November 29th

Thank you to all the families who attended our virtual conferences over the last couple of day.  It was wonderful to chat with all of you and discuss the accomplishments and future goals you have for your children.  Our grade 3 class is full of amazing students and I am excited to see what else they can strive towards over the next few months!

Homework Update:

Today the students will be bringing home an extra sheet to fill out with their homework.  Please take the time to discuss a cultural celebration they take part in with your family.  Examples may include, (but are not limited to) Christmas, Easter, Eid, Ramadan, Lunar New Year, Diwali, Hannukah, Kwanzaa or any other important cultural celebration. They will need this piece of information for an inquiry in our Social Studies unit.  Please ensure they have their name on the top so it does not get mixed up and lost amongst all the papers coming in.  Thank you for your continued support!

Tomorrow we will take a community trip outside to look for 3D shapes in nature, please make sure your child is dressed for the weather!!

November 19th

What a great week!  The kids were amazing, and they worked so hard on a variety of tasks. They definitely deserve a fabulous weekend off.  Today the students showed off their hip hop skills, and a video will be coming to you via email!  

The Grade 3's are leading the school in a food drive this holiday season.  We are asking families to send in non-perishable food items for the Calgary Food Bank.  The Grade 3's will be promoting the food drive through morning announcements, posters and presentations in other classrooms.  We will be accepting donations until Monday December 13th.  Thank you supporting this cause!

Learning this week:                                                                                                                                  

Math:                                                                                                                                                       

Patterns increasing and decreasing patterns, both numerical and pictorial                                                

Basic addition and subtraction word problems and patterning word problems                                   

Addition and Subtraction computation without and with re-grouping up to 1000                                          

Skip counting forwards and backwards by 2's, 5's, 10's at any starting number up to 1000

 Language Arts:                                                                                                                                                

Descriptive Monster Walking Stories: incorporating similes, triple scoop words and sensory details           

Editing Skills: Recognizing and fixing spelling errors, checking punctuation, adding adjectives and       

replacing boring words with triple scoop words                                                                                       

Reading Comprehension skills: Visualization and character attributes through inferencing

Social Studies:                                                                                                                                                  

Researching on mapping and geography of Tunisia through books, videos and websites

Science:                                                                                                                                                              

We had a virtual field trip from the Bow Habitat Station and learned about the various fish found in Alberta.  Students learned about the adaptations various fish have and how these adaptations help them survive.  We also learned about some environmental concerns and how we can help.

Have an amazing weekend!

 Happy Diwali to all our Le Roi Daniels families that are celebrating this special holiday!

Happy Halloween!

 Hello Families!

We had a fun day celebrating Halloween and engaged in a variety of holiday themed tasks over the week! The students were so very excited to share their costumes and their plans for the weekend! Students created haunted houses using shapes, graphed the shapes and then answered data related questions.  We also began painting monsters/creatures by using a "blowing paint" technique.  In Math,  we read "There was on Old Lady who Swallowed a Bat" and then the students created their own "growing pattern math story" by drawing a variety of other spooky creatures the old lady could swallow following a specific pattern rule.

I hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween!  I look forward to seeing the students on Monday!

October 22nd

Hello Families!

It is hard to believe that we are closing in on the end of October!  We are looking forward to our Halloween dress up next week.  Students will be able to celebrate by wearing a costume on Friday October 29th.  Please ensure your child is wearing an age appropriate costume.  No weapons, masks or costumes that portray violence please.  We are also planning a community walk sometime next week, so please ensure your child is dressed appropriately for the weather.

This week:

I enjoyed colouring on the construction wall- Sasha

I liked making the "Who Am I?" cards for Science, my favourite is the bird- Niyousha

I enjoyed the representing numbers for homework- Affan

In art we used shapes: triangles, trapezoids and squares to make art- Hailen

I liked working on the Social Studies brochure about India- Abigail

I had fun in adventure running- Adeola

I liked tracing shapes to make a haunted house- Aaradhya

I liked putting shapes together to make a beautiful picture that included using primary colours- Eusebiu

I had fun colouring my haunted house- Yaseen

I enjoyed the technology option this week- Feras

I enjoyed my art option and adventure running at the park- Aarav

I made "who am I" cards for birds, mammal, reptiles, amphibians and fish- Makar

I enjoyed the literacy centre where we played a game about nouns- Zia

I liked colouring the cover for my super power book- Diti

I liked graphing the shapes for my art, the most popular shape in my art was the quadrilateral- Hana

I learned about summaries, we summarize by stating the somebody, wanted, but, so, then- Mahi

I liked writing the sixth sense paragraph about going to the movies- Sasha-

October 1st

 

Thoughts from the class:

I loved when described what we see in art, we were reflecting- Lydia

I enjoyed painting the feathers- Abgail

I liked learning about the 6 different groups of animals: mammals, insects, birds, fish and now we are learning about amphibians- Vedhang

I enjoyed reflecting on art because we got to think deeply about it and re-draw the picture- Prudhvi

I enjoyed making the tripe scoop word ice cream cones.  "Triple scoop" is when you turn a boring word into an interesting word- Adeola

The adjective story was fun because we got to write a funny story- Diti

I enjoyed picture day because I got take a picture with my class outside - Eusebiu

I learned that some kids were taken from their parents, which made them sad.  This is why we wear orange on "Orange Shirt Day"- Zia

I liked making growing patterns- Feras

I enjoyed Teacher's Pet and learning about other countries- Yaseen

The feather art helped me represent "Orange Shirt Day" and recognize the children who died at residential schools- Aaradhya

I loved that we wore orange shirts for Orange Shirt Day to say sorry to those who went to residential schools- Yug

 

Friday September 24th

 Hello Families,

The students had an exciting week! We participated in the Terry Fox run (thank you to all those who sent in "Toonies for Terry), worked on art work and filming for the "Orange Shirt Day Assembly" and had our first fun lunch!

Thank you for all those who have already donated to our "Love of Reading"campaign! Please watch the video below and click this link to donate https://indigoloveofreadingfoundation.givecloud.co/fundraisers/le-roi-daniels-calgary-alberta 

https://youtu.be/WN9w3VVF7ME

IMPORTANT: Monday, September 7th is picture day! Please ensure your child is dressed in their formal uniform!

Next week the Grade 3's are hosting the "Orange Shirt Day" Assembly.  This will be a virtual assembly and parents will be able to watch the assembly through a link that will be sent through email on September 29th.  September 29th is also the day students can come to school wearing an Orange Shirt.  Just a reminder that Thursday September 30th is a statutory holiday in recognition of "Truth and Reconciliation". our school will be closed that day and resumes on Friday October 1st.

Have a wonderful weekend and I hope everyone finds some time to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather!