Merry Christmas!

Thank you for all your support the past few months, in grade 3! Students have been working hard and deserve some time to rest, relax and have some fun. Enjoy your time together and get outside and play!!!

Wishing you and your families a very merry Christmas!

Xoxo

The students are becoming little artists!! Working hard on their sketching and journalling techniques. 

Please ask your child, what is a 3.2.1 journal?

Our Beakerhead Ingenuit Challenge is still formulating. Our ideas are finally coming together and in the New Year we will finally begin to build prototypes!

Please collect any recyclable materials over the holidays that your child could use to build a device with elastic bands that communicates a message or solves a problem.

Gingerbread Houses were built today! I tried to not let them eat amy candy but it was impossible!!

Hope they made it home in one piece:)

Students worked hard to solve an Elf Problem. Our first stab at problem solving this year and it was a tough one!

In the New Year we will continue to work on problem solving weekly. Please watch for our Problems of the Week!

Goodbyes and Hellos

We sadly said good bye to our dear student teacher Miss.Lowe. I know the students will really miss her, as will I!! Not only am I down a helping hand but now I have 17 sad, sad students to try to cheer up!!

She had a great day with the kids. She read them a story, everyone then wrote Chistmas cards (mostly to her), we shared gifts and to wrap things up everyone participated in a sharing circle, sending her off with well wishes and hugs.

I have a feeling she will be back to volunteer soon!!

Later in the day a surprise arrived in the mail (perfect timing so that Miss.Lowe could be a part of it all). 

Rocky, our adopted Canadian Gray Wolf arrived!!!

Students worked so hard to collect recyclables and raised over $50 through both generous donations and bottle depot refunds. 

Throughout this project students worked on many Alberta curricular objectives through the following activities: opinion writing, persuasive writing, addition, subtraction, animal classification and friendship- my favorite type of learning, as I'm sure your child has already shared with you!! We call it "integrated learning" or "project-based learning".

Our hope for Rocky is that he can do some exploring with our dear friend Frosty the Canadian Polar Bear.

It's been a while...

Since the last post a LOT has been happening around grade 3....

Centers are in full swing; investigating rocks, sewing our stories on a hand-made loom, building our own spinners and testing them! Building towers on the light table and working on our spirit animal puzzle!

Today we visited the Alberta Theatre Projects and were treated to a performance to write home about! - "The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe". It was a performance that touched every feeling; happiness, excitement, adventure and sadness!!

There are many shows running all year, if you are interested in checking them out visit their website for more info.

https://albertatheatreprojects.com/whats-on/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/

Father Jonathen visited our classrooms this week and the children thoroughly enjoyed him! So personable and enthusiastic! We chatted about Christmas and Advent and how to prepare for this special time of year.

Miss.Lowe has been working with the students twice a day, focusing on Social Studies and introducing students to the countries around the world that we will be focusing on over the year in gr.3; India, Ukraine, Tunisia and Peru.

Robotics Residency

Thanks to Mrs.Strand's hard work we have the privilege of a week robotics residency. Students have been solving puzzles and will be writing their own code by the end of the week!

Check out some images below.

Beakerhead Session 2

Our material for our Beakerhead Ingenuity Challenge this year will be elastic bands. Students must think of a way to solve a problem or convey a message with this material.

Today, students worked with grade 6 buddies to share ideas on what verbs could be used to describe what elastics can do. They then worked to apply this verb to a noun.

For ex.; noun verb

Elastic bands can make ping pong balls fly.