Monday...New Desks and a lot of fun

The kids loved the new seating arrangement this morning. Very excited to have a change of pace and I LOVE groups. The possibilities for discussion and investigation in Math, Science and Social Studies are endless. We had a great discussion on the qualities of a leader and the kids wrote small pieces on the leader of their homes. One student remarked, "My mom is for sure the leader, all my dad does is watch TV." I asked him to clarify but he just repeated that his mom does everything including making apple juice which he thought was awesome :) In science we tried to make cubes with paper clip bracers....it was a bit difficult and plasticine by far was the best material the kids were pumped when we supported over 1 pound with straws and a bit of plasticine. The levelling of the classroom library is coming closer to completing and progress will be posted later this week. Tomorrow we have a little math quiz in the afternoon and then we are holding a referendum on how often the store should be available to the students. I am even going to talk about Quebec :) Party time in grade 3. Here are a few pictures of the new set up.

New group set up 

Will be a listening station for audio books 

Will house our classroom pets

Until tomorrow

-Mr.G