What a busy week we have had - and full of lots of fun, too!
The Grade 3s put on a spook-tacular assembly and it was nice to see so many parents come out to join us and watch our Halloween Parade! We hope we gave you a good scare! Halloween pictures are posted in the Photo Gallery - check them out!
Our Learning This Week
Inquiry/Science
We have been working on our spooky haunted house contraptions - we have been working really hard on problem solving and redesigning our contraptions to make our simple machines work just the way we want them to. Ask me what simple machines I have used and how I used them in my haunted house! (More pictures coming soon!)
Inquiry/Social
We have just finished learning about the three major natural resources of Alberta and how Alberta and Albertans are affected by these resources. This wraps up our first inquiry into Alberta: A Sense of the Land. We are getting ready and are very excited to present all our learning thus far at our Celebration of Learning on the 15th of November. Please mark your calendars!
Math
We have just finished the patterns unit and have recently begun our investigations into numbers. We will be developing number sense for the next little while.
- School/Home Connection - Ask your child to do math in real life situations - at the grocery store, counting things, etc. Ask your child to explain their thinking!
Language Arts
We started our inquiry into nonfiction text and have gained a good understanding of how to navigate and understand nonfiction resources better. So far, we have learned to set a purpose for our reading, make meaning of what we read by making connections and predictions, and we have learned to take visual jot notes of things we read, videos we watch, or in class. We are now working on creating summaries from our jot notes.
We have also learned how to write an essay - we wrote one about the region we were studying in Alberta. We also wrote another essay about the forestry industry of Alberta. We are now finishing up another research project we did on our choice of a Halloween-related animal and are now finishing up an essay about that! We are so excited to share our work with you - stay tuned!
We have also been very busy reading/practicing our lines for our short play for our Remembrance Day Assembly. The assembly is at 10:30 on Friday. We really hope you can make it!
Happy Halloween!
