Information Writing

 Last week, the Grade 3 students began our third writing unit of the year on information writing. this week, the students were given the opportunity to share their wealth of knowledge on any topic that they felt passionate or knowledgeable about. Rather than focus on writing, we focussed on planning and speaking. Students chose a topic, then came up with 5 subtopics and then were asked to "teach" about their topic to a small group of their peers. Topics ranged from soccer player Lionel Messi, to the Hindu light festival of Diwali.

Two of our reading groups finished up their first novels of the year and have now moved on to two new novels: The Fourteenth Goldfish, and The Last Kids on Earth, while the third group continues to read the novel Jake Atlas and the Tomb of the Emerald Snake. In order to give the students more time to get their reading assignments and homework completed, each group will just meet once a week. Please remind them to do their reading and reading assignment work and to bring it back on the appropriate day, as I have yet to have one group finish and bring in all of their work on time! The Jake Atlas group meets on Tuesdays, Last Kids on Earth on Wednesdays and The Fourteenth Goldfish gets together on Thursdays.

Finally, this week in our unit of inquiry into how humanity's future is dependent on resources we looked into renewable and non-renewable energy sources. Students were assigned an energy source to look into and find videos that explained it, then summarized and shared the ones that they found useful on our class' Energy Padlet. We also had a lesson that focussed on choosing a renewable energy source for a town, and had us looking at the advantages and disadvantages of alternate energy sources.

Photo Day

Thursday, April 29th will be photo day. Class and individual photos will be taken. Students can wear a school shirt or other outfit for the photos.