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I have LOVED teaching this class. Your children worked hard this year. It certainly says something about their work ethic, motivation, and curiosity when they don't want to leave school. Although I completely understand the students who couldn't wait to leave. I remember being in Grade 3. My Sweet Class, Here are my wishes for you:
I can't wait to hear all about your summer. One more thing: You are a Fourth Grader!! Love, Ms Lauf IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Park 96 on the last day! All Grade 3s will be joining Ms Purkiss at Park 96 on Wednesday, June 27th. An email has been sent home to let you know all about it. Students will bring a snack along, and we will be returning back to the school in time to receive report cards. CHECK THE WEATHER AND DRESS APPROPRIATELY. Things to Bring:
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Ms Lauf Will Not Cry Party… I mean… Room 18 Year End Extravaganza All Grade 3s will be doing a Class So Long Party on Tuesday (June 26), in the afternoon. If snacks are to be provided, please make sure they are HEALTHY )please no chips, pop, candy…) We will be playing games, and I have a couple fun activities to do. Park 96 on the last day! All Grade 3s will be joining Ms Purkiss at Park 96 on Wednesday, June 27th. An email will/has been sent home to let you know. Students will bring a snack along, and we will be returning back to the school in time to receive report cards. IMPORTANT DATES June 26: Farewell Assembly at 8:15 am June 26: Gr 3 Year End Extravaganza - afternoon June 27: Gr 3 Walk to Park 96 June 27: Report Cards home June 27: Last Day of School —> Early Dismissal at 11:45 am OUR DAY 178 days down, 2 days left. This is really a warp-up time. Students will be bringing home their visual journals and some other items tomorrow. Report cards come home on Wednesday. Cheerios! Ms Lauf IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Yearbook We are doing Yearbook signing on Friday, June 22, 2018 after the Sports Day activities. This is a chance for students to move about and get their classmates, school friends, and teachers to sign their yearbook. If you did not purchase a yearbook with the fees at the beginning of the year, there is a limitedamount of yearbooks for purchase. Each yearbook is $18.00 and must be purchased with a cheque or cash (exact amount, no change will be given) in the office. First come, first served with payment. Each student that has not purchased a yearbook will be given a specially designed autograph page that can be signed by classmates. Please check with your child’s teacher as they will have a list of those who have purchased yearbooks. Park 96 on the last day! All Grade 3s will be joining Ms Purkiss at Park 96 on Wednesday, June 27th. An email will/has been sent home to let you know. Students will bring a snack along, and we will be returning back to the school in time to receive report cards. Ms Lauf Will Not Cry Party… I mean… Room 18 Year End Extravaganza All Grade 3s will be doing a Class So Long Party on Tuesday (June 26), in the afternoon. If snacks are to be provided, please make sure they are HEALTHY. We will be playing games, and I have a couple fun activities to do. IMPORTANT DATES June 22: Sports Day June 26: Farewell Assembly at 8:15 am June 26: Gr 3 Year End Extravaganza - afternoon June 27: Gr 3 Walk to Park 96 June 27: Report Cards home June 27: Last Day of School —> Early Dismissal at 11:45 am OUR DAY 176 days down, 4 days left. Quick recap of the past two days! The dreamcatchers are coming home today. The felting pieces are coming home today. I’m not going to lie… I am sad to see the artwork go because they truly brighten up the room. BUT I AM SO EXCITED THAT THE STUDENTS ARE BRINGING THEM HOME TO BRIGHTEN UP THEIR SPACE! We are almost finished up Harry Potter. The responses are being added to, and the colour is starting to come in. Students wrote a rough poem for Zoo School today. I will type these up, give feedback, and these should be good to go by Monday. In between, we work on math (addition, multiplication, division, perimeter, area, …). Tomorrow is Sports Day. This is a wonderful year end event for the kids, and the games and activities are based on Indigenous Games. I will be working with Mrs O in the Idea Lab making the Hoop on a Stick game. We will also be signing yearbooks/autograph sheets tomorrow. Cheerios! Ms Lauf (aka ms konno)We are doing Yearbook signing on Friday, June 22, 2018 after the Sports Day activities.
