Thursday November 26th

 Best day ever!

Period 1 was reader's workshop.  Our mini lesson focused on vowels that go together (when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking).

Period 2 was writer's workshop.  We talked about 'getting sparked by setting'.  How we can use setting to help us craft stories.

Period 3 and 4 were PJ's and The One And Only Ivan.  

Period 5 Mr. Woolley has them for French.

Period 6 we'll finish our movie and hopefully get a game of Seat-ball in!

Remember, no school tomorrow OR Monday.  Enjoy your long weekends.

The One And Only Ivan...and PJ's!

 Hey Parents...Just wanted to remind you with the winter weather, please make sure you kids have indoor shoes and boots at school...our classroom floor is looking a little rough!

So the stars have aligned and we just finished our class novel, The One and Only Ivan...AND, tomorrow is PJ day!  Movie and our PJ's!  So fun.

Just a reminder, due to Covid restrictions no stuffed animals, no 'class snacks' (but I'm okay if you pack your child some popcorn).

  

Wednesday November 25th

 Hey Everyone,

Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 is Reader's workshop.  The mini lesson will focus on skipping words we don't know and returning to them ...using context to make the best guess.

Period 2 is Writer's workshop.  Our mini lesson will focus on starting a story with a character.  Mapping out our characters, then writing a story.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll play a game called 'I Have, Who Has?' that will help us master analogue clocks.  Then I have a couple of worksheets that the kids should be able to do quite easily.

https://www.math-aids.com/cgi/pdf_viewer_10.cgi?script_name=time_pick_hands.pl&numbered=1&c_num=9&inc_hr1=9&inc_min1=05&inc_hr2=10&inc_min2=10&inc_hr3=11&inc_min3=15&inc_hr4=12&inc_min4=30&inc_hr5=1&inc_min5=35&inc_hr6=2&inc_min6=40&inc_hr7=3&inc_min7=45&inc_hr8=4&inc_min8=50&inc_hr9=5&inc_min9=55&language=0&memo=&answer=1&x=115&y=36

https://www.math-aids.com/cgi/pdf_viewer_10.cgi?script_name=time_pick_no_hands.pl&numbered=1&c_num=9&inc_hr1=9&inc_min1=05&inc_hr2=10&inc_min2=10&inc_hr3=11&inc_min3=15&inc_hr4=12&inc_min4=30&inc_hr5=1&inc_min5=35&inc_hr6=2&inc_min6=40&inc_hr7=3&inc_min7=45&inc_hr8=4&inc_min8=50&inc_hr9=5&inc_min9=55&format=0&awords=1&bwords=0&language=0&memo=&answer=1&x=149&y=11

Period 5 we'll look a little closer at soils and fill out some 'fill in the blanks' activities in our Science duo-tangs.

Period 6 Mr. Woolley has them for French.

Tuesday November 24th

 Phew...busy day is over...conferences about to begin!

Welcome to Layla, our newest student.

Period 1 was reader's workshop.  Our mini lesson focused on breaking words apart to read them.

Period 2 was writer's workshop.  We looked at ways to generate ideas.  

Period 3 and 4 was math.  We used the chromebooks to answer some time related questions on Prodigy and played some of the time games posted on Google Classroom.

Period 5 was Mr. Butt for technology.

Period 6 The kids continue to finish up 'unfinished' work on the chromebooks or explore sim city/prodigy or Scratch.

Monday November 23rd

 Happy snowy Monday.

Just a reminder...make sure you bring boots and indoor shoes (you can leave the indoor shoes here).

Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 is read aloud and weekend round up.

Period 2 is reader's/writer's workshop (student choice).

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We're going to play a game of 'I Have, Who Has' to practise reading analogue clocks, then I have some work for them to finish up.

https://www.k5learning.com/worksheets/math/grade-3-telling-time-5-minutes-draw-clock-a.pdf

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/time/time-8_TZTRM.pdf?up=1489733765

Period 5 we'll do a little Science, investigating our word wall.  

Period 6 Mrs. Haynes has the class for music.

Keith Haring Art

 This link should send you to some photo's I took of the kid's Haring inspired art we did outside.  They look great!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yGjAaGbLDloc7Sa0Hhst8AJFd_cs2Lxe?usp=sharing

Friday November 19th

 Happy Friday...

Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 is read aloud then reader's/writer's workshop...student choice.

Period 2 Mr. Butt has them for technology.

Period 3 and 4 is art.  We're going to look at the artist Keith Haring.  If I can find enough sidewalk chalk, we might do our art out on the blacktop.

Period 5 and 6 we have the chromebooks.  We're going to finish up our learning skills self assessments, and our persuasive paragraphs.  Any extra time we'll dive into some time questions on Math Prodigy.

