Please practice the lyrics for the SONG we are SINGING at the Family Chanukah Celebration!
Here is the video with the song and I have the lyrics that you should practice typed out below.
Chorus 1: Tonight is Hanukkah
Got everything we need
A frying pan, some oil
And a latke recipe
Let’s celebrate our ancestry
We’ve got ooh, ooh, ooh The latke recipe
Chorus 2: Tonight is Hanukkah
Got everything we need
A frying pan, some oil
For your latke recipe
Let’s celebrate our victory
We’ve got ooh, ooh, ooh The latke recipe
Chorus 3:
Tonight is Hanukkah
Got everything we need
A frying pan, some oil
For your latke recipe
Let’s celebrate our ancestry
We’ve got ooh, ooh, ooh The latke recipe
Slow Part: Two thousand years
Of joyous celebration
A single jar
That burned for eight days
The food we eat
As part of our tradition
Keeps that flame alive!
Chorus 4: Tonight is Hanukkah
Got everything we need
Good friends and family here to try
Our latke recipe
Best served with applesauce, you see
We’ve got ooh, ooh, ooh The latke recipe
Just a quick reminder that we are visiting the Scholastic Book Fair as a class tomorrow morning! Please feel free to attach instructions to money (i.e. ‘must only be spent on books’, ‘buy one English and one French book’, ‘buy something for the class from the wish list’, etc.)
Parents are able to shop during drop off and pick up Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, OR Thursday from 6:00-7:30pm and Friday 8:30am-12:00pm. Can’t make it in? Don’t worry! You can even shop online here: theojcs.ca/bookfair… SO MANY OPTIONS!
Students can also visit the book fair during recess throughout the week! I know some students brought some money in today to shop at recess time! Woot woot!
One of our November BINGO tasks was to create a poster about a hobby and present it to the class. This week, one of our students presented her poster on reading! For the privacy of the child, please do not use her name in the comments. Below is the script from her presentation.
The title is… I like reading!
You could make books about your life and you can make books into movies like Harry Potter. If you read more, the faster you get. In non-fiction books you learn facts and other people can make books about your life. Fiction books make you imagine. Reading gives us quiet time and it makes you smarter.
(Question from the class) What are your favourite books to read?
I like reading Harry Potter, The Babysitters Club, Evil Spy School, and Babysitters Little Sister.
(Question from the class) How did you get interested in reading?
When I started reading in Grade 2, I got into it a lot more. I started with the Owl Diaries books.
We have two exciting things coming up on the OJCS calendar and we want to make sure that you have your calendars marked!
The Scholastic Book Fair! This is a great way to support the OJCS library while also purchasing books for your library at home! We will be visiting as a class on Wednesday, December 7th. However, throughout the week, parents can pop into the bookfair before and after school; it opens at 8:30AM and closes at 4:00PM. The bookfair will also be open on Thursday night (Dec. 8) during P/T Conferences from 6:00PM-7:30PM and Friday (Dec. 9) during P/T Conferences from 8:30AM-12:00PM. Feel like shopping from home? Use the Virtual Book Fair Link! I will be sending home a flyer today that you can browse with your child in preparation for the Book Fair! We have already started putting together our class wishlist!
Family Chanukah Celebration
On Tuesday, December 20th at 6:30pm, we will gather as a school community to celebrate Chanukah IN PERSON for the first time in years! Come join us for an evening of performances and a sweet Chanukah treat. I will absolutely be there in my favourite Chanukah sweater!
Mark your calendars!
Please return any completed Homework BINGO cards from November this week. A new BINGO board will be assigned on Monday next week.
As we wrapped up our Science unit on Soil, we FINALLY had the chance to look at all of the bags of soil that have been arriving in the mail over the last month! It started with a quick tweet & a share on Facebook by one of our Grade 3 parents… and voila! 7 bags of soil from around North America!
We started the activity by looking up the various places on the map. Two students were in charge of using Google to show the locations on our SMART board and 2 students were in charge of then finding it on our classroom wall map.
It was great to see the class work together to find the locations and make connections to places they have been!
