Adventures With Mrs. Craig

This morning we started off with our 'Pillars of Care' celebration. Great job to our grade 3 winners this morning. Room 13 has done a lot of work around kindness and anti-bullying this week. They wrote about all the different ways they show kindness day to day and also areas they know they need to work on. In Math they have been working on basic facts and also went back to rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. We had our spelling test this morning. The number they got correct is written on the top (time ran short and I marked these without check marks). They wrote sentences with these words today too. Monday is a PD day (no school for students). Your child has brought home a February calendar as well as lunch room tax forms. Enjoy your long weekend!

We had a school assembly today about 'Jump Rope for Heart.' In your child's backpack there is a form explaining how to get pledges and prizes to win. We are getting really great at our mindfulness tasks. I am noticing students are nice and calm after our 10 minutes of calm (sitting, laying down, closing our eyes, being still and listening to music). We often watch landscape videos or an aquarium to help calm our minds. Ask your child if they feel it is helping them. In Math today, we had a small lesson on division. We will be further getting into this next learning task with math, in a couple of weeks. We talked about skip counting and how it relates to division and multiplication. They then skip counted by many different numbers in their math books. Afterwards they played an array game with dice and a partner. I will be away tomorrow and Thursday. Please remember to study the spelling words for Friday. Any extra math at home is always encouraged too! Tomorrow is ...

In Science today we learned and compared warm and cold blooded animals. They created a list of each one. They completed their Taj Mahal paintings today with using water colours. They have so much detail and I know they are very proud of them. In writing, they created 5 sentences of 'hints' on any chosen animal. They went into partners and had to guess each others animals. Ask your child what animal they wrote about. In Math we played a new class games. It is called "Scootch." Ask your child about the skill we worked on. Spelling words this week: Red: Math, see, play, mat, flat Green: reading, feeding, making, behaving, skipping Blue: seriously, satisfactory, traditional, leaving, understanding Feb 26 is Pink shirt day for anti-bullying!

In Math today we worked on using numbers lines to complete multiplication facts. They started their guided sketches of the Taj Mahal. Ask your child about the patience and detail it takes to complete these! Please look over your child's spelling test. Have a fantastic weekend!

The continued to have silent writing time today to work on their stories. At the end of the 20 minutes of writing, they shared their first chapters with a peer. Ask your child what their story is about. We talked about protagonists, antagonists, beginning, middle, end and problem. We also talked about imagining their stories as a movie. Look at the date today with your child! We found it fascinating and each listed 3 things we noticed about it. When will this happen again with numbers in our calendar? When did it happen last? 02/20/2020. In Math we worked on high, medium and low fact questions. We made a chart today about "What Room 13 Love About Themselves." We got to brag about our greatest personality strengths and why people choose to be our friends! Ask your child what they were proud to say. I can't believe tomorrow if Friday already! Please remember to study your spelling words tonight.

The past two days we have been studying the history of India. We completed a book today and created the title page. Ask me what I have learned about this amazing country. On Friday we will be completing sketches of the Taj Mahal. Ask your child: What is the capital of India? What is the population of India? What is the main language of India? We had quiet writing time. Everyone started a story of their choice. We listened to calming music to help us concentrate. In Math we have been working on double digit subtraction with borrowing. Many of them find this quite difficult. Extra practice at home always helps! It was the 100th day of school today. They completed 'Number Detectives' with the number 100. Pink shirt day is February 26th for anti-bullying! Spelling words this week: Red: India, go, for, now, bye Green: long, weekend, trying, seeing, drinking Blue: breathing, studying, creating, adventure, language

We had a great day today as we talked about kindness and friendship. They enjoyed handing out their cards and making their own bags. They started off the morning playing with their first little gift (clay). Ask them what they made. In Math they made their own 'colour by number.' This took a lot of patience. Many of them finished and they are in their backpacks. Please look over their spelling tests too. I hope you enjoy the 5 day weekend and enjoy some family time together. See you Tuesday.