Mrs. Stringers Blog

Happy Spring Equinox!!  On Monday, we listened to the words of Elder Saa'kokoto explain the importance of Spring and 'the gifts of Spring'. As we listened, we sketched in our visual journals our thoughts in pictures and words.  Then we sketched and drew some beautiful crocus' or 'Ears of the Earth' to add to our classroom bulletin board. In literacy this week, we finished many writing assignments we started last week.  We finished our funny Limericks and our persuasive writing by typing out our good copies.  In reading power, we finished our work on visualizing and wrote picture words that helped us to visualize a picture in our minds.  In Word work, we began our work on prefixes and suffixes.   In math this week, we finished our work on multiplication and division.  We reviewed fact families, remainders and how we can see division and multiplication in arrays.  On Friday, we completed our quiz showing everything we learned in this unit. In Science, we began our

 The grade 3's did such a wonderful job with the Spring Showcase on Wednesday.  It was amazing to see all their hard work in music come together.  Thanks to all the parents that were able to come and celebrate their child's hard work ! In literacy this week, we began writing another persuasive writing piece.  This week, the grade 3's had a choice between writing about their favourite book or trying to convince the parent council that they should buy us some lacrosse sticks.  On St. Patrick's Day, the grade 3's learned about Limericks.  They learned that Limericks are short, funny 5 lined poems that have a rhythm and rhyme. Also, this week we explored visualizing a character in a story and drew a character based on the author's description.   In math this week, we continued to work on division.  This week we learned that division is like repeated subtraction and that we can use array's to show multiplication and division equations.   In Social Studies this we

 * Please remember our SPRING showcase concert on Wednesday, March 15th - Wear Green* In Literacy this week, we continued our work on our first Persuasive writing piece.  We focused our attention on our endings and revising our writing using 3-2-1 Check it!.  The grade 3's learned that when we are writing or communicating our ideas, we need to make sure that our printing is clear, and our readers can read it.  In reading, we talked about the different genres of books and how we want to fill our book boxes with different types of genres to expand our 'reading powers'.  This week in word work, we focused on adding 'ed' to verbs to make them past tense.  We talked about how there are different ways of adding 'ed', like doubling the consonant or dropping the e.  We also learned that 'ed' can make three different sounds, it can sound like 'id, t or d' when it is at the end of a word. In math this week, we began our journey through division.  We le

 In Literacy this week, we learned about another genre of non-fiction writing, persuasive writing.  Together we read a story about a little boy trying to convince his mother to buy him an Iguana as a pet.  Then we learned about the structure of persuasive writing, What? Why? Why? Why? and What was that again.  We planned out our writing and then began our draft. In math this week, we continued our study of multiplication.  This week, we worked on our giant multiplication chart in the hallway, adding the factors and products to the chart.  As well, we worked on solving word problems using multiplication.  We talked about remembering to use our success criteria when completing our work, so we can complete all of it. In Social Studies this week, we began our travels to our next country, Tunisia.  This week we learned that Tunisia is the smallest country in Africa and that it has 3 different types of landforms.  We also used our detective skills by looking closely at different pictures fro