Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Grade 3 Celebration of Learning!

Hello Grade 3 families! You are invited to our Celebration of Learning! Our students have been working hard to showcase their work through the lens of an architect. This is the student’s opportunity to share the work they have been doing as an Architect in India and Peru. As well, students have prepared a special performance with our Music Specialist, Ondrea Mann. There will be art, blueprints, interactive stations and so much more! Who: All Grade 3 students and their familiesWhat: A Celebration of LearningWhere: Royal Oak School.  Students are to arrive in the gymnasium at 5:50 to prepare for musical performance, parents wait in Gathering SpaceWhen: Thursday, March 7. Gym doors open at 6:00 for our parents. Celebration will finish at 7:00 pm.How: If possible, students in Ms. Gierl’s class please wear all dark clothing. All other students please wear light on the top, and dark on the bottom. We look forward to seeing you there! Sincerely,The Grade 3 Team

Alien Inline Skating

Alien Inline Skating has finished and was a great success. Thanks o all the volunteer's who made it possible for us to rollerblade, and specifically made it possible for me to join the kids in roller blading. 

Literacy

We have begun a novel study of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

We have currently read the first chapter and are making our way through the second. 

Here is a link to the audiobook on Youtube

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Audiobook

Math!

Students have been developing their Mathematical reading and word problem-solving skills through the CUBES strategy. This is an expanded CUBES strategy that prompts students to think more deeply!

Here are some of the questions we have been working on! Consider how repeated addition and multiplication can be used as strategies!

Literacy: paraphrasing
Students have continued to read a wide variety of articles related to architecture. As we continue to annotate we are adding additional skills such as paraphrasing. 

What is paraphrasing?

Paraphrasing - presenting the ideas and information you have read in your own words - is an important academic skill. By translating content from your research into your own words, you demonstrate to your reader that you've understood and are able to convey this content.

It is important to be very thorough when you paraphrase. Paraphrasing is not simply taking what someone has written and changing a few words to make it your own. It is about translating another person's ideas into your own words and in reduced form. 

We will begin using a 'questioning matrix' to increase our ability to ask meaningful questions of the texts that we read! Try this at home with a book you are reading with your child :)

Literacy
No Excuse Vocabulary words for this week:
paraphrase
blueprint
engineer
draw
when
were
someone
your
our
own