2023-2024 Gr. Three Harris

  Character Development   This week in health class we continued to explore the qualties that help us develop resilience by learning about our brain and how incredible it is. We discussed that our brain helps us to experience the world through our senses, feelings and actions. We agreed how wonderful this is but, sometimes our brains can cause use some challenges when we get super angry, frustrated  or anxious. When this happens, we are not at our best and these types of emotions can intensify and cause us to temporarily lose control of our actions. We call this “flipping our lid” We discussed that this is perfectly normal and helps to keep us safe from danger, but when we have these strong emotions, we are not always in danger resulting in us acting without thinking. Consequently this results in us getting more upset.    We took the time to learn that there are three main parts of the brain using a hand model and that these parts are involved when we have big e...

Over the last three week we have been learning about multiplication. In our unit we learned to look at patterns in multiplication and how to use these patterns to retain number facts. When we can see patterns in numbers it helps us to develop our fluency in multiples within 100. When a child is fluent in his or her multiplication tables he or she can spend their mental effort on problem-solving and higher-level thinking rather than recalling facts or skip counting to multiply. We have reviewed odd and even numbers, and adding a sequence of numbers to model multiplication with repeated addition, skip counting, and objects in equal-sized groups. We also covered the concept of a commutative property of multiplication through the use of arrays (4x3 is the same as 3x4 ). In google classroom you will also find links to help you support your child with the use of doubles when multiplying by 2,4,8 and 3,6 as well as a fun strategy for multiplying by 9’s.       In Language Arts we...

 How to be an UPSTANDER This week as we focused on Pink Shirt day we used the time to gain a better understanding of what a bully is, and how to address bullying if we experience it or witness others being treated unkindly. We learned that everyone has a role to play to build healthy relationships and how to create an environment that helps to prevent bullying in our classroom, school and greater community. Many times the word bullying is also used inappropriately and we discussed the Alberta Education definition for bullying which is "a conscious and deliberate, repeated and cruel activity that is done with the intent to harm and/or threat of aggression. Bullying can be verbal, social, physical or cyber-bullying. Being bullied is not considered a normal part of growing up." We also discussed how the word repeated in our definition is an important indicator of someone who is a bully verses someone who is just being mean and making a bad choice. We used the video Be an Upstand...