Meet Mrs. Ciampa - Your Grade 3 Virtual Learning Program Teacher

 

Cov-Ed 4 Kids

 

Staying Healthy and Staying Safe to help prevent the spread of germs.

Keep Updating on Padlet All Summer Long!

What Happens to the Student Portal and Workspace in the Summer?

Distance Learning - June 22-25

If you're having trouble clicking the links on the Virtual Classroom, check out the link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19R7Um5z0O-qcDwbgblXPe6NQZH14o0LncF1zv9t2HgY/edit?usp=sharing 

End of Year Questionnaire

Distance Learning - June 15th - 19th

If you are having trouble with the Virtual Classroom links, follow this link:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19R7Um5z0O-qcDwbgblXPe6NQZH14o0LncF1zv9t2HgY/edit?usp=sharing

Distance Learning: June 8-12

Follow this link if you cannot access the Virtual Classroom links:
 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19R7Um5z0O-qcDwbgblXPe6NQZH14o0LncF1zv9t2HgY/edit?usp=sharing 

If you'd like to view the book links on this Virtual Library, follow this link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NjMqwJV3pXbHU87HjNrm5nnaeOF6n3-dnczudkX8ptY/edit?usp=sharing 

Distance Learning: June 1-June 5

If you are having trouble clicking on the links of our Virtual Classroom, please follow this link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19R7Um5z0O-qcDwbgblXPe6NQZH14o0LncF1zv9t2HgY/edit?usp=sharing 

Distance Learning: May 25th - 29th

If the Virtual Classroom links do not work, follow this link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19R7Um5z0O-qcDwbgblXPe6NQZH14o0LncF1zv9t2HgY/edit?usp=sharing 

This Week's Virtual Classroom

Distance Learning - May 18-22

Distance Learning May 11th-15th

Loving all of the posts on our plants and life systems discussion on @Flipgrid. Students are posting replies and sharing facts on how to save our planet. We will have a new Flipgrid discussion next week. #ocsbAtHome @StEmilyOCSB pic.twitter.com/aQdWqAGqml

— Mrs.Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) May 10, 2020

Google Meet Grid View

Many students have asked me to how they can see the Grid View on their screens during our Google Meet. I have created a video below to walk you through the steps on how to download the Grid View extension on Google Chrome Web Store. See the video below for details.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o16Cwzuafk8tjLKRsu4RyZMkqjON-0nA/view?usp=sharing 

See you tomorrow for our Google Meet! Wednesday May 6th at 1:00 pm

Distance Learning - May 4th-May 8th

Distance Learning - April 27th - May 1st

Google Meet - Wednesday April 29th - 1:00pm

Please have your child join me for our 5th Google Meet (aka video Google Hangout) on Wednesday April 29th at 1:00pm. Students, don't forget to check your emails for an invitation from me to MEET for our video chat. We will review the optional work for this week and answer any questions you may have about the work on Workspace. This will be a great time to ask questions and catch-up with friends. Mme. Gavan will be attending our Hangout. If you have any questions for her, bring them along with you.  Looking forward to saying hello and chatting on Wednesday.

Google Meet: Wednesday April 22 @ 1:00 pm

Please have your child join me for our 4th Google Meet (aka video Google Hangout) on Wednesday April 22nd at 1:00pm. Students, don't forget to check your emails for an invitation from me to MEET for our video chat. We will review the optional work for this week and answer any questions you may have about the work on Workspace. This will be a great time to ask questions and catch-up with friends. Mme. Gavan will be attending our Hangout. If you have any questions for her, bring them along with you.  Looking forward to saying hello and chatting on Wednesday.

Google Meet Guidelines

Distance Learning April 20-26

Distance Learning April 13-20

3rd Google Meet: Wednesday April 15th @ 1:00 pm

Please have your child join me for our 3rd Google Meet (aka video Google Hangout) on Wednesday April 15th at 1:00pm. Students, don't forget to check your emails for an invitation from me to MEET for our video chat. We will review the optional work for this week and answer any questions you may have about the work on Workspace. This will be a great time to ask questions and catch-up with friends. Looking forward to saying hello and chatting on Wednesday.

