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  A Busy and Joyful Last Week Before Winter Break! ❄️✏️ Our Grade 3 classroom had a wonderful and busy final week of learning before winter break, beginning with some outdoor fun in the snow! Students worked together to build and create in the snow, using teamwork, problem-solving, and creativity. Back in the classroom, students drew on this shared experience to inspire their writing. Using what they saw, felt, and did outdoors, students wrote five extended sentences , carefully adding adjectives and adverbs to make their writing more detailed and interesting for the reader. We also spent time getting our bodies moving in Physical Education. Students worked in small groups to exercise different muscle groups while continuing to practice cooperation and perseverance. Another highlight of the week was reading How to Catch a Gingerbread Man . After discussing the story, students used their imaginations to write about a trap they would design to catch the Gingerbread Man . Their writi...
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December 12

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Grade 3 Hip Hop Art & Music Celebration! 🎵 Our Grade 3 students have been exploring the world of Hip Hop through Sound Creations, and this week they brought their learning to life in a creative and colourful way! Students painted vinyl records to represent what they’ve learned about the roots, rhythm, and expression of Hip Hop culture. Each record tells a story—some show movement, some show emotion, and others show the energy of music and dance. To go along with their artwork, students also created graffiti-style word art . Each student chose one  word that inspired their painting—such as creative, love, fun or move —and designed it using bold lines, bright colours, and expressive lettering, just like real street artists do. These activities connect beautifully to the new Learn Alberta Grade 3 curriculum , especially in the areas of: Fine Arts : using different materials and artistic techniques to express ideas and emotions Music : exploring rhythm, pattern, and musical trad...
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December 5th

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 What Did Students Do This Week? The grade threes continued working on writing strong and interesting complete sentences. To demonstrate their understanding of sentences, they followed the writing process. First, students used a word web as a planning tool to generate and organize ideas before writing. Then, we reviewed that every sentence needs a subject, verb, complete thought, correct capital letters, and end punctuation. Students also worked on (or will work on) adding adjectives and adverbs to make their writing more interesting. As a class, we also looked at different levels of writing and determined what would make a seed, sprout, sapling, or tree. Then, students wrote at least five sentences about a topic and added clear, helpful details to add interest and description. To end, students edited their work, using teacher feedback and a checklist. English Language Arts Learning Outcomes: I can use organizational processes, methods, or tools to support the creation of written t...
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