FREE PIZZA LUNCH TOMORROW

Great News… no need to pack a lunch tomorrow!

Joshua and his family have offered to purchase a pizza party for the entire class!  We will be ordering plain cheese and pepperoni pizzas.

Again, a BIG shout out to Joshua (and Jill) for this lovely gesture.

WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY

Tomorrow is our last full day of school. We will celebrate with board games, device time and a movie.  Thursday we have another school assembly, report cards and then early dismissal.  Students will be dismissed at 11:50am.  Buses will be ready for pick up at this time as well.

A MESSAGE  FROM MS.BURROWS

It truly has been a wonderful year in grade 3.  In my 18 years of experience, this was my first year with a class of 14 boys and only 5 girls.  We did a lot of math and we certainly did a lot of writing.  What a difference it makes when students are given the tools to inquire, investigate and problem solve on their own.  It creates memorable, engaged, authentic learning.  

To each one of my students, I believe in you.  There is nothing you can’t do.  Life is about exploring, collaborating, reflecting and taking your time to find solutions. Ask questions. It’s okay if you can’t find the answer,  just try from another angle and if that doesn’t work, try another angle.  If you don’t succeed at something, remember what our math friend Jo Boaler taught us: GROWTH MINDSET.  

Be kind, have manners and keep your head high.

Enjoy a beautiful summer making memories.  Play. Laugh. Explore.

Love,

Ms. Burrows  

Happy Last Full Day Of School!

JUNE EVENTS

We have a lot of great things happening at Clearmeadow before the school year is finished.

• SCIENTIST IN THE CLASSROOM (FORCES) Tuesday June 13th. We will need 5 parent volunteers to help assist.
• BOOK FAIR AND RAFFLE- June 12th – June 16th
• CANADA 150th Primary Fun Day – June 15th
• SCHOOL BBQ – June 15th TIME: 4pm to 6pm
• LIBRARY BOOK RETURN DATE June 16th
• Last Day of School: June 28th EARLY DISMISSAL 11:50am.

Some of our students have asked about the visitors we’ve had in the classroom over the last few weeks. This is very exciting as our students have become quite the mathematicians with their math talk and growth mindset in the classroom. Students were able to show off their math talk and problem solving skills while principals, consultants and teachers from other schools observed. Great job grade 3’s, I’m so proud of each and every one of you!
Don’t forget to follow our class on Twitter as I often post videos of our day.

EQAO begins on Tuesday. We will be writing periodically over the next 2 weeks:

Tuesday May 23rd
Friday May 26th
Monday May 29th
Tuesday May 30th
Wednesday May 31
Thursday June 1st

This standardized test will not be included on report cards.

letter to students

We are supporting Mental Health Week by organizing a school assembly to #breakthestigma on Mental Health. Here’s the link to the song we will be singing tomorrow at 11am.

what I am

Don’t forget to wear your pink Coyote Cares Shirt!

We will be reviewing previous EQAO Math and Language booklets over the next few weeks in order to familiarize ourselves with: multiple choice, short answer, paragraph writing and readers response.

We had a great day role playing as early settlers. All our students looked great! We did spelling, arithmetic, read stories aloud and discussed the moral of the story. We made butter and played a variety of early settler games!

SPIRIT DAYS THIS WEEK!

TUESDAY APRIL 11th – BLUE JAY DAY!  Wear Blue to support our Blue Jays

WEDNESDAY APRIL 12 – INTERNATIONAL Pink Shirt Day. Wear your pink shirt again!

FOOD BANK COLLECTIONS THIS WEEK- We are collecting PEANUT FREE products.

Math

We have just finished a great inquiry regarding Area and Perimeter.  Students had deep conversations with their peers about the perimeter of shapes and the relationship perimeter has with area.  This was a very hands on task where students worked in small groups on a variety of investigations.  Students challenged one another’s math thinking and students had to reason and provide proof to represent their thinking.  We spent a bit of time on growth mindset, that some of the problems they would be investigating were going to be challenging.  We went back and watched a few of Jo Boalers video’s on growth mindset and we reminded ourselves that:

• math learning is messy
• we make mistakes, and that’s okay
• sometimes math problems take time
• it’s not about speed
• when things are challenging, our brain is learning.

We are now moving towards mass and capacity!

MATH LEARNING

We completed the DREAMBOX Math Challenge March 31st. Our classroom came in 127th across the nation.  There were over 800 schools participating in the Dreambox challenge, our Grade3Take3  class did amazing!  I’m very proud of our Dreambox accomplishment!

In math we have begun a new inquiry involving how a house is built by examining floor plans.  Our world is 3D, so my goal is for students to identify the solid shapes around us, then unfold these solid shapes into our plane shapes. This process of unfolding solid shapes into “nets” is “spatial reasoning.”  As we explore theses nets we will develop strategies for finding perimeter and area, using geoboards and graph paper.  As a culminating task, students will plan a 2D clubhouse with a partner.

LANGUAGE

We are in the process of completing a few different tasks.

Our Google Research Project: Students are researching something of interest to them (inquiry).  Students created their own questions about a topic.  They then researched and will create a: slide show/power point or report on the specific topic following success criteria.

Book Reports using either Green Screen or Google Slides.

Blue Spruce: A library program with a selection of picture books of which we read together as a whole class, discuss, write a review and vote on.

Lastly, we have begun some EQAO writing tasks.

EQAO

Our EQAO dates have been announced:  May 23 – May 26th.

We will be spend 4 half days on the standardized test of READING, WRITING and MATH.

Please note:  Report card grades will not be affected by EQAO.