3B had been working hard in December on Christmas "important books" for their families. We focused on crafting interesting descriptions and making our ideas clear to our audience (who were the students’ families). You can see the original The Important Book below to see our inspiration. The class made the wrapping paper, cards, and everything, and were very proud of their creations. We hope you enjoyed their lovingly authored Christmas books Merry Christmas! Our class of students have been a resilient, hard-working, and conscientious bunch in this school year, and I’m looking forward to what the New Year brings for learning and community in our classroom!
A trailer for the Citadel's production of A Christmas Carol (a different adaptation from the David van Belle one we watched this year) This week we explored a mini-unit on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. We read the book, watched the Citadel's David van Belle Citadel play production (which was also available virtually again this year), and watched the Muppet's film version. The students enjoyed comparing the different adaptations of the story, and examining the history of why Charles Dickens wrote the story and how its message is still important today. To cap off our unit, we played Jeopardy to review our knowledge of the story and the students earned an impressive amount (not that the money matters so much, as we learned from Ebenezer Scrooge of course). It was lovely to see the class embrace the Christmas spirit and remember the importance of kindness and generosity this week! In late November, the students all wrote letters to Santa, and today we got our letter back from him! He sent us a lovely note, including notification that all the students made it onto the nice list! It was the best mail we could receive right before Winter Break!
This past week we were lucky to have some Inuit artifacts from the Royal Alberta Museum in our classroom. We learned about many interesting aspects of Inuit culture, and were able to use a variety of items including an ulu (multipurpose knife), traditional pulling game, kimiik, art, and a soapstone carving. In the midst of this cold weather snap, it was exciting to learn about how Inuit people adapt so well to the cold climate! You can watch the video below to hear Inuit throat singing. As we continue to practice our persuasive writing skills in our current writing unit, we delved in the genre of advertisements. The students researched the history of ugly Christmas sweaters and then set to work designing their own ugly Christmas sweaters and detailing numerous convincing reasons that their audience should purchase that sweater. The advertisements were truly convincing, and there are some cunning businesspeople in the making in our class!
We're very lucky to have Mrs. B in our school who lived in India, and this week the students who wanted to each got henna art on their hands! Mrs. B is a very talented henna artist, and the smell of the henna was also very pleasant for the three days that she worked hard on the henna! It's so special to connect with India in a really meaningful way with the help of Mrs. B! Today we made illustrations of snow globes in art class. We learned about the history of snow globes, and the students had fun making creative choices about what to fill their snow globes with. They turned out great! Students had to be extra careful because they drew their outlines in marker, and you can see their excellent focus in the photos below. The students from last night’s concert can be very proud of all their work! The singing was beautiful, the acting, impressive, and the whole show went off without a hitch. Mrs. Davies put together a very professional and entertaining concert as usual!
This week we were very lucky to meet (virtually) with a grade three class from Athabasca Delta School in Fort Chipewyan! We taught them a bunch about what we've been learning in our unit on Testing Materials and Designs, and they taught us a bunch about their very neat fly-in community and the winter road that opened today! It was really special to connect with them, and we're excited to visit with them in the coming months!
This week in Coding School the class was thrilled to code with Adafruit's Circuit Playground Express! We created code for a Christmas light display, created an instrument that we could play Jingle Bells with, and created some music and light sequences. This interesting device sure made for a fun week! With the new month came a new writing unit, and we’re now working on changing the world around us with our writing! We’ll be writing persuasive speeches, petitions, and editorials in the coming weeks during our writing time, and the class has been hard at work convincing their audiences of their theses. We are working on changing things in our school and community, and the students have been looking for noteworthy topics and fixable problems to write about. We’ve learned about on developing brave, bold opinions and considering our audience when crafting our arguments. With our recent work on global citizenship in Social Studies, it’s the perfect time for us to be using our writing to change the world around us, whether our school, friends, or community! We wrote letters to Santa today, and then delivered them using Canada Post's Santa Letter-Writing program. It's always engaging to write to a meaningful audience, and there are few audiences as exciting as Santa Claus himself! We're hoping that he might write back to us before Christmas time, so we'll keep watching out for some class mail with anticipation!
Mr. Cherry organized a massive game of dodgeball today for indoor recess with grade three and four students. We had tons of fun, and got some great practicing our throwing aim!
Although Canada didn't fare as well as we might have hoped, we enjoyed watching some of Canada's World Cup matches at school over the past couple of weeks! We talked about time in the game as we're starting our work with measuring time, and it was neat to see countries from around the world compete as we learn about global communities in social studies this year! This week, the students were excited to crack out their rulers and begin our unit on the measurement of time, length, and perimeter! In this unit, the students will:
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Mrs. BarkerMrs. Barker is a grade three teacher at Millgrove School. She loves science and reading, and lives in a little brick house with Mr. Barker and her kids Jack and Ellie. Archive
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