February 26

February This & That

It’s hard to believe that the month of February is coming to a close. This year is a leap year. Do you know why we have a leap year? Check out Mystery Doug’s video explaining leap years.

Click here to watch the video.

Check out some snapshots of Valentine’s Day, cursive writing practice, our math project involving perimeter and area, and reading practice using Lexia (we aim for 60 minutes per week).

 

February 11

Fun in February

The recent weather we’ve been having has given everyone more reasons to get outside! We did just that on Friday and enjoyed the sunshine while playing on the school yard. 

Recently we’ve enjoyed some watercolour painting and preparing ourselves for Valentine’s Day and Lent. 

How do you like to spend time outdoors?

 

February 4

Welcome to February!

January has come and gone and the learning continues in our classroom. Students are hard at work learning about nonfiction text features, how reading nonfiction differs from reading fiction, and more. We are being encouraged to explore nonfiction text both online and on paper. Miss Jeffries, our librarian, came in to teach us about an online database called Britannica School. It is a great way for students to research topics of their choosing. The articles can even read to the students! 

We’ve wrapped up our Social Studies unit on communities in Ontario and played a review game called “Quiz Quiz Trade” to help prepare us for our final test. 

Our Snowglobe stories are published and hanging on display in our classroom for all to admire. They are a fun read! We have such imaginative students in our room.

In math, we learned about movement on a grid along with cardinal directions (N,S,E,W) as well as directional turns (clockwise, counterclockwise, quarter turns, half turns).  Our current unit is all about measurement, including telling time! Stay tuned for another post about that.

Feel free to leave us a comment and ask us any questions about our learning.

We hope you all have a great day!Happy Groundhog Day Gif

 

 

December 22

Merry Christmas!

It’s a most holy and special time of year! The 4th Advent candle (another purple candle) will be lit this Sunday which means that Jesus’ birthday is right around the corner! On December 25, we celebrate the birth of our King.

Our Grade 3s and myself wish you and your families a blessed, beautiful, and wonderful Christmas! Gather with the ones you love, and remember the true reason for the season.

God Bless and have a Happy New Year!

Mrs. Sullivan


December 22

A Fully Packed December

We’ve been quite busy preparing for Christmas but also working hard on our school work at the same time. Have a peek into a few of our classroom activities…

December 7

Christmas Concert

Last night, our church was filled with the sound of music as our annual Christmas concert took center stage. Students have been rehearsing for quite some time and the night had finally arrived.

While there may have been some nerves, all students did a wonderful job singing the songs they know so well while having fun onstage.

Congratulations to all!

A big thank you to Ms. Young for preparing us for this special evening.

Super work, Grade 3s! You looked wonderful up there and you made us proud.

 

November 19

We Are Authors

After many weeks of learning about personal narratives, we finally had our Publishing Party to celebrate our finished work!

In our unit on personal narratives, we learned how to generate ideas, how to select an idea, how to write using juicy details, how to apply the ‘Show, Don’t Tell’ strategy, what is a seed story versus a watermelon story, different ways of how to write a lead, and more!

In our class, we read many of our classmates’ stories and left some compliments.  We shared our stories with the Grade 7/8s and they were a wonderful audience!

We finished our celebration with a snack and an impromptu dance party. Fun!

Wonderful work, Grade 3s!

November 19

A Parcel Has Arrived…

Lo and behold, a parcel made its way to our school, addressed to our class! It came all the way from France. Can you guess who it was from? If you said Chef Sully, you are right!

She mailed us a special package. We all passed it around in a circle, looking at the parcel, feeling its weight, and guessing what may be inside. Mrs. Sullivan opened the package and inside were several books! Chef Sully knows how much we love to read and we always love adding more books to our classroom library!

Chef Sully left us a note telling us she hopes to see us again soon. 

 

November 10

Learning About Remembrance Day

This week, we’ve been spending quality time using literature to help guide us through what Remembrance Day truly means. We enjoyed reading a gorgeous book called A Bear in War by Harry Endrulat and Stephanie Innes. It is told from the perspective of a teddy bear that belongs to a little girl named Aileen. Her dad goes off to War and she ends up mailing him the teddy bear to keep him company and remind him of home.A Bear in War: Innes, Stephanie, Endrulat, Harry, Deines, Brian: 9781927485125: Books - Amazon.ca

There are wonderful illustrations mixed with photographs of real life items as this is a true Canadian story! Students are always amazed that you can actually visit the real teddy bear at the National War Museum in Ottawa!

The Peace BookWe also read a very colourful book called The Peace Book by Todd Parr. In simple ways, it shares different ways that we can think about what peace is. We then brainstormed some of our own thoughts about what peace means and created our own class book.

We’ve been focused this week preparing for our Remembrance Day ceremony in our school gym. We each had a role to play and were proud to be a part of the special day. Way to go, Grade 3s! You were so wonderful.

Have a look at our artwork and our messages about peace. Enjoy!

 

November 2

Light & Sound Experiments

Our Light and Sound unit in Science is coming to a close, but along the way, we’ve experimented with:

  • Making sound waves visible
  • Making sound waves travel through string
  • Refraction
  • What does translucent, transparent, and opaque mean

We are now just beginning our own projects, specifically about sound. Stay tuned for the finished products!