2023-2024 Gr. Three Harris

 Telus Sparks Field Trip On Tuesday, we had a wonderful day at Telus Sparks. A big thank you to our wonderful volunteers who joined us and made our trip possible. Our day was filled with everything related to technology, from learning how to code a Lego set that we built to watching a robot dog do its tricks and then discovering all of the amazing gifts that Leonardo Di Vinci contributed to our world. The students had a terrific time, and we came away with so many wonderful new discoveries. This trip was designed to be a springboard for our new Computer Science Unit. In this unit, we will foster our problem-solving and scientific inquiry by learning to apply creativity and designing skills to develop computational thinking.  Once we return to class from a field trip, we will often take the time to reflect on our experience and create a page in our journal. The following three statements are used to help guide our thinking.  I observed....... ( using your observational ski...

Our week started with a beautifully illustrated novel called " Monkey Business" by Wallace Edwards. It is a book with a collection of elaborate, off-beat illustrations that feature animals comically engaged in the activities of commonly used idioms (i.e., a bull in a china shop, an alligator that 'eats her words...). We had lots of fun deciphering what the idioms meant and had an elaborate conversation about why understanding an idiom is important when reading a story. We discovered that we should learn idioms to understand the real message an author or speaker wants to convey so there will be no misunderstanding.  We also used Frayer's Model to focus on a chosen idiom phrase. A Frayer Model is a graphic organizer that  helps students determine or clarify the meaning of vocabulary words encountered while listening, reading, and viewing texts . It can be used before reading to activate background knowledge, during reading to monitor vocabulary, or after reading to asse...

 Welcome Back, and Happy New Year! It was wonderful to see everyone back at school this week. We did not waste any time jumping back into our learning tasks. After working so hard on our Science food chain research projects, students were busy this week learning how to use the stop motion app and creating their claymation movies. We quickly discovered that teamwork is so important to successfully filming and moving our figures on the setting mats. Next week we hope to add our scripts to the films and share our movies with you and the rest of the class. When your child has finished their movie, I will teach them how to be able to show it to you when they access their Gmail account. Please take the time to watch it and ask them what they have learned while doing this project.   In math this week, we continued our unit about length and perimeter. We learned how to measure lengths in centimetres and metres, convert measurements from metres to centimetres, and back again. We a...