September 29

Flashlight Friday

Our class loves to read! Nearly every day, we read in class from books we bring from home or from our class library. We made our own bookmarks and love to get lost in the different worlds and lives of the characters we read about.

Today, we had our first Flashlight Friday! We turned off the lights, closed our blinds, and turned on our flashlights to begin reading in the dark. We chose our reading spots and snuggled in with a good book or two. 

Have you ever read under the sheets at bedtime with a flashlight? What about in a fort you made?

What’s your favourite way to read a good book?

 

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September 27

Terry Fox Run

The annual Terry Fox Run at our school took place recently and we were ready to make him proud! We gave it our best effort to run for all those affected by cancer, including perhaps family members, family friends, and even Terry himself. 

It was a beautiful morning for our event. Have a look at some of our photos! Way to go!

 

 

 

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September 15

Dot Day 2023

Every September the 15th ish, we celebrate Dot Day–a day where we celebrate how we can make our mark in the world. It is based on the book called The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the book. We listened to a message from the author and enjoyed listening to a song written about the book. Check it out below.

Today, we found our classmates wearing dots in their hair, on their socks, in their lunches, and even on their nails!

It was a beautiful day outside so we drew dots outside with chalk, made dot headbands, delivered dot treats to staff members, made dot art, and much more.

I hope everyone had a great day! Until next year…

 

 

 

 

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September 14

Open House

A big thanks to all the families who came to our Open House! It was nice to see so many of you and share our learning space with you. Perhaps you even sampled some of the food trucks on site.

Our students had made a self-portrait and parents had to guess which one was their child…some of you guessed correctly on the first try…impressive!

Have a look at our portraits!

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September 5

Happy New Year Grade 3!

It’s a new year and that means new beginnings, new friendships, new teacher, perhaps even a new school. There’s plenty of “new” but there’s also familiarity and faces we’ve seen before and this brings comfort and excitement, too.

I’ve been absent for a year to travel and now I’m back in the classroom, ready to embrace the 2022-2023 school year. I am looking forward to meeting my new students and their families. Will we be tired after our first week? Sure, but our hearts will be full, knowing we are in this learning journey together and I can’t wait to be part of all the learning, the fun, and the growth we will see this year.

Cheers to a great start!

Love, Mrs. Sullivan

Back To School Heart GIF by Pottery Barn Kids

 

 

 

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May 20

Let’s Celebrate World Bee Day 2022

Today we celebrated World Bee Day by learning all about bees!

Turkey Jay, Mrs. Sullivan’s husband, is a beekeeper and loaned us many of his bee keeper tools and items so we could understand how bees produce honey and all that is involved in the process. 

 

 

 

wearing a beekeeper veil

We painted beehives (actually called ‘honey supers’) to make them prettier and played Kahoot to test our knowledge.

Bees are so important for many things, especially for pollination! Did you know that every 3rd spoonful of food depends on pollination? As bees move from flower to flower in search of nectar, they leave behind grains of pollen on the sticky surface, allowing plants to grow and produce food. 

In order to produce a kilogram of honey, a bee has to visit four million flowers and fly four times the distance around the planet.

Bees are critical to our survival. Did you know that there are more and more negative effects on the health of bees, which makes them increasingly endangered? We must take extra care of their survival.

Bees are such fascinating creatures.

What do YOU still wonder about bees?

 

 

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May 4

Penpals!

Have you ever had a penpal? It’s fun to communicate with someone and especially fun to get a reply! We’ve been corresponding with another class from Oakville and will continue to the end of this school year. It’s great practice in proper letter writing skills and we always look forward to hearing from our penpal friends.

We will send our next set of letters this week! 

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May 4

Measurement Mania!

As part of our measurement unit where we investigated perimeter, area, time, linear measurement, and mass, we finished off with learning about capacity.

What is capacity?

Capacity is the amount of space a container can hold when it’s filled up.

Like all parts of our measurement unit, learning in a hands-on way is the best way to understand these concepts. Throughout our unit, we used different measuring tools such as measuring tape, rulers, meter sticks, pan balances, clocks, measuring cups, graduated cylinders, beakers, measuring spoons. We learned about how to use non-standard units as well as standard units (mm, cm, m, km, mL, L, g, kg). 

Check out some pictures that were snapped of us measuring capacity!

 

 

 

In the pictures below you can see many groups of students working on their math project using perimeter and area. They have to design an animal rescue park following certain criteria. We also played several rounds of Bingo that involved practice telling time using analogue clocks. 

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May 1

Egg Drop Experiment

As a culminating task to our Science unit all about forces, we worked in teams to design and build and finally test a way to protect an egg from breaking. Much like a helmet will protect our heads from a fall, we had a similar task to ensure these precious eggs stayed in tact. We dropped the eggs from the top of our school and watched to see what would happen. Would our parachutes open?  Would our layers of protection actually work? Would our ideas play out the way we expected?

We discussed how we would ensure our tests were fair such as:

  • dropped from the same height
  • dropped on the same day
  • dropped in the same manner

In the several years of conducting this experiment, this would be the first time Mrs. Sullivan would have all student groups be successful in having their eggs stay in tact! Wow! How impressive!

Have a look at the experiments in action:

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April 22

Earth Day 2022

Welcome to Earth Day! We think every day should be Earth Day, but today we really focus our attention on what we CAN do each and every day to help make a positive impact on our planet.

There are so many small ways we can help our planet be as healthy as possible. These are some of the ideas we brainstormed:

  • litterless lunch
  • avoiding single use plastics (ex. forks, knives, straws, bags)
  • Bring a reusable shopping bag when you go to the mall or grocery store
  • Use a reusable water bottle
  • walk more places!
  • plant a tree
  • eat less meat

 

Test your knowledge about Earth Day by playing this Kahoot!

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