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Positive and Negative Space in Art In Literacy this week, we continued with our story writing.  We worked on adding dialogue to our stories to make our characters talk and add interest.  We also discussed adding endings to our stories so that our writing doesn't just stop, and it is tied up with an ending.  On Friday, we had 3 students share their stories with the class, and we gave them some feedback on what to add or remove from their stories. In math this week, we completed our unit on Geometry with a quiz on Tuesday.  The grade 3's did an amazing job, and we went over the test together.  Our next focus in math is fractions.  This week, we learned that fractions are equal parts of a whole, that they are not whole numbers, how to say and read fractions as well as what denominators and numerators are.  We used playdoh to experiment and create equal parts of a whole before working with our papers and pencils to describe fractions. In Science this week, we completed our building

In literacy this week, we continued to work on our story writing.  This week, we began working on our own story, brainstorming and planning the story elements.  Then we began writing our beginning and 'hooking' our audience. In math this week, we continued working on geometry.  This week we focused on angles, types of lines (parallel, perpendicular and intersecting) and transformations.  The students used pattern blocks to flip, slide and turn their polygons. In Science, we tested our bridges with the earthquake, load (weights), wind and car test. Many students ran into some struggles with their prototypes and used their knowledge of bridges to change and adapt their bridges to pass the tests. In gymnastics this week, we had a fantastic week using the Calgary Climber and the various stations in the gym.  The grade 3's did an amazing job using the skills they used on the mats and applying them to the larger, more difficult equipment.  It was very impressive to see their crea

 In Literacy this week, our focus was on identifying the elements of narrative stories.  The grade 3's were given a graphic organizer that contained all the elements of a story, main character, setting, problem, solution and ending.  We read many different picture books and filled out the graphic organizer by picking out the story elements.  In our reading power lessons, we continued to focus on asking and thinking about 'Deep thinking' questions as we read to help us think more while we are reading.  In word work, we continued our work with the prefixes re, un, dis and in. In math this week, we continued with our focus on geometry.  This week we learned many new terms, polygons, regular and irregular, the names of 7, 8, and 9 sides shapes and angels.  We learned that angles are on the inside of a shape, where 2 sides meet.  We learned what right angles were, and that angels can be larger and smaller than a right angle.  We also used our visual and spacial skills, figuring

 A big thanks to Mrs. MacAulay who was our guest teacher this week while Mrs. Stringer was away. In Literacy this week, the grade three's began working on narrative stories.  This week they wrote about their Spring break and a story from a picture prompt.  Then on Wednesday, they began a story called fortunately and unfortunately.  They followed the pattern that something good happens and then something unhappy happens until the problem in finally solved. In math this week, we began looking at 3-D shapes and how they are different from 2-D shapes.  We explored their edges, faces and vertices.  We also build models of the 3-D shapes from nets to see how they fit together. In Science this week, the grade 3's completed different STEAM tasks to continue exploring in our building unit.  This week, they built the tallest tower out of spaghetti and marshmallows and then a bridge using only 25 popsicle sticks and 2 meters of tape. They tested the strength of their bridges using a load