September 21-24

 

 What We Got Up To-Week 4

Math

• 12 hour vs 24 hour time, 
• how to tell time to the minute
• math games to practice
• show what you know

ELAL

• what good writers do, writing process (that writing involves planning, drafting, editing, revising a few times, then publishing)
• reading different versions of Terry Fox's story and using those mentor texts to look at how to write a biography including what text features and structures biographies use
• practicing cursive D, uppercase and lowercase

Social Studies

• practiced mapping and creating a legend with a map of the numbered treaties in Alberta
• Then labelled and coloured a Canada map and identified where Alberta is in Canada
• practiced for our assembly and got to see other groups' contributions to the assembly

Art

• Completed our doll art for our whole school art project for Orange Shirt Day

Wellness

• talked about perseverance and goal setting in relation to Terry Fox

Looking Ahead

Next week

• Math: starting place value
• ELAL: reading the Orange Shirt Day story and writing letters to Phyllis Webstad
• Social Studies: practicing for Orange Shirt Day assembly
• STEAM: Not-A-Box STEAM challenge to learn about collaboration, ideation and the engineering design process
• Wellness: communicating honestly

The Grade 3 classes will be leading the Orange Shirt Day Assembly on Tuesday, September 29 at 9:30 AM. Families are welcome to join us for the assembly. Students who volunteered to speak will be bringing home their speaking parts to practice next week.