Reminders for Friday!

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Good afternoon all,

We have a busy Friday this week so here is a little reminder about what is happening!

Friday is our first dress down day AND the OJCS Terry Fox run. Students need to bring sneakers that you can change into to do the run on the field. Also dress appropriately for doing the Terry Fox run (athletic clothes are best!)

We ask that you can donate whatever you can; usual amount is a Toonie for Terry.

Exciting day on Friday 馃檪

Any questions or queries just email!

Have a great evening,

 

Miss M

Exciting news for Grade 3!

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Calling all potential Grade 3 representatives!

Each class from grades 3-8 will have one student representative on the Knesset*.聽

Students must express an interest in being the class representative by the end of day on October 4. Candidates will prepare a 60-90 second speech to present to the class by the end of October 11. Voting will take place by secret ballot in a polling station.

Students can also create election posters.

Any interested students should get the information form from Miss M.

 

*The OJCS Knesset (Student Council) is the representative body for students at the Ottawa Jewish Community School. The role of the Knesset聽 is to represent and promote the interests of students to staff, administration, and parents. The council organizes events to promote student life and Tikkun Olam while developing and supporting student leadership. The executive and class representatives model our 7 Habits and North Stars.

This week in pictures…

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Happy Thursday everyone!

Again, I am astonished at how quickly time is passing. This week we have looked into our first science topic of plants, opened up our curiosity into structure word inquiry (we will become investigators of language!) continued our reviews of all things math, exploring new ways and strategies to help find the answer. Our Guided reading book at the moment is Stuart Little (who knew hats and canes could be so small!?) Plus the beginning of our research skills workshops. Creative writing has become the most requested extension task this week; opening the imagination to the creation of graphic novels, fiction and non fiction with the added bonus of working on collaboration and team work skills.

With this class, there is no ceiling!

Have an great day!

Miss M

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What a Whirl of a Week!

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This week has whizzed by (can you tell Miss M is getting ready to teach alliteration!?) We have delved into the wonderful world of blogging; beginning to plan our first paper blogs. We also have tried lots of new learning styles and learning areas of the classroom to see what works best for each person. Here are a few examples of what’s been happening…

Have a great weekend and see you on Monday!

Number circles: helping with multiplication tables 4 and 6

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Good Morning Grade 3 (and parents!)

I was re-capping Math review/practise skills and thinking how often do we get stuck with ‘just worksheets…’ Worksheets can be helpful and if they are best learning style for you then great.

But what happens when that is not the best way for you? What else can you do?

I have found a cool Number circle review (access the link here) which is another way to recap your 4’s and 6’s – this week’s homework

There are many different ways to learn so don’t worry if you are ‘not getting it’, we just need to find another way that fits you!

We have some AWESOME grade 3 student teachers ready to share their learning styles so watch this space!

Have a great Thursday everyone!

Miss M

Everyone can be a genius in here…

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Keeping our North Stars in mind, and one in particular “There is a floor here but no ceiling”, made me think about how I can push our grade 3 “ceiling” up, up and away…

And there Genius Hour was; waiting to be noticed! Mr Ray and Mrs Thompson introduced this concept to the Middle school last year and what a creative success it was. So after spending time researching and planning how to implement into Grade 3 – here we are. Grade 3 were introduced to Genius Hour yesterday and their response was phenomenal!

Here is聽 a video I showed the class about Genius Hour. I encourage you to watch this with your child and see their excitement about how their creativity and imagination can guide them anywhere they choose.

This will predominantly be a project we work on in school but of course enthusiasm and excitement will run over into home and if this is the case, I will adjust homework set that week. As always, if you have any questions about this, please email and we can discuss further.

Here we are getting involved in the initial planning stage – Miss M will have a project too! #alwayslearning!

Grade 3 parents – Just for your information…

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Hello Grade 3 parents,

Please see below the general overview of Sept-Dec General studies skills map as mentioned in my email. Personalisation and enrichment will happen on an individual basis.

Thanks,

Miss M

September/October

Literacy Numeracy Social Studies and Science

(Project based learning)
  • Recap of basic literary skills (Nouns/adjectives/adverbs/verbs)
  • Recap of basic punctuation skills (Capital letter, period, exclamation marks, question mark, comma)
  • Recap of presentation of work and handwriting
  • Introduce Accelerated Reader
  • Star reading assessment (comprehension and decoding)
  • Media Literacy – introduction to blogging.
  • Guided Reading blocks with Higher order inquiry skills
  • Structured Word Inquiry (SWI)
  • Inquiry based questioning – identifying audience, purpose and topic
  • Creative writing
  • Novel study – The Twits.
  • Presentation skills (Speaking/performance)
  • Listening skills
  • Organizing and classifying聽
  • Recap of basic skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, early division)
  • Word problems
  • Time
  • Measurement聽
  • Shapes
  • Patterns
  • Charting聽聽
  • Representing and ordering to 1000
  • Money聽
  • Plants and soil聽
  • Land use and the environment
  • Early Settlers and First Nations

 

November/December 2019

 

Literacy Numeracy Social Skills and Science聽
  • Continuation and development of all recap skills named above.
  • Development into sentence structure and paragraphing.
  • Use of connectives and developed adverbs to develop written fluidity聽
  • Continued use of Accelerated Reader and Star reading assessment
  • Continued SWI
  • Continued Media Literacy – independant Blogfolio launch, commenting, POV audience
  • Non-Fiction reading with higher order inquiry聽
  • Non fiction writing – writing to inform and critique
  • Presentation skills – titles/subtitles
  • Summary skills
  • Compare and contrast
  • Inquiry based questioning
  • Creative writing – drafting
  • Developed use of similes and alliteration
  • Novel study – The Twits.
  • Presentation skills (Speaking/performance)
  • Listening skills
  • Continuation and development of all recap skills named above.
  • Project based learning activities聽
  • Time – looking into addition and subtraction in time
  • Perimeter
  • 3D shapes
  • Developing patterning
  • Using and interpreting Graphs
  • Early area
  • Temperature (plus and minus)
  • Money skills
  • Plants, soil
  • Land use and the environment
  • Early Settlers and First Nations