Mr. Zhang's Grade 3s

 This week in... Literacy - we continued working on inferring through texts with only pictures or with limited words. We have also started writing our fractured fairy tales. These are fairy tales that are changed from the traditional ones. Math - we have started our measurement unit. We have been doing a lot of work with our rulers as well as some simple conversion work. Social Studies - we are still on the topic of Ukraine. Students are in the midst of creating a poster showing all they learned about Ukraine. Reminders 1. If you would like to volunteer for the zoo field trip please let me know! We still have 1-2 spots for parent volunteers. 2. Please remind your students to bring their library book back as we will be having library on Tuesday (the day they come back)

 Hello Parents, No pictures this week.  For math we kept on doing geometry. We recently just finished translations and are in the process of making some tessellation art. You will get to see those next week. As for writing, we started our story writing unit. We focused on the structure of a story this week; character, setting, problem, solution, beginning, middle, and end. Next week we will start some basic planning for the story they will write for me. For science, this week, we are doing our bridge challenge. On Tuesday, students researched about bridges; what makes bridges strong, what are they made of, types of bridges, interesting facts about bridges. They started building their bridges yesterday and we will test them out next week. In addition, Ms. Stringer and I are thinking of going for a community walk next week so students can label and sketch out an actual bridge. If the weather is nice we will definitely let you know! Reminders 1. library is on Tuesday, some studen...

This week, we started our geometry unit. We learned about what is and is not a polygon, differece between regular and irregular polygon, right angles and angles in comparison to right angles, and different line segments. For writing, we did a lot of work on when to use commas. The biggest takeway was that we can use a connecting word and a comma to merge two simple sentences together. Finally, for building, we built spaghetti marshmallow towers, as well as coffee stir bridges. Finally, students made their own pysanky eggs and some students applied the wax on the egg themselves. Reminders 1. Library is on Tuesday, please bring your books 2. Our school recently got a subscription to raz kids/a-z learning. Students practiced getting on the website and recording their reading. It would be awesome for students to ...

This week we wrapped up our multiplication and division unit. Overall I think that the entire class did very well; so thank you for practicing with your students. When we come back, we will be starting our geometry unit which syncs up quite nicely with building. As for English, we finished our persuasive writing and will be moving towards story writing. For the week back, we will be making Pysanky eggs as it's a part of our Ukraine unit. If anyone has any kastkis they are willing to lend us that would be great, but I will be attempting to make some over the break. Finally, I just want to say how proud of them I am for today as a student was saying not nice things towards us, but everyone just ignored it and carried on. Reminders 1. Our first day back will be April 3rd Monday 2. If you want to come on our zoo field trip in June, please start thinking about getting your police check with the CBE 3. Please encoura...

 This week, we have started our testing materials unit. Students got a chance to explore the strength of different shapes and objects as well as build a Leprechaun house. For writing, we are finishing up our persuasive writing unit. We did have a few stops along the way to do some limericks as well as work on our revision skills. This coming week, we are going to write poems about spring as well as finish our good copies for our persuasive writing. For math, we continued with division. We are going to finish our multiplication and division unit so we can start something new after spring break. Every day, if your student does not finish their math work in class, I have been sending them home to finish it. It's only one page, and should not take very long. Please keep encouraging them to finish their work! As for reading, we have started our wondering aspect. We have been talking a lot about the types of questions readers ask and the significance of asking questions while reading. A ...

 Math - This week, we continued with our multiplication unit. Students have been working on their 6, 7, and 8 facts as well as count bys. We have also made a large multiplication table with all the products as well as ways to demonstrate how they achieved the answer. I have sent some students home with homework today as they did not finish in class. It should take at most 10 minutes to finish. Writing - We started our persuasive writing unit. Students learned about the structure of persuasive writing (what? why? why? why? what again?), how to use persuasive words, as well as including 3 reasons or examples in each of their whys. The topic students wrote about was whether if I should get a classroom pet and what pet should I get? Reading- For reading, we have been working on visualization. Students drew pictures of how they imagined the illustrations to be in a story. Students also came up with creative titles to book we read in class. Social Studies - We started Tunisia! Students a...