Conference Week

Dear Team 24 Families,

This week has been conference week, the busy week when we prepared to highlight our accomplishments from Term 1 with our families. Thank you to the families who visited during conferences! It means much to the students and myself that families took time to celebrate the handwork of the term. 

Someone with a cute new hair cut!

Awarded athlete of the week! 

We ended the week with a Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament. We had a tournament within our class, with those who brought in boxes of cereal receiving extra lives. Our 2 classroom champions, Noah and Katrina, represented us magnificently in the school tournament!

Cheering on the competitors! 

Much fun was had!

It is hard to believe that next week is December! 

~Ms. Burland

Swimming Lesson #3

Dear Team 24 Families,

I was able to take the grade 3s swimming this week for their 3rd lesson. Here are some great pics from this trip to the pool:

~Ms. Burland

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Someone is having their first winter in Canada! 

It has been fun to experience our winter through Anjola's eyes as she experiences it for the first time! She has already learned so much: frost is not snow, sticky snow is perfect for snowballs, a sled is something to slide down hills on, winter boots can be a pain, it's best to put your mitts on after you've put everything else on and yes, you have to take your mittens off and freeze your fingers for a few minutes while you eat your snack. 

To many more discoveries! 

~Ms. Burland

Playing With Friction

Dear Team 24 families,

In Theme Studies, we have been studying Position and Motion. We understand that force is a push or a pull that can start, stop or change movement.

On Tuesday, we expanded upon this and explored friction. Through a short reading activity, we learned the definition of friction and that the surface impacts the amount of friction.  Since science is all about DOING, we put our new knowledge to the test! Students applied force to a race cars on various surfaces to determine which surfaces increased the friction and slowed down the car sooner. We made predictions and then tested the amount of friction of linoleum, the classroom carpet, shag carpet, concrete and sand.

Winners: concrete and linoleum had the least amount of friction and allowed for the farthest travel with our cars.
In last place: Sand and shag carpet had a large amount of friction and made racing our cars difficult.

We applied this understanding to different situations. Less friction is great when racing a car, but not so ideal when driving on icy roads!

Students will further apply their understanding of friction when designing and creating a Moon Buggy that will travel down a ramp carrying a load. *Thank you for bringing in recycled materials for this construction. We will be taking materials all week.

~Ms. Burland

A wonderful start to the day!

Thank you Katrina and family for the beautiful flowers! It was a fantastic way to start the day! They are gorgeous...

~Ms. Burland

Pretzel Practice and a new bulletin board

Dear Team 24 families,

In Theme Studies, we have begun to look at objects in motion.  We went on a scavenger hunt through the school and recorded items that would: turn, roll, slide, bounce, spin, etc. We also captured pictures of these objects and used Book Creator to create non-fiction pages that are now posters on our Theme Studies bulletin board.

Here are a few close-ups. Remember to click on the pictures to enlarge them.

Wednesdays are Writing Job Wednesdays in our Word Study program. Students have a tic-tact-toe card they use to select a fun writing activity each week. After 3 weeks, if students have scored a line on their card, they get a "prize". Today, we changed it up! Students were given a pile of alphabet pretzels to build their spelling words. They then recorded those words as triangles in their notebook. For example:

T

TH

THI

THIN

THINK

PICTURES OF THE FUN!

~Ms. Burland