Tuesday, 30 May 2023

Tuesday May 30th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 -Red light, Read aloud, Hyperbole work, and reader's workshop.

Period 2 writer's workshop.  Hopefully finish Hockey Songs.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll finish reading the book 'Buffalo Bird Girl' from yesterday and then do some more mixed operations work. 

Period 5 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 6 I'll leave open for 'finish up'....I think at some point we'll be outside with the other Grade 3's to finish up Ball Throw tryouts.

Monday, 29 May 2023

Monday May 29th

 Here is the plan for today:


Period 1 we'll read aloud The Rats of Nimh.  Then share highlights of our weekends during 'weekend round up'.  

Period 2 we'll look a little more at hyperboles, do some work on them, then use the rest of the time for reader's/writer's workshop

Period 3 I'm hoping to do a little social studies.  Talk about how life would've been different in the 1890's, then listen to a first nations story called 'Buffalo Bird Girl' and talk about life in the 1890's for some first nation groups. 

Period 4 we'll do a little more EQAO practise on knowledgehook and math prodigy.

Period 5 is music with Mrs. Haynes

Period 6 I think we will join Mr. Butt's class and watch the final episode of Read All About It.


REMINDER - this Wednesday is Swim to Survive.

Friday, 26 May 2023

Friday May 26th

 Here is the plan for today:


Period 1 is music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 2 is reader's/writer's workshop.  We'll hopefully finish working on our Hockey Song overtime verses.  Maybe even sing and record a few?

Period 3 is math.  We'll finish up our mixed operations work from yesterday. 200 questions!

Period 4 we'll do a little science.  We'll look at why soil is important.

Period 5 and 6 I'm hoping to do a little EQAO practise, some social studies, and if we have time...possibly some Long Jump practise.

Thursday, 25 May 2023

Thursday May 25th

 Sorry I forgot to blog yesterday...crazy busy with Swim to Survive.

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 all the Grade 3's are going to go outside and practise 'Ball Throw'.  

Period 2 we'll come in.  Read aloud and practise some more EQAO sample tests:

https://d3d9vqrpii4nuo.cloudfront.net/#/en/student/primary-assessment

Period 3 is math...we're going to do some 'mixed operations' math...just reviewing multiplication/division/addition and subtraction.  After they're done their work, I've set up some questions on Math prodigy.

Period 4 is Health with Mr. D.

Period 5 and 6 we're going to some social studies and hopefully watch episode 19 of Read All About It.

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Tuesday May 23rd (Monday Schedule)

 What a glorious long weekend...back to the grind.

Period 1 we'll do a read aloud, the Set Game and Weekend Round Up.

Period 2 is reader's/writer's workshop.  I'm hoping we can have some people present their choose your own adventure stories.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll finally design our own spinners and try and figure out the theoretical vs. experimental probability.  

Period 5 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 6 I'm going to leave open for some free time/finish up.  

*Reminder - tomorrow we head to Aldershot pool for our first 'swim to survive' session.  Make sure you bring your bathing suits.

Friday, 19 May 2023

Friday May 19th

 I wasn't here yesterday because I was getting my braces put on...gulp!


Period 1 -music.

Period 2 -reader's/writer's workshop - We'll hopefully continue work on our 'Hockey Song' re-writes.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  First we'll play a game of SKUNK.  Then, we'll be designing our own spinners.  Then testing the theoretical vs. experimental probability.  If there is time, we'll try to get outside for a bit.

Period 5 we'll watch episode 18 of Read All About It, the Planet of Maze (my personal favourite).

Period 6 I'm hoping to get outside to collect some soil samples and come back in to examine them. 

Wednesday, 17 May 2023

Wednesday May 17th

 Here is what the plan is for today:

Period 1 - Reader's workshop.  We talked a bit more about figurative vs. literal language.  We had some fun with idioms, metaphors and similes.  

Period 2 was writer's workshop.  We started working on our own 'overtime' verse to the Hockey Song.

Period 3 is French with Madam O'Neil.

Period 4 we'll talk a bit about our next probability experiment (create your own spinner).  Then we'll go outside for a little extra time.

Period 5 we have buddies with Mrs. Evers class and work on their animal slideshows.

Period 6 we have book exchange.  We'll do some coding ...and maybe even a little free time.

Tuesday, 16 May 2023

Tuesday May 16th

 Good luck to the relay runners today. 


Here is the plan for the rest of us.

Period 1 -Read aloud and Reader's workshop.  We'll look at understanding figurative language.

Period 2 is writer's workshop.  We'll hopefully get around to re-writing that 3rd verse of the hockey song.

Period 3/4 is math. We'll do another probability experiment with spinners today.  After that we'll do some rounding work and hopefully jump onto Math prodigy.  Hopefully after our work we'll get outside for a bit.

Period 5 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 6 we'll do a bit of work with soils (Science).

Monday May 15th

 I hope everyone had a great weekend. 


Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 -Red light, read aloud, weekend round up.

Period 2 -Reader's/Writer's workshop.  I'd really like to finish our CYOA slideshows.

Period 3 is math.  We'll do a probability experiment involving flipping 2 coins.  

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/probability/probability2_TZQRQ.pdf

Period 4 if it's nice, we'll get outside for a bit.

Period 5 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.  

Period 6 we'll try to watch chapter 18 of Read All About It...my favourite episode - Planet of Maze.

Friday, 12 May 2023

Friday May 12th

 Happy Friday!

Period 1 -Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 2 -Read aloud, reader's/writer's workshop - student choice.   We'll try to rewrite that 3rd verse of the hockey song (in anticipation of tonights big game).

Period 3 and 4 Mrs. Alvarez is coming in before her big trip to Ireland.  We'll work on writing some Limericks outside with clipboards.   Maybe even get a bit of outside time in the sun.

Period 5 we'll talk about life in 1890's in Canada.  I have a few discussion questions comparing today to 1890. 

Period 6 I'm hoping to continue on coding with sprites on code.org.

Thursday, 11 May 2023

Thursday May 11th

 Here is the plan today:

Period 1 -Reader's workshop/read aloud/finish our mother's day gifts.

Period 2 we'll rewrite the 'hockey song, 3rd verse.

Period 3 is math.  We'll look at theoretical vs. experimental probability and do some experiments online: 

https://www.nctm.org/adjustablespinner/

https://academo.org/demos/dice-roll-statistics/

Period 4 is Health with Mr. D.

Period 5 and 6 we're going to do some probability inspired art.  Depending on which number we role on the die, determines what we colour. - like the picture below.

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