Day 1

Announcements

UOI Summative letters are coming home today. We will begin working on our summatives tomorrow.

Spirit Week begins next week! Take a look at what is happening each day

Monday, March 4^th – PJ Day

Tuesday, March 5^th – Superhero/Princess/Tie-Dye Day

Wednesday, March 6^th - Whacky Wednesday

Thursday, March 7^th – Sports Day

Friday, March 8^th – St. Patrick’s Day (wear green)

Anti-bullying Assembly
Today is Anti-bullying day. We had an assembly this morning that discussed the different forms of bullying and how it can affect others. For one of the activities students had to close their eyes as Ms. Chiappetta read statements aloud which revolved around bullying scenarios. If students have even experienced this feeling/ scenario they were to raise their hands. Students also watched a clip on bullying, then completed their own anti-bullying slogan t-shirts on a sheet of paper.

French

Check out Mme. Stella's blog to see what they've been working on: https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com

Novel Study
We discussed some of the comprehension questions as a class. I love hearing how students have began to make inferences beyond the text. We then continued to read Chapters 13 and 14. Students are to complete comprehension questions for these chapters tonight.

RECESS/ LUNCH

Inquiry into Math
Today was our first lesson on Probability. We started off by talking about a die, it's outcomes and probability of each outcome. We went over the definitions of some of the terms we are expected to know for Probability.

Using the spinner drawn on the board, students solved all possible outcomes, the different outcomes possible, what the probability of each outcome is, and then use probability terms to explain how likely we were to land on each colour.

Students then broke out into their table groups to complete two questions from their textbooks. Once they were finished, they worked with their table group to begin their math homework.

 

Today's focus was on:
- Explaining what probability is
- Explaining what outcomes means
- Identifying all possible outcomes
- Identifying the different outcomes possible
- Writing the probability of an event happening using proper fractions
- Explaining what impossible, certain, equally probable/probable, more probable and less probable mean and where these fall on a probability line.

Unit of Inquiry
We read about the Mining Industry then verbally summarized everything we learned about. Students began to work on a reflection of what they've learned throughout this unit.

RECESS/ LUNCH

Gym

Take a look at Ms. Yustin's blog to see what they've been working on: http://sjaayustin.blogspot.com

AGENDA:
- UOI Reflections
- Novel Study Chapters 13 and 14
- Math Probability Worksheets
- Read for 25 minutes
- Spelling Test tomorrow

Day 6

What a Snowy Day today turned out to be!

Announcements

- Bake Sale continues tomorrow
- PINK Shirt Day Feb. 28th- Anti-bullying Day TOMORROW

Spirit Week begins next week! Take a look at what is happening each day

Monday, March 4^th – PJ Day

Tuesday, March 5^th – Superhero/Princess/Tie-Dye Day

Wednesday, March 6^th - Whacky Wednesday

Thursday, March 7^th – Sports Day

Friday, March 8^th – St. Patrick’s Day (wear green)

Gym was cancelled today. Students will join Ms. Chiappetta's class tomorrow!

Language/ Unit of Inquiry

Students began with silent reading this morning. As a class we read about the Forestry community and watched about deforestation and its effect on the environment and humans.

French

Check out Mme. Stella's blog to see what they've been working on: https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com

Unit of Inquiry continued
Students began to write their own summaries of the information we learned about the Forestry Industry. While writing their summaries students are to think of the structure of the information they're writing about.

RECESS/ LUNCH

Inquiry into Math
Students completed their pre-test to our probability unit. Once students completed this they were to finish up their summaries from this morning. If they completed them, students silent read. If they were not finished then they are for homework.

RECESS/ LUNCH

Novel Study
As a class, students took turns reading Chapters 10, 11 and 12. We stopped to ensure we understood some of the phrases from this book. Everyone is so eager to keep reading! I cannot wait to find out what happens next.
Visualization Activity:
As part of Chapter 12, students are to complete a visualization activity. On the sheet of paper provided, there is a paragraph from the novel. In class students closed their eyes as I read this to help them visualize this scene. Students are to take that image from their minds and draw it on the sheet of paper. Students are expected to put their best efforts into drawing their visualization of this scene.

AGENDA
- Spelling Lesson 22 + Sentences
- Novel Study: Chapters 10, 11 and 12 Worksheets + Visualization activity
- UOI Summary of Forestry
- Read for 25 minutes

Day 5

Announcements

- Casual Day tomorrow
- Bake Sale tomorrow
- PINK Shirt Day Feb. 28th- Anti-bullying Day

Specialists were cancelled today due to Math test and Poets in the School Workshop

Inquiry into Math
Students completed their measurement test today. Once students finished their tests, they read silently.

Unit of Inquiry
As a class we explored what the farming industry consists of and how it affects our everyday lives. I read an informative book to the class. We pulled out the most important information and put this into a summary about the Farming Industry. After discussing all of the hard and extensive work farmers do, we recognized that we should be more appreciative of the hard work they have to put in to ensure we are provided with nutritional foods.

LUNCH

Poetry Workshop
In the afternoon we had our Poetry Workshop. This workshop tied in with poetry from our Tell Us A Story Unit. Students learned what Haiku poems are, and how to write these. Students then had an opportunity to write their own Haiku's and present them in front of all the Grade 3s. I was very impressed with everyones performance and how much they recalled from this Unit!

Snack/ Silent Reading
Once the Poetry Workshop finished, students ate their snacks and silently read at their desks.

AGENDA
- Read for 25 minutes
- Spelling Lesson 22  + Sentences
- Spelling test Friday

Day 4

Announcements

- Math Test tomorrow
- Casual Day Wednesday
- Bake Sale tomorrow and Wednesday
- PINK Shirt Day Feb. 28th- Anti-bullying Day

Language/ Unit of Inquiry

Students began to work on Lesson 22 in their spelling workbooks. As a class we then began to read a non-fiction book about the Fishing Community. While we were reading, we stopped to reflect on what information was important vs. less important. We later used this information to write a summary as a class.

French

Check out Mme. Stella's blog to see what they've been working on: https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com

Unit of Inquiry/ Language
We continued reading the book from this morning. As a class we talked about a topic sentence, along with how we would structure the rest of the important information we learned about. While writing our summary, we discussed the importance of determining what the main idea of certain text was to help us determine was what important for that topic.

RECESS/ LUNCH

Reading Buddies
We had reading buddies with Mr. Foster's class today!

Inquiry into Math
Together we took up our math review to prepare for the test tomorrow. We completed specific questions on the board to demonstrate how we solved the problem. Once we finished taking up the review, we worked on calculating change by counting up using manipulatives.

RECESS/ LUNCH

Gym

Take a look at Ms. Yustin's blog to see what they've been working on: http://sjaayustin.blogspot.com

AGENDA:

- Math test tomorrow

- Novel Study Corrections

- Spelling Lesson 22 + Sentences