Grade 3 Looking At Lethbridge PBL

Here are a few pictures from our visiting councillor and architect to kick off our Looking at Lethbridge Project! Thanks so much to Lethbridge City Councillor Ryan Parker for stopping by to talk with all of our Grade 3 students and also to Jessie Potrie from FWBA Architects for explaining the fine details of architecture design. 

Students will be making blueprints for their projects this week and will need a piece of cardboard roughly 15 X 18inches to build their structures on. If you could send a piece of cardboard by February 26th that would be perfect! Thanks a bunch!

February Newsletter 2018

 Reading Strategies: Character Studies/ Readers notice how a new character talks and acts/getting to know a character as a friend/following a character’s journey / comparing and contrasting characters across books

Writing Strategies: Changing the World/Opinion Writing Unit continues.  We’ve worked on finding and solving problems both large and small and just yesterday wrote a letter to mom and dad trying to persuade you to buy a pet!  I must admit they had some convincing arguments! We will continue with this type of writing for February using the OREO format: Opinion, Reasons, Examples, Opinion (restated)/brave bold thesis statements/ consider your audience/

Math: We’ve finished skip counting, money, addition, and subtraction, and have started multiplication! In Grade 3 kids need to know their times tables facts to 5X5.  We are learning that if we can skip count, we can learn our facts quickly! We know the parts of a multiplication equation including the terms product and factors and talked about the commutative property which tells us that if 5X1=5 then 1X5= 5. 

Science: Looking at Lethbridge Project! We are becoming Engineers for our Building With a Variety of Materials unit. We were lucky to have councillor Ryan Parker come to our school to talk about some of the criteria, problems, and constraints of building in Lethbridge followed by Jessie Potrie , the architect who helped design Coalbanks Elementary. He presented some inspiring designs and shared some 3D models of his work to get the kids excited about their own building projects. The kids did a survey to find out what type of building was needed on the west side, narrowed down their choices, graphed their results, and came up with their number one building choice.  There will be a letter coming home soon asking for materials to build the final project. We will be drawing up blueprints in the next few weeks and construction will be underway soon!

Students will be making blueprints for their projects this week and will need a piece of cardboard roughly 15 X 18inches to build their structures on. If you could send a piece of cardboard by February 26th that would be perfect! Thanks a bunch!

Social: Traditions and Celebrations in all 4 countries continues! A study guide will be coming home in a few weeks with a quiz to follow which should give the kids lots of time to prepare.

Word Work Themes: Valentines Day

 Big Ideas: Entrepreneurial Spirit: I am creative, innovative, and ready to take on a challenge. I am on time, I come prepared to learn, I use class time wisely, I complete assigned tasks, and I accept feedback

Skating Fieldtrip: Thanks to those who have already volunteered to drive to skating on Feb. 16th . We are in need of a few more so please return the bottom of the form if you are able to help out, or email/Dojo me! Thanks so much!   We are covered for drivers! Thank you!!

Important Dates to Remember in February!

Feb 6 - Choir

Feb 6 - Town Hall Meeting

Feb 7 - School Council

Feb 9 - No School, Professional Learning Day

Feb 9 - Hot Lunch Deadline

Feb 13 - Choir

Feb 14 - Happy Valentine's Day/ Class Party in the PM

Feb 15 - Jersey/Team Shirt Day

Feb 15 - Spirit Assembly

Feb 16 - Grade 3 Skating at the ATB Centre 10-11am-
we have all our drivers now! thank you everyone! 

Feb 19 - No School Family Day

Feb 20-23 No School- Reading Week & Teacher’s Convention

Feb 26 - Random Acts of Kindness

Feb 27 - Random Acts of Kindness

Feb 27 - Hot Lunch Grades 1, 2, 3

Feb 27 - Choir

Feb 28 - Pink Shirt Day

Feb 28 - Hot Lunch Grades 4, 5

Our Valentine’s Class Party will be the afternoon of Wednesday, February 14^th.

Thank you to the following people for providing snacks: 

Veggies Tray: Avery

Crackers and cheese: AddyM.

Fruit tray: Zander 

Cookies or muffins: Calum 

Drinks and plates: Ronin 

Meat and pickles: Caleb

We are in need of a few more items, if anyone would like to help out, please just text/email/Dojo! Thanks a bunch!
Thanks so much everyone! We are now covered for snacks! :)