Sunday 19 March 2017

It's SPRING!


I hope everyone had an amazing March Break!

This week:
Math: 3D Geometry (nets and 3D solids)
Science: Grade 4’s will learn about Rocks and Minerals.
Grade 3’s will learn all about Soil.

Before the break students were working on designing 
children’s cereal boxes. Here are the finished products!






 


Grade 3/4 Picasso Portraits



Sunday 5 March 2017

March in Ms. Robinson's Classroom!

Spring is in the air! We have so much to learn!

This Month:
Character Education Trait: Fairness


March Special Days/Events
Thursday, March 9th – Primary/Junior Activity Day!
March 13 – March 17 – March Break (no school)
Friday, March 17th – St. Patrick’s Day
Monday, March 20th – First Day of Spring

Literacy
Media Literacy
-> Students designed a cereal box and will make a commercial to advertise their cereal

Read Alouds This Month:
Little Red Riding Hood Stories
 
Little Red Riding Hood
Retold by Bernadette Watts



Here are some other versions of Little Red Riding Hood: 

Ninja Red Riding Hood
By Corey Rosen Schwartz


Red Riding Hood: A Newfangled Prairie Tale
By Lisa Campbell Ernst


Super Red Riding Hood
By Claudia Davila

Fixed Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood
Fixed Fairy Tales YouTube Video


Math
Continuing 2D and 3D Geometry:
  -> Names and characteristics of shapes and figures.
  -> Angles – right angles, angles greater than a right angle and less
  than a right angle
  -> Congruent shapes (congruent shapes are the same size and
  shape)
  -> Symmetry


Science

Completing (Grade 3) Structures and (Grade 4) Pulleys and Gears

Have a Great March Break!!


Grade 3/4 was hard at work in February!


Students wrote Valentine’s Day Colour Poems using similes.





For Art, students created portraits like artist Pablo Picasso.