Tuesday, February 4th

Today we went to Bella Concert Hall.

We listened to the Royal Canadian Artillery Band.

Today we didn't have our short morning recess.

I liked the trombone.

We got to go outside for gym when we got back.

My favourite song was Gandalf...we saw a whole bunch of pictures of Gandalf on the screen while we listened.

Some of the band members high fived Aiden and Lawrence.

We ate lunch early at 11:30.

Lots of our favourite song was "Beautiful"! We got to sing along!

The Bella concert was the best!

Monday - reminder for Tuesday - FIELD TRIP TO BELLA CONCERT HALL - dress up nice!

Monday, February 3rd

Thank you for returning all the field trip forms and for those who are volunteering!

We discussed expectations and decided it would be a great idea to dress up to remind ourselves to have "concert manners"

A quick reminder the students will eat lunch and go outside earlier than usual (11:00-12:00) so we can be all ready to leave at 12:15 pm. We are planning to be back to the school around 2:30 pm and have some time to discuss our music day before home time.

Today we started a Valentine writing project and will also begin "secret Valentine kindness buddies" over the next couple of weeks to "share a little kindness" to our classmates.

In gym we get some time on the Traverse/Climbing wall.

In math we had to solve a problem that asked, "How many pieces of chocolate in total are there if we have 6 boxes of chocolates with 8 pieces in each box?" Ask me how I solved it.

Reminder: Thursday is Healthy Hunger Lunch.
Looking ahead: Teacher's convention (Feb 13/14) and Family Day(Feb 17)

Thursday, January 30 - Share Day!

Today we had a "time check" with clocks but no hands! We had to write in the time
the minute and hour hands...ask me where the minute hand and hour hand are when
the time is ____:30 or half past, ____:00 or o'clock, ____:15 or quarter past, and ___:45 '
or quarter to!

Most of us finished up printing our Oreo writing on the computer today.

In Gym, we all shared a "routine" for gymnastic moves!

We finished up the day with sharing our Timelines for Calgary.

The little jams that came home yesterday are from a student's grandma in the other 
class - usually she makes them for all the grade 1/2's so we are very thankful she 
included our grade 3's this year!!

No school tomorrow - it's a non-instructional day. See you in February!

Report Cards coming home today, thanks for signing and returning the envelopes 
so we can recycle them for June!

Thank you for getting your signed field trip forms back today! I think those tickets 
were a real motivator:) If you can volunteer on TUESDAY FEBRUARY 4th,
afternoon from 12-2:30pm let me know. 
The BELLA CONCERT HALL will be so great!

Tuesday, January 28th Twin/Triplet Day!

We will be going to the beautiful BELLA CONCERT HALL at Mount Royal as a whole school FIELD TRIP next TUESDAY afternoon, FEBRUARY 4th. We will need VOLUNTEERS so if you are available, please let Mrs. Armour know. It will be a wonderful afternoon! Thanks so much!

Today was Twin/Triplet (and more!)Day. Thank you Spirit Club for the fun idea! Check out our pictures below. 

Mrs. Armour's son Jack and nephew Keith came to our class yesterday and today to volunteer because they have a break from high school. Ask me if they helped me with some of my learning! 






HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ENXIN TODAY!!!



We are learning about how to tell time from an analog clock. We are always asking "What time is it?" so this will help us problem solve by looking at the clock in our classroom! There are so many things to learn...the hour hand moves slowly from one number to the next every hour, the minute hand moves faster moving from one number to the next every 5 minutes! Also, we are connecting time to fractions by thinking in halves and quarters! Our daily warm up this week is reading a clue, turning the hands of our mini clocks to match and then finding our partner that has the same time on their clock!ASK ME WHAT TIME IT IS...no fair looking at a digital watch:)

Such great bloggers yesterday!! Mrs. Armour took the pictures and is just going to share the white boards...super work Blog team!!

Happy Lunar New Year!! Friday, January 24th, 2020

Today we did a whole class blog - thank you everyone for helping!!

We read The Great Race story. It was about 12 animals who were racing to the Jade city. Ask me which animals were in the race and what happend at the end.

We coloured pictures of dragons. Some of us coloured more than one. We are bringing them home for Chinese New Year. We read with our Big Buddies.

