Fire Drills and Frosty afternoons

Great day today, we started Guided Reading and had some great success and practice on our comprehension skills and had a focus on text to self connections. In science we started working on designing a cool playground out of recycled materials. Should be a fun time. We started reading the second book from the N.E.R.D.S series. The kids are excited and it should be a great read.

-Mr.G

Building a community with games :)

Today we had a good amount of fun with just the right amount of work :) The kids might think we do too much math but we will agree to disagree on that.

A big part of my teaching philosophy is centered around building a learning community and you can't be a member of a good community without knowing your neighbours. We did a little TRIBES activity called Extended Name Tags. After they were done filling out their name tags with information like their favorite holiday location or quality they think is most important to have they shared with small groups and then the class.

We practiced word problems in math and wrote a review of our recently finished NERDS Book 1. The kids loved the book and some of their reviews will be posted tomorrow. We will be changing the Hero's Tale section of the site to a book review section. We are excited about the changes and the kids opinions on best parts were really fun to read.

We are starting to design a playground tomorrow in Science which should be interesting. Wish us luck!

Cheers,

Mr.G

Salt dough + Mario t-shirt =

Today was a great Monday. We discussed World Toilet Day and the importance of sanitary bathroom conditions relating to quality of life. Did you know more people die in Africa related to unsanitary bathrooms and the disease from those situations than AIDS and Malaria combined? Well we read today that 3 people die a minute in countries in Africa caused by illness borne from unsanitary conditions. Really gives some perspective on the small problems like someone taking your chair...

We moved on to make some animal sculptures with Salt Dough for Science. One student sporting the most amazing Mario bad guys shirt inspired many a spiky shelled kuppa troopa. We had fun experimenting with how to form our dough creatures. Lets hope they survive the evening :)

-Mr.G

What a fantastic day!

Friendship Friday was a huge success! The kids worked together to solve human knots they made with their arms and we wrote about what makes a good friend and they did a really great job. We also started Friendship Keepers. THe process is that students write anonymous notes expressing appreciation to others in the class and then they are shared and given to the person they are written for. It was really nice to see kids being recognized for their good deeds by their classmates. Aside from all the fun we also wrote a math check up and mathamagicians were running rampant :) We are so close to finishing our first read aloud book NERDS only 2 chapters to go. Have a great weekend!

-Mr.G

Friendship Friday

Sorry I missed yesterdays post for the faithful 5 followers we have. After a fantastic student led conferences on Wednesday and still being on the mend from the flu I completely forgot. That being said I have decided to title today Friendship Friday.

We are going to spend a good chunk of today doing some community building activities and working on building friendships. It is just as important as the written curriculum and so we are taking some time and working on our friendship making skills. Should be a great day :)

I will post some of our results.

-Mr.G

Back to work :)

Five days past and lots to update. Remembrance day was fantastic we had a great presenter, wonderful songs and the kids were respectful. We also had a fun adventure to Lethbridge that had the kids learning about and building their very own bridges at the museum.

We have student led conferences today and the parents are welcome to come check out the things we have been doing.

Half way through November and no signs of slowing down. We are having a great time in grade 3 :)

Cheers,
-Mr.G

Check out all the FUN things we did in the last few weeks!

Remembrance Day art

Science Building Animals

Children's Rights Stuff

Autobiographies

Rights Posters

5 days away from school and I have the flu...

Was excited to get back to class today but sadly I have the flu...Tomorrow we will have a great big update heading into student led conferences.

Have a great week.

-Mr.G