October 26th Update

Wow! That was a quick and busy week!

On Tuesday, when the sub was in, we had a regular day in 3C. The students completed our regular literacy routine and worked on counting by 5s and 25s in math. Their behaviour was great for Mrs. Robinson which was so fantastic to hear! I was so proud of them!

Wednesday and Thursday were not routine days in 3C. We spent a lot of time on creating a piece of artwork that will be turned into a Christmas card for a school fundraiser. The students are very proud of their work and put a solid effort into every step of the process. The RBES Fundraising Committee has made some changes to this fundraiser this year and I think our parents are going to be really happy! The new company that they picked produces cards that are of a much better quality and they are bigger...you will be able to include a Christmas photo in with your Christmas card this year! Your child will bring home a sample of the card and the ordering instructions will be inside the card. There is also an option to buy other items with your child's art work on it.

We did sneak in some Social Studies into our days along with our literacy routine. The students have been learning about the continents and oceans. They really enjoyed this video that has helped them remember the names of the seven continents of the world: The Seven Continents of the World

Yesterday, we were excited to go for a walk to celebrate Take Me Outside Day. Unfortunately, a sudden change in the weather over the lunch hour with extremely strong wind gusts forced us to cancel our excursion. The students and I were very disappointed. Luckily, I had run home at lunch to grab my dog Tali for the walk and she was able to stay for an hour in the classroom and the students adored her. The rest of yesterday afternoon was spent finishing up some Halloween art and going to PE for our last day of Mission Impossible.

Tali's Visit!

Part two of our spiderweb art project!

Mission Impossible!

This week, although not typical, taught the students a valuable lesson on flexibility. We need to learn to be flexible thinkers and be able to roll with changes in our routines and disappointments. We talk about being "Flexy Lexy" in 3C. This is an important executive functioning skill for children and adults to develop.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

Thursday - Halloween Parade 9am

October 18th Update

Learning and growing is happening in 3C and it is so amazing to witness!

LITERACY

This week we:

• focused on including details in our writing using our senses. What does it look like? Sound like? Feel like?
• wrote in our journals
• listen to/read books on Epic
• enjoyed reading a variety of nonfiction and fiction selections during read aloud

NUMERACY

This week we:

• learned about ordinals and tables (building common vocabulary when discussing tables, ex; 2nd column, 4th row)
• extended increasing patterns in tables
• used tables and patterns to solve problems
• completed a quiz

SOCIAL STUDIES

This week we started developing a sense of our place in the world by:

• looking at where we live in Devon in relation to the rest of Alberta and Canada
• learning the names of the provinces and territories and explored their unique characteristics 
• discussing capital cities and how the provincial government meets and works out of that city
• learning that Ottawa is the capital city of Canada and looked at pictures and videos of the Parliament Buildings and National War Memorial
• learning that Canada has three oceans
• learning that both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans give Canada the opportunity to export and import goods 
• learning about the compass rose and the cardinal directions (north, south, east, west) and intermediate points (northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest)
• learning about the difference between a map and globe

ART

This week we:

• finished up our rock monsters
• started a spiderweb project
• started a Picasso/Cubist inspired Franken-portrait

GYM

This week we:

• continued focusing on underhand throwing
• learned some new games: Touchdown, Ultimate Frisbee

HALLOWEEN

If you look at the Party Planning Days tab (under Malkia's photo) on the blog, you can see who is signed up for the Halloween Party. The students and I haven't discussed what our plans are for the party yet. We will have a discussion next week and let families know what is needed at that time. Thank you so much for your support with this! 

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

• Monday - PD Day (no school)
• Tuesday - Substitute Teacher in (Mrs. Robinson)
• Tuesday & Wednesday - Book Fair
• Wednesday - Parent Teacher Interviews
• Friday - Last day of Socktober

October 12th Update

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our 3C families! I hope you all enjoy a wonderful weekend surrounded by the love and laughter of friends and family!

LITERACY

This week we:

• completed a Making Words activity where we focused on creating long vowel sounds with "two vowels go walking" and "silent e" spelling rules
• enjoyed read alouds that focused on comprehension (making connections, predicting, questioning and visualizing the story)
• completed a writing project inspired by the book The Grateful Book. 

