2023-2024 Gr. Three Harris

  This week in Math, we have started our money unit. In this unit we will learn how to count money, including coins and bills. We will learn the relationships among coins, including the penny. Although the penny is no longer used in Canada, the value of the penny as one cent is still important as the base value of all the other coins. We will count money amounts involving coins starting with the larger value, and we will learn to represent money amounts using the least number of coins. Once we have familiarized ourselves with coins we will learn how to make change by counting to the nearest multiple of ten and then counting up to the nearest dollar.  In literacy, we had lots of fun using the short wordless animation film "Snack Attack" to create our short stories. The video tells the story of an old lady and her intention to eat some snacks (cookies). The short movie touch on a sequence of quite compelling themes: Understanding elderly people. Judging someone based on their a...

A big thank you to all of our volunteers who joined us for Aggie Days this week. The students had a wonderful time learning all about the agricultural climate in Alberta and gaining an appreciation for the hard work that it takes behind the scene to provide food for us to eat.  In Math this week was to learn how to skip count to divide. We discovered how to skip count on a number line, skip count using our fingers and that we can divide by sharing the total number of items and the number of times in each set.  To use a number line we considered, what number is being divided? (20) How can you tell from the picture? (20 is where the arrows end) What number are we dividing by?(4) How can you tell? (4 is the size of the jump) So, what is the answer to 20 ÷ 4? (5) How can you tell from the picture? (the number of arrows)    We also discovered that skip counting can be performed by  keeping track of the number of times you skip count, using fingers. For example when s...

  During the last two weeks in Science we have been discussing forces and that a force is something that can cause movement.  We explored a series of pictures in which there were many actions occurring.  After examining the pictures, and looking at all of the forces, the stud ents discussed the question "What exactly is a force?"    A block was placed on a desk, and a question posed:  "How can we move this block without it leaving the desk?"  We discussed many options, and concluded that in each case we were either pushing or pulling the block (or a tool touching the block) to make it move.  We read about using pushes and pulls to move (or attempt to move) objects, and then looked back at the picture from out previous lesson.    Through a variety of centers we learned to label the forces as being "gravity", "buoyancy", "friction", "muscular”, “magnetic” or “wind”.  I have attached a video that represents our learning.     ...