March 7th - 11th

 Hello Room 5! 

 Another busy week has come and gone and only one more week before Spring Break is here! As we are heading for the break, please make sure you bring in your library books for Thursday as they need to be returned before the break. 

Thank you to the parents I was able to connect with during Parent Teacher Conferences this past week. It is nice to chat about your child's progress and realize that we only have 3 more months of grade three before the end of the school year. 

In Mathematics, we have been looking at word problems working with multiplication and division. Students also created their own word problems and remembered to put question marks at the end of their questions!

In Social Studies, we have been exploring Rights and Responsibilities for children around the world and realizing how lucky we are in the country of Canada to have so many rights entrenched in our daily lives for children. Students made posters to recognize how important these rights are and why children's rights need to be protected.

In Science, we are looking at hearing and sound and ways that we can protect our ears from any type of hearing loss. Students put their knowledge to the test and shared with others how we can do this.

In Writing, we are looking at how we can show emotions in our writing rather than simply telling our reader that "She is happy." Students can write about body language, how a person is feeling or what they might be saying to show the emotion. We are starting to transition from event writing stories into climbing stories where the students introduce characters, a problem, attempts to solve the problem and an extended ending. 

Have a wonderful Sunday and see everyone in formal uniforms on Monday! 

February 28th - March 4th

 Hello and happy Sunday room 5 students!

 I hope you are having a wonderful weekend and a gentle reminder to make sure to wear your formal uniforms on Monday.

In Mathematics, we continue to look at the relationship between multiplication and division as related facts that can help us to solve questions if we are stuck. We have displayed our understanding using arrays, equal groups, number lines and either repeated addition or subtraction. Students also started to talk about perimeter of a shape as the distance around the outside of the shape.

In Writing, students wrote a couple of different event stories. One was based on an event that happened in the their lives, using transition words. The other was imagining that we were going to celebrate our 100th birthday and what interesting things we would chose to do during our special day. The students had fun being transformed with pictures that "aged" them somewhat and then using transition words to tell about what they planned to do during their special day.

In Science, we measure various sounds in and outside of the classroom. The students were asked to predict what sounds would be the loudest or softest and we even had the opportunity to measure the decibel level of a police siren as they were in the parking lot just beside our school! ( The reading was 92 decibels!)

In Social Studies, students have been completing their Google Slide presentations on the exports and imports of each of the countries we study and realizing that many different goods come from all over the world to us here in Canada.

Just a reminder that there is no school on Friday because of Parent Teacher conferences which will be held online Thursday night and Friday between 8 and 12. Take care and see everyone on Monday!