Hi parents,
We had a good last Monday of the year. In the morning, we attended an Indigenous Peoples' Day Assembly.
The students also wrote free verse poems about 'friendship', and reflected on the things they'd done this year with their friends.
In the afternoon, the Grade 4s had a chance to visit Grade 5 classrooms, and some Grade 2 students got to visit our room.
Our classroom Talent Show is tomorrow, and Sports Day is this Wednesday!
Have a nice night,
Zac
Words Every Grade 3 Needs to Know (June 19 – 26)
Words Every Grade 4 Needs to Know (June 19 – 26)
Words Every Grade 1 Needs to Know (in Paris) (June 19 – 26)
Hi parents,
We had a great day today. We continued learning about line graphs, and went outside every hour to message and graph the lengths of our shadows, which mysteriously got shorter as they day went on.
The spelling quiz seemed to go well, but I'm still marking them.
We had a lot of work period time, and did a class library purge, where the students helped choose what books would be in our library next year.
We have a super busy week next week - Indigenous Peoples' Day, Sports Day, the Grade 6 Moving On ceremony.... should be a great way to wrap up our year.
And there will be spelling words.
Have a nice weekend,
Zac
Hi parents,
Today we had a really good day. It was "DJ Day" for last month's table prize winners, so we got to listen to a playlist they put together with song requests.
We did Spelling Sentences, with a focus on writing dialogue. This was kind of perfect because so many students are trying to use dialogue in their picture prompt stories, and now they've learned how to properly format it.
We did some cursive practice, and used Duolingo for French.
Throughout the day, we updated Line Graphs to keep track of the temperature. It was a boring day in terms of temperature, very little variation.
The Room 3 Talent Show is June 23!
Have a nice night,
Zac
Hi parents,
We had an awesome time at Fish Creek Library yesterday. The students loved exploring the many interactive activities, and listening to some really cool choose-you-own-adventure books. Apparently we were the only group that made it to the end of the adventure!
Today was a bit of a rough day for our class. I know we're almost at the end of the year but I'm hoping we can end on a high note with everyone trying their best! We did a lot of story writing today and watched an episode from Liberty's Kids that taught the class a bit about the American revolution. We talked about how at this point in Canada's history, 'Canada' didn't really exist - it was mostly just an extension of Britain - but then again, Canada didn't exist for most of its history, when you consider the indigenous history dating back thousands of years.... We had some interesting discussions.
The students did an awesome job on a tricky math task, which I will post here if anyone wants to try it at home. The task involved converting between fractions, decimals, and percentages.
The students have been taking home work from throughout the year steadily throughout the week in the hopes that it reduces the need to stuff backpacks full on the last day.
Room 3 Talent Show - June 23
We will be having our annual classroom Talent Show on June 23, for anyone who would like to participate. :) All talents are welcome, and performances can be done in person, or recorded and shared with me digitally! Please send me an email if your child would like to participate so I can roughly plan for how long we'll need.
Have a nice night!
Zac
Hi parents,
Report cards are more or less written so I can get back to doing daily blogs. :)
We had a pretty good day today. In the morning, the students did some poetry reading. They each received a different, simple verse poem, practiced it, and then read it or recited it aloud in front of the class.
We went over this week's spelling words (see end of this blog), had music, and played basketball in gym.
In the afternoon we did Quiet Reading, and then learned about percentages. The students learned how to convert a fraction /10 into a fraction /100, and then how to write that as a percentage. They also discussed times when they may have heard the phrase '___ percent' in daily life - its funny how a lot of kids start talking about percentages way before they actually know how to calculate it!
Hopefully today's lesson will help us avoid a generation of young Scott Steiners.
Spelling List A (June 12 – 19)
Spelling List B (June 12 – 19)
Spelling List C (June 12 – 19)
Hi parents,
We had a pretty good day today! The students read their haiku poetry aloud to the class, we got through some more Book in a Box presentations, and we talked more about converting mixed fractions into decimals.
I am not going to be updating the Blog this week until Friday as this is my report card writing week, but stay tuned for a couple of messages regarding the French Party (June 10), and a Walking Field Trip on June 16!
Have a nice week,
Zac
Spelling List A (June 5 – 12)
Spelling List B (June 5 – 12)
Spelling List C (June 5 – 12)
Hi parents,
We had another great day today. Wheelchair Basketball was a blast. The students wrote reflections in their journals about it.
In French, we learned how to count to 20. I'm curious how much the students retained. This is something we'll practice a little bit every day this month.
"French Party - June 10"
We will be having a 'French Party' on June 10! This is something of a tradition in my class although we didn't get to it last year. Basically students are encouraged to bring baguettes and croissants, and wear 'French' clothes. We will have some fun French-themed lessons, and we'll show some appreciation for Francophone culture, cuisine, and language.
About half the class presented their Book in a Box projects. It went really awesome. It was less formal and intimidating that how I've done it in previous years - more like show and tell. I think this format helped students to feel less stressed about the public speaking aspect of it.
The spelling quiz is tomorrow! Have a nice night,
Zac
Hi parents,
We had a great day today, once again mostly spent on work period time.
Today the kids finished up their Food Chain projects, by inventing a carnivore that was capable of eating the herbivore they created yesterday. I've had a couple kids tell me this was one of their favourite projects we've done this year, which makes me really happy. It's been a lot of fun to see their creations for me too.
In math, we did a tricky fraction math problem, in which the students were presented with a hypothetical race, and a list of runners, with their current position written as a fraction. For example, "Henry is 1/2 of the way to the finish. Sam is 3/8 of the way to the finish."
Students had to figure out which runners were farthest ahead or behind, by using equivalent fractions to figure out the relative position of fractions with different denominators.
The whole afternoon was work period. Most students are staying on top of their work, but there are a few who will probably have a bit of homework this weekend....
Tomorrow we are starting our Book in a Box presentations. We also have our second session of Wheelchair Basketball.
Have a nice night,
Zac
