Friday 31 January 2020

Friday January 31st, 2020

Here is what we did today:

We presented our speeches! Everyone did so incredibly well! Congratulations to Sophie, Jasper and Joshua!! Can't wait to cheer you all on Thursday!













After speeches we un-winded and played some board and card games.


Agenda!
- Read 25 minutes
- Re-registration due Feb 18th


Thursday 30 January 2020

Thursday January 30th, 2020

Here is what we did today:

Inquiry into Language: We continued to practice our speeches! Tomorrow is the big day of our in-class competition.

Inquiry into Math: We started the lesson with a review of what is a numerator and denominator. We started off by playing a fractions task card game, this got us thinking about fractions and how to represent them.







Our focus of the lesson was about Fractions Benchmarks! We used number lines to help us understand fractions and if the are closer to 0, 1/2 or 1. The number lines were benchmarks to figure out how big the fraction is. Everyone had so much fun writing fractions using the number line. We really understood this concept well! Great job Grade 3s!


When they finished their work, we played fraction board games!


Recess/Lunch

UOI: Today we explored changing direction, speed and shape of an object. We spent some time manipulating the objects to see what we can change the shape, speed or direction of them. We shared our ideas that we came up with in our table groups from manipulating the materials. We took a closer look at the toy car and how the speed changes. We discussed how pull it back before releasing the car build momentum. Together we completed a worksheet that pulled together all of our ideas on how we change the shape of the clay. We drew about how the clay changes shape, how the car changes speed and how the car changes direction.





French: Please see Mme. Rawan's blog for more detail.

Recess/Lunch 

Gym: Please check Ms. Vasconcelos' blog for more detail.

Here the link to their dance routine they are practicing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj3OqMzNin4

Agenda!








Wednesday 29 January 2020

Wednesday January 29th, 2020

Here is what we did today:

Music: Ms. McMillian was absent so we had music with Ms. Autio today.


UOI: We started our first lesson on our next UOI, FORCES!! We brainstormed our wonder questions for this unit. We identified what was the definition of a force and what is a movement. We looked at a picture of four seasons and identified the push and pull forces.






Recess/Lunch


Inquiry into Math: We started our new unit today, Fractions and Decimals. Our first lesson was about Fractions of a Whole! We learned that a fraction describes equal parts of a whole. The top number is called "The Numerator" which tells how many equal parts are counted. The bottom number is called "The Denominator" which tells you how many equal parts in total make up the whole. We did quite a few examples together as a class. We described and identified fractions. We learned that one-fifth is another way of saying 1 over 5.


French: Please see Mme. Rawan's blog for more detail.

Recess/Lunch  

Inquiry into Language: We practiced our speeches and I checked in with multiple students. We will continue this tomorrow. 




Our friend D.A shared his community he built as well! WHAT ACTION IN GRADE 3!




Agenda!