenge over the next few weeks! Who doesn't love puppies and persuasive writing!?! This week students excitedly started planning for their letters by learning the Name The Puppy 2020 contest rules, brainstorming some ideas and then narrowing their ideas down to their top choice with some reasons as to why that name would be the best.

You can check out the link here: Name the Puppy 2020

Contest rules are simple
  • Names must begin with the letter "N"
  • Names must have no more than 9 letters
  • Names must be 1 or 2 syllables
  • Contestants must live in Canada
  • Contestants must be 4 to 14 years old
  • Only 1 entry per child will be eligible
  • Entries must be received by Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Contest winners and the winning names will be announced on Wednesday, April 29, 2020, on the RCMP website and social media.


In math students worked with 3D shapes looking closely at their attributes - faces,  edges, vertices. Students enjoyed going on a scavenger hunt and identifying various 3D shapes they found in our school environment. Ask your child about the different objects they found!


Upcoming Important Dates...
Intramurals begin this week. Students will have the opportunity to go to the gym during the outside lunch playtime for various Phys Ed related intramural activities. The schedule will rotate through each grade level. Watch the calendar for specific days for each grade group. This is optional for students and there is no sign up required.

Mar 10 > School Council
Mar 12 > Open House 6:30
Mar 19 > No School for K
Mar 19 & 20  > Student Led Conferences 
Mar 23-27 > Spring Break 
Mar 30 > First Day Back 
Mar 30-Apr 3 > Gymnastics begins 

Apr 10 > No School Good Friday 
Apr 13 > No School-PD 
Apr 14 > School Council 
Apr 22 > Fun Lunch 

May 1 > Hats off for Mental Health 
May 8 > Shave a Lid For a Kid
May 12 > School Council 
May 15 > No School-PD 
May 18 > No SchoolVictoria Day 

June 26 Last Day 
June 29 Appeals Day 
June 30 Org Day

Friday, February 21, 2020

February 18th - 21st

It was another great week in Grade Three :)


In math this week we looked closely at 2-D shapes by describing and sorting them according to their attributes. We talked about the name of the shape, number of sides as well as the number of points/corners. Students were also invited to go on a shape hunt around the classroom and record their findings.

We practiced more letter writing with an introduction letter about ourselves to Mrs. Leibel. Students did a wonderful job remembering the 5 different parts of a letter and did a great job telling all about themselves! We also took some time to review various ideas and options for our daily Fire Writing times. Students came up with the following list of what they could write:
  • stories - fiction or non-fiction
  • poems
  • song lyrics
  • riddles
  • jokes
  • memories about an adventure or experience
  • about an upcoming adventure or experience
  • lists
  • instructions for doing or making something
  • letter to someone


This week we began working on skipping in gym! We practiced some basics and began some tricks!
Check out the tricks in this video > https://safeYouTube.net/w/rkj1




We continued to talked about our school community and the importance of showing care for our space, each other as well as our selves. Our discussions focused on citizenship and ways to improve our school community to ensure there is a feeling of connection with others. Students talked about some of their design ideas in regards to how it would help with bringing people together,  create positivity as well as a sense of pride.
  • EK > "Maybe once the students are done their work they could ask their teacher to go to the greenery tree and take a job leaf off to go and do. That would make people feel happy and proud that they did their work and helped out"
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  • DH > "I was thinking about how we could have lego challenges like where kids could add a new piece of Lego to the wall until the last day of school and then see the what it is like at the end"

  • EV > "My brother was home sick yesterday so my mom and I were thinking it would be great if we could live stream the classrooms on their ipads so kids could still be part of the class but not get others sick"
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  • LO > "Maybe on the Lego wall people could add a piece for every good job they do so that at the end of the year we can see how well we have done as a school"
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  • JJ > "Every time someone is nice to someone else they get to put a piece of Lego on the wall and then we can see how nice everyone is being to each other"

  •  HG > "I think we should put the Lego table or wall in the MakerSpace. Like the MakerSpace back where it was in the middle of the school. Because a Lego table IS building and making!"
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  • RP > "We could also use a giant dice to play games - I think that would be fun"

  • MS > "At Fish Creek Library they have giant board games where you are the game piece moving around!"

  • KG > "At my old school we had giant Jenga blocks to play with outside!""

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We will be starting our work with our Artist In Residence on Monday February 24th. For our work with her we need each student to collect at least 4 rocks that are the size of the palm of their hand and as smooth and flat as possible! Hopefully now that the snow has melted a little this task will be a little easier! 
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Today was Ms. De Luca's last day with us as she will be beginning her exciting adventure with her new baby soon! We are all going to miss her VERY much but are also VERY excited for her and her family as they welcome their new little bundle of joy into their lives. We are excited to welcome Mrs. Leibel to our classroom community and look forward to having her be part of Grade Three for the remainder of the year!

Upcoming Important Dates...
Feb 24 - Mar 13 > Art Residency
Feb 25 & 26 > Gr 5/6 at Youth Link
Feb 27 > Pink Shirt Day
Feb 27 > Fun Lunch & Spirit Day
Feb 28 > Vaccinations
Mar 10 > School Council
Mar 12 > Open House 6:30
Mar 19 > No School for K
Mar 19 & 20 > Student Led Conferences
Mar 23 - 27 > Spring Break






Friday, February 7, 2020

Feb. 3 - 7

In grade three this week….