Google Meet Rules 

Learning At Home: April 6th-10th

If you want to refresh your memory on how to find Workspace in Student Portal, please watch this helpful video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DF5CHwAa3prnX1QJNS0gKYBN_TTwAM4T/view

2nd Google Meet: Wednesday April 8th, @ 1:00pm

Please have your child join me for our 2nd Google Meet (aka video Google Hangout) on Wednesday April 8th at 1:00pm. Please have students check their emails for an invitation from me to MEET for our video chat. We will be going over how to access the Student Portal from home, where to find Workspace and discuss the optional assignments students can work on this week. This will be a great time to ask questions and catch-up with friends. Looking forward to saying hello and chatting on Wednesday.

1st Google Meet: Tuesday March 31st @ 1:00pm

Please have your child join me for a Google Meet (aka video Google Hangout) on Tuesday March 31st and 1:00pm. In these unusual learning times, it is important we try to stay connected and stay in touch so we can chat with our 3D friends. Students can check their emails for an invitation from me to MEET for our video chat. Looking forward to saying hello and chatting on Tuesday.

For a quick overview on how to navigate MEET, please see the video below:

 

RAZ KIDS UPDATE

Great news! I have added FRENCH books to your child's Raz Kids reading accounts. When you open the Reading Room, you will see that students now have access to a large variety of French books levelled aa-zz. Students are free to read any book in this French collection as well as their English books as well.

Happy Reading! 

Let's Stay in Touch :)

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 :)

March Break Update

Dear Parents,                                                                                       March 13, 2020

In light of the school closures after March Break students are encouraged to practice skills at home over the next few weeks. Please visit any of our online platforms:

                                                                           
mrsciampaclass.blogspot.ca Our class Twitter: @MrsCiampaClass

ON THE BLOG: I have a wide variety of Math and Science wonder links that students can use at home to explore their inquiries or continue to practice their skills that they’ve learned in class. A few students have taken upon themselves to explore their own inquiries at home by creating a Google Slide Deck and sharing it with me. I have also posted links to class work we have done in class, including a working PADLET that students can use to share what they wonder or have learned about structures in Science or Math so far. 

 Here are some educational app and website recommendations. Many can be found on the student portal:

Literacy: https://www.raz-kids.com/ https://www.abcya.com/grades/

Numeracy: https://play.zorbitsmath.com/ https://hourofcode.com/ca https://www.abcya.com/grades/ http://ntimages.weebly.com/ https://mathbeforebed.com/

There are many other ways to practice skills with your children over the break. We encourage reading books daily both independently and with a parent on Raz Kids or any other book of choice. 

SCIENCE: A reminder that students should return to school with completed research for their famous structures assignment and may continue to look for cool facts to include for their final project over the break.

MATH: When we return from the break, students will have a brief review of 3D shapes, before our final assessment on Geometry. The next unit of math that we will be starting once students return is Multiplication followed by Money. 

Yours in Education, 

Mrs. Ciampa

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.

Geometry Games to Try At Home

The following are some shape games students can try at home to further practice what they have learned in class. We are currently working to use tangrams to show us how to identify shapes that are CONGRUENT (the same size and shape). These tangram activities really help as they demonstrate how stacking, flipping, turning and sliding shapes can help determine congruence.

https://www.mathplayground.com/tangrams.html

https://www.abcya.com/games/tangrams

https://www.mathplayground.com/ASB_Kangaroo_Hop.html

Weekly Homework Note

Dear Parents

Weekly homework in a homework folder will not be sent home on a consistent basis for a variety of reasons. Instead, please make family time your number one priority! Now that your child is in grade 3, I’d like to encourage them to take responsibility for their own learning and make use of online platforms to practice their skills. A link to websites for practice or for wonders is available on the blog. Math reviews will be sent home prior to the end of unit math quizzes. If you are looking to help your child on a nightly basis, here are a few suggestions.

