Earth Day / Journée de la terre Videos

In preparation for Earth Day students created videos.  In their videos they described reasons for which we need to protect our earth.  The videos are done in both English and French.  Enjoy!

Earth Day

This week was Earth Week. We have done computer projects to promote and help the earth.  Our school performed a  spring musical called Assignment Earth.  The songs that we sang were called It's Our World, Turn It Off, Lean Green Air Machine, and We Are Able.
 Did you know that if there is pollution in the air or in the water animals could die?
Written by: Meaghan, Tyah, Shaelee and Robyn

Today in MATH

Today in math we have been working on multiplication with paper plates, bingo chips and also dice.  We had to roll the die and it represented our number groups and then when we rolled again it represented the amount of bingo chips in each group.  We had lots of fun doing it!!!!   The plates represent the groups and the bingo chips represented the numbers in each group.  For example, three groups of two equals six .  

HERE WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT MULTIPLICATION

 Each day we practice counting but two's, three's and today we added four's and five's to help us learn our multiplication.  Multiplication is incredibly fun.

Post written by: Kylee, Sameer, Matthew and Callan

OUR LAST WEEK WITH THE IPADS...

This was our last week with the ipads in our class and we wanted to do something to show off how well we communicate and express ourselves in French. 

Mme gave us plays which were adapted by Wendy Maxwell.  We had to practice them many times. Then, we used the app Puppet Pals and chose our characters and recorded the play. 

We loved doing this activity because it proves that we have learned so much French in our four years in school.  Even though it is not perfect, we are so proud of everything that we have accomplished this far.  

We are sad to see the ipads go, we had the best learning experiences having them at our fingertips.  The world is ours to discover and we will continue to do this, just in different ways.  Have fun watching our INCREDIBLE plays because we had an INCREDIBLE time making them.  

Our Structure Videos.

The final project in our Structures unit was to create videos explaining concepts and vocabulary that we had learned.  First, Mme gave us several videos that she downloaded from Discovery Education.  We had to import all of the videos into imovie so that we could work with them.  Once the videos were imported we were able to choose clips from any of the videos to use in our own video.  

We were then able to extract the audio and record our own voices into the clips, sharing what we had learned about structures and bridges. The neatest thing was that we put ourselves into the video by green screening.  Mme took video of us in front of the green screen and then we added them to our videos.

We did not do this project alone and could not have done it without the help of one of our coordinators of instruction, Joan Badger.  She showed us all of the steps and was there to help us with anything that we needed.  

This was such a great way to show our learning and understanding of what Mme had taught us throughout the course of the unit.  We are very proud of our learning and hope that you enjoy our INCREDIBLE videos. 

BRIDGES

In our class we have been learning about bridges.  The four bridges that we have learned about are the suspension, cable, beam and arch bridges.

  The suspension bridge is a bridge that holds a lot of weight.  It has a lot of strong wires.  Kylee explains the "overhead cable on the suspension bridge holds the other straight cables for the weight." The Golden Gate Bridge is the most famous suspension bridge and it is located in San-Francisco California.

The cable bridge is like the suspension bridge but the cable is attached to the posts.  Nyah states "the poles and the cables make a triangle together."  Peridon says, "triangles are the strongest shape, they help keep the bridge together."

The arch bridge "has holes to let boats pass through it," states Dakota.  Shae explains that arch bridges "are often made of bricks." Callan shared, "the holes in the bridge are called arches."  Sameer believes that "the arch bridge is one of the strongest bridges because it has no cables to hold it up."

The beam bridge is often used for trains to cross.  It is the sturdiest bridge.

Seamus states, "that in Winnipeg we have arch bridges and beam bridges."

Throughout our learning, we created our own videos.  We took clips from Discover education and we took out the audio.  After wrote our own scripts and recorded them on to the video.  Mme Badger showed us how to green screen ourselves into our videos.  It was an incredible experience for our class.  Stay tuned for our videos to be posted.  

Here are some pictures of us working on our videos with our partners

We built our very own bridges.   Our bridges were made from many recyclable materials, such as cardboard, Popsicle sticks, Styrofoam and other materials such as tape, toothpicks, string, marshmallows, glue and many more.  Then we tested our bridges to see how much weight they could hold in grams.  Many of us had very different and interesting bridges. 

Pictures of some of us testing the streangth of our bridges.

Next time you go over a bridge, think of all the incredible information you learned from class.

Happy New Year

It has been quite some time since our last post. Many things have happened in our incredible class.  We came back to school on January 7th.  It was a long day and we were VERY tired after our restful break.

Something very exciting happened last week in our class.  Our teacher was nominated by Chloe and her mom for the Golden Apple award from City TV's Breakfast Television.  The reason for the nomination was because of our inspiring bullying video.  The host, Drew, from Breakfast television came to our class last Wednesday and brought us pizza and pop. Not only did Drew come but he brought his amazing camera man Justin and their side kick Cara.  WE all got to be on TV and it also showed our teacher receiving the Golden Apple Award.  Then Drew, Justin and Cara all gave us their autographs.  It was the best afternoon in our whole history of life. 

In math we are learning about time.  Last week we learned about the difference in time short and longer then recess.  We discussed activities that would relate to these times.  Callan stated that having a snack lasts shorter then morning recess and Chloe stated that reading a book lasts longer then morning recess. 

Today we timed ourselves by clapping.  We had to estimate the number of claps it would take us to do various activities such as touching the four walls in our classroom, stretching to the ceiling and to the floor, walking all the way to Mme Towells room, doing 20 jumping jacks and writing both our first and last names. 

WHAT THE STUDENTS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THEIR LEARNING....

Cayden learned that it is important to know about time.

 Nyah: "This activity showed us how different activites take different times."
Peridon: "When you clap it shows you every second."

Amber: "It only takes like 10 seconds to tie a shoe."

Kylee: "It took a short amount of time to walk to Mme Towells room."

Robyn: "The jumping jacks took me 20 seconds to do."

Maia: "It only takes one second to reach to the ceiling and then down to the floor."

It is also our I LOVE TO READ Month at school and we are going to be reading a lot of amazing books during the next month both in French and English.

We would love to invite parents or grandparents to come and read their favorite picture book to our INCREDIBLE GRADE 3 class .