March 10th Update

LITERACY

It was a big week in 3C! It was a rollercoaster of emotions this week as we finished up the final chapters of Elephant Secret! There was fear, sadness, grief, disbelief, shock, worry, relief and pure joy! For most of the students, it was the first time that a book has made them cry. It amazing to watch children at this age transform as readers! Going from reading to learn to read, to reading for enjoyment, fulfillment, escape, excitement and fun! It was such a pleasure sharing this book with them! We are all pretty attached to elephants and woolly mammoths right now, so we enjoyed a little character drawing of our favourite baby mammoth, Woolly!

We also spent quite a bit of time working with words this week! We studied:

• r controlled vowels
• y as a vowel
• breaking words into syllables (each syllable has a vowel sound)
• adding endings to verbs that end in an e (drop the e before adding -ing)

NUMERACY

This week we focused on skip counting and how it relates to multiplication. We worked on strategies and tricks for counting by: 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s. We also practiced writing the repeated addition sentence and multiplication sentence that go with a picture of equal groups.

TECHNOLOGY PROJECT

I introduced the students to a long term technology project this week. They are creating a month by month slideshow/scrapbook of their year in Grade Three. There are so many skills that they need to practice to be successful with this project. 

We worked on:

• adding shared photos to their own drive
• moving those photos into a specific folder within their drive
• changing the background of all of the slides in a slideshow at once
• changing the font in a text box
• changing the fill colour in a text box
• browsing photos in their drive
• inserting photos from within Google Slides
• arranging photos on the slide
• cropping photos
• inserting text boxes
• creating titles
• sharing details of a moment in a text box

We will continue to work on this project until the end of the year!

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

This week we celebrated Becca as our Student of the Week! Mrs. Kloschinsky finished reading her certificate and then added her own proclamation. She declared that Becca is an RBES KINDNESS QUEEN! She spoke about how Becca stands out among our student population for being super sweet and kind to everyone she interacts with! We are so proud to have Becca in 3C!

RBES Kindness Queen

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

• Mar 12 - Bridge Project Due
• Mar 13 - Student Led Conferences
• Mar 14 - 20 - Raga Revolution
• Mar 22 - PD Day No School
• Mar 23 - April 1 SPRING BREAK