Time Homework

This week in Measurement we will be exploring and reviewing TIME. We will be focusing on how to tell time using both analog and digital clocks. In grade three, we are learning how to tell time to the nearest 5 minutes.

For homework this week, students can play this TIME game that we play in class to review how to tell time on an analog clock. After viewing the video and playing the game, students can reflect what they know and what new learnings they have on their KidBlog account for homework. 

http://mrnussbaum.com/clockworks/

Kidblog Available for Student Blogging

We are excited and eager to begin our student blogging journey! For the past week students have been setting up their Kidblog accounts and using the platform to blog about their interests, experiences and participate in discussions. Now that all students have had the chance to create their accounts and navigate the site, we invite them to use the Blog for their creative writing endeavors. Remember to follow the Blogging Etiquette guidelines found HERE. A blogging contract was sent home with your child today. Please read, sign and send back the bottom of the form to ensure that all students and families understand our blogging rules and guidelines. Our goal is to promote thoughtful discussions and provide a platform for students to safely write for pleasure and for a global audience. Digital citizenship is important to us and students understand the 5 P's for a positive digital footprint.
Remember: the purpose for blogging is to read, write and respond. We encourage students to respond positively and appropriately. We are also promoting thoughtful discussions and dialogue.

Happy Blogging! 

kidblog.org/class/MrsCiampa/posts

Twitter Survey Results and Data Collecting

This week we spent a lot of time collecting data by coming up with our own survey questions. We collaborated with friends to come up with our own surveys that we posted on our class Twitter page. When we received the results, we worked in groups to try to explain the data using comparative language (example: altogether, fewer than, more than, most, least, etc).  We will continue to work on comparing data from our Twitter surveys next week. Below, you can see our results. Ask your child about it!
We also completed our own personal survey questions with a target audience of Grade 1/2 students. We are learning that we need to keep our audience in mind when designing a survey question so that the options are relatable to the people we ask. We had a lot of fun designing survey questions and using our tally chart information to build a bar graph. Ask your child what a bar graph and tally chart must have. Next week, we will continue to work with data and talk about pictographs.

What is your favourite kind of flexible seating option in your classroom? By: Mrs. Ciampa #ocsb_math

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 15 November 2017

What is your favourite type of potato chip? By: Johanna, Diya, Maria, Moyo and Kayla #ocsb_math

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 15 November 2017

What trip do you want to go on? By: Jake, Joel, Tristan and Sophie #ocsb_math

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 15 November 2017

What is your favourite video game? By: Rory, Zach, Braeden, Reid and Khoa #ocsb_math

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 15 November 2017

What is your favourite ice cream flavour? By: Lachlan, Peyton, Megan,Maya and Aubrey #ocsb_math

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 15 November 2017

Results of Principal Mason answering the grade 3 survey on twitter. pic.twitter.com/Fj5H35vaFO

— St Emily School (@StEmilySchool) 17 November 2017

Twitter Surveys

In our class, we are working on collecting Data and writing about the information we collect. We created polls (survey questions) on our class Twitter page. Below are each of our Twitter polls. Have your say and vote on each of our 5 survey questions. We will collect the results and analyze our information on Friday.

What is your favourite kind of flexible seating option in your classroom? By: Mrs. Ciampa #ocsb_math

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 15 November 2017

What is your favourite type of potato chip? By: Johanna, Diya, Maria, Moyo and Kayla #ocsb_math

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 15 November 2017

What trip do you want to go on? By: Jake, Joel, Tristan and Sophie #ocsb_math

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 15 November 2017

What is your favourite video game? By: Rory, Zach, Braeden, Reid and Khoa #ocsb_math

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 15 November 2017

What is your favourite ice cream flavour? By: Lachlan, Peyton, Megan,Maya and Aubrey #ocsb_math

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 15 November 2017

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.

Global Read Aloud Week 4

This week during the Global Read Aloud project, we read the story Tough Boris. We talked about character traits and came up with a list of juicy words to describe the character of Boris the pirate. We imagined why Boris grew up to be such a tough pirate by writing our own stories about what could have happened to him when he was younger.

To share our thinking, we collaborated with Mrs. Johnson's class from Dallas Texas. We wrote many reading responses to questions her class posted about the story Tough Boris. I posted a few of them below. You can see more on our Twitter profile page or by following the hashtag: #GRAMem

When my big brother that is 14 tries to trip me I sometimes think I need to be tough

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 2 November 2017

Mem fox wants us to learn we all have feelings!!

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 2 November 2017

Tough Boris and his crew went to put his bird because he died.#gramem

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 3 November 2017

Because his parrate died and everyone has feeling#gramem

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 3 November 2017

I liked how they were coloured neatly and they were like in the olden times when they looked so fashioned

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 3 November 2017

She wanted to teach us to be nice and don't always think you need to be tough

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 2 November 2017

Parent Interviews Sign-up

Progress Reports are in your child's agenda today. Please have a read and ensure to send the envelope back to school as soon as possible.
Parents who would like to request an interview with me are asked to follow this link to sign up for a 10 minute time slot. If you would prefer a phone interview instead, please indicate that on the link itself.