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?
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.
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!
We 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!
What do you like about this time of year? Do you love to eat apple crisp? Do you go apple picking? Do you enjoy the crisp air? What about Thanksgiving? There’s a lot we might enjoy about this new season of Autumn, including the beautiful colours of the changing trees.
We did mixed media art involving paint, newsprint, and twine.
Have a look at our recent art experience. Enjoy!
Recently, we took advantage of the beautiful weather and went outside on a little walk in our neighbourhood.
Everyone is different and everyone is special in their own unique way. Earlier this year, we celebrated what makes us unique by creating this artwork seen below. We also read R.J. Palacio’s picture book called We’re All Wonders which generated some good discussion around how we can truly celebrate our differences. Check it out!
What do you love the most about yourself?
Inspired by motivational speaker and singer extraordinaire, Sara Westbrook, who has visited our school in the past, our class is embracing the challenge of creating our own UPower maps!
So, what is a UPower Map?
This week, we are asked to gather ideas, magazine clippings, stickers, pictures, and anything else we can use to help us create our maps. We begin assembling our maps next Tuesday. Mrs. Sullivan shared her own UPower map with us so we could see a finished example.
We are excited to see the finished products!
Check out Sara’s music video where you can see her creating her very own UPower map.
This week, we’ve been spending quality time using literature to help guide us through what Remembrance Day truly means. We began by reading a gorgeous book called A Bear in War by Harry Endrulat and Stephanie Innes. I truly LOVE this book and read it every year (and it always chokes me up!). 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.
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!
On Wednesday, we read a wonderfully 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 page in our Religion notebook. Students were encouraged to be inspired by Todd Parr’s illustration style, too!
We had some good discussion around whether Remembrance Day should be a national holiday.
What do you think and why?
Finally, check out our Remembrance Day artwork and our thoughts on what we think peace means.
After some practice drawing water droplets using charcoal pencils as well as black and white pencil crayons on blue paper, we moved forward to our final piece–our good copy. We used oil pastels for the entire task.
We sometimes used Q-tips to help with smudging, we used white-out for the reflections in each droplet. We used Kleenex to help us with smudging our background colours.
They turned out so beautifully! Well done, Grade 3s!
We are loving the warmer temperatures and the excitement that comes with it knowing Spring has arrived!
Our class has been hard at work completing various projects in math, Science, and even finished a special St. Patrick’s Day project involving the design and the building of a leprechaun trap.
In the pictures below, groups of students are working collaboratively to design an animal rescue that includes 5 animals, an entrance, a picnic area, a classroom, a snack shack and more! Each group had to invent a story of at least 1 animal detailing why that animal was in need of rescuing. Of course, we needed to figure out the perimeter and area of each building, too! We are currently presenting our projects.
We had a virtual visitor named Tracy come to our classroom from Huxley Jewellers here in London. She is a jewelry designer with a wealth of knowledge. She runs the store with her family. She shared with us so many neat things about rocks and minerals and we asked lots of great questions.
We’ve been focusing a lot on our understanding of what respect means in and out of the classroom and have been making some improvements in demonstrating respect throughout our day. Here’s what we came up with to help us demonstrate respect during eating times.
In our measurement unit, we sometimes explored perimeter and area using geoboards! In the pictures below, we are working with a partner to quiz each other on finding the perimeter and area of squares or rectangles near the end of our unit.
