Spring Break Joy

Hi Everyone! 

I hope you have enjoyed your "socially distant" Spring Break - spending time with loved ones and staying healthy. I wanted to share with the kids some happy memories I made this week with Bowey. 

I look forward to touching base with you all this week and getting started with our learning! We are all in this together. 

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Important Update

Hello Parents!

We are thinking about each of your families during this time and hope that everyone is safe and healthy. We miss the students so much! Today, we wanted to share some learning activities that you can do at home with your children. Many of these activities can be completed independently. Please continue to check the blog, school messengers, and the news daily for updates. 

Thank you for your patience and support. 

Grade 3 Teachers

Math

• Please encourage your child to practice skip counting by 2, 3, 5, 10 and 25. Starting at any given number counting forwards and backwards.
• You can make this a game. For example, “I’m starting at 3, counting forward by 2s. Will I say the number 17?” 
• Practice basic math facts through playing card games
• You can make this a game of WAR! Pick your operation (adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing), each player chooses a card at the same time and you race to say the answer. The quickest response takes the cards

Reading 

• With the understanding that access to books may be limited at this time, please continue daily reading, when possible, with your child. 
• The following websites are offering free subscriptions for the time being. If you’re interested, follow the links below: 
• Epic Books: https://www.getepic.com/promo
• Learn Alberta-Username: LA06 | Password: 4105 In Online References- Bookflix and Pebble Go
• Pebble Go: https://pebblego.com/
• Raz Kids: https://www.raz-kids.com/

Writing

Get creative, write a story using this story prompt. 

Looking down from the Eiffel Tower you notice your bright yellow school bus is pulling away. You wave your arms frantically and scream at the top of your lungs. Sadly you realize you are stranded 81 stories above the ground and you have not learned any French yet.

We would love to read your writing! If you’d like, please share your story with your teacher on google docs! If you require assistance with passwords to access online resources, please feel free to email your teacher.

tdgierl@educbe.ca (google)  tdgierl@cbe.ab.ca (general email)

We will continue posting learning activities that you can complete until we receive more information from the board on how our school board will proceed.

Thank you for your patience, understanding and support during this uncertain time.

Ms. Gierl

Optional Math Practice

Hi Room 24 Families!

Please look for the optional practice that may have been sent home with your child. As we have continued our work with multiplication and division, I have identified some common areas that students will benefit from having more time and practice on. 

If you have the time, please feel free to work on skip counting, fact families, and arrays with your student to support them in their math fluency!  

I appreciate your continued support. Please see below for additional math information and guidance!

Taylor Gierl

Division Basics: 

Arrays and Area Model

https://cindyelkins.edublogs.org/2019/03/30/division-basics-part-1-arrays-and-area-model/

Students as young as first grade actually start thinking about division when working on fraction standards such as:  Determine fair share — equal parts. Most students have had practical experience with dividing sets of objects in their real life to share with friends, classmates, or family (cookies, pizza, crayons, money, pieces of paper). So now our job as teachers is to relate this real-life experience with the division algorithm.

Much like multiplication, there are different aspects of division students should be familiar with:

• Arrays 
• Equal Groups
• Repeated Subtraction
• Number lines
• Skip counting
• What is an array?  An array is a rectangular model made up of rows and columns.  When an array is constructed, the factors are represented by the number of rows and columns.  So, do your students know the difference in a row and column?  (Rows go horizontally, while columns are vertical.)  These are important math terms students should be using.

• Give students experience constructing arrays with manipulative objects (tiles, chips, cubes, etc.):
  • You can be specific, such as: “Build an array using a total of 12 tiles. Put them in 3 rows.  How many columns did you create?” In this scenario, there is only 1 way to show this array. Students would be modeling 12 ÷ 3 = 4. Twelve is the dividend (the total amount you started with). The # of rows is the divisor (how it was divided).  The quotient is the result (in this case the # of columns).

    

    

    

  • You can also be a little more open-ended such as:  “Build an array using 12 tiles. Is there more than one way to do this?” If students are given the opportunity to explore, they hopefully find arrays such as 3 x 4; 4 x 3; 2 x 6; 6 x 2; 1 x 12; or 12 x 1. Students would be modeling 12 ÷ 4; 12 ÷ 2; 12 ÷1, etc.
• Give students experience drawing arrays:
• You can be specific or open-ended (as above).
• Children can free-hand draw or use grid paper.  If using grid paper, then these can be cut out and displayed as “Different ways to divide 12.”After the array is made, ask questions or explore more such as:
• How many 3’s are in 12? (count the columns)
• How many 4’s are in 12? (count the rows)
• Circle the rows and / or columns to see the groups more easily.
• Help children make up story problems to match the array:  “I have 12 desks that I need to arrange in 3 rows. How many desks will be in each row?” or “I need to put 12 books equally onto 3 shelves. How many books will go on each shelf?"

Fact Families 

Skip Counting on Number Lines 

 

Gym Update Blog

ROS Students are currently participating in a ‘Circus’ unit in PE class. We are learning a variety of new tricks using various equipment such as juggling sticks, scarves, hula hoops, spinning plates, diablos, tossing rings and juggling clubs. Students are encouraged to check out the Youtube channel, the National Circus Project. Below is a list of videos that students can watch to inspire them to try new tricks while in the gym. We are very excited about this unit! Thanks for your support! 

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxndbKEHt9i5mELqNLrx33Q 

***Beginner videos are a great starting point*** 

Devil Sticks (juggling sticks) 

Scarf Juggling 

Hoops 

Plates 

Diablo 

Week of Feb24-28 (late blog)

No Excuse Words:

cardboard
boxcar
joint
duct tape
bend
fold
screwdriver
screw
bolt
build

Housekeeping:

Save the Date: 
Grade 3 Celebration of Learning
Thursday, March 5th, 6-7pm
Please have your child ready to go into the gym promptly at 6pm, parents will be let in 5 minutes later while they get set up. Thanks for your patience while we prepare our musical performance! After the performance, we invite you back to our grade 3 classrooms where our students have prepared exciting artifacts of their learning to share with you. The event is finished at 7pm.

Math:

Ask your child about their Iggy Peck Shapes Bridge challenge!

Ask your child about their Bobbie's Blueprints activity, and how they measure lines accurately as a builder, architect or engineer would do!

https://www.education.com/slideshow/bobbys-blueprints/

Writing: For Pink Shirt Day, students read and article and annotated it with Think Notes. We made a Kindness Promise, and wrote them on leaves to decorate the Magic Treehouse with!

Reading/ Social Studies:

Ask your child about the story, "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind", they then read the article below and took Think Notes on it. We also discussed from the standpoint of Design Thinking. 

(you can save or drag these images into your photos and view from there as well!)