Wednesday September 23rd

 Reminder:

Tomorrow is early dismissal at 11:45.

Virtual parent teacher interviews from 3pm - 7pm and Friday morning from 8:15 am to 11:45am.

No school Friday

We used the 120 chart to solve equations.

Here we solved a 100 chart riddle for math warm up.

Here is Alex from Peru.  We are learning about other places in the world and found it on the world map today.

Tuesday September 22

 

Our read aloud book this morning:

What is the value of your name? Which strategy will you use to add the numbers?

Look at this picture of students in school in the city of Tunis, Tunisia.

What do you see?  What do you wonder?

Chapter 3 of Charlotte's Web was called Escape.

We are very proud of our Under the Mask writing.  We used interview answers to tell about our friends under their masks.

During Music today we worked on a visual journal page of Terry Fox.

Reminders:

Virtual parent teacher conferences this coming Thursday 3pm - 7pm and Friday morning. Please sign up if you haven't done so already.

Monday September 21

Important Information:

You should have received an email through School Messenger regrading our Virtual Classroom Tour tomorrow at 4pm.  Meeting code will be:

mcdougallstars180

I will also be posting the video in our Google Classroom for those families that are unable to log on during the virtual tour time.

The email also included information and links for parent conferences later this week.

It was a bit of a crazy start to the day but we worked hard and it ended up being a great day with lots of hard work and learning.

Here are some of the great work we did today:

Research on PebbleGo and writing about animals and their adaptations.

Working and finishing our Who's Behind the Mask writing.

Using mental math for the Easy as Pie game

Illustrating Chapter 2 of Charlotte's Web.

We started reviewing sketching techniques and creating a toolkit in our visual jouornal.

And then this happened?  How do you tell time? We learned about the clock and used our counting by 5's to figure out the time.  

And if you can count by fives you also know your five times table.  This was a very exciting ending to our day.

 

Friday September 18

 Changes for Next Week

Please click the following link to read the admin message from this week.  We will be making some changes to school entry in the mornings and lunch time.

First thing this morning we did a big tidy up of our book bins and organized all our work in our binders. 

During snack time we watch a couple short videos of Terry Fox and discussed this year's virtual run for the 40th anniversary.

https://terryfox.org/run/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjgTlCTluPA

We worked on writing and finished of the day with Phys. Ed outside.

Thursday September 17

Here is a list of some of the activities we kept busy with today:

No pictures as I am having difficulties currently uploading.  

- We worked in the Google Classroom this morning on a sorting task about Culture.

- We learned a new math game using mental math.

- We read more in our novel, Charlotte's Web and worked on an illustration to show our understanding.

- In Science we learned about the behaviours of animals to help them survive - hibernation and migration.

- We had a chance to work outside in our visual journal for the first time.

Reminders:

- Please sign up for a conference time if you haven't done so already

- Thank you for returning demographics

Wednesday September 16

 What was good about our day?

- We got to play at the park at recess. No one got hurt because we played carefully. MK

- In Phys ed. we played Rock Paper Scissors with our bodies. PK

- Today we started a novel or chapter book called Charlotte's Web.  There were barely any pictures.  We started our Illustrator's Notebook. GT

- We learned about animal body parts and how that helps animals survive. BN

- In Table Time math we solved a problem where we had to count by 10's into the hundreds.  DK

- In math we used a place value mat to guess numbers. ML

Tuesday September 15

Important reminder - an email was sent out regarding signing up for parent-teacher conference coming up.  Use the link to sign up.  More information will be posted about the format and platform for our virtual meetings.

 Some of the highlights from today:

Table Time Math:

Science:

We learned more about the word ADAPTATION and read this book together.  Let me tell you about some of the animals in this book and the ways they survive.

In Health we reviewed our Promise and discussed being safe when playing on the park and with our friends at recess.  We have to make sure we do not jump or hang on others.  We try our best to keep distance while we play.

In computers we used our new passwords to log on to the computer and accepted the invitation to our new Grade 3 Google Classroom.  We looked at the Grade 3 Sharing slides and discussed the importance of digital citizenship in only working on your own slide and not changing things in other student slides.  You can find your slide with your name and pick 3 pictures to come share with us.  Your slide is not due yet but you can work on it when you have time and we will start giving students an opportunity to share.

We finished our read aloud today and we were glad that in our book Hubie got picked for the baseball team.

Ask me about the Music game we played called 7