Hello family and friends!
Thought I would send out a little update for our class and to give you a glance at what we are working on in class.
This week we celebrate pink shirt day, and being a very difficult year for all, we decided to celebrate it all week by talking about anti-bullying ideas and kindness everyday. The students whipped up a quick video after they brainstormed ideas and made a brief outline in groups. Most student groups chose to focus on the bullying aspect and finished with a kind message. The video was shared with the other grade three classes who shared one they also made in turn.
We continue to roll on this week with our addition strategies, with some subtraction on the horizon! We are settling into how we like to solve problems and no two students are the same. I expect the next two weeks to be a bit of an adjustment for some of the students, as we take the difficulty up a notch. Don't worry! We are here to help, support, and assist everyone in the class until they are comfortable.
We have been learning a lot about sound the last few days. What it is, how it works, and how our ears and brains perceive it. We've also participated in some cool experiments about how sound can move through solid objects and how it can move objects. In social studies, the students had a chance to check out student life at a few different Indian schools. We then took turns teaching each other about what we had learned. At the end of last week we tried our hand at some student-led coding time and watched the Perseverance land on Mars! It was an exciting and historical occasion that we are still talking about.
Looking forward to some continued warm weather so we can get outside more often. As always, feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions or concerns.
Stay healthy,
Adrian
