Grade 3 blogging update

Good afternoon everyone!

I just wanted to give you a quick update on our blogging journey in Grade 3.

So as you know, the year started with small groups being taught how to blog. First by the use of paper blogging then they moved on using technology (iPad’s and/or computer lab) creating a google doc in which they researched and developed a more professional looking blog. These creations were displayed in the grade 3 and 4 hall and cafeteria with many of their class mates leaving comments for them. The groups looked at commenting and what makes a quality comment, developing help videos to show others how to comment. Rules were made (and displayed) and then they took their knowledge into the grade 1 class and taught grade 1 about blogging and commenting. Blogger of the week started and is continuing with fantastic success.

Due to upcoming projects the new blogging groups have to be put in hold but the final group will be starting straight after February break with the exciting hope that all grade 3 students will be bogging by the spring.

I(Miss M) have even been developing my own skills in the blogging world; completing an Edublogs online course. It was super informative and an amazing resource to dip in and out of. There is also a student version which, when the students start to blog independently, they will use.

I am so proud of the Grade 3 class with how quickly and efficiently they have picked up the skills.

All that is left is for me to do is to apologise. If your child wants to continue their ‘blogging challenges’ school work at home! Sorry for the fun and enthusiasm I have caused…

Any questions, worries or queries please feel to leave a comment and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

 

Miss M

Talia – Grade 3 blogger of the week!

Hi my name is Talia . I am the blogger of the week . This has been a very fun week because i really like blogging. I like it because i get to show everyone what we are doing in 3rd grade. I am looking forward to making my own blog.


In this video, I am talking about leadership in Grade 3. I think everybody in grade 3 are being good leaders. To be a good  leader you need to be kind, share, try your hardest, listen and others.

The school started a reading a challenge and whoever reads the most books gets a pizza party. Grade 3 love to read and would read even if there was no party!




In math we do a lot of math challenges for example we do math word problems, multiplication and division.



In Hebrew we are making games like kahoot ,word searches and others. These games help improve our Hebrew in a fun way.

We enjoy Tefillah because we get to sing.

This week, the blogging group went to the Grade 1 classroom to show them their blogs and teach them how to comment.  The grade 1’s enjoyed the blogs and had fun giving comments.






Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you liked it. Please leave comments about what you would like to see in the next blog.

Talia

After all their hard work and preparation, Grade 3 presented their blog posts to Grade 1 and taught them about how to comment in an effective and meaningful way. The grade 3 blogging group prepared a ‘stations’ layout and the grade 1 students were split into groups and visited each station. Upon arrival at each station, the grade 3 blogging group had prepared a speech, introducing their blog and how one may go about commenting. They shared rules and a model example, alongside comment sentence starters and comment boxes.

Grade 3 even took the time to reflect and reply to the comments, responding to questions and developing answers.

They were mini teachers in action, with their lesson plans, resources and differentiation. Well done Grade 3! And thank you Grade 1 for being such good commentators, we really appreciate your kind and encouraging words!

Check our blogger of the week post on Friday to see the group in action!

Fair is not always equal…

Grade 3 pondered this statement today in a learning styles workshop with Mrs Reichstein. We looked at terms such as ‘Auditory’ ‘Visual’ and ‘Kinesthetic’. The students were really interested to find out how they learn best and were shocked to find out that we all learn differently!

A few students gave feedback on the workshop and explained what they learnt in their own words.

Emet – Grade 3 blogger of the Week

Hi i’m Emet and i’m the blogger of the week. I like being the blogger of the week but it’s a bit hard to balance classroom activities with blogging.

I’m going to give you a summary of the week.

Here is Sammie presenting her blog to the class and showing us what comments she received. I hope to get lots!

In gym we played stealth and we did stations with Mr Bruno, our sub.


This is Robotics club, it runs at lunchtime. This week we made tech tech – a walking robotic. I really like robotics clubs because you get to make robotics and see them run. I like to program them with the Lego language.




This week in library, Brigitte did a workshop about researching and using keywords.



We did Math problems in General studies. A group of staff came in and asked us questions about how we were solving our math problems.


This is the Kindness tree, lots more people have gotten on the tree. So that must mean that our class are acting much kinder.

This is me and Sacha interviewing each other in French.

This is me interviewing the grade 3 rep for Knesset, Adam.

This is end of my portion of the blog, I hope you like it and I hope can say the say for then next blogger of the week.

Emet

Grade 3 Research Workshop

The Grade Three class enjoyed a research workshop with Brigitte today. They learned all about researching on internet using key words instead of typing questions into Google. Brigitte helped the students look at research questions and figure what key words would be good to use when conducting a google search. Everyone was very engaged in the whole process and some children even started writing their own research questions and key words. Miss M. and I are going to enjoy helping the children use key words while researching in class to help the students become excellent researchers this year.