Wednesday September 13th

 Should be another great day today...I can feel it!

Period 1 and 2 we'll have our first assembly of the year (Grades 1-3) at the church.  The assembly will focus on diversity and equality.  

Period 3 and 4 we'll do some math.  We'll talk a little more about place value and how to read and write whole numbers.  The students will make creations out of Base Ten blocks and then count up the value of their creations. 

Take at look at some of our creations:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_3ZNbCKzfvS6UeNMjS6lGlakwspKz1j0?usp=drive_link

Period 5 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 6 I'm hoping to practise logging into the chromebooks and then learn about internet safety playing this fun interactive game made by Google called Interland. 

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interland

Also...please see the previous post about Terry Fox and Pizza/Sub day information is coming home today.

Tuesday September 12th

 Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 -reader's workshop.  We'll look at what sort of place we need to do our best reading (the perfect reading spot...eg, bright, quiet, sitting up etc...)

Period 2 -writer's workshop.  We'll talk about our 'dream writing space' and we'll look at some places famous authors wrote in.  Then we'll write about our own perfect writing spot.

Period 3 and 4 is math.  We'll look at Place Value.  We'll talk about reading numbers, and representing them with Base Ten Blocks.  We'll play the place value game...feel free to play at home (a deck of cards [ace to 9] or 10 sided dice will work). 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R7UYwiR6Q5aLlkUlorLgEz5O9bEpV4qT5zTmWMICnIo/edit?usp=sharing (try and make the biggest or smallest number you can)

Period 5 I was hoping to practise fire drill routines...but depending on the weather, we may just stay inside and enjoy some quiet mindfullness time.  

Period 6 is music with Mrs. Haynes.

Terry Fox information

 

#TerryFoxSchoolRun #DearTerry

Dear Terry, Thank you for dreaming big and making a difference for families affected by cancer. 

This year, our school is proudly taking part in the annual Terry Fox School Run, on Friday, September 22nd, to continue Terry's dream of a world without cancer. 

Please click on the link and support our school's fundraising efforts today! 

Terry Fox Run - Glenview

Monday September 11th

 I usually get to school pretty early...so you'll see a lot of these 'predictive' blogs.

Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 -redlight we'll finish up our name-tags and self-portraits.  Then we'll do our Weekend Round Up, where we sit in a circle and share highlights from our weekend.  Then it's reader's workshop.  We'll continue to focus on building stamina.

Period 2 is writer's workshop.  We'll talk about building our writing stamina, and how to use our 'writer's notebooks' (e.g., circling tricky words, being quiet, writing the date).  

Period 3 and 4 I'm hoping to get the class familiar with logging onto the chromebooks -remembering their log in information.  I'm also hoping everyone can join our google classroom and then after that we'll play some Grade 3 games off the ABCya website: https://www.abcya.com/grades/3/numbers.  I'd like to get the class outside for a bit of time as well.

Period 5 we have our first French class with Ms. O'Neil.  

Period 6 I'm leaving open for 'finish up'/free time.  

Friday September 8th

 Happy Friday.  

I will just say it again, this class rocks!  I loved this first week and I am excited for the rest of Grade 3...fingers crossed it goes as smoothly as week 1!

I'm going to try and blog before the day begins....here is the plan for today.

Period 1 -red light activity, finish our warm/cool colour name art.  Then we'll have a class discussion about fair vs. equal.  Then we'll read and try and continue to build our Stamina.  

Period 2 is writer's workshop, we'll get our writer's notebooks and decorate them and hopefully even start writing in them.

Period 3 we'll start with a 'name game'...see if we can remember everyone's name.  Then we'll do an estimation mystery (ESTI mystery).   We'll practice using hundreds charts to figure out the answer.

Period 4 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 5 and 6 we'll do some self portraits...half our faces will be our own drawings...the other half will be filled with pictures of things that symbolize us.  I'm also hoping to get outside with the other Grade 3 classes as some point during this block.

Have a great weekend!

Thursday September 7th

 Alright...day 2 halfway done...and so far it's been even better than day 1!  I love this class.

Here is what we did (and what we're doing) today.

Period 1 we practiced our morning routine of doing the quiet 'red light' activity posted on the Smartboard.  Then we talked about our class rules:

1. Be respectful
2. Be kind
3. Take responsibility
4. Try your best
5 Have fun!

Then we read chapter 1 of Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Mrs. Gorf).  Then we tried to build up our 'reading stamina'.    I encouraged the class to bring books from home if they're reading good ones they want to continue in class.

Period 2 we did some singing and dancing to the 'walking song'.  Then the kids did a 10 word spelling quiz, just so I could see how they sound out certain words.

Period 3 (right now) they're outside in the shade with Mr. D for gym.

Period 4 we'll play the game we played as a class yesterday called Sum it Up. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1krMht5rRAHa61ruRE7XFbnzNLyK4qofEU8Q9tK20g3o/edit

We might even try to sing and record Willoughby Wallaby Woo...

Period 5 and 6 we'll talk about how we can make our classroom an even better community, we'll do a little name art that involves warm and cool colours...and if we're lucky we might even get some free time. 

UPDATE:  our version of Willoughby Wallaby Woo:   https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Z3zVnpN6ivgqOAKV2tahocXb1Q22f_P/view?usp=drive_link 

(eat your heart out Raffi)

Wednesday September 6th

 Wow....what a great first day.  I got a good feeling about this class...they already seem amazing.  Nice work parents!

Here is what we did today.

Period 1 and 2 we had a some popcorn and shared some interesting facts about ourselves.  We read the book First Day Jitters and talked about whether we were excited or scared (or somewhere in between). We also discussed class/school and lunch rules.  

Periods 3 and 4 we made some pretty awesome play d'oh creations and shared the with our friends.  Then we 'tried' to sing Willoughby Wallaby Woo...with all of our names incorporated.  I was considering posting it to this blog...but I just listened and I could only hear my terrible singing and playing...so I'll save you the pain. Stay tuned....I hope to get the Grade 3's to sing louder and prouder.  

We also played a fun class vs. teacher game of 'Sum it Up'...I won (of course).  

We came up with a list of class rules.  

Period 5 they have Mrs. Haynes for music. 

Period 6 we'll discuss the day, sign our names to the class rules....go over the day and enjoy a little free time.  

Sending home some paper work today, including my first day letter and tentative schedule.  

Thanks for raising such great kids.