All kids are accounted for and everyone seemed to have fun! We had a great time bowling-the kids loved cheering each other on and were very good sports. The DQ was a little hectic to say the least but eventually everyone was fed and had a tasty treat. Thank you to all of our parent volunteers who came out to keep an eye on the kids! We loved having you with us!
Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer
Thursday 7 June 2012
Wednesday 6 June 2012
What's happening...
Hello everyone!
This is just a quick update on the "goings on" in our class. The kids are very excited for our field trip to the Fairview Bowling Lanes (North end) and to DQ tomorrow. It will be a very fun trip and a nice way to celebrate the end of Grade 3 together.
You may have been hearing about special brochures that are being created in our class. For our information reports, the kids are making brochures on an animal of their choice. They have used books, encyclopedias and websites to help with their research and are now working on their rough drafts. I'll post a few brochures when the kids finish-they have really enjoyed this project! Every morning at least 2 kids ask if we can work on the reports. I was speaking with one dad tonight and his son has been doing extra research at home! I love when they get excited about what they are learning!
As you know from the class's June newsletter, our provincial assessments are over. We are finishing up our multiplication and division unit. I'm in the process of creating a good review game (for our test) for the kids on the smartboard. I'd like our class to test out our senteo remotes with the smartboard. For those of you who don't know, senteos are little remotes that input data from your child into the smartboard. With them a teacher can posts a question on the smartboard and students use their remotes to input answers that are wirelessly sent to the teacher's computer, where results are displayed in real time. Answers can be multiple choice, true/false, or numeric. The senteos remotes kind of put me in mind of a game show-think Who wants to be a Millionaire when they ask the audience for their responses. However, responses are kept anonymous except to the teacher.
This is just a quick update on the "goings on" in our class. The kids are very excited for our field trip to the Fairview Bowling Lanes (North end) and to DQ tomorrow. It will be a very fun trip and a nice way to celebrate the end of Grade 3 together.
You may have been hearing about special brochures that are being created in our class. For our information reports, the kids are making brochures on an animal of their choice. They have used books, encyclopedias and websites to help with their research and are now working on their rough drafts. I'll post a few brochures when the kids finish-they have really enjoyed this project! Every morning at least 2 kids ask if we can work on the reports. I was speaking with one dad tonight and his son has been doing extra research at home! I love when they get excited about what they are learning!
As you know from the class's June newsletter, our provincial assessments are over. We are finishing up our multiplication and division unit. I'm in the process of creating a good review game (for our test) for the kids on the smartboard. I'd like our class to test out our senteo remotes with the smartboard. For those of you who don't know, senteos are little remotes that input data from your child into the smartboard. With them a teacher can posts a question on the smartboard and students use their remotes to input answers that are wirelessly sent to the teacher's computer, where results are displayed in real time. Answers can be multiple choice, true/false, or numeric. The senteos remotes kind of put me in mind of a game show-think Who wants to be a Millionaire when they ask the audience for their responses. However, responses are kept anonymous except to the teacher.
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| Senteo: Making Math like a very fun game show!
What can I say? I'll do almost anything to keep them interested in Math this time of year!
Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer
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Monday 4 June 2012
NEW-LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!
Please be advised that the last day of school will now be Thursday June 21st. This will be a full day.
Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer
Social Studies Mini Quiz-Study Guide
In case the guide doesn't make it home...
New Brunswick Politics and Government
The provincial government of New Brunswick is responsible for housing,
education, fisheries, energy, justice, tourism and parks, and transportation as
well as several other provincial departments.
The provincial legislature is found in Fredericton, the capital city of
New Brunswick. There are 55 members of the legislative assembly. The political
parties in New Brunswick are the Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, New
Democrats and the Green Party.
An election takes place every four years. The party with the most elected
members becomes the governing party. Its leader becomes the premier.
The premier chooses elected members to be in a Cabinet. The Cabinet
currently has 15 people from the Legislative Assembly. Each of the Cabinet
ministers heads a provincial department. Each Cabinet minister is chosen by the
premier, and may be dismissed by the premier.
Presently, a Conservative, Honourable David Alward, is the Premier of New
Brunswick.