This is a chance for students to move about and get their classmates, school friends, and teachers to sign their yearbook. If you did not purchase a yearbook with the fees at the beginning of the year, there is a limited amount of yearbooks for purchase. Each yearbook is $18.00 and must be purchased with a cheque or cash (exact amount, no change will be given) in the office. First come, first served with payment. Each student that has not purchased a yearbook will be given a specially designed autograph page that can be signed by classmates. Please check with your child’s teacher as they will have a list of those who have purchased yearbooks. IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Park 96 on the last day! All Grade 3s will be joining Ms Purkiss at Park 96 on Wednesday, June 27th. An email will/has been sent home to let you know. Students will bring a snack along, and we will be returning back to the school in time to receive report cards. Ms Lauf Will Not Cry Party… I mean… Room 18 Year End Extravaganza All Grade 3s will be doing a Class So Long Party on Tuesday (June 26), in the afternoon. If snacks are to be provided, please make sure they are HEALTHY. We will be playing games, and I have a couple fun activities to do. IMPORTANT DATES June 20: Chantal Chagnon from Cree8 - Drumming (in the morning) June 20: Fun Lunch! (Boston Pizza) June 20: Grade 6 Farewell Assembly at 1:30 pm June 22: Sports Day June 26: Farewell Assembly at 8:15 am June 26: Gr 3 Year End Extravaganza - afternoon June 27: Gr 3 Walk to Park 96 June 27: Report Cards home June 27: Last Day of School —> Early Dismissal at 11:45 am OUR DAY 174 days down, 6 days left. We are truly winding down the year. All students have finished their Zoo School Thank-You Memory Stick Writing. I will print those off, get the kids to sign them tomorrow, and we will ship everything to Chevron, The Calgary Zoo, and Andrea, our amazing facilitator. This has been a valuable writing experience, where students explored interesting beginnings, sequencing of events, and adding in the detail. They have great tools in their Literary Toolbox, that I am hoping will stick with them for Grade 4. When students were not conferencing with me, they were woking on their 13-Room Reno Animal Conservation Poems, Division Camp, a Perimeter design, and their Harry Potter Reader’s Response. There is some seriously beautiful and thoughtful work happening. Students have also been uploading some of their favourite things onto Iris. We continue tomorrow… Cheerios! Ms Lauf IMPORTANT DATES
June 20: Chantal Chagnon from Cree8 0 Drumming (in the morning) June 20: Fun Lunch! (Boston Pizza) June 20: Grade 6 Farewell Assembly at 1:30 pm June 22: Sports Day June 26: Farewell Assembly at 8:15 am June 27: Last Day of School —> Early Dismissal at 11:45 am OUR DAY 172 days down, 8 days left. We worked on a Father's Day project today, learning the merits of glue, the weight of rocks, magnet strength, testing felt markers on wood, a way to fastening wood, and using a variety of media to create an art piece. The room was quiet, as they all worked hard planning and making. That is all. Cheerios! Ms Lauf IMPORTANT INFORMATION
LITTLE ROCKS FOR TOMORROW!! CTV was in our class on Monday! Here is the link to CTV. Watch at the 44:20 mark. https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1413456&binId=1.2079720&playlistPageNum=1 IMPORTANT DATES June 20: Chantal Chagnon from Cree8 0 Drumming (in the morning) June 20: Fun Lunch! (Boston Pizza) June 20: Grade 6 Farewell Assembly at 1:30 pm June 22: Sports Day June 26: Farewell Assembly at 8:15 am June 27: Last Day of School —> Early Dismissal at 11:45 am OUR DAY 171 days down, 9 days left. SINGLE DIGIT DAYS?! Today, Chantal Chagnon was in to teach us the next step for the dreamcatchers. This is tricky weaving process. I’m not going to lie, there were some tears. BUT I got my cheerleading pompoms out, and we worked through it. By the end of it, many were helping others out. Next week, Chantal is coming in one more time for drumming with the class, and she will also show us how to add the feathers. Most students finished their last rough copy of their Memory Story Stick Writing. A few students also began their rough copy of their 13-Room Reno poem on their observation animal and conservation. We began chapter 8 in Harry Potter and students added more info to their reader’s response. Yesterday’s focus was inferring. Cheerios! Ms Lauf IMPORTANT INFORMATION CTV was in our class on Monday! Click on the Zoo School Thank-You stick or the link. Watch at the 44:20 mark. IMPORTANT DATES June 13 & 14th: Chantal Chagnon from Cree8 - Dreamcatchers June 20: Chantal Chagnon from Cree8 0 Drumming (in the morning) June 20: Fun Lunch! (Boston Pizza) June 20: Grade 6 Farewell Assembly at 1:30 pm June 22: Sports Day June 26: Farewell Assembly at 8:15 am June 27: Last Day of School —> Early Dismissal at 11:45 am OUR DAY 170 days down, 10 days left. Welcome to the middle of the week! This week has been a whirlwind. It is report card season, and I just get so inspired this time of year, looking at the body of work of each student. They have all worked hard in their own way, grown so much, and, well, I am… they are… they have… I… well, I need a tissue. I actually do. The class has been really “setting the bar higher”, as a couple students said today as THEY set the criteria for the Renovated 13-Room Poetry, for how many ideas/phrases/words they need to include in their final poem. They had a thoughtful discussion about how many to put, justifying their reasons. I put in my two cents, more to plant the literary device seeds. Students have also been “constructing” a Division Camp.This is a fun activity I like to do, where they design a camp based on division. There are 20 campers sleeping 4 to a tent. How many tents are there? There are 8 rowers. 