Day 3- Tidy Thursday

Daily Announcements

- Lunch orders due December 19th
- Aftercare invoices due December 15th

- Bake sale next Wednesday and Thursday 
- Casual Day Wednesday

Music: Take a look at Mr. Flower's blog https://flowermusicsja.blogspot.com

French: Take a look at Mme. Stella's blog https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com

Inquiry into Language:
We took up our similes homework together. To help us identify what two nouns were being compared, we underlined the simile part of the sentence. This helped us recognize that the first noun being compared was part of the sentence that wasn't underlined, and it was being compared to a noun in the underlined part (the simile). This helped us identify the comparison that was being made. We then went on to identifying the meaning behind metaphors. It's important for us to recognize when we use metaphors and similes in real life. I challenged the students to pay close attention to when their families, friends, teachers, etc. speak to them to try and identify when they use similes and metaphors through their communication. I hope they come to school with some examples that were used so that they see it is a part of our regular communication.

RECESS/ LUNCH

Unit of Inquiry:
We explored books using our knowledge of non-fiction text features to help us locate specific information in the book. Questions were provided, and students had to use their table of contents, glossary, index, captions and labels to help them locate the information they needed to answer those questions. We learned when asked to "Define" something, this means to find it's definition/meaning.

Oakwood Christmas Concert

This afternoon we got to watch Oakwood's Christmas Concert! Great job everyone!

LUNCH

Inquiry into Math/ Door Decorating Brainstorm
At the end of the day we brainstormed ideas as to how we are going to decorate our classroom door for the Door Decorating Challenge. We've come up with a plan to put into action tomorrow! Winner gets a Pizza Party. GOOOOO MS. FOTI'S CLASS!!

Once we finished brainstorming, we worked on an introduction activity to our new math unit with a partner. Our new unit is Fractions and Decimals.

AGENDA:
- UOI: Non-fiction book worksheet
- Language: metaphor worksheet
- Spelling test tomorrow

Day 2: Whisper Wednesday

Daily Announcements

- Aftercare invoices due December 15th
- Bake sale is next Wednesday and Thursday (not Tuesday) 
- Casual Day Wednesday, December 19th
- Don't forget about our Christmas Concert Outfits

Inquiry into Language:

Today we learned about Similes and Metaphors. Both similes and metaphors make comparisons, however the difference is between how they make comparisons. Similes use the words "like" and "as", whereas metaphors just says the comparison as is. We discussed these and went over some examples while explaining how we knew whether that sentence was a simile or a metaphor.

Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoSBVNUO2LU

French: Take a look at Mme. Stella's blog https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com

Inquiry into Language Continued:
We completed a cut-and-paste activity where we had to sort similes and metaphors and glue them under the correct category. We all did very well on this! For homework we have to complete two worksheets on similes.

RECESS/ LUNCH

Inquiry into Math:

Today we had our Data Management Unit Test.

Unit of Inquiry
Once we finished our test, we continued to work on our biography piece by taking the information we wrote about yesterday and began to put this into paragraph structure.

RECESS/ LUNCH

Gym: Take a look at Ms. Yustin's blog: http://sjaayustin.blogspot.com

AGENDA:
- Spelling due tomorrow
- Spelling test Friday
- Simile worksheet due tomorrow- will take up as a class
- Biography good copy due tomorrow

Day 1- Teamwork Tuesday

Daily Announcements

- Math test is tomorrow
- Aftercare invoices due December 15th
- Bake sale is next Wednesday and Thursday (not Tuesday) 
- Don't forget about our Christmas Concert Outfits

Today Ms. Chiappetta's class joined us as she was assisting in the preparation for our JK- Grade 2 Christmas Concert Performance.

French: Take a look at Mme. Stella's blog https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com

Inquiry into Math:

Today we completed a fun math activity that revolved around multiplication facts up to a product of 60 and graphing these equations. There were 47 equation cards that students had to solve the product for, then write this equation above the product bar on their sheets of paper. As students moved from one card to another, their paper started to turn into a bar graph. There was some great cooperation and teamwork happening when other classmates couldn't find their last couple cards.

RECESS/ LUNCH

Christmas Concert Performance

Great job everyone on your Christmas performance this afternoon! 

