IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Volunteer Callout! We still need a couple volunteers for our field trip to the Weaselhead Preservation for next week Wednesday. Please email me or Jodi if you can make it! Dead Battery Drop Off! The Prince of Wales We Club is asking for dead battery donations. Did you know that zinc deficiency in our diet can have a huge impact on brain and body growth? One battery has enough zinc to be processed into vitamin pills for 6 children! Send any non-leaking batteries down. They are collecting them until end of May. IMPORTANT DATES May 2: Fun Lunch (Booster Juice) May 2: Elder Shirley Hill May 7: Music Monday May 9: Weaselhead Preservation Field Trip May 9: Grade 3 presents to School Council!! (Come see what we are doing!) May 14: Elder Shirley Hill May 16: Elder Shirley Hill May 16: Fun Lunch (Wok Box) May 18: PD Day (no school for students) May 25: Volunteer Tea OUR DAY 140 days down, 40 days left. Our Thank-You Story Sticks are almost done, and they are such beautiful artifacts. We started our day with writing the barking copy (ask your child) of the reflection piece to go along with the Story Sticks. Students were given guiding questions to help plan their piece, such as: What is the story your want to share? When did it happen? (time, time of day, what program/event, …) Who was with you? (only add if the person helps move the story along) Where did it happen? What was involved? What did you learn about your animal or conservation from your experience? A tricky thing when giving guiding questions is that students will answer each question separate instead of weaving in the ideas in a story. Students received feedback, and there were many “AHA!” moments. The biggest “AHA” moment for me came when introducing interesting beginnings, a Grade 3 literacy outcome for writing. In the past, this concept did not immediately click for the majority of the class, and it would take lots of practice, then role-playing, to get it going. BECAUSE of Zoo School, many students understood the interesting beginnings concept right off the bat! Why, you ask? Experiential learning. Interesting beginnings could be a sound effect, a question/worry/wonder, an action, or dialogue (the main four). This is a hook to compel the reader to keep on reading. WOW! There are some fantastic ones that came out after two minutes! This is a great start to bringing this into our narrative non-fiction writing. After recess, and a story about trying to like spiders, we looked at bridges. We have a guest speaker in tomorrow (my mum), who is a retired structural draftsman, with a particular love of all things bridges. She will be sharing her story, as well as knowledge about bridges with the Grade 3s. She will also help our class come up with a project and criteria list for our bridge design project. Students watched a video, and recorded observations in their journal, as part of a Daily Double. The second part is “inferences”, and then, in true Douglas Adams 4 book Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, we added a third section for “wonders”.Students will continue to add to this page as we look at more videos, books, and pictures. After lunch and a read to self, we played a game called Circles and Stars. One student immediately recognized it as multiplication (huzzah to you!). Students roll the dice, and draw that many circles. They roll a second time, and this is how many stars they need to draw in each circle. They then need to (preferably) skip count to find their total. Once they have that, they record their total in a chart. This will become a support as we continue on with multiplication. After gym, we almost finished up the story sticks and akan-you panda head cards. Those that were finished went on the computer to play some more math games. I am truly excited for the next few weeks. I am very oh so proud of each student, and the perseverance they are building in their learning. Cheerios! Ms Lauf Comments are closed.
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