Have a great weekend!

Thursday November 19th

 Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 is read aloud and reader's workshop...mini lesson focusing on 'taking words apart' to solve them.

Period 2 is writer's workshop.  We'll continue on with some persuasive writing.  

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We're going to refresh (learn) how to read time on an analogue clock.  Then I have a scavenger hunt set up in the classroom where they'll have to find hidden clocks and read the time.  If there is time we'll do a couple of worksheets:

https://www.k5learning.com/worksheets/math/grade-3-telling-time-5-minutes-draw-clock-a.pdf

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/time/time-8_TZTRM.pdf?up=1489733765

Period 5 Mr. Woolley has them for French.

Period 6 is a little mindfulness and hopefully we'll continue plugging through our 'soils' booklets.

Wednesday November 18th

 Here is the plan for today.

Period 1: Read aloud, reader's workshop.  Continue to look at those tricky vowels.

Period 2: Writer's workshop.  I'm hoping I booked the chromebooks properely, and we continue to work on our persuasive paragraphs on Google Classroom.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We're going to do a whole class quiz online to see how much we know about bar graphs and picto graphs.  If there is time, I'll introduce our next unit (telling time).

Period 5 is Science, we'll 'dig a little deeper' into our unit on Soils.  We'll go over the 3 main kinds of soil (Loam, Sand and Clay).  We'll investigate some of the vocabulary of soil with posters I have hanging on the wall.

Period 6 is French with Mr. Woolley.

Tuesday November 17th

 Here is the plan for today!

Period 1 is Reader's Workshop.  Our mini lesson will focus on some of the tricky sounds vowels make.

Period 2 is Writer's workshop.  We're going to continue to look at persuasive writing.  We're going to fill out a graphic organizer to help us write persuasive paragraphs, about whether or not video games are good or bad.

Period 3 and 4 we have the chromebooks.  The students will log into google classroom to write their own persuasive paragraphs about whether or not zoo's are a good idea.  They'll have to fill out their own organizer then use that to write their own paragraphs.

Period 5 Mr. Butt has them for technology.  

Period 6 we'll keep the chromebooks to finish our paragraphs, and if we have time we'll hopefully have time to make some bar graphs on:https://www.mathsisfun.com/data/data-graph.php

Monday November 16th

 Here is the plan for today...

Period 1 we'll continue to work on our maps from last Friday for 'red light'.  Then I'll read some of the One and Only Ivan.  Then we'll share our weekend during 'weekend round up'.

Period 2 is reader's/writer's workshop, student choice.

Period 3 and 4 we're going to discuss pictographs and bar graphs.  Hopefully create our own.  There are a couple of worksheets I've photocopied too.

Period 5 I have a 'soils' booklet.  I'm hoping the kids can put them together today and decorate.

Period 6 Mrs. Haynes for music.

Friday November 13th

 Here is the plan for today!

Period 1 -Read aloud, then reader's/writer's workshop- student choice.

Period 2 -Mr. Butt for technology.

Period 3 and 4 is 'Art'/Social Studies.  Most of the class has been loving Sim City/Making their own maps.  So for art, we're going to design our own maps, complete with Residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial, conservation and recreation zones.  We'll even include Legend/Key's to help explain our maps.  It should be fun.

Period 5 and 6 we have the chromebooks.  I've got a number of questions (21) set up on prodigy.

Have a safe weekend.

Thursday November 12th

 Here is the plan for today.

Period 1:  We're going to design our own cities for red light on grid paper.  Then we'll do reader's workshop.  We'll look again at solving unfamiliar words, by 'running into the first part' of the word.

Period 2:  We'll do the persuasive writing lesson from yesterday that we didn't get to, due to the Remembrance day assembly.  We'll look at different audiences and different forms.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll do an activity on the Smartboard about interpreting, and creating bar graphs.  Then we'll try to do on our own with the work from yesterday.

Period 5 Mr. Woolley has them for French.

Period 6 we'll start our first unit of Science.  We'll share what we know (or think we know) about soil.  

Wednesday November 11th

 Here is the plan today.

Period 1 is reader's workshop.  We're going to read 'Jess Was the Brave One' and talk about what a 'hero' is.  Then our mini lesson will focus on 'running into the first part of a word'.

Period 2 is writer's workshop.  Hopefully we'll look at persuasive writing, different forms and audiences.  

Period 3 and 4 is Math.  We'll start by doing a little 'dice rolling' expanding and decompose activity I got from Mrs. Benison.  We'll do a sorting activity.  Then I'm going to have the class, read and create bar graphs.

