No Excuse Words:
cardboardboxcar
joint
duct tape
bend
fold
screwdriver
screw
bolt
build
Housekeeping:
Save the Date:
Grade 3 Celebration of Learning
NEXT Thursday, March 5th, 6-7pm
Please have your child ready to go into the gym promptly at 6pm, parents will be let in 5 minutes later while they get set up. Thanks for your patience while we prepare our musical performance! After the performance, we invite you back to our grade 3 classrooms where our students have prepared exciting artifacts of their learning to share with you. The event is finished at 7pm.
Save the Date:
Grade 3 Celebration of Learning
NEXT Thursday, March 5th, 6-7pm
Please have your child ready to go into the gym promptly at 6pm, parents will be let in 5 minutes later while they get set up. Thanks for your patience while we prepare our musical performance! After the performance, we invite you back to our grade 3 classrooms where our students have prepared exciting artifacts of their learning to share with you. The event is finished at 7pm.
Tour of Pratt and Grade 4 buddies tomorrow:
We are excited to be walking up to Pratt tomorrow at 12:45 for a tour of the school, some fun activities and to meet a grade 4 buddy and teachers. We will be back at school before dismissal. PLEASE note there is a parent open house tomorrow night at Pratt if you are planning on having your Gr3 ROS child attend there next year :)
Needed for this Friday:
screwdrivers: flathead and star(please label with your child's name), small screws/nuts/bolts/washers
Please also send recyclable cardboard, tape, duct tape for our upcoming house-building unit!
Math:
Ask your child about their Iggy Peck Shapes Bridge challenge!
Ask your child about their Bobbie's Blueprints activity, and how they measure lines accurately as a builder, architect or engineer would do!
Writing: As today was Pink Shirt Day, students read and article and annotated it with Think Notes. We made a Kindness Promise, and wrote them on leaves to decorate the Magic Treehouse with!
Reading/ Social Studies:
Ask your child about the story, "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind", they then read the article below and took Think Notes on it. We also discussed from the standpoint of Design Thinking.
(you can save or drag these images into your photos and view from there as well!)
Science:
This week we continued applying our knowledge of Design Thinking to begin making blueprints as architects do. This time we read a new Builder Brothers story called: Better Together! We will be building our own boxcars this Friday! Please send cardboard, a screwdriver if possible, and a few screws as well :)
This week we continued applying our knowledge of Design Thinking to begin making blueprints as architects do. This time we read a new Builder Brothers story called: Better Together! We will be building our own boxcars this Friday! Please send cardboard, a screwdriver if possible, and a few screws as well :)
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