Mrs. Stringers Blog

 Happy Summer Solstice!! In literacy this week, we worked on our descriptive paragraph writing about ducks.  The grade 3's researched facts about ducks and then wrote their ideas into a non-fiction paragraph.  They used Fancy Fact starters and 3- scoop words to complete some of their best writing this year.  They did a wonderful job revising their writing, looking for punctuation and sentences to change. In math this week, we finished our unit on currency.  Several students brought in currency from different countries around the world, and we compared it to our Canadian coins and banknotes.  We also reviewed our work with equations, working on adding and subtracting equations to solve for the unknown number. To celebrate the summer solstice this week, we listened to the teaching of an Elder and learned some Blackfoot words for sun, earth and summer, that we sketched in our visual journals.  Then we played some Indigenous games outside during gym. ...

 Goodbye Ducklings!! This week, we said goodbye to our ducklings, as they headed back to the farm to continue with speedy growth and be with the other ducks.  Harry, Oreo, Pom Pom and Brownie walked down the hallway, in a DUCK walk to day goodbye. In literacy this week, we finished our duck diaries by adding in a sandwich poem about Ducklings and adding the lifecycle of a duck.  Then we began our research about Ducks to help answer some of our questions that arose during the first days with our ducklings. In word work, we continued learning about suffixes such as 'er', 'or', and 'ar'. In math this week we in math, our focus has been on Canadian Currency.  We worked on learning how to count money, coins and banknotes and well as the difference between writing money in French vs English. We also read a non-fiction book about the history of Canadian money and how it came to be in Canada.  On Friday, we completed a Counting Coins scavenger hunt, where the kids used ...

 Calgary Zoo Field Trip Week! A special thanks to the parent council for funding our Bus and Field Trip program at the Calgary. In Literacy, this week we continued with our Duck Diaries.  The grade 3's did a wonderful job writing for the different ducklings perspectives and how they see the world, while they went out in the grass and swim in their kiddy pool.  We also learned about the suffixes, 'ly' and 'ist' and completed a word sort. In Math this week, we continued our study of perimeter and measurement.  We practised using problem-solving to figure out the measurement of sides that were missing.  On Thursday, we completed our quiz on our measurement unit.  In Science this week, we continued with our Animal Life Cycle unit by visiting the zoo.  The grade 3's had a wonderful time at the zoo, they completed a scavenger hunt, searched for different types of animals and sketched their favourite animal in their visual journal.  We also learned that ...

 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 ...

 In Literacy this week, we continued with our Fractured Fairy Tales.  This week we focused on adding the structure of stories, Somebody Wanted But So then .  We created a story together as a class based on the classic Cinderella Fairy Tale.  In Word Work we looked at Hyperboles, that is a figure of speech we use to exaggerate to emphasize our point. The grade 3's had a great time rewriting and creating their own.  In math this week, we continued to work on measurement.  This week we focused on converted measurements in the metric system.  Then we learned about the Imperial System, why it's used in the United States and how it is important to know what it is.  We learned about inches, feet and yards and how they convert or match with mm, cm and metres.  The grade three's also worked demonstrated their mathematical knowledge through a math talk about geometric shapes, coming up with many different ways to explain why a shape didn't belong. In S...

 In Literacy this week, we began our work with fairy tales and folk tales.  Together as a class, we read some of our favourite fairy tales and created a list of what story elements are in fairy tales and folk tales.  Then we talked about changing them or fracturing them.  Then we planned our own fractured fairy tale, changing one or two elements from the original story.  Some students chose to change the point of view of who is telling the story, others chose to change the characters or the setting.  On Friday, we began to draft our fractured fairy tales, starting with Once Upon a Time.....  We also learned about THE APOSTROPHE, and used it to make contractions. In math this week, we worked on measurement.  We talked about the metric system and how we can use millimeters, centimetres and meters to measure a variety of items.  We also measured different parts of our body and compared them to our partners.   In Social Studies this wee...

 In Literacy this week, we explored a different type of story called a Circle Story.  We looked at several examples of this type of story, and then we created our own mini books using the circle story technique.  Also, the grade 3's brought home their narrative stories and their persuasive writing to share with you and will explain how they were marked. In math this week, we finished up our study of fractions.  We looked at how fractions like 1/2 are different sizes if the wholes are different.  We also compared and ordered fractions using a clothesline number line. The grade 3's also had their fraction quiz, and we went through it together on Friday, talking about some of the questions that gave them trouble. In gym this week, we brushed up on our soccer skills and playing some mini-games outside.  We reviewed how to dribble a ball, how to pass, and some cool soccer tricks that we learned from our classmates.  Looking Ahead to Next Week: 1. In Literac...