Are you there spring? It's us, room 102!

 Good day everyone,

Since our last post, the students and I have been hard at work with out subtraction strategies. We are finding what works for each individual student and what doesn't. Unfortunately due to the tumultuousness that was last year, we are taking a little longer to settle in to some of our subtraction strategies. However, everyone is working very hard to understand as always! At the moment we are working on one of my favourites, two and three digit subtraction with regrouping. 

In writing we have wrapped up our look at great and exciting introductions with picture and musical prompts to stoke our imaginations. Next week we will be starting a rather lengthy period of discussing elaborative detail in writing. So far I have been very impressed by the number of great writers we have in the classroom! Looking forward to improving our skills and becoming even better. 

In science and social studies, we will be finishing our sound unit as well as our look at Tunisia in the next week. Up next for social studies is Ukraine, and science will see us exploring soil as the weather warms up a little. Expect to hear a lot about us growing plants in the classroom in the near future. In other news, we have begun two weekly student-generated activities. The first is the tried and true show and tell. The idea behind this is to give students two minutes to share something that they have created or are working on in their spare time. Please don't send your child to school with something expensive or that can be easily lost! Art, writing, coding projects, family history are all great ideas. Picture and video of pets are also fine. The second project is a question box. Students can add questions about things they are curious about or would otherwise not learn in grade three. I will take a question and make a presentation for them for the following week. Eventually I will expand this idea to have the students answer some of the questions on google classroom as well. 

In preparation for the upcoming interviews, I have had the students complete a short questionnaire about where they think they are in terms of classroom expectations. This will in-turn be used for one-on-one interviews with students to discuss learning goals for the rest of the year, as well as in our interviews at the end of the month. Don't forget to sign up!   

Thats it for this update, stay healthy everyone! 

-Room 102