How to Blow a Bubble!

Here is our "How to Blow a Bubble" bulletin board! The students were given a piece of bubble gum last week during language class and were shown by a few bubble-blowing Grade 3 experts how to blow a perfect bubble. Quite a few were successful! The students then had to write the bubble-blowing procedure for our procedural writing unit!

Christmas Poinsettas!

The glitter came out today to jazz up our Christmas poinsettas! Don't look too closely as it might spoil your surprise Christmas morning!

Letters to Santa!

Big piece of mail headed to the North Pole tomorrow from the kids in 3A! Hopefully Santa will get the letters in time!

Forces in Nature Using Book Creator!

Having finished their science research about forces caused by natural occurences (landslides, lightning, tidal waves, erosion), the students began having fun today presenting their findings using the Book Creator app on the iPads. The plan is to complete these ibooks this week! The students will be working on their books during some of the language blocks this week.

How Long Does It Take the Grade 3 Classes to Walk 1km?

Here were their predictions:

Mrs. Frangione and I were relieved it didn't take 11 hours! The two classes walked 1 km on Friday afternoon around the soccer field and it took us 13 minutes! The students discovered that 1 km roughly equals 1000 steps. Our measurement explorations conclude this week!

One Metre Designs!

During today's Snow Day, the kids had to make a design using 1 metre of wool. The students have been busy estimating and measuring up a storm this week in Math. This activity provided a creative twist to the measurement strand. Designs included a money sign, a star, Gretzky & Crosby's numbers (and Cassidy's!), a heart, a dragon's head, a circle, a lasso and a bowl! Well done!

Descriptive Getaways!

The students' final descriptive paragraphs are gracing the walls of our classroom.The kids used all their senses to bring their islands to life! Many are tropical but some are hockey and superhero-themed! A copy of them will be going home next week!

Warm and Cool Landscapes

3A is bursting with budding artists! Using chalk pastels, the students created warm and cool landscapes. The students chose to either make a cool (blues, greens, purples) sky and warm mountains (yellows, oranges, browns, reds) or vice versa. They did a magnificent job!

What Does Peace Feel Like?

Inspired by Vladimir Radunsky's book "What Does Peace Feel Like?" the students expressed their vision of peace using their senses and pastels - the results are stunning!

Word Wall Words!

Here are this week's words:

your     doesn't     they're     also     really

First Post!

Welcome to the 3A blog! In an effort to keep the 3A parents more connected, I will be blogging a few times a week about the exciting events in our class. Stay tuned for more...once I am sure this will work!