We’re about half way done reading our most recent read aloud, The Wild Robot by Peter Brown. The class has grown quite fond of the robot protagonist Roz and her gosling son Brightbill, and they are very particular about how I read Roz’s dialogue in the book (it must be strictly monotone with no expression). We can’t wait to find out what happens to Roz at the book’s conclusion!
This week in Coding School we've been working hard on creating our own video games! Each student created their very own Capture and Evade game, and then we started on making a Platformer game. The class was very impressive with their computational thinking, and we made plenty of use of our skills in algorithms, decomposition, pattern recognition, generalization, and abstraction. You can play your child's video game by using the link they posted on Seesaw!
In grade three, we are learning about measuring height in centimetres (and millimetres, decimetres, and metres) and we also learn about life cycles. To get started on these learning outcomes, this week we got some amaryllis plants in our classroom. 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!
We’ve been learning all about fair tests, hypotheses, beams, pillars, materials, and conclusions in Science these days! You can see some photos below of some of our experiments this week.
With the very chilly weather this week, we've been having lots of indoor recesses, so it was a treat when Mr. Cherry led all our classes in some delightful games in the gym for recess time today!
We were very lucky to have a special guest visit our class today! Our Master Sailor works with the Canadian Armed Forces in the Navy, so it was fascinating to learn about his important role. He also shared some very relevant history of the Canadian Armed Forces, and notable wars that Canada has participated in, along with moving stories about Canadians who have served our country so honourably. It was a really meaningful visit for the students, and we were grateful to have this special guest for the week of Remembrance Day. We had our second coding session this week with the Northern Coding Academy from Telus World of Science! This week we learned about some of the foundations of computational thinking including pattern recognition and decomposition. It was fun to explore computational thinking with some interactive activities, and we learned so much from our coding expert Amanda!
We’ve been reading and writing Halloween poetry this week in Language Arts, and wrote a variety of different types of poetry this past week. The students worked hard to make interesting word choices and tried to paint pictures in their readers’ minds. They are very proud of their variety of poems, and you can see more of your child's poetry on Seesaw! This week we started our new Science unit on Testing Materials and Designs! The students are getting all set up as pretend testing contractors, and we’re feeling very ready to tackle this new mission in 3B since we got a business license and our own individual contractor pencils! In this unit, students will study the materials and designs used in construction tasks. They will compare paper, clay, cardboard, styrofoam, and other available materials to see which are the strongest—which ones resist bending, crushing, or tearing—and which are the most easily shaped and joined. They will test different shapes and thicknesses to find out what makes a structure strong and stable and to find out how much material is needed. Students will learn that many factors are considered the materials and designs are selected and that different tasks may require different materials and designs. In the coming weeks, students will learn to:
We had a splendid day celebrating Halloween in 3B! Students got to wear their costumes all day, and we had quite an array of book characters, video game stars, conniving villains, and many other clever costumes in 3B. We enjoyed doing some Halloween-themed activities in the morning, and then this afternoon we took part in Millgrove’s virtual Halloween Parade and watched a Halloween movie. The students enjoyed playing their board games as well, and there were some highly competitive games going on in the afternoon. From the sounds of it, there were many successful trick or treaters as well that night!
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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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