Friday 1 June 2012
How does your garden grow?
Cross your fingers for us-we have just planted a classroom garden. Yesterday we planted radish seeds. The kids think they look like yummy vegetables-we shall see what they really think of them when they grow! The kids planted their own seeds and will have their very own radish (hopefully) in 15-25 days.
I told the kids this was an experiment-and like any experiment things may go wrong. I gave the example of my many many failed attempts at keeping a garden or a plant alive. Some of us may have green thumbs or as they so eloquently told me "we might have black thumbs like Mrs. Creamer!" Only time will tell. I'm not allowed to touch the plants in case my "black thumb" kills them. We now have plant technicians who are in charge of watering them and making sure they get enough sunlight.
Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer
I told the kids this was an experiment-and like any experiment things may go wrong. I gave the example of my many many failed attempts at keeping a garden or a plant alive. Some of us may have green thumbs or as they so eloquently told me "we might have black thumbs like Mrs. Creamer!" Only time will tell. I'm not allowed to touch the plants in case my "black thumb" kills them. We now have plant technicians who are in charge of watering them and making sure they get enough sunlight.
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| The 3 Creamer garden-not much is there now but hopefully my plant technicians work their green thumb magic and we see some growth there soon! |
"Math Brain Breaks"
The kids had a busy week with assessments. We wrote in the morning but we were finding it difficult to get our brains back into work mode in the afternoon-the kids were so tired! So we decided to have a quick 10 minute "Math Brain Break" in order to "sharpen the saw" for Language Arts time.
During this time I did a few quick sketching lessons with the kids. We also had a 10 minute "sculpting" class although many of the kids would have liked to have gone on longer if I had let them! This seemed to calm and refocus them for work time.
If you ever get stuck with an indoor day at home this summer (and let's face it we live in N.B. so we are bound to get a few) or you just want to refocus the kiddos check out this link-
www.janbrett.com. Jan Brett is a wonderful author and illustrator. She has written one of my personal favorites The Mitten. If you go into videos she gives step by step instructions for sketching animals.
Below you will find a few of our "sculptures" from our 10 minute art class on Tuesday and two sketching masterpieces that students did to recharge on Wednesday and Thursday.
Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer
During this time I did a few quick sketching lessons with the kids. We also had a 10 minute "sculpting" class although many of the kids would have liked to have gone on longer if I had let them! This seemed to calm and refocus them for work time.
If you ever get stuck with an indoor day at home this summer (and let's face it we live in N.B. so we are bound to get a few) or you just want to refocus the kiddos check out this link-
www.janbrett.com. Jan Brett is a wonderful author and illustrator. She has written one of my personal favorites The Mitten. If you go into videos she gives step by step instructions for sketching animals.
Below you will find a few of our "sculptures" from our 10 minute art class on Tuesday and two sketching masterpieces that students did to recharge on Wednesday and Thursday.
Provincial Assessments
As you all know we have just finished our Provincial Assessments. The kids worked very hard and tried their best on these tests. Manipulatives were available at all time for the students to use during the assessments and many of them took advantage of these tools. I hope the kids have a relaxing weekend-they deserve it!
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| Our manipulatives table with the recommended manips. |
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| No interruptions we allowed during our testing time-only Mr. Armstrong our wonderful resource teacher. |
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| Our "I'm done!" basket made up for each student. We had our sketch books, 2 books to read, clay or play dough, word searches, sudoku and a blank comic strip to use so as not to disturb the other kids who were still testing.
Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer
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Hello!
Parents/Guardians
Can you believe it is June already? It is
our last month together in 3 Costello and I am finding it to be very bitter
sweet. On the one hand I am excited for
the kids being officially declared 4TH Graders and begin their much
needed vacation (we really worked them hard). On the other hand I really am
going to miss working with them! They are a great bunch of kids and you should
be very proud of all that they accomplished this year. Take the time to
celebrate their achievements! I know
that I am proud of all of my students and we celebrate our successes every day.
