September

We talked about what we did this summer and then we wrote about it in French on the popsicles.



We were playing a game where whoever has the biggest number has to say the sum of both numbers.



We read a book in French and we drew what happened in the book. We worked on clarifying, predicting, summarizing and questioning.



We did English centres. We read books with Mme. We read on RAZ-Kids. We were playing name bingo. We were doing journal writing. We played Bananagrams and looked for the big word. We talked about reading strategies with Mme Laura.



This is when we are counting how many beads are in the tiny cups. First we had to estimate how many were in the cup before we counted.



We did Reflex math on the iPads to practice our basic facts.





We got to paint a picture of what we imagined in the forest. This is us painting the background.



We are reading with a partner.



We were looking at our rocks and describing them and comparing them. We also wrote questions about the rocks.

We went to Stonewall and checked out some rocks.



We were looking at rocks and fossils. We did fossil hunting. In the olden days, they would put limestone into the kilns.



We were doing a play to present different fossils that we made with clay.
Sheldon told us what our planet was like 450 000 000 years ago.
It was cool to learn about rocks. It was a great day and we had fun!

Friday we had the Terry Fox run and today we learned why we wear an orange shirt. We are also working on mapping skills .

ABC's of Grade 3/4

A - art, animals
B - books, bannock, bridges
C - Charlotte's Web, clocks, cactus, centres, colour run
D - dirt, digging for worms, drums, dance, division
E - Egypt, ears
F - French, flexible thinking, friends, fractured fairy tales
G - gym, graphs, games, Golden Boy
H - handwriting, homonyms, hieroglyphs
I - iMovie book trailers
J - Just Dance, jeux, jumping
K - Keynote, kangaroo
L - library, Legislative Building, lego, lunch
M - music, Modigliani, Mexico, math, les Mayas
N - North America, Nature Playground, new class
O - oceans, outside, orange tree
P - polar bears, plants, projects
Q - questions, quizzes, QR codes
R - reading, recorder
S - sting rays, St. James Library, science, safety, synonyms, seeds, smudging, scavenger hunts, sound
T - tennis, Treaty Day, tour, tearing tissue
U - unicorn cupcakes
V - vowels, vision
W - words their way, world maps, writing, work, worms
X - xylophone
Y - yoga
Z - zoo

June

This is the cactus art we made with a sunset in the background.



We watched Charlotte's Web and it is a really good movie. We compared the book to the movie.



Here we are planting new seeds!



On Treaty Day we planted hearts in the ground in memory of the people who went to residential schools. We also had bannock!



Here we are singing the Buffalo song, dancing and playing the drum.



We were playing games outside and we got to play a game like British Bulldog. There was a planetarium in the gym where we got to see all the stars at night and heard what people thought they looked like.



We were smudging and we were smelling plants that had beautiful scents.



Here is our seasons artwork that we also presented to the class. For super orateurs, some kids brought in food to share and this is Mexican bread. We also researched and made a plant using modelling clay.



Here we are at the Legislative Building. We did a scavenger hunt outside and then we went inside for a tour.




Here we are at Assiniboine Park in the zoo. We got to touch stingrays.



Here are the polar bears and the seals and we saw that the polar bears were play fighting.





Here we are playing at the Polar Bear Playground and the Nature Playground. We had lots of fun!



Here we are looking at worms and soil.



We are digging in the forest to find worms.





Here we are making our Charlotte's Web project. We used iMovie to make a book trailer.



Here are some math centres. We are learning to tell time.



The colour run was a big success!



Mme Mary came to talk to us about composting in the library. When we were done, she let us look at red wriggler worms.




We are at the St. James Public Library. We got really good books!



Here we are tearing up the tissue for our art project.



We presented the iMovie book trailers to each other.




This is where a student from the University of Winnipeg came and gave us science challenges. One of them was building a bridge with two wooden blocks and one piece of paper to see how many pennies it could hold. Another activity was making a hole with a piece of paper and seeing how many feet you could fit in it.

June was a great month! Today was bump-up day so ask me who my teacher is for next year. On Tuesday Constable Cross will be coming to do her last presentation this year about personal safety. Thursday is our class party and the last day of school!