Happy weekend parents!

We had a great day yesterday in third grade! We began our day with math where we moved on to counting money. The class was fantastic at adding coins and bills to count money. We worked on showing money in more than one way by using different combinations of coins and bills. They really enjoyed learning about money!

In language we finally began exploring our country or International-mindedness day next Friday! We first read a book about Egypt and some of the students shared items that they have brought in form Egypt with the class! They class was shocked to find out that cities in Egypt looked alot like our cities! We then spoke a little bit about ancient Egypt and we wrote out our names in hieroglyphics! I am very excited to have parents guess whose name is whose next Friday!

After lunch and recess we continued working on UOI. The class had time to finish their chemical energy posters and they turned out SO well! I am so proud to put these on our classroom walls! We spent some time at the end of UOI discussing the summative assignment for forces and motion. The students will be making something to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of forces and motion. For example a windmill, a rocket car, a catapult or a boat. Students will have to explain their choice and how it uses forces and motion!

We ended the day with a classroom clean, gym, and agendas, before playing a quick game and heading off to kiss and ride!

Important Reminders: 

• Math homework page 120-121
• Reading comprehension-this week students picked their own books to read and have been asked to journal 1/2- 1 page on their favourite part of the book and why. 
• Bring in any materials for summative for Monday 
• Re-registration package deadline is fast-approaching! Get yours in before we open registration up to the public! :)

The Grade Ones will be turning their classrooms into grocery stores for our Organization unit. The students have been working really hard to stock it full of healthy snacks and drinks. On Tuesday Jan. 17th we will be opening our stores to SJA classes to purchase healthy snacks and drinks for $1-2. All proceeds will be donated to the Sick Kids Hospital. 

Happy Thursday Parents!

We began our day today with a super special and exciting crime mystery! The students read a mystery about teachers at the school and used their elapsed time knowledge in order to solve the mystery! They had so much fun and we brought the “suspects” into the classroom in order to help us figure out who committed the crime! In the end all of the students were able to figure out who stole Mr. H and were able to work effectively as a group!

For language we worked on inferencing, we began by going over what inferencing is again, and then we worked on reading and responding to reading comprehension questions using our inferencing skills.

After lunch, recess, and French, we came back to class and worked on UOI. We focussed on Chemical Energy today which occurs when a chemical reaction happens and produces energy. For example a battery is stored chemical energy, and when put in a toy car can cause it to move! The class grouped and sorted examples, and then came up with their own examples! It is amazing to have so many great thinkers in our class!

After second lunch and recess the class ended the day with music and gym before completing agendas and heading off to kiss and ride!

Important Reminders:

• Elapsed time page question 10 (students can do it on the back of the sheet) 
• Read 25 minutes
• Continue to bring in items for international mindedness day (Egypt)
• Re-registration packages

Have a wonderful evening!

Ms. Glover  

Happy First Day Back at School and Happy 2017!

We started our day by each sharing something we did over the break! We then were introduced to our new friends in our class! We are all very excited to have new friends! In math we focused on elapsed time (the time between two events) and learned an awesome new strategy to use when calculating elapsed time using mountains, hills, and rocks!

In language we worked on our reflection skills by thinking about 2016 and writing out our favourite memories, and something that we are proud of from last year! We then looked forward and created new (realistic) goals for the new year! We were thinkers and reflective about the new yer ahead!

After lunch, recess, and French, we had UOI where we began by reviewing key concepts and moving on to learn about mechanical energy! The students were amazing at being inquirers and using books to learn about energy and came up with many examples for mechanic

al energy!

We ended the day with some additional time to work on UOI and then we had some people in the class share some special things with us! Jasmeet went away for the holiday and brought back some amazing things such as sea shells and banana leaves to share with the class! Krina was an inquirer! She performed experiements over the holidays related to forces and motion and brought two in to share with us! Way to go Krina and thank you for teaching us!

Thank you so much for having students complete homework over the break-I can see how hard students were working!

Important Reminders:
Math Homework page 116 (elapsed time)
Read 25 minutes
Bring in Materials Related to Egypt (if you have any)
Re-registration packages
read over summative assignment for forces and motion (this will be explained in more depth to students in tomorrows class)

Have a wonderful evening!
Ms. Glover

Happy Last School Day of 2016!!

I am so proud of all of the students hard work at the Christmas Concert last night! 

We had a great last day filled with (some cleaning!), watching movies, spending time together, and a house game! 

The students opened their Christmas gifts from me! I chose a special book for each and every one of them! 

SJA collected 10 boxes filled to the brim with canned goods! 

All of these toys were dropped off today to find their way onto Santa's sleigh!

Miss Karina won our communicator award and I am so proud of her! 

I have been so incredibly blessed this year with such wonderful class filled with such kind, warmhearted, and special students. Each one of them holds a special place in my heart. 

I hope you all have a relaxing holiday spent with family, friends, and loved ones! Be safe and have fun! 

Important Reminders:

• Reading comprehension: I have given students two small books to read over the holidays along with short reading comprehension work for each. 
• Math packages: I have given students some math worksheets on time and calendar work just so that they can practice over the holiday! 
• UOI definitions: I sent a sheet home for students to complete based on our UOI unit! We will be getting right back to Forces and Motion as soon as we return in 2017! 

All the best, 

Ms. Glover

Happy Wednesday Parents!

The students were with Miss. Bannon again today as I was running rehearsals for the Christmas Concert tomorrow! The class began thier day with math where they were applying thier knowledge and understanding of time and calendars to complete a short quiz. This quiz will help me gain an understanding of where we need to steer our focus for math in the new year!

After math the class worked on a short writing task. They wrote about if they "Lived In a Snowglobe" , I had the chance to look at a couple of the students written work and saw some beautiful descriptive words and similes throughout thier writing which makes me very proud!

After first lunch and recess all of the classes headed down to the auditorium where we had a full dress rehearsal! I am so excited for all of the parents to see our hard work that is most definitely paying off!

We ended the day with Mr. Oliver and Mr. H before heading off to kiss and ride!

Important Reminders:

• Tomorrow is the Christmas concert! There is an afternoon show beginning at 12, and an evening show at 7pm (students should be here at 6:30pm) come to school in full costume! Please if your child will not be attending either performance let know as soon as possible as I will have to make alternative arrangements! All of the parts of our play are very important! 
• Bake sale tomorrow 
• Read 25 minutes 
• Re-registration packages! 

Have a wonderful night!
Ms. Glover

6th Day!

Happy Monday Parents!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! The students had a great day in third grade today! Today the students were combined with Miss. Ross's class and had Miss. Bannon as Miss Ross and I were in the auditorium with the Christmas Concert rehearsals. The students loved being with their friends from the other class! They began with a friction science experiment where the students were required to build different ramps using different materials to test the friction by rolling toy cars down the ramps! They used felt, tin foil, and bubble wrap! It turns out that bubble wrap has the most friction!

Afterward the students worked on math, where they used their knowledge of elapsed time on a calendar to answer different questions!

The class spent the afternoon making beautiful tree ornaments for Christmas! They were all very creative and detailed in making their ornaments!

I really missed all of my students SO much!

Important Reminders: 

• Dress Rehearsal tomorrow WEAR PJ's (except Scott and Shane)! Don't worry about Who-Hair until Wednesday 
• Read 25 minutes
• Toy and Food Drive 
• Christmas Concert Wednesday at Noon and at 7pm (students be there at 6:30pm)
• Bake sale tomorrow!! 
•  

Have a wonderful evening!
Ms. Glover