On June 7th we will be
going on an end of the year field trip. 3 Patterson and 3 Costello will be
travelling to the bowling alley to play a few strings. Following bowling, we will
travel to Dairy Queen for lunch and a frozen treat. See the field trip
permission slip for more details.We have a lot going on this month and as always, if you ever need any clarification please feel free to call me at the school at 847-6202, by email at ashley.daley@nbed.nb.ca, or through a written note placed in your child’s agenda.
Language Arts
In Language Arts, reading continues with an
emphasis on good reading comprehension strategies. Information Reports will be
our focus this month. Students will learn that a good information report presents
information that classifies living or
non-living things. A descriptive report has a title, begins with a general
statement about the living or non-living thing, gives a description (What do
they look like? Where are they found? How do they behave?) and ends with an evaluation.
We
have our final performances of Reader’s Theatre coming up. Students will be
performing the following: A Bad Case of Stripes, Listen Buddy!, The Principal’s
New Clothes, and Dog Breath. We always enjoy these performances and I will be
posting parts of them on our website so stay tuned!
Math Outcomes
As you
are all aware Provincial Assessments took place from May 24-31. The kids worked
very hard and followed directions well. We did A LOT of review the weeks before
and I know you worked with the kids at home. Thank you!
As we end the school year, we will continue
with multiplication and division.We will model multiplication and division up
to 5x5, find strategies to multiply and divide up to 5x5 and pose and solve
story problems involving multiplication and division.
We will be having a Multiplication and
division test on Tuesday June 12th.
As always I will be offering extra help every lunch recess until the test.
For some fun
multiplication games visit www.multiplication.com
Social
Studies/Science/Health/Art
In Social Studies we will be starting a unit
on the Government of New Brunswick. Students will have a mini quiz on Friday June 8th.
In Science we have been working on a unit called
Watch it Grow. We are currently growing our own little garden and watching it
grow!
Health class has been very interesting. We
have been discussing the influence of media literacy on healthy behaviors. We
have discussed/screened commercials and print ads that target the Grade 3 age group
and how they try to influence our eating
behaviors.
Art is a favorite class for all the kids. We
have been sketching, using water colours and sculpting.
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Grade 3 Field Trip
Hello everyone!
Here is a copy of the parent letter I sent home yesterday in regards to our upcoming field trip. We are looking for a few parent volunteers so if you are interested please let us know!
Dear Parents,
It is hard to believe that we are already planning our year end activities. The students from 3 Creamer and 3 Patterson will team up for a bowling activity. On Thursday, June 7th, we will be leaving school at 9:15am, by bus for Fairview Bowling lanes in Saint John, at a cost of $3.00 per child. Following this adventure, the bus will transport the two classes to the Dairy Queen in Quispamsis, for lunch. The menu will include a choice of hamburger, cheeseburger, hot dog, 2 chicken strips, or grilled cheese in combination with fries, a drink, and a coupon for a Dilly bar, an ice cream sandwich, or a cone for $4.00. We will return to the school for 1:15 pm. If for any reason you do not want your child to participate in the lunch, he or she may bring a bagged lunch. Please send in the money by June 5th.
Be sure to send in the bottom of the permission slip-and don't forget to fill out your child's DQ choices on the back!
Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer
Here is a copy of the parent letter I sent home yesterday in regards to our upcoming field trip. We are looking for a few parent volunteers so if you are interested please let us know!
Dear Parents,
It is hard to believe that we are already planning our year end activities. The students from 3 Creamer and 3 Patterson will team up for a bowling activity. On Thursday, June 7th, we will be leaving school at 9:15am, by bus for Fairview Bowling lanes in Saint John, at a cost of $3.00 per child. Following this adventure, the bus will transport the two classes to the Dairy Queen in Quispamsis, for lunch. The menu will include a choice of hamburger, cheeseburger, hot dog, 2 chicken strips, or grilled cheese in combination with fries, a drink, and a coupon for a Dilly bar, an ice cream sandwich, or a cone for $4.00. We will return to the school for 1:15 pm. If for any reason you do not want your child to participate in the lunch, he or she may bring a bagged lunch. Please send in the money by June 5th.
Be sure to send in the bottom of the permission slip-and don't forget to fill out your child's DQ choices on the back!
Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer
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