The students continued to work on a variety of reading strategies, focusing specifically on accuracy strategies. So far, the students have discussed and worked on using stretchy snake (sounding words out), chunky monkey (breaking words into chunks), flippy dolphin (flipping the vowel sound), eagle eyes (using picture cues), and skippy frog (keep reading for context clues). We talked about how when we read and come to a word we do not know, we can go through a number of different accuracy strategies before determining the correct word. We also continue to review comprehension strategies that we have covered this year.

“We’ve been working on our reading strategies like our comprehension. Some strategies we used were making predictions, making connections, and character traits. We also looked at accuracy strategies like chunky monkey, flippy dolphin, eagle eye, stretchy snake, and skippy frog.” – E. P.

“We were doing the mystery books in the Learning Commons. You don’t even know what the cover looks like. You know what the book is about but you don’t know if it’s a perfect fit or not.” – H. B.

“We have been working on picking the right books when we are going to the library to pick books.” – A.F.

The students continued to work on their letter writing this week. They used their criteria to make sure that they took all the necessary information from their plan and put it into their final copy of their letters. Then they also focused on using different sentence starters, connecting words, and descriptive words in order to make their writing flow and be more interesting. They have done a great job of working through the writing process on this task.

In addition, the students represented their learning using a “one-pager”. This tool required students to represent their ideas about our Kananaskis in the Classroom presentation in different ways. Their “one-pagers” included something they learned, something they still wonder about, something they found funny, key words, and a title.

“We finished our letter writing to Ms. Manser and Mr. Newman. We wrote it to tell them what we appreciate about our school.” – R. P.

“For our letters, we had to do plans and then a rough copy and then our good copy. The letter was about what we appreciate and we wanted to say what we appreciate because we are going to send another letter saying what we want to improve.” – C. L.

“We were at the Kananaskis in the Classroom presentation. Now we are doing one-pagers on Kananaskis in the classroom. The one-pagers need to include words, pictures, and information about the show.” – D. H.

The grade threes continued to refine their subtraction skills. They used strategies that we have practiced and that have become familiar to them and also discussed different strategies that they can use. We will focus on these additional strategies next week and then students will be able to use whichever strategy they prefer. In addition, students continued to work on their mental math skills to work on their speed and efficiency through games. Students also looked at shapes and explained things they already know about them. We will continue to explore 2D shapes and 3D objects. This knowledge will be applied when we design and test things to improve our school community.

“We did math games using cards to practice 2-digit or 3-digit subtractions. If you’re using 3-digit, you’d flip over 6 cards and then write out the equations and then solve it. The partner with the highest number won that round.” – L.B.

“When we were in the Learning Commons while the other class had the Kananaskis in the Classroom presentation in our room, we played a card game. We each flipped a card and whoever solved it first, got the cards. This helped us practice adding up to 10 really fast.” – R.J.

“We were writing shapes down to see what we already know about them. There were rectangles, triangles, squares, hexagons, circles. We did point form.” – N.S.

We have focused a lot on community and showing care. We will continue this focus as we discuss citizenship and ways to improve our school community. Students will look at the needs and wants of our school and then will design and test their ideas of how to make our school community even better.

Students finished their art showcasing important parts of our school community. They used different media for this project including photography, tissue paper, pencil and sharpie. After the Kananaskis in the Classroom presentation, students designed and drew an animal that had different adaptations.

“We had a blank piece of paper and we had to put tissue paper on it and we had to take pictures with the iPad. Then we had to cut them out and glue them onto our tissue paper background. Now the picture really stands out.” – C. B.

“For Kananaskis in the Classroom, we had to draw our own rodent and you can make up the name and what the animal adaptations were. Mine was called the porcubeaver.” – C. K.

In PE this week, students worked on a number of pickle ball skills.

“In gym this week, we started pickle ball. We are working on our strategies for bouncing the balll and bouncing it on the wall. We did that for a couple of days and then started games.” – A. G.  

On Thursday, students watched a performance all about rodents put on by Kananaskis in the Classroom. After the performance, the expert came into our classroom and furthered students learning. Students learned information about rodents, talked about the food chain, and looked at animal artifacts. During this discussion, students asked some very thoughtful questions about both the performance and rodents.

“I noticed you spoke loudly but didn’t have a microphone. How?” – F. S.

“How do you get your costumes on so quickly?” – I. S.

“Why can’t porcupines shoot their quills?” – E. J.

“Why do beavers have webbed feet and big tails?” – L.B.

“KIC came and we had an assembly in the gym. The title was named Rodentia High. It was about rodents that went to school and they came to our classroom. We got to hold some artifacts and look at the food chain. Without rodents, there would be no animals left because it would affect everything on the food chain.” – M. P.

Reminders

On Wednesday, February 12th, students can hand out Valentine’s cards to their classmates. This is optional. If you and your child choose to participate in the card exchange, please ensure there are enough cards for each student in your child's particular class. In room 10, there are 30 students and in room 11, there are 28 students. Also, please remember to not send treats to share in the classroom (e.g. cupcakes, chocolate, etc.) A notice was sent home on Friday with more information and lists of students’ names.

Upcoming Dates

Feb 11 > School Council
Feb 13 &14 > No School Teachers Convention
Feb 17 > Family Day
Feb 24 - Mar 13 > Art Residency
Feb 25 & 26 > Gr 5/6 at Youth Link
Feb 27 > Pink Shirt Day
Feb 27 > Fun Lunch & Spirit Day
Feb 28 > Vaccinations
Mar 10 > School Council
Mar 12 > Open House 6:30
Mar 19 > No School for K
Mar 19 & 20 > Student Led Conferences
Mar 23 - 27 > Spring Break