Raz Kids and Newsletter

The December newsletter was sent home in your child agenda. Please read all about our fun learning in December. Please note that next Friday our class along with the grade 3's will be planning the 2nd week of Advent mass.  It will be at 9:30 in our gym. We hope you can make it!

Raz Kids information was sent home too. Login information is attached in your child's agenda along with a note.  You can access leveled books at your child's just right level.  There is important information in the letter so please have a read. Login and password information!!! 

Students got the chance to practice all week during our literacy centers. It is important to click on the eye and not the ear when reading a book. Students can practice reading on their own and then complete a reading comprehension quiz. Students may also write about their raz book in their book worm homework book!

Happy reading!

New Learning

We are working on some new learning goals in our classroom. In Math we are starting to talk about patterns in numbers. We are looking at different patterns and trying to determine what the pattern rule, the pattern core and the changing attributes for each problem. We created a chart to show what we know. We also added some different types of attributes. We learned a grade 3 math word: Orientation. Ask your child what orientation is another word for. And ask your child to name some of the other attributes we learned about today!

In Language we worked in our new literacy center groups. Students are working in small groups on some descriptive writing activities. We also started to talk about a new online reading program called Raz Kids. I am in the process of setting up login information and passwords for each student. Parent letters will be going home soon! In the mean time, we will continue to practice using Raz Kids during our literacy centers in class. Ask your child what kind of learning they participated in during our literacy centers today!

Shared-Twitter Thinking and Learning

Together with Mrs. Swan's grade 3 class we created a Twitter wall in our school. We are using the wall to share our thinking and learning using the similar learning opportunities our classes participate in.  


Last week our 2 classes participated in similar problem solving and kindness activities. We were happy to hear that the grade 3's also participated in the kindness paper person activity. Our Twitter wall is a way for our 2 classes to share our thinking and learning about how we can choose to make a positive choice in a problem situation. 

The wall is located close to the lunch room. We hope to inspire other students to make positive choices when faced with any sort of problem or issue (whether big or small)! 

Our classes have already used the online version of Twitter for shared learning opportunities. We will continue to watch one another's learning on Twitter as well as use the Twitter Wall in our school to share our learning in many ways over the year. If you are in the school, come by and visit our Twitter Wall!

New Word Wall Words

Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Visit

Today we enjoyed a visit from the Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Center. Kate, the Educational Coordinator talked about many of the animals that live around us in Ottawa. We talked about raccoons, foxes, porcupines, skunks, deer, moose, baby bears, bats, beavers and more! 

We focused on why these animals are important and how we can help protect them.

We learned about their habitats, what food they eat, what they do for our city and how they adapt to their surroundings. We shared our learning on our Class Twitter page, click to see! @MrsCiampaClass

Ask your child to tell you what they learned today about habitats, the different animals and how we can protect the animals around our city!


For more information about the local center, check out their website: http://wildlifeinfo.ca/

Sharing our Learning

We have been working on our bullying awareness posters all week long. We are sharing in different ways all that we've learned about making good choices when we face a problem. We used the paper-person kindness activity, songs from Maria Hawkins and the stories we read to recall how we can solve our problems. We used describing words and thought about how we can make the better choice in a problem situation.

Today we used the Tellagami app to share what we wrote about on our posters. Have a listen to some of the problems we've faced, and the positive choice we made to solve it:

MD: https://tellagami.com/gami/6VMOPH/

NN: https://tellagami.com/gami/7FRPJL/ 

CW: https://tellagami.com/gami/G5CA9G/ 

AB: https://tellagami.com/gami/93OD4B/ \

DL: tellagami.com/gami/8UT6GJ/ 

CO: https://tellagami.com/gami/K52HG9/ 

HH: https://tellagami.com/gami/SU38MJ/ 

EC: https://tellagami.com/gami/ZQ3LWZ/ 

WN:  https://tellagami.com/gami/X9QQMU/ 

RC: https://tellagami.com/gami/YX0JEY/ 

PJ: tellagami.com/gami/OIY2SF/ 

FF: https://tellagami.com/gami/7PXTL3/ 

AO: tellagami.com/gami/XVZB4D/ 

Paper Doll Kindness

We continue to focus on bullying awareness this week. This morning we read a story about Howard B Wigglebottom and how he learns about bullies. He taught us to Be Brave, Be Bold...a Teacher Must be Told!

We also completed a kindness activity using a paper person. We worked really hard to make a beautiful paper person of ourselves. Next we ripped and marked up our person (to the surprise of the students). We did this to show the affect our words and actions can have on us. We say hurtful things or do mean things to someone and we don't realize how it makes them feel.
We tried to use tape and erasers to fix our paper person but it didn't work. We made a wordle to describe how we felt about ripping up our beautiful paper people. We connected how these words also make us feel when someone is unkind to us. Ask your child more about these describing words. We will talk about this again tomorrow!

Math Practice

We are preparing for our math test this week. We are skip counting by 2's, 5's and 10's forwards and backwards. We are recalling how to represent numbers in different ways. The students recalled so many different ways to represent numbers.  Today we represented numbers using number lines, tally marks, number words, number sentences, place value and standard form!  Way to go friends.  Keep practicing at home. Our math test will be on Friday!

Maria Hawkins

What a fun morning we got to enjoy - again! Maria Hawkins joined us for the 2nd day in a row. She shared some inspiring songs that focus on Bullying Awareness. We got the opportunity to work in groups where we had to work together to perform a song! We also shared what makes friends in our class special people. Maria Hawkins is a lovely performer. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts with us!!
       

Our tweets focused on some key concepts we learned from Maria Hawkins together. Have a read at what we loved about singing and dancing with her the past few days! 

Homework this Week

Our Word Wall Words for this week! Please copy these words into your homework books, practice making sentences and spelling each word at home this week.

In Math we continue to focus on Place Value and Representing Numbers. We will be having our first Math Test this week! Details on when we will have the test will be shared soon. In the meantime,  how can you help your child prepare for the test this week?

-Practice counting forwards by 2's, 5's and 10's!

-Practice counting backwards by 5's!

-Choose a number between 1-200 and represent that number in 3 or 4 ways!

-Choose a number between 1-200 and determine the place of the ones, tens and hundreds in that number.