“That doesn't make sense to me; but, then again, you are very small.” - Treebeard, The Lord of the Rings IMPORTANT INFORMATION Milk Program Milk Forms are due. First delivery is October 10th. School Fee Form School Form Fee Agreement Forms are due. School Pictures School pictures have been sent home today. The orders are due October 4th. You can order online, or you can send form to school, and I will hand them in. Our Schedule Music is on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Library is on Wednesdays. 2 books can be taken out (2 at any given time), and they are due 2 weeks after checkout. We do not give due date slips, as to save our beautiful trees. Peruvian Artifacts We are currently studying the country of Peru. If you have any artifacts related to this unit of study that you would be willing to lend to our classroom it would be greatly appreciated. Artifacts could include pictures, dishes, art, paintings, sculptures, toys, books, clothing, tools, jewelry, etc… Students will sketch these artifacts, try to determine what they were used for, as well as how they are similar/different from artifacts here in Canada. Please send items to school with your child with a brief written explanation. It would be helpful if you did not explain details of the artifact to your child, as they will be taking part in the sketching, observation, and inquiry process of the artifact with their classmates. We promise to take extra special care of your personal items! IMPORTANT DATES October 27: Fun Lunch September 29: Orange Shirt Day - Grade 3s are leading a 20 minute assembly in the morning. October 6: Terry Fox Run OUR DAY 14 days under our belt, 166 days to go! Another full day! We started off the day doing a Sharing Circle. This is an opportunity to share who we are based on a guiding question. Today, we shared something we made or did with our mom or dad. She answers included “build a birdhouse” and “bake cookies”. I like doing these throughout the year as this helps build relationships with each other. We also did some housekeeping (i.e., talk about the Agenda; introduce Quiet Critters - ask your child; and talk about the past couple weeks). While we were doing this, we aw a package was waiting in the Hand In/Hand Out Box. What?! Another package? The keen guesses from the students were correct! We have a REAL class pet. It turns out the previous one was NOT a class pet, but a tricky friend of our Real Class Pet, a lovely green puppy. Boo is a bit of a rapscallion - he has already tipped over some markers and written his name on a piece of paper. Oh Boo. We also went over some more of our math assessment, this time looking at the information provided in the following chart. We looked at the rows and columns, and analyzed the data Anandi had collected. When I asked the students what they thought the Anandi’s question might be, we had “How many animals are there?” or “Do you like animals?”. When I asked the question back to the students, knowing that the answers given (based on the chart) were either “cow”, “horse”, “chicken”, or “pig”, those answers didn’t fit in with the question. We eventually go to a specific question of, “Out of chicken, cow, horse, or pig, which is your favourite animal?”. Tomorrow, we will look at the second part of this problem.
We looked at our planning sheets for “The Best Part of Me”, where four students shared their organizer with the class. We then went over the criteria, and constructive feedback was provided, with reminders that each student should be thinking of their organizer, and how might they improve it based on the feedback. I will now go over each student’s planning sheet, and provide specific feedback. From here, we will begin writing our rough copy. In the afternoon, students gave me a name suggestion for our Class Pet. After, we joined the rest of the Grade 3s to Ms England’s room to watch a (kid-friendly) video of Phyllis Webstad’s story of her orange shirt and her experience at residential school. After, we talked about how we can move forward. We did a writing activity on paper orange shirts, which will be part of our Assembly on Friday. A full day indeed. Cheerios! Ms Lauf Comments are closed.
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