Our Agribition Trip!

Check out the short video of our Agribition field trip. We not only had a great time, but we also learned a lot more about rural communities!

Gr. 3's Take on The Agribition!

Sites for Students

There are a lot of great sites out there to give students extra practice at home and to benefit parents as well. Below is a list of sites that might come in handy for you! Just click on the picture and it will direct you to the website.

Dr. George Ferguson Homepage

• Check out our school website for important reminders, upcoming events, and useful links!
• The site can be used for doing important tasks such as making online payments, viewing the calendar, and accessing your child's Google account
  
  

Regina Public Library Kid Space

• This site has access to games, activities, and stories for kids
• Check the site for updates on any upcoming events and activities for kids to take part in!

Raz Kids

• A great site for reading at the right level!
• Teacher Username: abrace6
  

Starfall

• A site for reading, word practice, math practice and much more!
  
  

Tumble Books

• A site dedicated to reading! 
• Ask your child for the username and password 

Horizon School Division Math Games

• This is a site created by the Horizon School Division that has access to math games and activities for every Saskatchewan curriculum strand
  
  

ABCya!

• A great site that has a lot of fun educational games and activities
  
  

Kids Know It

• This site has a lot activities and games for a range of different subjects and themes

Tweets from George

Last week our school had a book launch to commemorate Dr. George Ferguson's book, The Wood Fairies Christmas Deed- a story written 80 years ago. It was a celebratory event joined by Robert George Ferguson's grandchildren, Lung Association members, Regina Public School board members, and the K-3 students and staff. The book launch consisted of Dr. George Ferguson's great granddaughter sharing an excerpt of the book, a presentation from the Lung Association, a video message from Ferguson's daughter, and cake for everyone!

The Grade 3 students enjoyed preparing for the event by learning about Dr. R. George Ferguson's life and celebrating his name in a creative way. In preparation for the event, the Grade 3 students researched Ferguson's life on the computers and documented important aspects about him and his life accomplishment's on Google Classroom. The students took the interesting information they found and created "tweets" from his perspective. They imagined what Dr. Robert George Ferguson would have "tweeted" if Twitter was used while he was alive.

Some tweets included:
"I am having a great day with my wife and children at my cottage"
"I was awarded for helping SK and I have a lovely wife named Helen #mylife"
"I am having a lovely day because I am having fun with my kids #7kids"
"I am the Great Medicine Man #Robert"

The students were not only creative with the final product, but through the process they also collaborated, inquired, and inferred while they were investigating his life. They were excited to learn about such an honourable man and all of his accomplishments in the medical field. They learned about his desire to help all tuberculosis patients in Saskatchewan and around the world, and his dedication to assisting people in need. Dr. Robert George Ferguson was a noble man who is looked up to by many. It is an honour to be apart of a school named after such an inspiring person.

Please take a look at the wonderful article written about the event on the Regina Public School website. http://www.rbe.sk.ca/news/2014/11/book-launched-ferguson-school

Highlights and Happenings of October

We had busy, fun-filled October! Take a look at what we were up to this month:

•  In Daily 5, we started up our Guided Reading groups. We continue to become better readers and writers with our daily practice. We are also improving at our independence!
• In Math, we started to reach the end of our Numbers to 1000 unit. We also began our Number of the Day practice by showing our math skills with a new number every math class.
•  We learned more about Urban and Rural communities in Social Studies this month and started to learn the differences between each of them.
  
•  We are starting a new program in Health called Friends for Life. More information about the program will be posted later on. Mr. Jim Appleby is helping out with the unit as well.
• For Arts Ed this month we based a lot of our art projects around events that happened in October, such as Fall, Thanksgiving, and Halloween.
• For daily updates on our learning experiences, remember to follow us on Twitter- https://twitter.com/msbracesclass
• If you haven't done so already, please sign up for Remind for updates and reminders!

Click on the photo slideshow below to get a better idea of what the month of October looked like in the grade 3 class!

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Thankful Thoughts

We created Word Clouds to display what we are thankful for in life. We chose our own words, designs, and colours! Take a look at our creations below.

