October 29 - November 2

Wednesday was a fun day full of Halloween activities. We started the day off with a group picture and then went to the gym for the parade of costumes.

We spent the afternoon playing games, eating snacks and watching a movie. The students enjoyed preparing the bingo cards by filling in their own Halloween words. The best part was nibbling on the candies which doubled as bingo chips!

After our bingo game, the students got to participate in three minute-to-win-it challenges.



The first challenge was "rocket stacking" to see who could stack the most rockets without them falling down!

"Sweet Suck Up" was the second challenge where the students had to transfer as many candies from their plate to a cup using a straw!

Finally, the students were challenged to pick up "unicorn poop" with chop sticks. The student with the most marshmallows in their cup was the winner!

Thank you so much to the parents who supplied food for our Halloween party. It was delicious!

We finished off our party by watching a bit of the movie "Coraline." The students continued to watch it during lunch for the rest of the week.

Curricular Update

Writing Workshop

The students enjoyed the opportunity to "free write" during journaling this week. They enjoyed being able to freely generate ideas for writing in their journal.

All About Me

This week the students began their "All About Me" paragraphs. Each month the students will choose from a list of topics to write a paragraph about themselves. The purpose of this assignment is to focus on proper paragraph writing, including a topic, detail and concluding sentences. After writing on the topic about " My Family" the students will type their paragraphs on the Chromebook. Then they will draw and colour an illustration to go along with their writing.

Reading Workshop

We finished reading Freckle Juice this week. We focused on vocabulary words before reading each chapter to enhance the students'  comprehension of the text. The students also completed a venn diagram to compare and contrast two characters from the story.

The students also completed Halloween reading comprehension passages and questions.

The students also exercised their ability to read and following directions with this Haunted House activity.

Back and Forth Journals

Thanks so much for continuing to participate in our weekly Back and Forth Journal writing activity.

Math

These week we focused on:plotting numbers on a number line to place them in order 

• arranging a list of numbers in ascending or descending order.
• recognizing that a two-digit number is less than any three-digit number. 
• identifying errors in a sequence of numbers in order.
• recognizing when two numbers differ by 10 or 100. 
• using place value to say that one number is 10 (or 100) more (or less) than another. 
• adding or subtracting 10 or 100. 
• completing number patterns that increase or decrease by 10 or 100. 

Social Studies

We completed our Mapping unit this week. The students had the opportunity to share their "Favourite Place to Live" map with a friend. They used the maps to answer the questions written by the students.

The students also loved creating their own Halloween town by following directions while also practicing cardinal directions.

PE

The focus this week in PE was large group games. The students really enjoyed playing Spooky Haunted Houses.

Christmas Cards

The students worked very hard on creating a one-of-a-kind Christmas card. On Friday I sent home a sample of the card your child is making. Please fill it in and return by Thursday, Nov. 8th. If you didn't receive an order form and would like one, please send me an email. Thanks!

We were so excited to celebrate our first birthday this year in 3A. Thank you to our friend for bringing in treats to share with the class.

Student of the Week

Congratulations to our well deserving Student of the Week!