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Science-Simple MAchines and Forces

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  What Did Students Do This Week? This week, students explored the world of simple machines and discovered how they make work easier in our everyday lives. Students learned about the six types of simple machines: levers, wedges, inclined planes, screws, pulleys, and wheel-and-axle systems. They investigated how simple machines can change the strength and direction of forces, helping us push, pull, lift, or move objects with less effort. Using a variety of loose parts and materials, students were challenged to design and build their own device that included at least one simple machine. They selected a real-life object or tool to create and identified which simple machine was being used in their design. Students explained how their simple machine changed force and made a task easier to complete. Throughout the design process, students planned, built, tested, and improved their creations while practicing safe use of tools, materials, and equipment. They also learned about simple machi...
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  June 1st - 5th What Did Students Do This Week? This week, students worked through the writing process to create imaginative narratives . They began by brainstorming ideas and developing a plan for their stories. From there, students drafted, revised, edited , and shared their writing, learning how authors improve their work at each stage of the process. As writers, students focused on creating engaging story beginnings that captured the reader’s attention. They experimented with different ways to start a story, including action, dialogue, description , and sound effects . Students also worked on using a variety of sentence beginnings, including transition words , and sentence types to make their writing more interesting and enjoyable to read. To bring their stories to life, students carefully selected descriptive words and sensory details to help readers visualize events, characters, and settings. They also practiced including dialogue , with the use of quotation marks, to h...
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  The Lemonade War 🍋   This week in Grade 3, we began reading our new novel study, The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies! Students were excited to dive into this engaging story about siblings, Evan and Jessie, as they navigate friendship, competition, emotions, and problem-solving. As we begin getting to know the main characters and the challenges they are starting to face, students explored the characters’ feelings and discussed how emotions can affect the choices people make. We talked about situations where characters may feel frustrated, proud, jealous, excited, or worried, and students shared connections to times they have experienced similar emotions in their own lives. As we continue reading, students will further explore themes such as problem-solving, healthy relationships, roles and responsibilities, and financial literacy. We are looking forward to discussing how the characters work through disagreements, make decisions, and learn important lessons about spending...
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  What Did Students Do This Week? This week in Social Studies, students explored municipal and provincial governments in Alberta. They learned about the roles of representatives in both levels of government and discussed how they work to help communities and citizens. Students compared and contrasted services provided by municipal governments, such as snow removal, parks, and libraries, with services provided by the provincial government, including education and healthcare. They also explored Alberta’s official provincial symbols and learned about leaders in municipal and provincial governments. Through discussions, activities, and sorting tasks, students strengthened their understanding of how different levels of government support people in their daily lives. Social Studies Learning Outcomes I can describe similarities between the role of representatives in municipal and provincial governments.  I can differentiate between services provided by a municipal government and serv...
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  Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area We were so excited to go to Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area.  Thank you to our parent volunteers for attending the field trip with us.  It wouldn’t be possible without you.   The students investigated the Web of Life, it was an activity-based program designed to introduce students to the ecology of the aspen forest.  The Web of Life program focused on the Aspen Parkland community, the inhabitants and their interactions. Students learned that a community is a place where an assemblage of plants and animals live and have their needs met by the common physical habitat. The Aspen Parkland is home to many species of plants and animals which interact with each other and their surroundings in different ways. An interrelationship occurs when two living things affect one another. These can be direct such as predator/prey relationships or indirect like the relationship between Albertans and the equatorial rain forest....
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