Then we reviewed the various types of soil that we have been learning about and started passing around the bags! The students were able to touch the soil and look at it through the bag, then they needed to determine which type of soil it was.
We were so excited to see and feel the very clear differences among all of the different soils!
A VERY BIG THANK YOU to every who mailed us bags of soil! This activity would not have been possible without you!
The students were VERY excited about the snow falling today… and even more excited to look out our classroom window and see the HUGE snow plows on the roads!
With all of this excitement for snow, many of our students forgot to bring in-door shoes today. Please pack them in your child’s backpack for tomorrow, so they can leave them in their lockers! Keeping extra socks in their backpacks / lockers is also a great idea!
representation of Morah Lianna todayrepresentation of the Grade 3 students today
While I have you here… Just a few more reminders:
-Friday, November 18th is PHOTO RETAKE DAY
-Friday, November 18th is a 2PM DISMISSAL
-Thursday, November 24th is DRESS DOWN DAY
-Friday, November 25th is a PD DAY
I am excited to share that we are re-launching the Scholastic Book Club! What is this Scholastic Book Club? Glad you asked! The book club is an EASY way to order books for your child to read at home AND each time you place an order, our whole class benefits! When you use our class code (RC110679), we earn rewards to purchase new books for our classroom library! Personally, I have my eyes on the new Bad Guys book and some more books from the Jory John and Pete Oswald series for our classroom!
So how do you join?
You might have a vague pre-covid memory of Scholastic flyers going home with your child each month… well now, there’s no need to check your child’s backpack for a flyer and no need to send money into school for book orders.
Scholastic has gone virtual!
Then you just need to follow these few simple steps:
New books and flyers are added each month! Please feel free to share our class code with any grandparents or relatives who are thinking of purchasing books for your child! I hope you take advantage of this awesome program and help us earn class rewards. As always, if you have any questions, please reach out!
We have been learning about Soil in Science class this term… and this week, we took the learning outside!
We collected soil from the ground right outside our school and got ready for our first soil related experiment.
Step 1: collect soil from outside and put it in a clear plastic cup
Step 2: make predictions about what will happen right when we add water to the cup and what will happen once it sits for 24 hours
Step 3: pour the water & mix it up! (then let it sit overnight)
Step 4: record our observations
It wouldn’t be a true Science lesson if we didn’t find ways to integrate our Scientific Study of Words (aka Structured Word Inquiry). So before we even made predictions, we looked at the word <prediction>.
Right away we noticed the prefix and the suffix <-ion>. We also learned what a bound base is!
Here are the predictions we made…
What will happen when we put water in the soil cups?
Ron: The soil will be all mushy and soggy, the dirt will dissolve and turn the water brown
Yaara: the dry soil will become wet like mud
Ella: The soil will turn into mud
Solly: It will turn into mud
Miko: The soil will move to the top of the cup
What will happen to the cup of water and soil if we let it sit for more than 24 hours?
Ahron: The dirt will be like a sponge an absorb all the water
Ollie: The dirt will absorb the water
Elise: The dirt will absorb the water, but there will still be water in the cup
Abby: There will only be a little bit of water
Galit: The soil will turn to mud
Reuven: the soil will become liquid, then mud, then just be wet soil
Raz: the soil will turn mushy
Boaz: The water will spread all around the dirt into the different parts and the soil will be mushy
Naama: It will turn into mud
We let our cups of water and soil sit overnight and then went back to see what happened!
Of course, we did another word investigation…
I was SO impressed that the students noticed the double suffix right away! We know that the <at> in observation comes from the suffix <-ate>! Ella was able to tell us that the base word means to look or to see something.
We were able to see the different layers of the soil and noticed that heavier particles sunk to the bottom of the water, while lighter bits floated to the top.
Reminders and Notes:
-Friday, November 4th is a 3PM Dismissal
-You can follow along with our learning on our class twitter account. We post smaller snapshots of our day on there!
-You can stay up to date on the general happenings at OJCS / OJCS Student Life by subscribing to the OJCS Student Life Blog!
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