We have had a fun week with our science stations and Halloween themed activities! We had a lot going on this week... so this post is filled with photos!
We finished up our science stations which revolved around animal life cycles, adaptations of animals, habitats and endangered animals. Students worked both independently and with small groups to research information, learn to draw animals and apply their knowledge for these tasks. One of the favourites was reading about some "Dangerous Or Not" animals on Epic and creating a wanted poster for some pests and predators.
Another station that students really enjoyed was creating a trading card for an animal. They researched and read about animals and then used what they learned to create a fact card with a realistic drawing of an animal of their choice in its habitat. It was a fun time for students to grow in their independence, have some choice in their learning and show what they know about animals!
In math, we focused on skip counting and looking for patterns in numbers this week. In grade 3, students should be able to:
Say the number sequence 0 to 1000 forward and backward by:
• 5s, 10s or 100s, using any starting point
• 3s, using starting points that are multiples of 3
• 4s, using starting points that are multiples of 4
• 25s, using starting points that are multiples of 25.
This is a very important skill for students, especially as we start to move into multiplication and division later in the year. This is a concept that will be reviewed regularly in the year. If you want to practice at home, you could take turns skip counting from any number until someone makes a mistake and make it into a game! Or you could use an online hundreds chart and have your child colour the skip counting pattern of your choice on the chart.
https://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/splat/splatsq100.html
In writing, we are working on adding adjectives to our writing. To have some fun with this, we drew some haunted houses. We then planned and write a house listing using some descriptive writing, imagining that we would try to sell this house to a spooky client. They practiced using adjectives as well as transition words like:
- also
- in addition
- next
- lastly
- finally
We had some fun on Thursday by taking some time to share our Time Capsule projects and videos. These videos are all available on our Google Classroom for you to see. Students shared their box with another student and in return, students practiced asking good questions and giving compliments. We used a free app called "Puppet Edu" to create these videos. Students wrote a script to help them organize their ideas before recording their videos. Although the videos are short, I hope you notice the effort and time that your child put into making them so that you can see what they are doing at school
Lastly, we celebrated Halloween on Thursday afternoon by playing some Halloween math games, doing some step-by-step drawing and completing a digital escape room! This escape room coincides with what we have been learning about in math and is a really fun way for students to practice skills and concepts. This is available on our Google Classroom if you want them to show you!
We hope you have a safe Halloween weekend! See you Monday :)
Important Upcoming Dates
Oct. - 30 - No School
Nov. 9 - Photo Retakes
Nov. 11 - No School. Remembrance Day
