Tuesday, October 25, 2016

We Scare Hunger and Rounding Numbers

Today we kicked off our We Scare Hunger campaign at Holy Redeemer. The Social Justice club is holding a food drive from October 24th to October 31st.  All goods collected will be going to the Kanata Food Cupboard.  Thanks in advance!

In Math, we are learning to round numbers to the nearest ten,  Here is a video that we watched to review the concept.




Saturday, October 22, 2016

Apple Poll and Homework

On Friday we taste tested four kinds of apples. Unfortunately I could not get students responses using Google Forms so here it is and hopefully you remembered your favourite!
Here is the homework for the week too!

Friday, October 21, 2016

Week 3 GRA16 and MORE!


Information was sent home with the oldest and only regarding our latest play structure fundraiser!
The prize includes riding the Zamboni, a Sens jersey and 4 tickets to a hockey game!
Tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5.
Send in money and raffle tickets will be distributed. Thanks again for all your support!
Mr. Rodgers read the story of the Apple Star and we all got to eat an apple at the end.  Later, we taste tested 4 different kinds of apples: Empire, Spartan, Russett and McIntosh.  Which was your favourite?

For the Global Read Aloud this week, we read the book 'The Reader' by Amy Hest and illustrated by Lauren Castillo (our author study).

What a great story to use for visualization!  So many adjectives and description-you could really see what was happening in the story even if you didn't look at the pictures.  We explored the picture at the end of the book and wondered what the picture might be about.  Afterwards, we had to create a book trailer for one of our favourite books.  Some students tried our the green screen too!  We posted to our Seesaw accounts as well as a Padlet.
Later, we had a Mystery Google Hangout with other grade three classes.  Our first attempt did not go well due to camera problems.   Another group joined us after recess and we had to guess where they were from based on clues given by the students.  Turns out they were from St. Cecilia in Barrhaven,  Thanks again to Mrs. Brownrigg and Mrs. McCuen for our first Mystery Hangout. We gave them clues too!  We will definitely be having more hangouts...hopefully the computer camera will work then:)


Wednesday, October 19, 2016

The BIG Crunch



Please mark on your calendars that Friday, October 21st is “HEALTHY APPLE DAY BIG CRUNCH DAY".

Each student will be given an apple for a nutritious, litter-less snack on Friday morning. We will start with the reading of the Apple Star Story and then students will take their first bite in unison creating a big sound that we are calling "The Big Crunch". The apples are being provided by the Holy Redeemer School Council with the assistance of the Hazeldean Farm Boy.

Check out the story of the Apple Star here:)


Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Walk-a-Thon

We had a great time today with our Walk-a-Thon.  Holy Redeemer raised over $4000 towards our new play structure!  Well done, Rockets! We also learned how to make God's Eyes from sticks and yarn.  They look beautiful and you have to persevere-they are not easy to make when you first start . Check out these pics and vids from the day!

These two are pros!













Saturday, October 15, 2016

Homework and Class Cheer

The Walk-a-Thon is tomorrow morning. We will be presenting our class cheer in front of the school. Please try and wear a baseball type hat, sunglasses and jean jacket (or leather-type jacket). Remember our chant has a stomp stomp, clap clap beat!

Friday, October 14, 2016

Another Busy Friday!

#GRALauren
This week, we read 'The Troublemaker' by Lauren Castillo for the Global Read Aloud. We had lots of discussion about the art work and used clues from the text to predict what might happen in the story. Check out Lauren's blog here. Students were invited to bring their stuffies to school.  They had to write about what would happen if their own stuffy was 'coon napped' by the mischievous raccoon in the story. Take a look at what we came up with!


We finished up our Digital Citizenship posters and demonstrated how to be safe online.








In Math, we continue to work on representing and comparing numbers.  Students are encouraged to use the base ten blocks when working with numbers. This morning we had to figure out a solution to the following problem:

One possible solution (which met all the criteria) was 3 hundreds, 3 tens and 2 ones.



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