Aaliyah

 

Abeer

                                       

 
Andraya

 Amelia

  Dylan

   Azmied

    Colten

   Dominick

Fatma

  Guneet

Jade

   Jaydee

    Karter

    Keira

   Liisa

 Mohamed

Puneet

   Rayne

Shyan

Skylar 

Highlights and Happenings of September

There has been a lot of learning, collaborating, sharing, inquiring, and memory-making in grade 3 so far! As a class, we are becoming a closer "team" every day, and each one of us are learning the importance of positivity, encouragement, friendship, and team work in everything we do. Please check out some updates on our learning, and feel free to contact me at any time!

• Email: amanda.brace@rbe.sk.ca
• Twitter: @msbracesclass

Literacy

• We have been working on our Daily 5, which is a literacy structure to make us better readers and writers. We have built our reading stamina enough so that we can now read for over 13 minutes without distractions! We have also been working on reading to our classmates and checking for understanding as we read.
• Everyday we work on our writing in our Daily 5. We have been focusing on adding details to our writing and brainstorming topics to write about. Students have the choice to write about what they want, which gets them excited to share their writing! We are not only becoming better writers every day, but we are improving our sharing skills as well.
  
  

Numeracy

• We are currently working on the unit Numbers to 1000. We have worked a lot on the skill of showing a number in many ways, comparing and ordering numbers, and are currently working on skip counting. We have practiced these skills by playing math games online and doing activities on the iPad, playing games with friends, working individually, working in small groups, and doing activities as a whole group.

 

Social Studies

• In Social Studies we are learning about Communities. We have talked about communities in our own lives and brainstormed what communities need in order to run properly. We even went on a community walk around our school to observe the details of our school and Glencairn community. We love using Google Earth to look at the characteristics of our communities and will continue to use this tool as we study communities around the world. We will soon talk about urban and rural communities as well as communities in the past and present by looking at what Aboriginal communities in Canada were like before European contact.

 

Health

• We have been learning about our well-being and the importance of staying healthy in all aspects of our lives. We talked about our shared values; such as responsibility, belonging, learning, and respect, and made goals based on those values and the Circle of Courage. We continue to learn about the importance of keeping all areas of our lives balanced, and our goals help us focus on that. 
• Soon we will be looking more in depth at friendship, kindness, and how to become better classmates and people!

Phys-Ed

• We have been playing a lot of cooperative games that focus on the skills of team work and working together. Our Phys-Ed activities include a lot of loco-motor movements and skills that challenge us and allow us to explore our creativity!

Art

• We had so much fun with our art on Dot Day, which was a day we dedicated solely to creativity and self-expression. We created dot art, which is a picture only made up of painted dots. Check out our blog post that displays our fun experiences on Dot Day. 
• We have been working on an art project called Fall Frames, which incorporates fall colours and characteristics, as well as the students photographs. Stay tuned for the final product!

Science

• We will be switching between Health and Science units throughout the year, and we are starting with Health, which means Science topics will be studied more in depth closer to November. 
• Even though we are starting with Health, we have used a lot of our science skills when we participated in the city-wide egg drop project called Regina Public School Egg Drop Contest. Our class created egg-vessels that allowed eggs to drop from a play structure without being cracked. We were fortunate enough to have CBC News come and tape our experience, and then air it on the 5 o’clock news! Please see the previous blog post about our Egg Drop experience for more details!

French

• Mrs. Turner teaches the grade 3’s French this year.

Cultural Education

• Mrs. Nault teaches the grade 3’s Cultural Education this year.

Technology 

• The integration of computer and iPad technology within the curriculum will be implemented throughout our continued learning. We use technology daily; in the form of Twitter within the class; our use of the iPad for curriculum based activities in  whole group instruction as well as small group and individual, and in our daily computer use for varied curriculum outcomes. 
• Our class learns so many new things by using Twitter in the classroom. We have a lot of questions, and we are able to get some answers by creating conversation  through Twitter! We also love sharing our learning experiences and using our voice to connect with others.

• With technology becoming a staple in our everyday lives, communicating through email and website is a sure way to keep in contact with me. Our class webpage and Twitter page is a way for us to keep updated but also a great resource for your child to use. Our class updates will be posted to our blog, as well as our Twitter account, so please check back regularly.  Feel free to interact with the class when using these tools as well!