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 . 

New experiences happening in our class.

Last week we had student-led conferences and they were a lot of fun. We welcomed our parents in to our incredible class. Our parents were so proud of us when we shared all of our learning.

Today, we went to the Western Canadian Aviation Museum. We learned about many fascinating facts about different planes. Did you know that bush planes had wooden wings and a metal frame for the body and then clothe was wrapped around the body of the plane. These planes could land in crazy places like on the side of a mountain. 

Cargo planes can carry heavy and enormous objects to different places and areas. There are special kinds of cargo planes like the Hercules.

We saw a fighter jet and it looked very interesting to fly and it could do lots of fast tricks. The coolest thing is that it had Sameer's countries flag on the side of the tail. The plane was also able to shoot weapons which damaged the inside of the plane. 

There was even an old Air Canada Passenger plane.  We got to board the plane and there was even a kitchen were they used to make real food like steak!  YUMMY!!!! Tyah explained that the smell of the inside of the plane was gross and Robyn stated that it smelt old....like a skunk.

Lastly, we got to have some special time with Chris Without the Hat.  We wrote different variations of O'Canada using words that were very Canadian.   We also created an identity story about Mikey who helped people in his community.

In math, we have been learning about different shapes and we created snow flakes with the shapes that we learned.  Then we had to describe and count all the different shapes that we used in our snowflake.  Enjoy the pictures of the snowflakes.

What students have to say about their learning

Nyah: "I learned that certain planes are made out of wood."

Sameer: "I learned how cool planes can be!"

Meaghan: "I learned that planes can be super cool."

Vu: "I learned about the Fighter jet and the fire shells."

Dakota: "I learned that that some of the planes were original planes.  I also learned that cargo planes opened from the front and if you are out side and you can't get in you use special doors, because you can not open doors to drop a package that is heavy so you have to use the entrance that you come in."

Shaelee: "I learned that bush planes can land on all different surfaces."

Amber: "I learned that it is hard to stop cargo planes because they are so big. When they want to drop something they put it in a parachute.  The museum was super cool and awesome."
Chloe:"I learned that canoe planes have a big giant camera in them."

Seamus: "There are special cargo planes that can open from the front and the back."

Robyn: "I learned that Elf took different sorts of pictures on the plane to make maps."

Kylee: "It was really cool to go on the Air Canada plane.  I also learned when our parents were little they did not have any lids to go on the overhead bins."  Nyah: "The museum was very fascinating."

Cayden:  "My dad flies helicopters."

WE HOPE THAT YOU ENJOYED READING ABOUT OUR INCREDIBLE DAY!

In the past week

We have not posted since our Halloween party and Dance-a-thon.  It has been extremely busy since then.   In the past couple of days we have been working on a bullying video.  Every one in the class got to say why bullying is not good and we each got to write how we felt.  This was a powerful activity for us and we learned about the importance of being a good friend.

HERE IS OUR VIDEO

Coloring our background

 In math, we have been working on repeating and growing patterns.  Amber describes a repeating pattern as "something that that repeats over and over again.  A pattern must have at least 3 repetitions for it to be a complete pattern."   Kylee describes a growing pattern as a "pattern that continues to get bigger and bigger."   Cayden describes how we constructed growing patterns using marshmallows and fruit loops.  It was INCREDIBLE amounts of fun.

HERE WE ARE MAKING OUR GROWING PATTERNS

 Dakota describes one of our Science lessons as "zipping scissors across a magnet and when you have zipped it 50 times then your scissors become a magnet and they can pick up metal objects."  On Friday we had to predict whether an object could be picked up by a magnet.  It was a lot of fun and we noticed that the magnets would not pick up marshmallows, paper, elastics,  plastic flowers, straws, the dice and the corks.

WE ARE TESTING OBJECTS TO SEE IF THEY ARE MAGNETIC AND WE ARE ALSO MAKING OUR OWN MAGNETS

What the students students say about their learning...

Nyah states: "Learning is amazing each and every day."

Peridon states: "Bullying is not right for the world." 

Meaghan states:  " You should not bully because it hurts people."

Mackenzie states: " If someone bullies you, you can maybe become a bully too."

J-F states: "We talked about how bullies make us feel."

Anna states: "We learnt that bullying can also hurt peoples feelings."

Vu states: "Never Bully!"

Justine states: "If you bully it is bad."

Chloe states: "We learnt that we should stand up for other people and ourselves." 

Robyn states: "When you are being bullied try to be nice to the bully and ask them why they are bullying you."

Amber states: "Don't be a bystander!"

HOPE THAT YOU ENJOYED READING ABOUT OUR INCREDIBLE DAYS!