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Grade 3 Athletics

apolowin / / 3A, 3B

Athletics in Grade 3:

It has been a busy couple of weeks in Grade 3 athletics:

Wednesday, September 25th:

Jake Gesperetti (Ottawa Black Bears) and Sam Firth (Albany FireWolves) joined our Grade 3 class for a little Lacrosse 101. The two Ottawa natives are professional lacrosse players in the NLL. They taught the students about the history of Canada’s national game before beginning a little tutorial on the basics of the sport. Students participated in passing, cradling and shooting drills. They concluded the drills with a penalty shootout and some autographed pictures. We all had a blast and are looking forward to seeing the Black Bears vs FireWolves during the NLL season.

Friday, September 27th: Terry Fox Run

Students learned the incredible story of one of Canada’s greatest heroes through the Scholastic Voici Terry story. We also listened to Je Cours Comme Terry song by Gregg Lerock. We discussed the incredible bravery and determination shown by Terry during his Marathon of Hope. Students were amazed to see all of the parks, schools, streets and athletic facilities named after Terry. 

Grade 3 participated in the school-wide assembly before doing a 30 minute run in honour of Cancer research and the Terry Fox foundation.

Tuesday, October 1st: Jamboree

Turnbull hosts this annual soccer tournament for students in Grade 3. Several private schools participate in this wonderful event celebrating the beautiful game. OJCS had a team in the Recreational level and the Competitive track. Everyone had a great time and quite a few Lionel Messi jerseys were seen in the OJCS hallways. Each team played 3 different games with opponents from Kanata Montessori, Turnbull and Elmwood. This was the first opportunity for students to wear the blue OJCS Rams Jersey. We hope to have more opportunities to participate in local sporting events. 

 

 

 

Hanukkah fun

apolowin / / 3A, 3B

Hanukkah Fun in Grade 3:

We have spent a few periods this week getting into the Hanukkah ruach with some French games centered around the holiday.

We had a Monday morning class with our friends from Grade 1 doing reading buddies and completing a Hanukkah packet prepared by Madame Efi. This included a word search, a vocabulary jumble, syllable work and colouring. The 3B class really enjoys the time that they spend each week with their younger friends.

On Tuesday, we split into 4 groups to play a Hanukkah challenge. We started by listening to the song La fête Hanouka by the singer Maitre Gims. The song was very catchy, but the purpose of the game was to put the lyrics of the song into the proper order. I had cut the song lyrics into 13 different puzzle pieces and the task was to try to create the fewest mistakes possible. This was a bit of a challenge, but we listened to the song two more times and each group did very well. 

The second game was a French Hanukkah Blooket Fishing Frenzy. The students had 7 minutes in order to correctly answer as many questions as possible about the holiday. 

Our third and final game was our Writer, Messenger, Editor game. There were 6 French sentences all based on Hanukkah. The goal of the game was to write the sentences with the fewest mistakes possible. Spelling mistakes, forgetting to capitalize or even missing an accent would be minus 1 point. The twist is that each player on the team has a turn being the writer, the messenger and the editor. 

Here were the sentences.

 

  1. Je vais à la synagogue. 
  2.  Il mange des latkes.

    3. Elle chante des chansons

   4. On allume les bougies.

5. Nous faisons des beignes. 

6. Je donne un cadeau.

We plan to continue playing similar games for all of the other Jewish holidays coming up. Wishing everyone a happy and healthy year 2024.