8 Crazy Days!

We have had some of the busiest days at school yet! 

Bike Week went great with lots of safety tips and fun in the Bike Rodeo! 

Then came Swim Week! Everyone did great in their lessons, and I don't think we could have asked for BETTER WEATHER! 

Caught some Slow Mo action!

Grade 3's had an eventful day at the Ukrainian Village! It was so amazing to take a step back into the early 1900's and experience this open air museum! 

A Few Reminders: 

Grade 3's will be swimming Monday AND Wednesday next week. 

Grade 4's will be swimming Wednesday ONLY. 

We are heading to Newsies at John Maland on Tuesday, May 29th. 

Friday June 1 is Western Dress up day! 

June 6th is Early Dismissal and our second Wellness Day Afternoon. 

Camp Warwa is coming up! We will be staying over June 14 - 15th. 

Grade 3's go to the U of A gardens on June 14th. 

Volunteer Appreciation is June 19th. 

Free Swim days are June 25-27th. 

ELA:

We have been reading, reviewing, and writing Fairy Tales! 

Students have read various versions of the "Three Little.. " somethings with a Big Bad character! We have done comparison activities, discussed preferences and have begun to write our own fractured fairy tales! 

Students are working to write a substitution story, with their own creative characters and setting. This is a chance for them to work on adding all the skills we have learned thus far this year; varied sentence starters, show don't tell, stretch a sentence, and writing in  logical sequence. 

So far there are some hilarious titles, with engaging beginnings!  Students worked on creating each aspect of their story, one bit at a time. 

Before getting started we brainstormed different types of adjectives to help us add detail to our stories. While I read aloud, Three Little Pugs and the Big Bad Cat students wrote down as many adjectives as they could, afterwards adding them to the category they belonged to. 

First was characters. We compared the different characters from each story and looked for similarities in character traits. 

We also brainstormed what traits the Good nad Evil characters have in each story. 

Then they created traits for the characters in their stories. 

Next, they worked on creating a strong beginning, using various sentence starters and details. 

Students will continue to work on the middle and end of their stories next week. 

Math

We are continuing to work through various strategies to solve division problems and build our basic fact knowledge. 

Students have worked with: 

• Fact Families
• Repeated addition and subtraction 
• Making sets 
• Sharing into groups 

to solve various problems. 

A skill we are working to reinforce, is reading word problems and determining whether to multiply or divide to solve the problem. 

We had a quick quiz this week, and this area is where most students needed reinforcement and practice. We went over the quiz together to strengthen understanding. 

Science 3 

We have wrapped up our Survivor unit, and moved onto Animal Life Cycles! 

You may have heard about some visitors we have in our room - Caterpillars! 

Students are going to observe the butterflies as they grow, and note the changes in their specific life cycle. 

Science 4 

Students are continuing to work on their TTT projects! Currently, they are building self propelling cars that need to travel at least 2 meters. 

Here are the trailers from our Marble Tracks!! We invited 4C to come over and watch our trailers and tell us whether they would purchase our toy or not!