What We've Been Up To!

In Language, we investigated our Schema today (our background knowledge) and looked at how it helps us to infer.  Using your schema + clues helps you to figure things out!  We will be using this reading strategy to 'read between the lines'.  Sometimes the author doesn't tell us everything and we need to figure it out by ourselves.

We use inferring all the time! 

After gym, we played something I like to call The Inferring Game.  A student had a feeling word placed on their back (so they could not see it) and we had to give them clues as to what their word might be.  The student with the feeling on their back chose students to give them clues to the feeling. Some students used their bodies to give clues while others gave examples of the feeling to help the student guess their feeling.  It is harder than it looks but we got better and better the more we practiced.  Here are some examples!

I was amazed at the number of actors/actresses we have in our classroom!  Well done, Grade Threes!  We will continue the inferring game tomorrow...
In Math, we continue to look at pictographs and the 'Must Haves' or Success Criteria for creating a great graph. We are also working on adding numbers using efficient strategies that work for us ('W' strategy, algorithm, open number line).  Every morning, we will be having a math 'warm up' with addition or subtraction questions/problems.  We will be working on three-digit addition and subtraction soon.  Using efficient strategies and mental math are ways to make us become faster at computations!

We created a pictograph about hair colour in our classroom.  Here are the results of our survey!

We had a few people absent today!