LITERACY
We have continued to enjoy our start to the day reading Wonder! The students are growing so much as great readers during this time! We are having fantastic discussions, making predictions and connections to the story...they are all in! Reading conferences are also going really well. It amazes me every year at this time, when we look back at where we started...the growth is awesome!
In writing, we finished up our sentence starter introductions by learning how to write WHO sentences. Once students were confident with the six different types of sentences (what, when, how - LY, how - ING, where and who), we needed to practice switching between them. For a couple of days we did an activity called Roll A Sentence. Students roll a dice, the number on the dice refers to the type of sentence that needs to be written. Students were allowed to choose any noun to work with from our specific verb dictionary (mice, bears, orca/dolphin). Here's a sample of this activity:
After demonstrating that they were able to switch between sentence types, students were ready for our animal paragraph assignment. Students were asked to choose a photo from my favourite wildlife photographer's website. His name is Jason Leo Bantle. He's Canadian, originally from Saskatchewan, and has galleries in Banff, Canmore, Toronto, Niagara on the Lake and Saskatoon. After choosing a photo from his website gallery, they needed to do some planning. They had to come up with 5 ideas about what was happening in the photo (they had a worksheet with five numbered lines to fill in). They started with number three, which was what was happening in the actual photo in that second. Then, they had to work backwards in time...what happened just before he took the picture and then what happened right before that. Then they had to work forwards in time...what happened right after he took the photo and then right after that. All five things should take less than two minutes to happen. This planning part was quite challenging for some students because they wanted to tell this long detailed story and we had to rein them in. Once their plan was complete, we had them think of the types of specific verbs that they would need to use for their sentences. After verbs were written down, we were ready to write our paragraphs. We talked about how the planning part, the research, the thinking, the verb work, takes more time than the actual writing part but it makes the writing part so much easier! Students were told that they couldn't repeat sentence starters and had to plan ahead when it came to sentence starters. If they wanted to use an exciting when starter for their third sentence that contained the main action, that meant they couldn't use it anywhere else. They had a checklist to keep track of their sentence starters. Once they were finished writing their sentences, they were able to type their paragraphs into a google doc, under the photo that they picked. They were all so proud of the finished product!
Click here to see your child's animal paragraph!
(I tried to rename each document to include the childs' name, but it won't let me. I'm sorry but you'll have get your child to pick their paragraph from the picture.)
NUMERACY
We finished up our Multiplication and Division unit. Marks from the unit test have been entered on PowerSchool. I will send home the tests this week so you can see more specifically where your child may need a little more support.
We started our unit of Measurement by brainstorming everything that we know about measurement.
We are starting the unit by focusing on linear measurement. Grade Three is an exciting year in math because students get to explore standard units instead of measuring items with paperclips! We have started to look at centimetres and will be looking at metres this week.
I'm sorry, but I have to cut this short. I am having so many technical issues with uploading photos today and I've got to head out to the lake to help my parents with some yard work at the cabin.
Reminders...
May 17 - 20 - NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS
May 21 - Grade 3s to UofA Botanic Gardens - PERMISSION FORM REQUIRED
May 21 - Track practices start and are at lunch recesses
May 23 - Bike Day - Bring your bike to school.
May 24 - Volunteer Appreciation Drive Thru
May 25 - Timbits Soccer Tournament
May 30 - Yearbook Order Deadline
June 5 - Early Dismissal
June 6 - Grade 3 Ukrainian Village
June 7 - BGRS Track Meet
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