Mrs. Stringers Blog

  Due to our short week last week, I have combined the last two weeks into this post! In literacy last week, we completed our unit on non-fiction writing.  The grade threes used a rubric to mark themselves on their writing before handing it in.  They also created a Holiday poem about Valentines, using their 5 senses. Then this week we focused our discussions and writing around Pink Shirt Day and Anti-bullying.  The grade three's wrote a poem about bulling from different perspectives, either the Bully, the Bullied or the Bystanders.  They discussed with their classmates how each person would feel, would see, and would be thinking in a bullying situation.  They then used these ideas to fill in sentences starters to create a poem.  In our reading power lessons, we continued to discuss how good author's paint pictures in our mind and we as readers need to VISUALIZE these pictures as we read.  Together we read a picture book and different students drew what they were visualizing, an

 In literacy this week, we continued our work with Non-fiction writing.  The grade 3's choose another topic and began their dash facts research.  In reading, we continued our discussion about 'Connecting' with our books.  This week we focused on making different connections, connections with the world, ourselves and other books we have read.   In math this week, we began another big idea, multiplication.  This we learned that multiplication is repeated addition and that the multiplication sign means 'groups of'.  We also learned that multiplication is a lot like repeated addition and what an 'array' is.  We explored and created different arrays with coloured tiles and transferred our arrays onto graph paper. In Science this week, we concluded our Hearing & Sound unit.  We build instruments that can create a sound, change pitch and volume.  The grade 3's also presented their instruments to their classmates and were wonderful audience members, asking r

  Thank-you once again to the wonderful parent volunteers who were able to attend our field trip to Studio Bell this week!! In literacy this week, we finished our descriptive paragraph about our animal.  This week, we focused on writing an effective ending and revising our work.  Then we wrote a good copy of our report and drew a diagram of the animal. In math this week, we concluded our measurement unit of time. We compared the units of measure, seconds, minutes and hours.  Then we worked through different activities for a minute and compared them with our group.  On Thursday, we had a quick quiz showing how you can read an analog and digital clocks. In Science, we had a wonderful trip to Studio Bell on Wednesday.  The grade 3's learned that an instrument must have a vibration to make a sound.  They learned that instruments must be either plucked, struck, blown or electric as it's source of energy.  They explored the different levels to the sound museum and tried out different