We Scare Hunger

On October 28th, our school participated in a project called WE SCARE HUNGER.  This was one of many events designed to involve our students in local and global initiatives to build citizenship and understanding of service to others.  Students were able to come dressed as an action hero if they brought a food donation for Winnipeg Harvest.  This was also a great connection to what we have been studying in our class during Social Studies!

Les Jours de la Semaine (The Days of the Week)

During French class we have been singing a song to help us remember the days of the week (les jours de la semaine).  The song is to the tune of The Flinstones theme song.  To watch the Youtube video and hear the song, click the following link.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVHzu60QVKI

The Integrated Arts-Lesson 2

Today we learned how to make "Busts".....or "clay-heads",  as we call them.  It pretty much took us an hour to blend the clay to get the right colour for our skin tone, shape the face and head and form eyeballs.  Let's just say that our sculptures look a little freaky right now!

The Integrated Arts

We have had the opportunity to have a guest artist come work with us in our classroom.  David Perrett is an accomplished multimedia visual artist and sculptor.  One of the art pieces he created is the bus shelter sculpture on Ellice Ave in front of the University of Winnipeg.  On David's first visit, he had the students draw their self-portraits.

                       

Race to 100

In grade 3, students work with numbers up to 1000.  That means we are working a lot with 3-digit numbers.  To re-familiarize students with place value and base ten blocks, we played a game called Race to 100.  What are "Base Ten Blocks"?  They are manipulatives that represent the ones, tens, hundreds and thousands.  These hands-on objects are an excellent way to help students understand place value and the concept of regrouping.

Team 25

Team 25 is settling into our classroom routines and we have come up with a list of "Classroom Beliefs".  During the last month of school, we have spent a lot of time reviewing these beliefs and talking about what they look like in our room.  Here is the list we came up with:

Moving On

After 12 great years of teaching grades 3, 4 and 3/4 multiage, at Heritage School, it was time to change things up a bit.  It was incredibly hard to say good bye to all the students, families and staff who had become such an important part of my life. I have learned a tonne over the years and have so many awesome memories from Heritage School.

On the other hand, I am very excited to be starting this new chapter of my career at Strathmillan School.  All of the staff and families have been so welcoming and I feel very fortunate to be joining such an amazing school!