To wrap up our learning about geometry this week, the students made teepees (sometimes called mīkiwāhp in Cree) that featured a variety of polygons and other 2D shapes. We also learned from Miss Smith about First Nations teachings about teepees, and how they are traditionally constructed. The class enjoyed analyzing each other’s creations in a gallery walk the next day, and it’s clear they’ve learned a lot about regular polygons, irregular polygons, and 3D objects! 3B has been working hard in our look at 2D shapes and 3D objects in Math this week. Geometric shapes are all around us, and mathematics can help your child recognize them. Understanding geometric form will help your child appreciate the geometry found in art, design, architecture, and nature.
In this unit, the students will:
You can encourage your child to look for geometric shapes and objects around the home and neighbourhood, and talk about them. Here are some suggestions for activities that you can do at home:
So far we’ve learned how to describe and compare shapes and objects using words like vertices, edges, faces, and length. You can see some of our explorations in the pictures below! In anticipation of our Animal Life Cycles unit in Science, our class did some pretend shopping to prepare for a pretend pet that our class would purchase. Some students chose supplies for snakes, others for cats, and of course many bought supplies for dogs. When they'd selected their purchases (and made up a few items that weren't available in our printed selections), they had to add up the total sum of their shopping, using rounding and addition to figure out the total. It's always fun to practice Math with some real life connections!
We're starting a new unit this week in Math on Data Analysis. Data analysis relates to the collection, organization, and interpretation of information.
In this unit, your child will:
Here are some suggestions for activities you can do with your child.
This week we started our Math unit on fractions! Students will build upon their real-world experiences of “fair shares” to recognize a fraction as an expression that relates a part and a whole. In this unit we will:
We use fractions every day in many different situations. Encourage your child to recognize the use of fractions in daily life, for example, when filling a glass half full, measuring ingredients for a recipe, or sharing an apple. Here are some activities you can do with your child to help reinforce the concept of fractions: Fraction Activities
The students have really loved playing the game Wordle in Language Arts, and Nerdle in Math over the past couple of weeks! Wordle is a word game that gives players six attempts to guess a five-letter word, and Nerdle is a numbers game where players need to figure out the mystery equation. The students look forward to solving the puzzles every day, and we have some very skilled spellers and mathematicians in 3B!
This month our class is starting a Math unit on multiplication and division! Multiplication and division are basic computational skills that children must eventually master in order to succeed in higher levels of mathematics. The focus of this unit is developing an understanding of the process of multiplication and division in order to develop strategies for multiplying and dividing whole numbers up to 5 x 5. Children will use counters, number lines, and arrays to develop their understanding. In this unit, the students will:
You can encourage your child to share different strategies used to multiply and divide. We use multiplication and division in many day-to-day situations. Here are some suggestions for activities you can try at home:
Today we went Christmas shopping in 3B! Given the students' growing skills with three-digit addition and subtraction, they were given a mission to make a selection of toys and other items for themselves with a budget of $1000 using some flyers. All the students stayed within the budget (except for a few who felt confident to add beyond $1000), and their selections and adding strategies were varied and impressive. We look forward to planing more shopping trips with our math skills!
In our measurement unit, we've been honing our skills in measuring mass in grams and kilograms, and measuring length, width, height, and perimeter in centimetres and metres. The students especially looked forward to estimating mass before we measured it using the scales we had in the classroom this week! Our amaryllis plants have continued to rocket up in their growth! As part of our learning about measurement and life cycles, we've been closely observing the growth of the plants over the past couple of months. Our plants have grown exponentially, almost to the height of a metre, in the past month, and many flowers have blossomed this week. You can watch the video below to see a time-lapse of another amaryllis growing.
This week, the students were excited to crack out their rulers and begin our unit on the measurement of time, length, perimeter, and mass!
In this unit, the students will:
Here are some activities you can try with your child:
In grade three, we learn about measuring height in centimetres (and metres) and we also learn about the life cycles. To get started on these learning outcomes, this week we got some amaryllis plants in our classroom, with special help from the families of Rowen, Bruce, and Nathan! We will be tracking the growth of these plants over time and observing changes as their life cycles progress. The students especially enjoyed naming their plants, and we are curious to see how the plants grow in the weeks ahead!
In Math this past week, we are starting a new unit on addition and subtraction. Your child will develop strategies for adding and subtracting whole numbers by using open number lines, addition charts, mental math, estimation, Base Ten Blocks, place-value mats, and pencil and paper.
In this unit, your child will:
Here are some suggestions for activities you can engage in with your child:
We’ve been putting together many of our building number sense skills in 3B this month as we worked on creating amounts with coins, estimating up to 1000, and skip counting by 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s. We also enjoyed some graphing this month, and had fun reading a book all about animals and numbers. You can try some of the estimation and skip counting games below and take a look at some pictures of what we’ve been up to in Math class!
Our class is beginning a math unit on Numbers to 1000, and the students are always thinking of interesting ways to count, represent numbers, and compare amounts! In this unit, the students will:
Here are some activities you can do at home to support this learning:
We started our focus on increasing patterns in math this week. Increasing patterns can often prove to be tricky, but the students in 3B have worked hard to describe, reproduce, extend, and create increasing patterns over the past week. You can practice increasing patterns by taking the link to the game below
Among Us is incredibly popular with some of the students in our class, so this week we had a couple of days to have some fun with that theme. We wrote using an Among Us prompt, played a real-life Among Us Math Scavenger Hunt, and completed some challenging Math missions in an online Among Us format. The students enjoyed creating their own avatars, completing the Math tasks, and figuring out who the imposters were. It was a fun way to review some of our learning from this year!
We put our measurement skills to the test today as we measured the perimeter of the school! Students worked in groups to measure different portions of the school building, and when we added up the different distances, they impressively added up to an even 400 metres!
We're starting a new unit this week in Math on Data Analysis. Data analysis relates to the collection, organization, and interpretation of information.
In this unit, your child will:
Here are some suggestions for activities you can do with your child.
3B has been working hard in our look at 2D shapes and 3D objects in Math this week. Geometric shapes are all around us, and mathematics can help your child recognize them. Understanding geometric form will help your child appreciate the geometry found in art, design, architecture, and nature.
In this unit, the students will:
You can encourage your child to look for geometric shapes and objects around the home and neighbourhood, and talk about them. Here are some suggestions for activities that you can do at home:
So far we’ve learned how to describe and compare shapes and objects using words like vertices, edges, faces, and length. You can see some of our explorations in the pictures below! |
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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