Days I wish I had a notebook handy

So many funny things happened today. I think it had a lot to do with the minus 30 temps. We all got a little cabin fever I think while being stuck indoors. I received countless drawings many of which featured roadkill... Was informed by two of the boys that they have girlfriends that of course live out of town and of course was entertained by the dance party to call me maybe that our indoor recess became. We worked on more multiplication which is coming along really nicely and classified some rocks in science. The highlight of my day was one one of the kids brought over the love note he had written for his girlfriend. He told me a friend had told him what to write, I asked which friend to which he took an old gummy bear from his pocket and said "my buddy" haha It was the best way to end the day. No kids tomorrow but showing some teachers some great math games we have been playing...this week will be low on the updates as I am off Thursday with meetings but we will be back Friday. Have a great week.

Mr.G

Love Fridays

Great busy day! We had some fun playing math games and getting some extra practice while a few kids had to retest on a past outcome. It was very fun and those that retested showed a lot of improvement so bonus.

We drew some monster pictures and wrote up descriptions that we will use to sort the pictures and find the creators.

We had some new math time on subtraction strategies that we have yet to try. The kids were very successful even though it took a lot longer. Many complained about the time it took but adding another tool to their tool kit for math can only be a good thing :)

Looking forward to a nice weekend.

-Mr.G

We are in grade 3 and kick butt at multiplication

Today we practiced multiplication and after the kids made all the facts that multiply creating 12 I thought we should be brave and try another number so we looked at 16 and worked our way through 16. The kids were firing out answers so fast that it showed they really were getting the concept of equal groups. Then we decided they should go one higher and we attempted 24 and well here is what happened.

Oh also one of my kids finished their treasure map and well guess where they hid the treasure

Yup,  that is a dead deer 

I am so grateful for the kids I get to teach and the fellow teachers I get to learn with and learn from. I love my job :)

Mr.G

Cookies...A teaching tool

So 90 cookies later we have had a science lesson on sedimentary rocks and division lesson working on equal sharing. THe kids had a fun time and worked like crazy for the chance to eat their cookies. A few of the kids in class read aloud their road trip gone bad stories and we had a lot of fun cheering each other on after they finished reading their stories. Some wall soccer tired out a bunch of the kids. After  I was smashed a few times i realized there was nowhere safe :) Tomorrow we continue our multiplication journey. Stay tuned for a few reviews of NERDS 2 we moved on to the third book in the series and the kids LOVE it :)

Have a good one,

Mr.G

A moment of silence :)

Followers of our adventures might we ask you for a moment of silence for our fallen friend.

This is Tim

2013 RIP

Tim is a marshmallow that has a face. A few of the girls played with Tim and well he dried up and today they had a funeral service for him at recess and asked that I make a note on the blog. 

Now on to our great day. 

Yesterday the kids practiced sorting by properties as we are going to be discussing rocks and minerals and all the properties involved in classification. We started with beads because well they are sparkly and the kids like sparkly things. Most sorted by colour but some ventured into shapes. They decided that the really small ones could just stay together because well they are too little and hard to move but for all the rest we did a great job.

In Social Studies we have been discussing mapping and things like, scale and compass roses. The students have started making a map and will be writing directions to a secret treasure that they will let partners read to find the treasure on the map. They are turning out really well. 

Multiplication and Division began today and Equal Grouping/Equal Sharing will be words we continue to practice :) Maybe the 100 cookies i baked for tomorrows lesson will help :)

Goodnight all and please remember Tim and his mini marshmallows :)

Cheers,

Mr.G

Maps and Multiplication

What a nice Monday. It is always interesting to see how the week is going to begin. Some morning the kids come in tired from a busy weekend others they come in excited to tell me al about the fun they have had. Today was a math heavy morning working on a bit of subtraction with a small group (they did great) and others practicing a whole selection of skill in a daily activity book. THe kids worked quietly and made it possible for those needing a bit of support to work really well.

THis afternoon we talked multiplication and discussed it as a simple skip counting. We then filled out a mini times table for the kids to keep with them. 5x5 will be easy in no time. Maps and legends and scale was the topic of Social Studies and Science had us sorting by properties of beads in preparation for looking at rocks and minerals.

Busy day great start to the week.

Mr.G

The difference between Cats and Dogs

One the kids decided during our work on Bar graphs that they should inform me on the difference between dogs and cats, dogs apparently think they rule the world and cats are the land...I think there was something lost in the translation but all the same very informative.

We had a great day in grade 3 with Science and work on rocks and minerals, math and our ever growing graphing unit and Daily 5. During our Daily 5 time i was very pleasantly surprised to see the growth in one student in particular when it came to his reading.  After commenting on it I could see the pride on his face with the great accomplishment he had made. Another student had so much expression in her reading she started to to get animated physically like she was performing a play. It was so fun to see her enjoying reading so much.

Our Math today was centered around graphing with the Bar graph being the star. The kids picked it up quickly for the most part and have loved creating huge graphs to show the class. One moment in particular that was beyond funny was the child that had favorite music with choices like Crazy Frog, Gangnam Style, and Nickleback and his outrage that no one voted for Nickleback.

It was a busy day but a fun day and tomorrow is FRIDAY!

Please Take a look at our pictures below :)

Cheers,

Mr.G and the Super 3's

Some mineral brainstorming

Creative use of holes in the paper :) 

Word Work

Read to self

Our choices

Scrabble anyone :) 

Hard at work