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Hi Everyone!

During this unusual time, it is important that we try to stay connected and chat with one another about what we've been up to while staying at home. Below is a writing task that I encourage all students to do at home on a Padlet I created so we can keep in touch.
Please post on the Padlet the following information:

1. A picture of what you are up to
2. Share what you have been doing to keep busy while at home
3. Any feelings or thoughts you want to share with the class.
4. Students are free to add comments or reply to any of the posts. Let's try to have some virtual conversations :)

What we Know - Wonder - Learn About Structures!

What do we already KNOW, WONDER and what have we LEARNED about strong and stable structures? We have been using this Padlet to share our ideas and update as we experiment, research and complete our various  STEM challenges. Have a look at what we've done so far, and please feel free to read and post over the break from home! If you are eager to learn more, please visit any of our Wonder Websites to add to our learning on the Padlet below.

Visualizing Peace

Adding Juicy Words to our Writing

Program Night Slide Deck

Thank you to all families who joined us this evening at our school's Program Night. It was a pleasure meeting all of you and I look forward to growing and learning with each of your children. Please view below the slide deck from this evening's class visit. Feel free to add more of your comments or what you or your child are looking forward to in our class this year on our Padlet below! What hope, dream or wish do you have for your child in Grade 3?

What Can You Do to Be Safe on the Internet?

Open House - May 2018

Push Pull Padlet

We completed our first collaborative @hapara_team Workspace task. Students successfully read new facts about forces in motion on @EpicKidsBooks and shared their learning on https://t.co/1yoX29tRW0. Ask your child about it! #ocsb_dl pic.twitter.com/TQHxQwDFag

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 14 November 2017

Visualizing Peace

In class we are using visualizing and our 5 senses to help us determine what peace means. We are reading books and collaborating on this padlet below. For homework, students can continue to add their own ideas. They may had juicy describing words or words that they think of that remind them of Peace.

Whoever You Are Shared Writing

This week we participated in week 3 of the Global Read Aloud Project. We read the story Whoever You Are by Mem Fox and talked about the text-to-text and text-to-world connections. We collaborated with a partner and shared our connections and our thinking on a shared writing activity using Google Slides. Students are becoming very familiar with how to use a Slidedeck to collaborate with their peers and help them navigate the site to post our learning. Have a look below at our finished product. Additionally, students can read and share their ideas on a shared-padlet created by a teacher from the Caymen Islands. This week, the book had us think about the great things in our community and in the city we live. A few students had the chance to post their ideas to the shared padlet. Students may continue to add for homework this weekend!

Push and Pull Forces Padlet

Today in class we talked about push and pull forces. We learned the following vocabulary terms:

Force, Motion, Push, Pull, Friction, Position and Location. 

Students can continue to add more of their learning or a wondering about Forces that push and pull.

Global Read Aloud Project Week 1 and Week 2

Feel free to continue to add more of your ideas on the shared padlets that Mrs. Del Risco created with her students from the Caribbean. Have a read at what students from around the world are writing about foods and animals where they live.

Week 1: Koala Lou.
Animals Where We Live Shared Padlet:

Week 2: Possum Magic
Food Where We Live Shared Padlet

Adjective List

Here is our list of "juicy" adjectives. We are adding as many describing words as we can so we can help make our sentences extra juicy this year. We will use this list all year when writing. Please feel free to add more if your child would like to complete this for homework.

Students played this game in class to help them review how to find describing words.

 http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/adjectives.htm

Program Night Slide Deck

Thank you to all families who joined us this evening at our school's Program Night. It was a pleasure meeting all of you and I look forward to growing and learning with each of your children. Please view below the slide deck from this evening's class visit. Feel free to add more of your comments or what you or your child are looking forward to in our class this year on our Padlet below!

   

Being Safe Online

Our current focus in Religion is learning about how to be a good digital citizen. We are watching videos and having discussions about internet safety. Students collaborated in groups and came up with a great list of ways they will be safe while on a digital platform. Have a look at what we came up with! Did we miss something? If so, please feel free to add more ideas at home for homework!

