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

Monday September 14

 What a crazy busy Monday!

We worked hard this morning. This was our Table Time activity.

Ms. Seppala read this book to us and then we imagined where we could go if we could travel anywhere in the world.  We even looked on Google Earth at Paris where Ms. Seppala had visited and Cape Town, South Africa where Mrs. McDougall is from.  

We learned about using capital letters when writing the names of places.  This is our writing checklist to help us focus on what good writers do.

We looked at patterns on the 100 chart and noticed that we can use that to understand bigger numbers.

Our afternoon was interrupted with a surprise fire drill.  We did great for the first fire drill of the school year.  

In science we listened to the book What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?  We used our detective skills and figured out that we are going to be learning about animals and how their bodies are adapted to help them survive.

Here is the chapter book we are enjoying together as a read a loud every day after lunch.

Reminders:

Thursday and Friday Sept. 24/25 - Virtual Parent Teacher Interviews

Friday Sept. 25 - Non- instructional day - No School

Friday September 11

Happy Friday! 

Our Table Time activity 

What number could the star be on this open number line?

We had a chance to 'shop' for new books this morning.  This is where our reading books go for 72 hours before they can go back into our classroom library.  

We took our interview questions and answers and created a paragraph.

This was our read aloud book this morning.

We played Rock Paper Scissors in Phys Ed and made up movements for moving like animals.  Let me show you how I can move like a scorpion.

 

Thursday September 10

 Can you believe today was only our fifth day in school!  

This morning we started the day with a math task at our tables.  We had many ideas about the number that didn't fit in the group.  Let me share what I thought.

During our read aloud of the book My New Teacher and Me we reviewed reading strategies to help with figuring out words (decoding).  There were some crazy stories in this book.  

Number Talk - we did our first Number Talk and practiced the procedure as well as using the strategy of Friendly Numbers.

Everyone was very excited that we were able to play on the park for recess today. It was the best!

We learned how to interview someone by practicing with our table partner.  We learned interesting things about each other.

We spent the afternoon finishing our visual journal cover and playing a word game called Boggle.

We spent the last part of the day with Ms. Lysak learning about music terms.

Reminders:

Fridays are short days.  Dismissal is at 11:45am.

Please return demographic and blue consent forms.

Wednesday September 9th

 This morning's Read Aloud:

 We reviewed some of the strategies that help us decode words.

In writing we used these prompts to help us decide what to writ about.  We reviewed using periods and capital letters at the beginning of sentences.  A few students shared their writing and we gave them Stars and Wishes.

Here we are playing a brand new game called Math Wars.  We all have our own deck of cards to play with. We love having our won supplies and tools.

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Reminders:

- please remember your water bottle

- please complete Demographic and blue consent forms and send back to school