Today was a great DAY

Today we are mesuring our plants! 

We are learning about.......

Stems, roots, flowers, leafs, grains and petals.

Sydnees plant is 4 cm and 2 cm.

Carter's plant is 0 cm.

Today we also started to learn about division.  Mme gave us cups to represent groups and "jettons".  We had to count the number of jettons that Mme told us to count out and then we had to divide them into equal groups into the cups.  Mme told us how many groups we needed to have. T

BY:  Sydnee and Carter.

Design process in science

Today in science we had to make a structure that was safe and stable to protect an egg from falling

 here are some examples. The first step you have to draw your what you are going to need to do.  Mme gave us certain materials a paper bag,some Popsicle sticks and other stuff and we had to explain why we designed it that way using the words stable and foundation.  

 

Once everyone had completed their designs, we went into the stairwell and drop from the 3rd, 6th and 12th step.   The eggs that survived went to the top level.  Only ONE project designed a stable and safe place for the egg.  What an amazing time.  

Opening day of Olympics

We are watching Sochi olympics opening ceremony (cbc tv).

Our class is cheering for Canada! Canada came out around 11:00 this morning! The Olympics are in Sochi Russia. We wonder which country will bring home the most medals. 

WE WENT TO THE WSO!!!

Today we went to the WSO or Winnipeg symphony orchestra, first we went on the bus then we finally got to the WSO. We got to watch a AMAZING show! We had lots of fun!  Then we went back to school and had music.WE HAD A FUN DAY!!

Hero's and Numbers!

Today, in French we are learning about hero's in are life.  Mine and Bailee's heros are: Bailee, "My dog Nala is my hero." Vaughn, "My mom and dad are my hero's.

Our class is sharing about their hero's:

Were representing numbers on the IPADS! Vaughn's group is representing 489. Bailee's group is representing 742.  We are taking pictures of different ways to represent the number with base 10 blocks, then we have to describe it and put it all together in Book Creator.  Stay tuned to see what we have created!

Post written by Bailee and Vaughn.

WE GOT IPADS!!!

We learned about man made structures and natural structures. We also went on a QR code scavenger hunt with the IPads. Yesterday we made mystery number QR codes, the notes gave us clues to the mystery number and then we scanned the QR code with the iPads to find the answers.

Post written by Ethan and Kiana

This week at school....

Today, we had a "mystery Skype" with Mrs Morhart's grade 3 class from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.  We had to try to find out where they were from.  To find out where they lived we had to ask many questions and they would answer.  Also, they asked questions to find out where we lived.  They guessed where we live first.

Monday morning, we had a special visiter come to our class.  He is a ELF and his name is LOLO.  Every night, Lolo goes to Santa and tells him about our days in school.  Every morning, LOLO is in a different spot and, leaves us a note and is usually doing something funny.   Yesterday, he was throwing "SNOWBALLS" (marshmellows) in the room.  TODAY, he stole Mme's ipad and he made a video.. Here it is.

LOLO with the Snow balls!

Our school particiapated in "bag up Manitoba" and we placed second for collecting the most plastic bags.  Because we were the second school, we WON a bench.  We are very proud to be a part of this great and amazing school.

Peace Feels like.....

Remembrance Day is time to reflect and thank those that have fought for our freedom.  Both our class and Mme Schick's class read the book What does Peace Feel Like? wriiten by V Radunsky.  We created our own visions of what peace sounds like, feels like and looks like.  

Enjoy our presentation!

WE ARE SO PROUD OF BAILEE!

Bailee volunteers at The Community of Hope Food Bank.  She approached Mme Clarke (our principal) to ask if the students at École Robert Browning could help by collecting food for the hungry.  Bailee created a video with some help from her mom and other adults.  She went from class to class to speak with the students about her initiative and how they could help.  She gave each student a paper bag to fill and to return to the school.  The response so far has been breath taking.  It is amazing what kids, even the young ones can achieve.  You have a big heart Bailee and you should be very proud of your self because we sure are. 

Share Bag Promorional from Riverwood Church on Vimeo.

WE MADE APPLE SAUCE!

Thursday we made apple sauce.  This is what we did.

Bryden: First we counted all of the apples.

Rylan: Then we crated a math story using the apples we counted.

