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!
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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! ![]() This week the students have been delighted to work on and solve an animal kidnapping mystery using their Math skills to uncover clues. They used their powers of deduction to narrow down the list of suspects to find the villain and rescue kidnapped pets (while practicing their skills with three-digit addition, fractions, multiplication, division, and perimeter). When I asked if they'd like to solve another mystery later this year, they replied with an adamant yes, so we'll try our hands at another mystery later this year! 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
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. The students especially looked forward to estimating mass before we measured it using the scales we had in the classroom this week. 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 of plants (and animals). To get started on these learning outcomes, this week we got some 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!
In Math this past week, we started 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:
On our Participark walk this week, we made use of our math skills as we went on a mathematical scavenger hunt! The students had to make some increasing patterns, count and create some referents using leaves, and practice their estimation skills. We had unexpectedly beautiful weather, and we had a great time in the woods as usual!
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 week, and enjoyed 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!
We've been practicing our estimating skills in 3B this week, and the students put those skills to use on our Participark walk today! 3K joined us on our walk to collet leaves, and we secretly made piles of leaves with different amounts, and then used referent piles to estimate the amount of leaves. The students had some impressively accurate estimates!
The students have become more comfortable with having an informed estimate that doesn't exactly match their subsequent count. In grade three, students use referents to help inform their estimates of amounts up to 1000! You can see photos of some of our math activities from the past week, and click on the game below to practice more estimation. 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
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:
This month we’re learning about numbers from 1 to 1000, and today we tested out our knowledge of those numbers by making a giant number line on the tarmac with chalk! We had to be thoughtful about the order of different three digit numbers, and the students enjoyed racing to the approximate spot of different numbers on the number line
You may have heard of March Madness, but 2B is taking part in a book tournament called March Book Madness over the next month. There is a bracket of 16 entertaining and interesting picture books, and we have enjoyed reading the selections. We start voting this week to see which books move on in the tournament. We’ll keep you posted on which books make it to the next round of March Book Madness!
In preparation for the Tokyo Olympics this summer, 2B held its own Paper Kicking Olympics in Math this week. We’ve been practicing two-digit addition recently in Math, so the students worked hard to measure and tabulate their totals, and their were some impressive kicks! Some of the students challenged themselves to add up the totals of large groups of students, which led to some very accurate three-digit addition
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Mrs. BarkerMrs. Barker is a grade three and literacy 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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