2 rowers are allowed in each boat. How many boats are there? There are 25 campers at Arts & Crafts. 5 campers are at each craft table. How many tables? There are 12 campers paying fort games. There are 4 tree forts. How many campers in each fort? 3 campers wrote 15 postcards home. How many postcards did they each write? (This one tripped many up… and I know why…) Students have learned that is a division sentence, it s written like this: 15 ÷ 3 = 5 BUT, the first number they read is 3. Many answers I saw were “55” or “45” So many paths of thinking here! Well, it’s end of year, and I’m tired, so I wouldn’t help them. I’m just kidding. I gave them 15 cubes to play with. One student got it, then another. This is when I went to the board and reiterated what we were looking at, in terms of what each number represents in the sentence, and how it relates to the multiplication chart. So many Oooooohhhhh’s. We then talked about visualizing what we are doing, and that’s how we can pay with it in our heads. They have also almost finished their memory writing for final feedback. AGAIN such beautiful writing. We also looked at how Ukraine and Alberta are similar and different using a Double Bubble map. Cheerios! Ms Lauf IMPORTANT INFORMATION
A Now For Some Exciting News! This letter has been sent home. It is yellow. This year, we had the great fortune to be part of the Campus Calgary Open Minds (CCOM) – Zoo School program, which is celebrating its 25th year. Chevron is a major sponsor of the CCOM Zoo School program, and they are marking this silver anniversary with a variety of events, which will be covered by the media. They asked the CCOM team to share a "compelling story" about the positive impact the program has had on teachers, students, site coordinators, and the Calgary Zoo itself. I had been asked to submit my CCOM experience for consideration, and I am excited to say that I have been selected. I have been working with a media relations company hired by Chevron, as well as the CBE Communications, to help me share my story. Several television and radio outlets have expressed interest in this, and so far CTV has committed to it. They would like to come into the classroom to film. Your child may be filmed during their visit. • If you are receiving this letter with NO attachment then you have already signed the third party media consent form in the fall. IF you would like to withdraw consent please email Nicole Bezugley by June 7th. • If you are receiving this letter with an attached form then you declined consent in the fall. If you would like to consent to this opportunity please return the form by June 7th. And with that, CTV is coming in to our classroom on Monday morning. They will be interviewing me about my CCOM experience, and some students who would be willing to share their experience and learning. I will be talking more with students tomorrow, and provide them with guiding questions and how to keep their answers on point. I will post these questions tomorrow on the blog, so they can practice. Any students who do NOT want to be on camera will not be on camera. CTV is respectful of this. Any parent who does NOT want their child on camera (even if you did sign the Media Consent Form at the beginning of the year), please contact Mrs Bezugley in writing. If you have any questions, please contact me. I will get back to you as soon as possible. IMPORTANT DATES June 7: School Council Meeting at 6:30 pm June 11: CTV in our class for Campus Calgary Open Minds interview! June 20: Fun Lunch! (Boston Pizza) June 20: Grade 6 Farewell Assembly at 1:30 pm June 22: Sports Day June 26: Farewell Assembly at 8:15 am June 27: Last Day of School —> Early Dismissal at 11:45 am OUR DAY 167 days down, 13 days left. Today, students put their thinking caps on and flew solo in math. They were given some problems to work on independently, so they could show me what they know completely on their own. I will go over them on the weekend, and work with them next week, because even with 13 days left, and even though this was an assessment, we always still learn. Sometimes it’s good to get a little sting of “What am I doing?” to to figure out what we need to do to learn. While this was going on, I was able to work with some students one-to-one. A reminder that on Monday, CTV is coming in to our classroom to see how our Zoo School experience has shaped the learning we do. Cheerios! Ms Lauf |
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