Mrs. Swanson's Curious Thirds

  Our Amazing Place: Learning About Alberta! Grade 3 Social Studies – Time and Place This week in Grade 3, we continued exploring one of our big Social Studies themes: Where do we live, and what makes Alberta unique? We used maps, songs, loose parts, and hands-on inquiry to help us learn about our place in the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BmLUgfX_EQ Where Do We Live in Canada? Outcome Connections: 3.1.1 – Use geographic tools to ask questions about the world and Canada 3.1.2 – Identify Canada’s provinces, territories, and capital cities We began by locating Canada on a map, then zooming in to find Alberta , our home province. Students also learned about the two major oceans that border Canada: The Pacific Ocean on the west coast The Atlantic Ocean on the east coast This helped students understand the size and diversity of our country. Where Is Alberta Located? Outcome Connections: 3.1.2 – Identify and locate Alberta on a map 3.1.3 – Identify major geographical...

  November 17th - 21st Please check in with your child about their Parent Communication Duotang. These were sent home on Thursday. They show you a snapshot of your child's work so you can see their learning. There is also a spot for you to make a comment. Please comment and send the duotang back to school with your child. What did students do this week? This week, our class explored how animals can be grouped by what they eat. They learned that carnivores eat mostly meat, herbivores eat only plants, and omnivores eat both plants and meat. Knowing what an animal eats helps us understand how it survives and where it fits in a food chain. They also learned that every food chain has producers, consumers, and decomposers. Producers are plants that make their own food using sunlight. Consumers are animals that eat plants or other animals. Decomposers, like mushrooms and worms, break down dead plants and animals and return nutrients to the soil. To help us understand all of this, we looke...

  What We Learned This Week in Grade 3! This week in Grade 3, we have been reviewing “What is a sentence?” We discovered that a complete sentence needs two important parts: a subject – who or what the sentence is about (a person, place, or thing) a predicate – what the subject is doing (the action or verb) For example: The dog ran. “The dog” is the subject , and “ran” is the predicate . It also needs to express a complete thought. We practiced building complete sentences together, fixing sentence fragments, and writing our own creative examples. We also noticed how authors use complete sentences to make their writing clear and interesting! English Language Arts and Literacy Learning Objectives : Understand how sentences work together to create meaning. Use correct sentence structure to communicate ideas clearly. Revise and edit our writing for complete sentences. Express ideas in complete sentences when we speak and write. These skills help us become confident communicators an...