Mr.G and the Super 3's

Friday, 24 May 2013

Closing in on the last month of school

It has been an amazing year with tons of adventures. We are currently studying life cycles and organisms and having a blast collecting critters and talking about their life cycle. Today we had spiders, maggots, ants and worms in the class and discussed the EVIL Nightcrawlers that have ruined my yard. We have started a poetry unit working towards a poetry Cafe recital. A few pictures of what we have been up to are below.

After talking about "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" this is what I get for bug perspective art :)

I love Frogs

Haha

Nothing better than Mario Mushroom Patterns in an assessment

Excellent looking notes. I am very proud :)

Thanks for stopping by.

Mr.G

Monday, 29 April 2013

A funny thing happened while reading and I wanted to share it

As a teacher I have the great privilege of working everyday with the funniest, brightest, hardest working little human beings. Some days we need a laugh break. In the past week I have had 2 very good opportunities for a laugh. The first came as a student was giving feedback for a story she read. She told me she would rank the story as a beginner story, when I asked why she said "OK it is about a King...and he is POOR. That makes no sense, Kings can't be Kings if they are poor" I could not help but to laugh. The next day though I would laugh so hard tears may have come to my eyes. While reading in a Guided Reading group another student asked to use my iPad to take an Accelerated Reading Quiz. I asked one of my students to move over so the girl could sit in the corner where my iPad was. The boy looked at me and as I was about to repeat myself said, "No one puts Baby in the corner" You can't make this stuff up. As I laughed he looked at me and asked if I had seen that movie. It was very funny. Moments like these do not come from any other job. I am grateful everyday :)

-Mr.G

Friday, 12 April 2013

Long time no see :) Busy Busy Busy and Loving it!

Really sorry to the five followers we have for not updating more often :) We have been working very hard on story writing making great strides towards our end goals. We have all progressed in reading this year and daily Mathamagicians are developing. It has been a great year so far and now in the final stretch we continue to do some fun things.

As a school we have taken on the goal of collecting some items that will be brought to schools in Thailand and Cambodia. Students will be collecting things like Skipping Ropes, Frisbees and water toys that will be heading over with a great organization called "Play around the World" we are very excited to help. In grade 3 we discuss the the rights of the child and how children have rights that should be guaranteed. One of those rights is the right to play. The kids have made some great posters to illustrate this right.

Hard at work

Love the eyes LOL

Perfect

Great finished product

In working towards developing some visualization and inference skills we read a very fun book called I NEED MY MONSTER without seeing the pictures students had to visualize based on the descriptions what each monster looked like. It was a ton of fun and they did a great job :) Take a look.

Creepy

Creative bulletin board with over 100 monsters :)

Would the real Gabe

Please

Stand up

Great Book!

Love this job. Teaching is the best thing out there is you can be lucky enough to have such great students. Thanks for checking in.

Cheers,

Mr.G and the SUPER 3's

Thursday, 21 March 2013

We have had a lot of fun lately :)

Very busy working on tons of things in grade 3. We have been turning out some really great writing, dominating the fractions unit, learning about countries all over the world and creating fantastic music. Take a look at some of the great stuff we have been doing.