Bake Sale to help Australia!!!

The Grade 3 fundraiser was a HUGE success, raising over $1200 for the Australia Wildfire Fund. All of the students should be so proud of themselves for helping this organization. The time they put towards making posters to advertise the event, brainstorming items to sell and helping their parents with the baking will be truly appreciated. WAY TO GO, GRADE 3s!!!

The students loved the Crazy Hair Day to celebrate school spirit at RBES! Some of the students came to school with absolutely amazing hairdos!

LANGUAGE ARTS

The students worked hard to finish their Australian Animal Research project. They had the opportunity to share their Google Slide presentations with our class and other grade levels around the school.

We reviewed parts of a paragraph; topic, details and concluding sentence. Choosing from a variety of sentence starters, the students wrote about their "Most Perfect Snowman" to go with their paper project from last week. Then they were asked to read their paragraphs aloud to themselves to check for capitals, punctuation and spelling.

The students enjoyed some buddy reading with their peers. They read a non-fiction passage about sea creatures.

They are also working through a chapter book with a small group during our daily reading block.

We continued working on editing sentences using CUPS (capitalization, understanding, punctuation and spelling).

MATH

The students were excited to complete a "How Many Ways" activity for the number 676. They are getting to be experts at breaking apart ones, tens and hundreds.

We learned a new math game to practice regrouping with 3 digit numbers. The students were put into pairs and given counters, a deck of cards and a whiteboard. Each student picked up 6 cards and arranged them to try and get the largest sum from adding two 3 digit numbers. They used the whiteboard to add their numbers and show regrouping. The player who ended up with the largest sum won the round and picked up a counter. The first player to win ten counters was the champion.

SCIENCE

We continued learning about decibels and the students sorted quiet, moderate and loud sounds. They also worked on a Google Slide presentation; finding pictures of things that would represent different decibels.

They explored different decibels around the school using a decibel meter app on the IPads. They had a lot of fun wandering around the school and checking out how many decibels each room was. Mrs. Horrocks even screamed as loud as she could to see how many decibels she could get to! 

The students had the opportunity to explore sound centers. At each station, they were asked to record answers to a variety of questions demonstrating their knowledge of pitch and volume.

AMAZING RACE