Back to School!

  Dates to Remember:

• Aug. 27th - Meet the Teacher, 3-6pm drop in

• Sept. 1st - Staggered entry full day, last names A-L

• Sept. 2nd- Staggered entry full day, last names M-Z

• Sept. 3rd - All students' classes start

• Sept. 7th - Labour Day, no school

• Sept. 18th - No school for students (PD Day)

• Sept. 29th - Orange Shirt Day

• Sept. 30th - Truth and Reconciliation Day, no school

What will we be working on in grade three?

**This will be updated for the new curriculum shortly

Digital Citizenship & 7 Habits

Happy September!

We will be getting on to our Chromebooks this week. After talking about each 7 Habit and what it means to be a good digital citizen, we feel ready to get online safely and responsibly!

Please have a look at this post for each habit and how we will be good digital citizens.

We will all have access to Chromebooks through the school, but there is also the "Parent Purchase Program" through Wolf Creek if you are interested. Please find more information here.

3A Mission Statement

We have been working hard 

to be great classmates and friends so far this year.

Together, we decided what was important to us

and how to be the best we can be. 

Here is what we came up with:

We've also been working on our 7 Habits

and being good digital citizens.

We have been working through the topics found here.

Dates to Remember for September 2017

   Dates to Remember:

• Aug. 31st - Meet the Teacher 3-6pm
• Sept. 5th - First day of school!
• Sept. 11th - Running Club Starts (optional: Mondays & Wednesdays, after school)
• Sept. 12th - Swimming Forms & money due (including levels)
• Sept. 14, 21, 28, Oct. 5, 12 - Swimming lessons at CUC
• Sept. 15th - PD Day, no school for students
• Sept. 21st - Steve Harmer Magic Show
• Sept. 22nd - Terry Fox Run & Crazy Hair/Hat Day
• Sept. 26th - Super Hero Day (dress up, optional) MOVED TO MARCH
• Sept. 26th - Orange Shirt Day
• Sept. 26th - Terry Fox Run at 10am
• Sept. 26th - Welcome Back assembly, 1pm
• Sept. 27th - Picture Day
• Sept. 29th - PD Day, no school for students

What will we be working on in grade three?

June Dates to Remember!

• June 1st - IRIC Presentation for kids (at IREC)
• June 6th - Discovery field trip forms due ($11)
• June 7th - Hot lunch - Boston Pizza (for those who ordered)
• June 8th - Grade 3 Farewell Assembly - families invited!
• June 9th - PD Day, no school for students
• June 12th - Medicine River Wildlife Presentation (at IREC)
• June 13th - Discovery Wildlife Centre field trip, all day
• June 14th - Hot lunch - hot dogs (for those who ordered)
• June 15th - Abbey swimming money & forms due ($4.50 or family pass #)
• June 19th & 20th - Alien In-Line skating for 3B
• June 20th - Animal presentation donations due
• June 20th or 21st (TBD) - Ellis Bird Farm Presentation (at IREC)
• June 22nd - Grade 3s swimming at Abbey Centre
• June 26th - Grade 3s go to IRIC for tour, Splash Park afternoon
• June 27th - Last day of school, progress reports go home
• Little Free Library project build and ribbon cutting to be announced!

It's Been A While!

**We are practicing writing with different sentence beginnings, so that is why you will see some yellow highlights below:

    Our new unit in Science is about structures and materials. So far we have tested out beams and pillars. For the beams, we folded lots of paper to test how much mass each type could hold. The strongest one was accordion beam. Next we started to learn about pillars. We tested cylindrical, triangular and rectangular pillars. Putting the weights on carefully is important so it doesn't tip. Cylindrical was the strongest because it spreads out the mass evenly. Now we are building newspaper stools with our building knowledge from the last few experiments. We are using newspaper and tape to build them and they must be strong enough to hold a person. 

    Another thing we did was the Spring Fling! It's a big dance that the whole school does together. This year we had to do it in two groups because we have a lot of kids in the school. Before the Spring Fling, we practiced dancing in gym everyday to different songs like Old Dan Tucker, Hokey Pokey, the Cupid Shuffle, Continental Drift, the Chicken Dance, the Cha Cha Slide, the Limbo and the Macerena. Keyra says her favourite dance was the Cupid Shuffle. Jamie liked the Limbo the most because "it makes you have exercise and you can practice bending yourself to make you flexible." At the end of the Spring Fling, we also did a free movement dance. 

     In gym we are learning gymnastics. We do shoulder rolls, log rolls, pencil rolls, and balances. The difference is you put your hands up for the pencil roll and you put your hands to the side for the log roll. We did all sorts of poses and are working on some routines. For the routines we need 3 movements like the bear walk, crab walk, seal or leap frog around the mat, two poses and a roll. We're not allowed to roll anywhere on our neck or head because we could get hurt. To add to that, we always do shoulder rolls where your chin needs to be tucked in and you lead with your shoulder and hands. Our class loves gymnastics!

Important December Dates

• December 2nd - PD Day, no school for students
• December 7th - Holiday Train, more info to come CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
• December 8th - BFG movie at Blackfalds Library
• December 16th - Grade 3 Christmas Concert, 1:45pm (no evening show)
• December 21st - Grade 3 Social Studies Country Expo
• December 22nd - Polar Express Day, more info to come
• December 23rd - Holiday Bling Day
• December 24th - January 9th - No school. Happy holidays!