What's Happening in Room 8?

Today was our last Follow Your Passion session for this round! We are hoping to do more after the holidays! Please send cereal box type cardboard for our event centre project! We are collecting nonperishable food items for the Food Bank! Book orders are due Friday, December 6th. The students are bringing their TWAS journals home today - except it will be a little different! They are being asked to write to me this week and talk about the following: Think back over this week... Tell me about 3-5 activities we did this week. Describe what we did and what you learned. Don't forget to explain how each activity made you feel! This assignment is due back Monday morning! Have a great weekend! Mrs. Giborski

For our Event Centre project the students will be working on developing a 3D model. We are looking for cereal box cardboard for this project. If you are able to send in as much as you can it would be greatly appreciated! We will be starting this portion of our project the week of December 9th.

December book orders are coming home this afternoon! In order to ensure that the books arrive before the holidays I am asking that all orders be in on or before the 6th of December! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about this!  The students are continuing to work really hard on their event centre proposals! We have learned today that the Saddledome would love to have a look at a few of our ideas for the new arena! the students are so excited about this opportunity and are working hard to showcase our best work!  We will be going on a field study in December! On December 18th we will be heading down to the Glenbow museum! We need 5 volunteers to help make this trip a success! Please let me know as soon as possible if you are available to join us!  Thank you,  Mrs. Giborski

Today was the day we have been waiting for for so long! We had the amazing opportunity to go to the Saddledome and have a private tour! We started our day with a walk over to where the new arena will be built! It gave us a chance to explore the sight and talk about what the good points are, and what challenges they might have. We also talked about what should happen to the Saddledome once the new arena is built! Despite the cold, the students all had amazing thoughts and ideas! After a quick break, we walked towards the river to look at the bridges that are there! We looked at the shapes that we saw in the bridges! The students were also asked to consider how they might use those shapes in the design on their own arenas. We had lunch in the Saddledome and then met up with Rick, our tour guide! We were so fortunate to have him take us around the arena. He talked to us about the structure and the history of the building. We got to see the rink and talk about the ceiling! Ask your s

Tomorrow is a half day! Parents teacher interviews from 3:30 - 7:30pm Thursday evening, and then 8:00 am to 12:00 pm on Friday! Looking forward to great conversations about these amazing students!

What a busy week we have had in room 8! The students have been working hard on their event centre plans, and are getting very excited for our trip to the Saddledome on the 25th! Today we worked on our TWAS writing, and the students had a chance to assess their writing using the rubric we created as a class. I then took the opportunity to mark their piece using the same rubric. Please take a look at the rubric and the writing together with your child and talk about what a specific goal they may have in terms of their writing. Please write their goal down in their book and send it back to school on Monday! If you have not done so already, please sign up for a Parent Teacher Interview time for next Thursday or Friday. Have a great weekend! Mrs. Giborski :)

Today we had a great day! We spent our morning talking about what makes a good paragraph. As a class we created a rubric that we will use to mark our non-fiction books! Math had us practicing our Decomposing Dan addition strategy! Ask your student how this strategy works! Field study forms are coming home today! Please return them as soon as possible! Thank you! Mrs. Giborski

Welcome to November! We were very busy in our room today! The grade 3s are working on writing proper sentences. Today we looked at how to begin our sentences in a variety of ways. Math had us using the Base Ten Blocks to add 2 digit numbers. We have been working on regrouping and have found the use of manipulatives to make our job easier! Thank you to everyone who was able to return the Public Engagement Survey that we created! We are in the process of tallying and graphing the data! Your input will help us with our arena designs! We had the opportunity to help our grade 1 buddies with their math! We helped them make paper chains to represent friends of ten! Ask your child what this means! They are all experts at it now! We are now into colder weather, and will still be going outside for breaks as long as it is not too cold. Please ensure your child is coming school with proper cold weather gear.