Summer's Over, It's Back to School!

I hope you had a great summer, filled with lots of fun, sun and family time.

Did you see the La Machine monsters, Long Ma, the dragon horse and Kumo, the spider roaming the streets of downtown Ottawa in July? Wow! What a show!!

Check back this week for information about our new school year! Welcome to a new year in grade 3.

June in Ms. Robinson's Classroom!

It’s June!  The countdown to the end of the year is here,

but grade 3/4 still has lots of learning to do!

This Month:

Character Education Trait: Appreciation

June  Special Days/Events

Jump Rope for Heart – June 16^th

Rooftop Photo  

Primary Fun Day

Last Day of School – Thursday, June 29^th

Literacy

Reading and responding to fiction, non fiction and poetry

Math

Fractions

Mass and Capacity

Science

Grade 3: Plants

Grade 4: Habitats

Thank You for a great school year!

Have a fun, safe summer!

Ms. Robinson

Upper Canada Village Field Trip!

We had such a wonderful day learning about life in the 1860s 

at Upper Canada Village!

In the Printers

Watching the Blacksmith at work

May in Ms. Robinson's Classroom

Spring is finally here, bringing lots of birds, earthworms 

and blooming flowers.

This Month:

Character Education Trait: Integrity

“I will do the right thing even if no one is watching.”

May Special Days/Events

May 4^th - DanceMania!

May 16^th – Upper Canada Village Field Trip

May 17^th – Jump Rope for Heart

May 23^rd to June 5^th – EQAO testing

Literacy

Reading and responding to fiction, non fiction and poetry

Math

Money – names and value of coins and bills; counting money

Geometry – flips, slides and turns

Number Sense

Multiplication and Division – learning how to use arrays to multiply and divide.

Multiplication is “groups of” or “rows of”

5x4 is 5 rows of 4

Division is “sharing”

If you share 12 stickers with 4 people, how many stickers will each person get?

Fractions (fractions are parts of a whole)

Science/Social Studies

Pioneers, Early Settlers and First Nations Peoples in Upper Canada, 1780-1850.

We're Practicing for DANCEMANIA 2017!

Here's the link for our song - Don't Stop Movin' By S Club 7!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlhGZOJvIYI

Keep practicing - Date of Dancemania Coming Soon!!

April in Ms. Robinson's Classroom!

April showers bring May flowers!

As we watch the ice and snow melt and wait for warmer weather, 
learning in room 226 continues!

This Month:

Character Education Trait: Cooperation

I work with others to create a peaceful community

April Special Days/Events

April Fool’s Day - April 1^st

Good Friday – Friday, April 14^th

Easter Monday – Monday, April 17^th

Earth Day - April 22^nd

Literacy

Persuasive Writing:

Writing to make readers agree with you

Poetry

Math

Measurement:

Learning how to tell time to the nearest 5 minutes (eg. 5:40 pm)

Read a thermometer in degrees Celsius  ( ° )

Learn benchmark temperatures (eg. room temperature is about 20°C, water boils at 100°C, water freezes at 0°C)

Probability: the likelihood of events

It is impossible for a dinosaur to be your teacher.

It is very likely you will have gym on Monday.

Science/Social Studies

Pioneers, Early Settlers and First Nations Peoples in Upper Canada, 1780-1850.

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