March 4th

I have sent out an invite to join Epic an amazing online book resource for students!!

Here is a link to the Science: Plant collection that will come in handy when your child is planning out their final Science projects!

https://www.getepic.com/collection/473720/science-plants 

We will have another Science planning session on Monday!

Our Virtue Of The Moth is: Forgiveness

We will be reading a book from Epic! we will do a class discussion and activity based on this reading

International Woman's Day is coming up this week on March 8th! 

We will be taking time on International Women's Day to think about the extraordinary women in our everyday lives. Helping children of all ages and all genders find inspiration and courage from diverse women role models is key to education. 

Recommended books: 
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Malala's Magic Pencil

March 1st

In Social Studies we are finishing our "Me On The Map" activity and family trees

Students have been planning out Science final projects; Those students whom have chosen to make a game, may need some help this weekend thinking up questions/answers and rules for their game! 

Please use the blog for support to help your child develop questions. 

We had a great Think-Pair-Share session for Math today comparing our two types of patterns that we have been working on in class. Tomorrow will be more practice with growing and shrinking types.

Growing

Shrinking

Feb 28th

I am so proud of all the students for doing a great job at the Virtues Assembly!

Tomorrow we are going to be doing a Family Tree activity, discuss this with your child tonight, so that tomorrow they can create their own trees. 

Don't forget swimming tomorrow for P.E

The students did some excellent Science review and started planning final projects for Plant Unit assessment

Feb 26- Part two

I have made a choice board (see below) for students' summative assignment for our Plant unit. The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against the grade 3 standards or benchmarks. We do this kind of assessment over testing and exams at Sunway International and in Canada.

Here is some good review content:

Life Cycle

Seed Germination

How plants grow

Vocabulary Pocket chart

Life Cycle Chart

Science Centers: In Notebooks

Science: Plant Unit -Choice Board

Art Work Must have the following: parts of a plant, the life cycle of a plant, an image of Photosynthesis, and the germination process, with artistic use of vocabulary words inside the art work	Music Make a song/rap that will help inform someone of what was learned during this unit	Writing + Art Create a booklet of the unit’s vocabulary words with sketches, drawings, explanations/ definitions
Presentation Summary of all the facts/information learned during this unit	Writing Clear directions for how to take care of a plant, how to make it grow, what items it needs to survive. Explain why it needs these parts and items in order to grow/survive	Kinaesthetic Develop/make a game that uses the knowledge from this unit in order to play/win

Feb 26th

Finally settling back into the routine as we do our first full week back after vacation!

Reminder: Agenda's must go back and forth from school EVERYDAY, it's necessary for the students to develop organization skills. 

We are also all going to be wearing Pink on Feb 28th for the Virtues assembly and for anti-bullying awareness!

“The Day of Pink” started in Nova Scotia, Canada as an anti-bullying campaign.  This year Sunway invited everyone to celebrate caring, tolerance and diversity at our school by taking a visible, public stance against bullying. How you ask? By wearing something pink (T-shirt, shorts, hat, etc.)!!! We will celebrate this day on Feb 28^th and discuss it during the Virtues Assembly. Please support each other and let’s make our schools a safer place to be.

Have students practice their lines from the Kelso's skits! They will be up on stage on the 28th presenting!

Working hard on our pattern centers! 

Feb 14th

Happy Chinese New Year Everyone! 

I hope you all have a lovely vacation, here are a few photo's from our Math patterning centers:

The students love these centers are are working hard on each task.

In science, our plants are germinating away!

In Health we have been talking about Kelso's Choices: How to solve conflicts. we added a "FRIENDS" poster to our class and talked about little vs. big problems

Our class will presenting a little drama skit at the Virtues Assembly on Feb 28th, teaching the whole school these strategies, that we are currently learning and starting to practice.

For Art we did Pattern Mosaics with some assorted materials, they are looking amazing!

At the end of the day, the students had time to write a Valentine's Day card/A Chinese New Year card/make a letter/lantern/book. etc. The students were allowed to write in their Native Language and this made A LOT of them excited. I believe that they should have opportunities to use their Native Language inside the English environment. 

恭喜发财 / 恭喜發財 (Gōngxǐ fācái)

'Happiness and prosperity!'

Feb 12th

Monday we are going to be one more Science center rotation and re-writing our Daily 5 letters to the Tooth Fairy. We will begin doing some Math group centers with these 5 activities.

1) Match and extend the pattern
2) Fill in the missing piece
3) Is it a pattern?
4) Sorting the patterns by patter names
5) Matching various pattern types

In Health we will be talking about Kelso's Choices:

The leading tool for teaching conflict management skills for children Pre-K through to grade 5. Home of the beloved choice wheel, this conflict resolution curriculum teaches children the difference between big problems and little problems.

There will be a Pink Day at the Virtues Assembly on Feb 28th, it is in awareness of anti-bullying and discrimination.