3SB wishes you a very Merry Christmas! 🎄
Our class loved having the traditional Millgrove Carol Sing two mornings this week, and it was so special as always to join together in familiar songs. Many songs were from this year's Christmas concert, along with many Christmas classics, and the school came together as always. There are few places more Christmasy than Millgrove during the week before winter break, and we were lucky to have some visitors join us for the carol sings as well.
3SB wishes you a very Merry Christmas! 🎄 This week we explored a mini-unit on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. We read the book, watched part of the Citadel's David van Belle Citadel play production (which was also available virtually), and watched the Muppets' 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! 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 To help Santa prepare his sleigh and fit in the many packages, we practiced our perimeter-caluclating skills today by measuring and adding up the perimiter of different packages.
The students of 3SB have put a tremendous amount of work into their multiple biographies this past month, and this week we capped off that work by publishing them! Mrs. Pirie is going to have them as published books in the library, and our schoolmates will be able to sign them out and learn from all the hard research that these writing pieces represent! There's a wonderful diversity of who the students wrote about, and their use of varied non-fiction text features, clear organization, and in-depth knowledge are very commendable!
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! He wrote a specific note to each student from the letters they each wrote to him which was especially thoughtful and special. It was the best mail we could receive a week before before Winter Break!
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:
Here are some activities you can try with your child:
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! This month in our reading mini-lessons, we'll be practicing the skill of visualizing as we read! Visualizing is all about making a picture in our minds of what we're reading about. When readers visualize:
We wrote letters to Santa yesterday, and then delivered them using Canada Post's Santa Letter-Writing program today. 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!
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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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