Open House Parent Conferences

A huge thank you to all parents who were able to join us today at our school's Open House breakfast. We had so many wonderful families join us in our gym this morning. Families had the chance to enjoy a healthy breakfast together with their children. We also got to watch the dance teams led by Mrs. Vela. They blew us away with their amazing talent! After the breakfast, we went to our classrooms and invited our parents to join us.

We held mini parent conferences to show our parents some of our expertise in our room. Many students got to show off their amazing work on our Google Docs and Google Slides. There were other students who wanted to teach their parents how to scan QR Codes to read their narrative stories that we created. It was neat to see the students teach their parents how to scan a QR Code, and then how to write a comment through the link on their cover pages.

Students also wrote blog posts and comments together with their parents and taught them how to navigate the KidBlog site. It is so great to see the student's expertise in action. We also had students talk about their experiences with the Open House with their parents on our Padlet below. Please feel free to add more of your thinking! 

We are so thankful to have supportive families in our community who joined us today. Thank you to all of our thoughtful parents who came to feast with us and to learn more about their children's learning. It really brought a huge smile to our class' faces. 

To view the blog posts created by students today during the Parent conferences, please head on over to our class Kidblog accounts. 

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Science Workshop on Soils

Shaking up the soil types with @sci_in_school @assumption_ocsb Look how much fun we are having. https://t.co/svEgMwe4hb

— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 27 April 2016

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Wiggly worms that tickle https://t.co/AkzkgWff1B

— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 27 April 2016

Is root growth easy or hard with sand? @sci_in_school https://t.co/4ej0UMceDp

— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 27 April 2016

Labelling and discovering the parts of a worm with @sci_in_school https://t.co/It03Vj4fgz

— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 27 April 2016

How much water can the topsoil hold? @sci_in_school? https://t.co/Ok8U9P2fT0

— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 27 April 2016

Having fun learning about wiggly worms during our @Sci_in_School workshop today. pic.twitter.com/A0UlS4nhrz

— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 27 April 2016

Lent Project Delivery

Over the past few weeks during this season of Lent, our class has worked hard to promote kindness in our school and in our community. Our goal was to spread some kindness to our local Food Bank by collecting canned food to benefit the people who live in our community. The students planned and organized this initiative in a number of ways. We started talking about doing something nice for our school during Kindness Week. We watched videos and read stories about the boomerang effect and how spreading kindness makes our world a better place.

We decided to promote this to the school by writing daily announcements and created posters to spread our message. We read a few stories to inspire us, then we created posters on Slides to collaborate with a friend and share why kindness is cooler.

As the weeks went on, our collection of canned food slowly grew. To further inspire others, students were interested in creating their own commercials and share on YouTube. We wanted to use the Green Screen to make videos to promote our project to the school so we made a plan on Slides. 

The students did a great job of following what good speakers do while filming their first ever commercials. We posted our commercials to YouTube. To view each of our commercials, follow this link to student's KidBlog accounts. Each commercial is posted to the students' blogs. Mr. Gautreau watched each of our commercials and left us a comment. Students loved to see their principal giving them feedback!

And finally, today Sylvie from the Partage Vanier Food Bank came to visit our school to pick up the boxes of food just in time for Easter this weekend. She was so appreciative of what the students did over the past few weeks to collect so much food. She thanked us and we helped pack the boxes for her to bring to the Food Bank today. It felt great to share with her that our final total was 316! We hope this helps many families in our community over the Easter weekend. We reflected on the project today during our Talking Circle. Students shared their favourite memories and what they enjoyed most about the project. We posted some of our ideas on the Padlet below. Please feel free to add your own thinking if you think there is more to share. We also added a few photos and links to reflect on this amazing experience. Well done Grade 3!!

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Measurement Homework - CM KM M

Last week we talked about what we can measure in CM...M...and in KM. We created a Padlet to share what we know about the most appropriate units to measure a length. For homework, students can continue to add their ideas to the Padlet.

A sample way to start your thinking can be: You can measure _____ in CM, or I measured the length of my bed in _____, etc.

CM = centimeters

M = meters

KM = kilometers

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