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/graphing/bar-graph-simple-5_TWNDQ.pdf?up=1466611200

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/graphing/bar-graph-simple-4_TWNDD.pdf?up=1466611200

(password protected, but just to give you an idea)

Period 5 we'll finally finish our land form use sheets (now that we're masters of industry, residential and commercial, after playing Sim City yesterday.

Period 6 Mr. Woolley has them for French.

Tuesday November 10th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 Read aloud (the One and Only Ivan).  Then reader's workshop.  The mini lesson focuses on 'Run into the first part' when trying to solve unfamiliar words.

Period 2 is Writer's workshop.  The kids have asked to go outside to do shared writing (while the weather's nice, it's hard to refuse).

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We're going to talk about the parts of a bar graph (title, scale, x and y axis) then answer some questions on Prodigy.

Period 5 Mr. Butt has them for technology

Period 6 we'll keep the chromebooks and investigate SimCity (building our own cities) on Google Classroom.

Monday November 9th

 Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 we'll get adjusted to our new seating arrangement.  Then we'll read aloud.  After that we'll share the highlights of our weekend during 'Weekend Round Up'. 

Period 2 will be student choice for reader's /writer's workshop.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We're going to go over different ways of sorting data (Venn Diagram, Carroll Diagrams) and do some work from last week.  I don't think this will take too long, so hopefully we can get outside to enjoy the nice weather too!

Period 5 is social studies.  We'll review ways we use the land (e.g., agriculture, conservation, industry, residential, commercial and recreation).  I have a cut and paste activity to go along with that.

Period 6 is music with Mrs. Haynes.

Friday November 6th

 Happy Friday!

Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 -we'll read aloud another 'choose your own adventure book' today.  Then it will be student choice for reader's/writer's workshop.

Period 2 is Mr. Butt for technology.

Period 3 and 4 we are going to do some 'mosaic' poppy art.

Period 5 and 6 is computers.  I will be putting up a 'learning skills' self assessment activity on google classroom.  We'll fill it out together, as a class.

Have a great weekend...enjoy the nice weather if you're able!

Thursday November 5th

 Here is the plan for today...    

Period 1 is reader's workshop.  Our mini lesson will focus again on solving words, this time looking at the beginning and the end of words to make good guesses.

Period 2 we're going to go outside for writer's workshop.  The kids have been begging to write with friends and share their writing, so we'll go outside during this nice weather, and do some shared writing.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We're going to continue to practise our calculator skills with some challenges.  Then we'll look at sorting data using various attributes (e.g., sorting by size, shape, colour etc...).

Period 5 Mr. Woolley has the kids.

Period 6 we'll talk a little about mindfulness, and staying calm.  Then we'll finally finish the BFG.

Wednesday November 4th

 Here is the plan for today!

Period 1 is reader's workshop.  Our mini lesson is (the one from yesterday we didn't get to) about groups of letters that make sounds together (digraphs and blends).

Period 2 is writer's workshop.  We'll go over another strategy to generate ideas, writing from the heart (things that are close to us, people, places and things).

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We're going to do a number talk, focusing on how we solve different questions, and how to do so, efficiently.  Then I'm going to a quick check in 'Show What You Know' about patterning.

If there is time, we'll finish the BFG movie from yesterday.

Period 5 is social studies.  Hopefully we can get outside, and do some partner talk, about the different ways we use land (e.g. residential, agricultural, commercial and recreation).

Period 6 Mr. Woolley has them!

Tuesday November 3rd

 Happy Tuesday!

Here is the plan for today!

Period 1 -Reader's Workshop - our mini lesson is going to focus on groups of letters that make certain sounds (blends and digraphs) https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Blends-and-Digraphs-Chart.pdf

Period 2 is Writer's Workshop -our mini lesson today is going to be observing closely (using our senses to describe things).

Period 3 and 4 we have the computers.  I've posted some 'patterning games' on google classroom and assigned some 'patterning questions' on math prodigy.  We're going to work our way through these.

If there is time, I'd like everyone to finish their Social Studies, city research and possibly log into Raz Kids.

Period 5 Mr. Butt comes in for technology.

Period 6 we're going to start the BFG movie that goes along with our last read aloud.

November 2nd

 Happy November!

Historically, the week after Halloween is usually pretty tough...let's hope this year we're all in okay shape (I know the Cross children are tired and full of sugar). 

Period 1 we'll do a read aloud, we're almost finished the BFG.  Then we'll share the highlights of our weekends.

Period 2 is reader's/writer's workshop.  The students can choose to read or write (or both).

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We're going to look at growing, shrinking and repeating patterns and try to design some fun 'name art' using patterns.

Period 5 Is normally social studies, but depending on how the day goes, we might change this to Scooby Doo time!

Period 6 Mrs. Haynes has them for music