February

 We did centers a couple times this month. Here are some centers. 

We use the iPads to do Reflex Math. 

We played Bananagrams. The big word was Valentine. 

We made animal posters using our books. 

We used Book Creator to write books about being a good friend. 

We read books on EPIC, Je lis and RAZ-Kids. 

We wrote in our journals about swimming, Festival du Voyageur day and our concert. 

Mme reads with us and gives us new books. 

Sometimes we read with a partner. 

A dad read his book called A Boy and His Phone: that got him into trouble.

We got a collection of Elise Gravel books for our classroom library. 

We are reading The Stinky Cheese Man!

We wrote about our favourite books. 

We passed out Valentine cards. 

We wrote about our friends in French on pink shirt day. These are the groups.

Here is our Festival du Voyageur concert. 

Here are some Festival du Voyageur activity day activities. 

We played an Indigenous board game. 

We danced la bastringue. 

We played bingo with voyageur vocabulary. 

We made a sash with Mme Schumacher. 

We played games in the gym. We fought with pillows!

On 'dress as your favourite book character day', Mme brought us Bannock to try as a snack. 

We did problem solving in groups for math. 

We tested the boats that we made in science. 

We also tested leather, plastic and canvas to see if water would absorb. 

We were looking at all the artwork in the school and writing about what we liked. 

We made little voyageurs in a boat using a picture of our faces. 

We went down the slide at swimming lessons!

We brought our stuffed animals to the gym to read with our book buddies!

 

March

Here we are presenting our plays in French in the library. 

 Here we are building houses for our little clay pigs and wolves. 

Here we are testing how strong cubes can be built.

Here we are starting to learn about ancient Egypt. 

Here we are using blocks for division. 

Here we are playing a math game using geometric shapes for math centers. 

We also used the smartboard to do some multiplication using arrays. 

We planned and wrote a rough draft of our own fractured fairy tales. 

We talked about healthy foods and planned out some meals. 

We painted the background for our bridge art project. 

We also practiced some shading techniques in art. 

One of our bulletin board displays showed our French writing about a friend in the class. 

The other display gave information about our favourite books. 

Constable Cross came to the library to read all the grade 3 students a story!

Alexander the leprechaun paid us some visits and left us some jelly beans to estimate!

We completed our swimming lessons. 

Students worked hard and presented their projects at Expo-Assiniboine!

We had a lot of fun bowling on the last day before spring break!