We read the book once, for enjoyment, during read aloud. We reread the book and looked at the connections between the experience and the gratitude...sometimes things went "deep" and the students really liked it (ie; I read books and I'm grateful for imagination)! I asked the students,  "If you could snap your fingers right now and be anywhere, be looking at anything, be doing anything right now, what would it be?" They came up with their own "experience". Then I asked, "What would you be most grateful for with that experience?" The goal of the project was to follow the simple sentence writing of the book and use few but powerful words. The students did a fantastic job!

Click here to view the student pages in a google slides presentation!

Click on PRESENT in the top righthand corner to start the slideshow.

NUMERACY

This week we:

• practiced switching between extending increasing and decreasing patterns
• learned to ask the question, "Are the numbers getting bigger or smaller?" as our first step
• learned how to follow and write pattern rules, "Start at 3, add 4 each time." 3, 7, 11, 15...
• played a Roll-A-Pattern game using different types of dice
• completed a little quiz

SCIENCE

This week we:

• finished our rock activity centres
• reviewed everything that we learned using a Kahoot!
• learned a few tips about studying from our lapbooks
• wrote our unit quiz

PE

This week we:

• worked on our underhand throw
• practiced hitting targets with an underhand throw
• played games to practice our underhand throw
• learned how to play Chaos...an end of week favourite game!

TECHNOLOGY

There isn't a formal curriculum for technology in Alberta but we have a Tech Team at RBES that came up with technology guidelines of our own. Each grade is responsible for teaching certain skills to ensure that students are prepared to handle technology properly and efficiently during class time. When a student is working on a project online, it's important that they have the computer skills necessary to allow them to focus on the learning behind the project instead of the tech skills that they are lacking. We are starting with the basics in 3C. Our last two projects (Terry Fox paragraphs and The Grateful Book page) focused on the following skills:

• accessing our Google Classroom
• finding our CLASSWORK page on Google Classroom
• using select all or short cuts for select all
• changing font, size, text colour
• typing
• inserting a photo from google images
• opening a new tab
• turning in assignments using Google Classroom

LIBRARY

This week we:

• met our new librarian Ms. Sacuta
• had our first library period (Thursdays right after morning recess)
• took out our first book and we need to tell Ms. Sacuta if we liked it or not next week when we return it

Ms. Sacuta has worked so hard to clean up our library! She has reorganized things and made them so much easier to find! Did you know that we have over 20,000 books in our library at RBES?

STAR STUDENT

This week we enjoyed getting to know Olivia a bit better!

SPECIAL VISITOR

Phoenix had his Star Student week last week but his bird Snowy wasn't able to make it into the classroom. We were sure excited on Thursday to have a visit with this special bird!

 Here's a video of us dancing with Snowy!

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

• Wednesdays - Read for Beads minutes are due
• Thursdays - Library
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October 5th Update

We had such a great week in 3C!

LITERACY

This week we:

• used what we've been learning in our IDEAS lessons in writing to construct an idea web about Terry Fox. Then, we wrote a paragraph about him as a group. When we were writing our paragraph we made sure that we included a topic sentence, proper punctuation and capitalization, and varied our sentence starters. 
• read a variety of read alouds. We focused on making connections when we read, making predictions, asking questions and checking for understanding to improve our comprehension. 

NUMERACY

This week we:

• worked on finding the next number in a decreasing pattern by subtracting
• learned how to extend a decreasing pattern

SCIENCE

This week we:

• finished up our layers of the earth models

Click HERE to see the rest of the students with their models!

• learned about the rock cycle and the three types of rocks

• watched some amazing videos and learned so much! This is one video that I promised to share on the blog so they could do this experiment at home! It's super fun! 

• participated in the first two of four rock activity centres
  
  
  

Click HERE to see more photos of our rocks centres!

ORANGE SHIRT DAY

On Monday we:

• read a few indigenous themed picture books 
• went to a presentation with Elder Sydney and he taught us about the use of animals in his culture.

STAR STUDENT

This week we enjoyed getting to know Phoenix better!

IMPORTANT REMINDERS FROM THE OFFICE