Feb. 13, 2017: Monday

It's great to see the sun warming us all up today after a chilly weekend.

The morning Assembly was a great one for the Talented Third Graders as we had to make a presentation on "Prudence." Last week the students wrote an acrostic poem and took turns telling the school what prudence means. Great job on stage, students.

   

Also during Assembly, Joshua was acknowledged for his violin talent after he received 2 first place, and 1 third place medals at a competition over the weekend. Congratulations, Josh!

  

After the exciting Assembly, the students shared what they did on the weekend. Next, the students listened to the reading of Chapter 14 in Frindle. One more chapter to go.

In Math, the students used different strategies to divide when 7 is the divisor. They also got to make a math story problem.

We began a new chapter in Social Studies (chapter 8) after reviewing last week's quiz. They then defined culture and recognized that the world has many different cultures.

Science class consisted of reviewing for the quiz on Wednesday.

 

We finally have the time to join up with our Reading Buddies from K2 in ECA. It was great to see them interacting again.

      

HOMEWORK:
1) Science p. 283-284
2) Math p. 79 (please complete only the even numbers)
3) Reading Log

NOTICES:
- Field trip tomorrow afternoon - PLEASE BRING: PE casual clothes and a warm jacket/hat/mittens as we are walking there, your National Health ID card, small backpack, healthy snack.
- students have received 3 quizzes to complete their corrections. Please return them with a parent's signature by Wednesday
- please bring in Scholastic orders and money tomorrow

Have a nice evening!

Mr. Y

Feb. 10, 2017: Friday

Welcome to the chilly weekend!

As we were keeping warm in the classroom, the students were busy writing a spelling test, listening to another chapter of Frindle, and revising/editing their story.

For Math, the students practiced drawing pictures to solve problems.

In Science, we described and compared different types of soil (sand, silt, clay).

ECA - card trick time!

      

Secret message - I'm here

New Spelling Words for Feb. 17
acrostic, kitchen, friendly, sand, frindle, silt, itchy, clay, recreation, bedrock, January, nutrients, because, culture, daughter, region, weather

HOMEWORK:
1) Science p. 277-278
2) LA - first draft of story - please read your story and revise/edit it, please remember to add dialogue (characters talking)
3) Reading Log

NOTICES:
- Field Trip on Tuesday
- Unit 6 Science quiz on Wednesday
- Please arrive to school by 8:25am on Monday

Have a great weekend and stay warm!

Mr. Y

Feb. 9, 2017: Thursday

On this windy Thursday, the students put their brains to the test in all subjects except Science.

The day began with the usual combination of Language Arts/Reading and the students continued to write their stories by developing their plot.  The students had a pop quiz on adjectives, listened to another chapter of Frindle (only 2 left!!) and we also started something new: every week we will have two students that will choose a random story starter and tell that story to the class for 1-2 minutes. Our first volunteers were Rei and Sophie. They had to tell a story about an alien and falling off her bike, respectively, and they did a wonderful job.

      

Social Studies consisted of a quiz on Chapter 6. During Math, we used strategies to divide by 6 and also played a division game using the whiteboard.

  

In ECA, the students made their letter posters for Monday's Mass presentation. 

HOMEWORK:

1) Math p. 76 or 77 

2) LA Spelling word story - choose 8 words and write a short paragraph using those words.

3) Reading Log

NOTICES:

- casual Friday tomorrow, you can wear your PE uniform and bring a change of clothes

- spelling test tomorrow

- if you are in my elective, please remember to bring a deck of cards again

- please return your signed Math quiz (it is already 2 days late!)

- secret message - Math quiz

Have a lovely evening!

Mr. Y

Feb. 8, 2016: Wednesday

'Twas a quieter day in the classroom as compared to yesterday. However, the students still worked very hard.

Language Arts/Reading - They began developing the plot of the story they are writing, used dictionary skills, and used adjectives to compare more than one noun.

Science - The students described how soil is formed, completed an interactive notebook activity, and used the Smartboard.

HOMEWORK:
1) Science interactive notebook
2) Chinese New Year writing (if you haven't already handed it in) - please remember to bring in your Work on Writing notebook
3) Social Studies p. 221
4) Reading Logs (you can use your SS text)

NOTICES:
- Social Studies quiz tomorrow: please review the following pages briefly - p. 190-194, 204-208, 212-214, pay attention to the things we talked about in class, and the vocabulary words you defined in your notebook.
- Spelling test on Friday

Have a great night!

Mr. Yaremchuk

Feb. 7, 2017: Tuesday

The Terrific Third Graders had a wide range of activities to complete today such as writing, reading, group discussion, research, interactive notebook, using manipulatives in math, and presenting a group research project.

1) Language Arts - quiz on the middle chapters of Frindle, planned the plot of the story they will write

2) Reading - Cafe menu: thought of interesting words to use in writing and speaking, and used adjectives to compare three or more nouns

3) Math - practiced different ways to divide by 4, and played a snowball math game

     

4) Science - identified soil as a natural resource and why it's important (students completed some interactive notebook activities)

 

5) Social Studies - researched and presented how activists tried to gain equal rights

    

HOMEWORK:
1) Math p. 77
2) LA - Chinese New Year writing - please edit and revise your essay and write it neatly on the new paper provided (this is due on Thursday but you can hand it in tomorrow if you want)
3) Reading Log

NOTICES:
- please hand in your Field Trip permission form tomorrow.
- please hand back your Math quiz with a signature from a parent
- PE tomorrow, wear your casual clothes
- Secret message of the day: I love books

Have a wonderful evening!

Mr. Yaremchuk