1. Check our class Twitter (of Blog) every day for class updates, school information, learning goals or experiences we share
2. Read the agenda every night
3. Read!! Read a book each night for a minimum of 15 minutes. Try to find “just right” books at your child’s reading level. Read on RAZ Kids, a library book or anything of interest. 
4. Play word games with your weekly Word Wall Words (see below for word game ideas)
5. Math Games - check the Blog for math game links or try Zorbits (available on the Student Portal)
6. Buy your child a journal and have them write about what they’ve read or write their own stories.
7. Nightly homework with your child, should be limited to no more than 30 minutes each night

WORD WALL WORDS (WWW)

Each week your child will be given words to practice at home based on the spelling pattern, science topic or math strand we are working on in class. In class, students will play word games with these words. At home, students are encouraged to continue their learning by playing these and other suggested games at the bottom of the page. The WWW will be posted on Twitter each week and will also be copied in your child’s agenda at the start of the week. 

We have all heard how important it is for our children to read and write for pleasure. Reading and writing daily helps to build vocabulary, improve fluency and promote a love of reading!  The more the children read, review, spell and interact with these words in meaningful ways, the more confident they will become when reading and writing. Please note, we will not have weekly spelling tests with the WWW.

How can you support your child at home? Here are some things to do with the Word Wall Words...

⦁ use a whiteboard, use a keyboard, use magnetic letters, etc. Be creative!

⦁ Play Scrabble or Bananagrams

⦁ Spell each word aloud three times, by the third time, try and close your eyes!

⦁ When spelling the words, snap on the vowels and clap on the consonants

⦁ Make a sentence with each word

⦁ Write out each word 5 times using different coloured markers or crayons

⦁ Choose three of the word wall words and try to use them in the same sentence

⦁ Have a spelling challenge with an older brother, sister or friend

⦁ Choose a word and hunt for it in a book, magazine or the newspaper

⦁ Write a short story using all 5 word wall words. Remember your capital letters and

  punctuation!

Yours in Education,

Mrs. Ciampa

Parent Information

Meet Mrs. Ciampa

Hello and welcome! My name is Maria Ciampa and I am very excited to be your child's Grade 3 teacher for the rest of the school year. I am just coming back from maternity leave and am excited to join this journey with grade 3D for Term 2. This is my third year teaching at St. Emily School and I look forward to continuing to grow and learn with our class and with the school community. 

With my husband Joe and our two children Michael & Emilia.

I have a passion for educational technology and collaborating with others for shared learning opportunities. We will experiment with STEM tasks and work towards weekly collaborative learning activities. My goal is to encourage the class to think critically while learning how to communicate, collaborate with their classmates and possibly interact online on a local or global scale. We will also have some flexible learning spaces in our room. Remember, flexible learning happens not just in their physical classroom space, but beyond our classroom walls too! 

We will keep some of the same routines that Ms. Sande introduced this year. We will continue to meditate throughout the week as well as practice quiet entry by modeling how to read silently (DEAR time), reflecting in our mindful journals and completing brain snack math problems daily. Students will be encouraged to use their agenda to stay organized. Nightly homework will focus on reading, writing and family time. Students will be encouraged to demonstrate their responsibility by choosing to either review their word wall words, read on Raz Kids or complete the occasional math review. Please check the agenda daily for important notes or information.  Class updates will be shared daily on our class Twitter (@MrsCiampaClass) written by myself and your children! If there is a note in your child's agenda, please ask them to show me in the morning as we may not always get to our agendas until later in the afternoon.

Your child will get the opportunity to share their learning on a variety of online tools including our class Twitter (@MrsCiampaClass).  Check our Twitter daily to see what our learning goals are and how you might support your child's learning online. 

If you haven't already, please ensure that your child has a set of earphones to use while working on our various tech devices. Students are also encouraged to come to school with a water bottle. Below are some suggested, optional items that you can chose to donate to our classroom to help keep it clean and organized:

-Kleenex

-hand sanitizer
-baby wipes

-pencils and erasers

 If you have any questions, please write me a note in the agenda and remind your child to show me! 

Yours in Education,

Mrs. Ciampa