We started investigating bridges and what makes them strong. We watched a video about bridges. There were 3 types in the video: Beam, Truss and Suspension bridges. Ask me about them!

We walked from Dr. Coffin to the Whispering Grasses walkway. We found out Dr. E.W. Coffin helped name the walkway! We drew the bridge in our journals. We sketched a picture and made 2 close ups. Ask me about the shape and why it isn't just a straight beam bridge. 

We did our Ninja necklaces and Starbox. Karthik got his metallic gold bead today! Ninja student!

We played mini basketball games yesterday in gym.

Most of us shared our OREO writing with Mrs. Polski and are bringing it home to show you. We will get to write another OREO writing next week to practice - this time we get to choose between animals, food, activities or places this time!

We will be SHARING our Timelines next week for Social Studies. Ask me which decades my group is about.

Mr. O'Reilly and Ms. Brunsch are now both helping us one afternoon a week with our Guided Reading Groups/Literacy Circle and "Ketchup Klub"- Hurray!

Tuesday is TWIN/TRIPLET day. We are finding a buddy and dressing the same and there will be a photo booth in the Library. Thanks Spirit Club!

Friday, January 31st is a non-instruction day. 

Tuesday, January 21st - Treat Day!

During math we are dividing into 3 smaller guided groups and working on our daily warm up word problem, and math 4 ways - choosing cards and combining them to make addition, subtraction, multiplication and - only if we want a challenge! - division.


During writing and reading we are also dividing into smaller groups so Mrs. Armour can have more check in time with all of us!
Writing workshop - we are doing t/j/p/r this week for cursive writing. We are continuing to work on our "opinion writing" learning that it's a little different than the hamburger writing. We need to use the words, "In my opinion" or "I believe" or "I think" in the beginning and ending sentences.
Mrs. Polski is coming in to listen to our "opinion writing" on Thursday, so we are working hard to edit them and practice reading them to convince her our opinion is right! :) Most of us started new guided reading books today. Ask me what I read and if I can answer the 5W questions.

We are also reading stories about Chinese Lunar New Year. Did you know it is the Year of the Rat?
Ask me what Sam decided to do with his $4.00 in the book we read today, Sam and the Lucky Money by Karen Chinn. Yesterday we read Chinese New Year's Dragon by Rachel Sing.

We took a break from basketball and had gym outside today because it was SO mild and lovely.

While we were working on our Calgary Timeline posters, we had a fire drill! Even though some of us were in the Library and some of us were in the classroom and not even the teachers knew about it - Mrs. Polski said we all got out in under a minute!!

We discussed what we had added to our posters at the end of the day. Once we are done our posters we will make a whole class timeline from before 1911 - 2021! Then we will make a slideshow to present.

This mild weather is supposed to continue through Fresh Air Friday, so we are looking forward to being outside for a lot of the morning and comparing the Group of 7 landscapes that we created in art with those around us and choosing a "picture" to sketch. Thanks for dressing for the weather.

Looking ahead to next week - reminder that Friday, January 31st is a non-instructional day. 

Blue/Fresh! Air Friday

Today was a whole class blog - thanks for everyone's contributions!

Ask me to explain OREO writing - Opinion Reason Example Opinion
I should have brought a page home to show you along with my weekly blog to sign - thank you!

This week was definitely a blue/inside week! Next week, we are excited about it warming up and having outside time again - especially on Fresh Air Friday!

On Fridays, instead of having recess, we have a quick nutrition break and get back to learning because it is a short day!

The whole school did an exercise break today around the inside of the school - jogging, sidestepping like lemurs, jumping jacks, push-ups and lunges - it was great!

Today we helped with Big Pick Up because we didn't have Big Buddies.

Maegan's first 2 weeks at Dr. Coffin was been great.

In music, we learned about theory - what the notes are called and how many are in each bar.

We all did Math 8 ways today - ask me how I know if a number is odd or even!

For Social Studies we are in groups doing a poster timeline of one chunk of Calgary's history - ask me what decade(s) I'm working on and what happened in that time.

Most of us have cabin fever!:)

We wrote the letters c, i , u and w during writing workshop - it was brilliant!

We had a great visit with SaaKokoto but it was too short! He told us the story of the mouse travelling to the Beautiful Land. We can't wait until he returns!

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND.

Library on Monday and PLUS temperatures...HURRAY!!!