Week 35. ( May 30 -June 1)

 Ducks, Ducks and Ducks!!!

In Literacy this week, we began writing a Duck Diary about the events and experiences our classroom ducklings go through.  The journal is through the Duck's perspective and using the 5 senses to describe things that the ducklings experienced, such as hatching, being held by the students and seeing the outdoors.  The grade 3's did a wonderful job adding voice and really describing what the ducklings might be thinking and feeling.  In Word Work, we learned about more prefix's, super and sub.  The grade three's used their inferring skills to figure out what each prefix meant from the definition of the words.


In math this week, our focus was on perimeter.  We learned what it was and how we can measure it.  We tried to measure the perimeter of our feet and discovered 2 different ways to measure perimeter.  Then we discovered the different shapes can have the same size perimeter, when we all used 30 blocks to build different sized rectangles.   




We then used our art skills to create a Minecraft character, that we will use to find the perimeter of all the different body parts.  To finish off our week, we took our ducklings outside and sketched them, looking carefully at all their unique features.  






Looking Ahead to Next Week:

1. In Literacy, we will continue our Duck Diary to capture our ducklings' adventures.

2. In math, we will look have a quiz on our measurement study.

3. In Science, we will continue with our Animal Life Cycle Unit, learning from our trip to the zoo.

Important Reminders:

1. Library Day - Please return all books to the library this week!!

2. Please continue to work on your READO- home reading Bingo's 

3. Healthy Hunger Lunches - Pop Corn on Fridays & Board Walk Fun Lunch on June 22nd

Healthy Hunger Fun Lunches

4. No school this Friday!!

5. ZOO field Trip on Wednesday, please pack a lunch and water bottle for the day.

Happy Weekend,

Mrs. Stringer


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