Structures

Today marked the start of our structures unit! (Please see below for dictée) 

Today was fully hands on. We looked at pictures of famous structures and reconstructed them with different sets of blocks. See if you can recognize which structure we are recreating 

This week's dictée and last week's pictures.

Here is what you need to know about this week's dictée: there is nothing to practice at home. The 'celebration' on Friday will be on words that they have already done, and should know at this point in grade 3. We will practice in class today. 

This week we are starting our structures unit. Thank you so much to everyone who brought in supplies. If you are still looking for something to bring, we could use some most masking tape and long skewers. 

BVM

Here is a bit more info from the museum about our field trip on Friday. Included is an english story that they will read in school. I am attaching it as something to read before we get there on Friday! Also, notes went home in agendas today about driving on Friday. Thank you for all your help!

You will probably notice that this week's dictée is not actually a dictée but instead is a spelling test. This is because when we go to burnaby village museum on Friday, the students will be given an English spelling test. This is to prep them for that! 

Tomorrow, I will be doing a draw of parent driver names to see who will stay with us at burnaby village museum. We can only have 4 stay. If you have volunteered for driving, and would like to be one of the people who does not stay at the museum, please let me know!

Skating!

Remember, tomorrow we are going skating! Please remember to bring skates (if you have), CSA approved helmed (not a bike helmet), warm clothes and mittens. Also, don't forget a booster seat! 

If you are helping drive, please come to the portable for 10:20am 

Dictée and math

You may have noticed, lots of papers came home today! Space and addition papers came home. You may have seen that there are probably some addition worksheets that are not finished. This is on purpose. I always give them lots so that they can keep practicing at home. We did lots of addition with regrouping, so please keep practicing this at home. 

You may have also noticed that dictée this week looks a bit different. There are 10 english words, and 10 french words. The French ones are the translation of the english ones. These words are ones we will need to know when we go to bvm next week. 

Be sure to check the post below to see important information about our next science unit!

Next Science Unit

Hi everyone,

Our next science unit will be structures (on a side note..our next socials unit is changes in community. To get a taste of it, check out this website). This is a very fun, hands-on unit. We will be doing daily structure challenges, including pre-planning, building, and reflection. Some will be with blocks in class, but others will be with every day materials. We receive very limited money for class supplies, so I always put the call out to parents to see if anyone has any of the materials to give to the class. Please don't feel like you need to go out and buy everything. Anything is very much appreciated! If you are buying supplies, dollar store brands are just fine! Please send your donations to school before January 30th, as we will be starting this unit the next week.

If you have something to donate, please leave a comment in the comments section so we don't have 30 packages of spaghetti...

Here is our supplies list:

Long spaghetti
Large marshmallows (about 25)
Small marshmallows (lots!)
Plastic wrap
Aluminum foil
Toothpicks (lots!)
Wood skewers
Gumdrops (don't worry, we aren't eating them)
Red Solo cups
Large news paper
String
Masking tape
Drinking straws
Pretzel sticks

Update on this week

Before I forget, thank you for sending back all the forms asap. I know it's been a lot recently. I am sending back hot lunch forms as we are now away at bvm that day. If you still want to order, and have it saved for your child, please Send it back with a note indicating that is your choice. 

We have had another busy week! I am amazed at how much we have been able to get done since we came back in January! Here are some subject area updates:

Space: This is our last week studying space! We will finish up our book and then send copies home!

Next up is pioneers and then structures. Both are very fun units! Please keep an eye out here for some requests for help with these units. 

Finally, here is a fun picture from today...be sure to ask what it going on!

Dictée correction

Thanks Nancy for catching my Monday morning mistake! In the dictée, it should be utilisé. 

Dictée

Here is this week's dictée