Bailee: We had to measure the apples, we did this by using a string and then measuring the string with a ruler.

Justin: Next we estimated how many seeds were in the apples.  I thought that our apples had 50 seeds.

Sydnee: Our next step was to peel the apples.  We got to use a special peeler and butter knifes.

Felix: After we got the peels off we had to cut the apple up to the core. My mom was in my class to help us cut up the apples.

Carter: Then once we had a full bowl of sliced apples we had to weigh them.  My groups apples weighed 455g.  That's a lot of apples.

Kiana: Next, we put all the cut up apples into a huge pot.

Wyatt: Then we added sugar.  We got to mix up all of the apples with our hands.  It felt really gooey and sticky.

Antun:  The next step was to add some cinnamon

Bronwyn: Next Felix's mom helped us by cooking the apple sauce for us!  Thank you very much Mrs Ross!

LASTLY, WE GOT TO EAT IT FRIDAY MORNING!

Kiana: It was incredible!

Ethan: It tasted good.

Sydnee: It was delicious!

Teagan: It was the best apple sauce I ever tasted!

Wyatt: It was not normal apple sauce, it was cinnamon apple sauce.

Rylan: The cinnamon really hit the spot!

Reese: It tasted really, really, really, really, really good!

Bryden: It smelt good and it was awesome!

Sam: I tried it but I did not like it.

Le son "on"

This morning we were working on the French sound "on".  We have a song/video that we would like to share. 

The past few days

Sorry that we have not posted in a while.  We have been VERY busy.

Last week, we skyped with a class of grade 5's.  They where from North Carolina in the United Staes of America.  Did you know that they do not have any snow there?  That is so weird because we have tons of it.

Here is what students have to say...

Ethan: It was fun to try to figure out where they lived.

Carter: It was really interesting because we found out where they live and they found out where we live.

Sydnee: They asked lots of good questions and they live far a way from us.

Jersea: It was cool, awesome and interesting.

Today we went swimming for the very first time.  ALL grade 3's in our division take 6 weeks of swimming throughout the year.

Here is what the students had to say...

Bronwyn: Our instructors were all really nice.

Wyatt: We got to do back floats and front floats a lot.  We got to swim in different parts of the pool. 

Baillee: It was really fun

Kiana: They have a deep-end and a shalow-end

Justin: We had lots of fun.

Ethan: It is a really warm pool.

Sydnee: It was fun because it was the first time we had swimming at school

Carter: We all had different teachers.

Kid President's Pep Talk to Teachers and Students!

Mme found this post from the Kid President and wanted to share it with her parents and students.  Ask yourself, how are you going to be AWESOME?

This week at school

This week we created our own dots to celebrate International Dot Day which is this Sunday September 15th.  International Dot Day is from a book called "The Dot" which speaks about leaving your mark on something that is important.  Ethan's mark was to ask people to play with him in the morning if they were standing alone.  Sydnee and Sam would like to leave their mark by sharing their drawings with others.

 We are making our dots for International Dot Day

We also created our class contract and what we believe should happen in our class.  We believe that everyone desearves to be respected. We also believe that learning can be fun and that we learn from speaking with each other.  We believe that we are all friends and need to keep each other safe.  The last thing we believe in is that we need to encourage each other to always do our best.

We are working together in groups and demonstrating what we as a class believe in.

TODAY, we learned about the 9 multiple intelligences, did you know that every person learns in a different way.  They are; musical-rhythmic, logical-mathematical, intrapersonal, naturalistic, interpersonal, bodily-kinesthetic, verbal-linguistic, visual-spacial and the 9th existential.  We took a quiz to see which multiple intelligence explains the way we learn best and which intelligence we still need to work on.  Wyatt scored highest in the intrapersonal intelligence, which means that he works better when he is alone and that he keeps a lot of his feelings to himself.  Ethan scored the highest in logical-mathematical intelligence, which means that he is really good at solving problems, counting, numbers and reasoning. Kiana scored highest in the visual-spacial intelligence which means that learns best with pictures and graphs.  She also loves to draw and do crafts.   We will continue to learn about these intelligences so that we know who to go to for help when we are having difficulty with something.

 This was our first full week at school and we made it.  We are growing together as a class.  Friendships and bonds are beginning.  This will for sure be one INCREDIBLE year.