Good luck tonight😊😊

Unit of Inquiry/ Inquiry into Language:

After snack we started to discuss the different pieces of information we would include in a biography about someone. We discussed the difference between a biography and autobiography. Students then began to write their own biographies in third person. They began to fill out their graphic organizer with jot notes. Once this is complete students will use this information to write their biographies in paragraph form.

AGENDA:

- Math Test tomorrow

- Language/ UOI: Biography point form notes

- Spelling + Sentences due Thursday

Day 6- Music Monday

Daily Announcements

- Math test is moved to Wednesday
- Aftercare invoices due December 15th
- Bake sale is next Wednesday and Thursday (not Tuesday) 
- Don't forget about our Christmas Concert Outfits

Today Ms. Chiappetta's class joined us as she was assisting in the preparation for our JK- Grade 2 Christmas Concert Performance.

French: Take a look at Mme. Stella's blog https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com

Inquiry into Language:
We began to complete Lesson 14 in our spelling workbooks. We then watched a read aloud on "Bucket Fillers", teaching students the importance behind how being kind towards others positively affects themselves along with those who receive the kind gestures. We discussed the difference between "bucket fillers" and "bucket dippers" and how our goal is to be bucket fillers.
Have You Filled A Bucket Today:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EuemNAo6XE

RECESS/ LUNCH

Inquiry into Math:
Due to the JK- Grade 2 Christmas Concert occurring tomorrow, our math test has been moved to Wednesday. Today we took up our reviews and went back to fix any mistakes to ensure we know what to do for next time.

Unit of Inquiry:
Today's focus was on the purpose of the features used in non-fiction informative texts. We read through a list of features we come across that help us locate the specific information we are looking for. Then, students got into groups of 3 or 4 to explore non-fiction books and identify where they see those specific features being used. In addition to this, they had to explain how those features help them as a reader. There was some great group work occurring in most of the groups!

RECESS/ LUNCH

Music Monday/ Kindness activity:
After lunch we created our own buckets for class bucket filling. Students got to decorate the front of their bucket with positive and creative ideas. As the year passes, we will fill each others buckets with positive reminders of acts that positively influenced us, along with things we have done that positively impacted others. I look forward to seeing a lot of Bucket Filling happening amongst the Grade 3s! Once finished creating our Buckets we had a mini dance party.

AGENDA:
- Spelling Lesson 14 + Sentences due Thursday
- Math Test Wednesday
- Read for 25 Minutes

Day 5- Fun Friday

Daily Announcements

- Math test is on Tuesday
- Aftercare invoices due December 15th

- Last page of report card is to be filled out and returned

- Skating and Elf forms due Monday, December 10th

We won the Golden Broom! Let's keep up the good work 
in keeping our backpack area nice and tidy Grade 3s!

Music: Take a look at Mr. Flower's blog https://flowermusicsja.blogspot.com

French: Take a look at Mme. Stella's blog https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com

Inquiry into Language:

Today we discussed what an adjective is and came up with some examples to describe the noun "student". Using this noun and the adjectives we came up with, each one of us came up with a sentence where the adjective described this noun. We completed a worksheet on identifying the adjective and noun it describes in a sentence. If not completed in class, this was for homework. In addition to this we had a creative writing adjective activity where each of us need to think of an adjective to present to our classmates. When doing this you cannot say the adjective you selected, you have to only use clues that will help the rest of us guess what your adjective is. An example was provided to help us understand what to do. 

RECESS/ LUNCH

Inquiry into Math:

We took up our homework on circle graphs, then began to work on our math review. Our math test is on Tuesday. We will take up our review together on Monday. 

Unit of Inquiry:

Today we used the features of each subgenre to help us identify the genre of the books provided. Once we identified the genre of our book individually, we had to justify how we knew it was that genre using the text features provided as our reasoning. 

RECESS/ LUNCH

Art Activity 

Today was fun Friday so we did an art activity on Kindness. We created snowmen with kind gestures written on them. We hope that our peers throughout the school will checkout our snowmen and try to commit some of these Acts of Kindness. 

AGENDA:

- Math: Review due Monday

- Math test Tuesday

- Language: Adjectives worksheet and creative writing clues