February 20 - 24th

VIP

This week our VIP was our friend Miss S. We really enjoyed getting to know you a bit better!

Pink Shirt Day

On Wednesday the students and staff at RBES celebrated Pink Shirt Day. The students were so excited to watch themselves in the "Kindness Matters" video. Please click on the link below to view the video.

Kindness Matters Video

I also read the book "Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns About Bullies" to the students. Howard was being bullied at school. His intuition told him to let the teacher know. Instead he chose different strategies and they all failed. He finally told the teacher and she took action to make him feel okay and safe. This story brought on a great class discussion about how to deal with bullying at school.

The students also enjoyed making friendship bracelets out of rainbow loom.

Curriculum Update

Language Arts

This week we began our Fairy Tales Unit. The students enjoyed reading many wonderful classic fairy tales such as The Three Little Pigs, Rumplestiltskin, Jack and the Bean Stalk and Little Red Riding Hood. Next week we will be focusing on writing activities based on these fairy tales.

Making Words

The students were able to make many words out of our mystery word: Rumplestiltskin!

Reading Groups

During block three Monday - Thursday, all of the grade three students participate in reading groups. My group is focusing on comprehension strategies. This week worked on comparing and contrasting to improve comprehension.

Math

This week we focused on Sums and Differences.The students worked on solving one-step and two-step word problems involving addition and subtraction. 

Social Studies

We continued to learn about Tunisia by taking jot notes on environment, climate, as well as, goods and services.

PE

This week the focus in PE was on soccer skills.

Art

Tthe students did an amazing job of their African animal silhouettes.

Congratulations to Mr. K for being chosen as Student of the Week!