Students Blogs

We had such an exciting day in the computer lab today. We started the students in 3ES their own blogs. They have worked so hard to show that they are responsible digital citizens and ready to share their learning with others. I was so pleased to see them engaged, motivated and ready to write their first blog post this morning. Your child’s blog names follows the following pattern: first name last initial learningspace.weebly.com for example averyglearningspace.weebly.com.

Please take a few minutes and ask your child about their blog. It would also be greatly appreciated if you left them a comment to encourage them to keep writing.

 

iPod and iPad

Up Coming Events for May and June

I cannot believe it is already May. What a terrific year we have had so far. Here are the important dates to mark on your calendars for May and June.

May 1 – School Council Meeting/Parent Technology Information Meeting (7 pm)

 May 2 – A & W Hot Lunch and Town Clean-Up (weather permitting)

 May 3 – Extreme Assembly (1:50 pm)

 May 4 – No school (PD Day)

 May 11 – RDSO Quartet Performance (1:30 pm)

 May 15 – Language Arts Part A (Writing) Provincial Achievement Test

 May 16 – Marileez Hot Lunch

 May 18 – No School (PTI staff earned day off)

 May 21 – Victoria Day – No School

 May 25 – Crazy Shoe Day

 May 28  – Cornerstone Youth Theatre Performance Field Trip (More info to come)

 May 29 – Sports Day (weather permitting)

 May 30 – Blackfalds Motor Inn Hot Lunch

 June 1 – No School – PD Day

 June 7 – Sports Day Alternate

 June 12 – Language Arts Part B (Reading) Provincial Achievement Test

 June 14 – Mathematics Provincial Achievement Test

 June 15 – Tacky Day

 June 21 – Field Trip to Ellis Bird Farm (more information to come)

 June 26 – Participation Awards/Report Cards/Last day of school!

Celebration of Learning

Tuesday, April 17th from 3:00 to 6:00 and Thursday, April 19th from 4:00 to 7:00 we will be having our Celebration of Learning.

Please plan to drop-in and have your child take you through the stations set up in the class. Each station is designed to give you the opportunity to see what your child is learning in Grade Three. The students have been working very hard and are excited to celebrate their achievements with you.

 

What was your favorite moment during Celebration of Learning? 

Spring Fling

Spring Fling was a school wide event at IREC. We went down to the gym and had an hour-long dance party. It was fantastic. The students took part in seven different dances that they have been practicing in gym class. Check out their great dancing in the video below.

Guest Blog: Learning to Play Recorders

In music class we are learning to play recorders. We get to do some really cool songs. On Wednesday, March the 7th we are

 

going to Lacombe for a music festival. The songs we are doing are: G and A blues also Mission 5. My favorite song is G and A blues because it is easier than Mission 5.

By

Gabriela

 

Guest Blog: Yoga in our Classroom

In our classroom we do yoga for example: The Flamingo, Downward Dog, Lizard, and all that stuff. My favorite is Downward Dog.  There is a song we listen to for yoga. It’s called reach for the sun.  There is also a yoga pose called reach for the sun. We are bringing our own yoga mats. The whole point of yoga is to have calm and peace in your life. We also do yoga to add actions to the stories that we are reading.

By Gabby

Guest Blog: The Smart Board and Senteos

Our class has a Smart Board and a class set of Senteos. You can do question on it with the Senteos . At the end of all the questions on the Senteos it will show you your score and say all the question you did with a x or a check mark beside it. I have included a picture of a Senteo incase you have never seen one. We have enough for everyone in the class.

With Mrs. Esteves we do math. We can do math on the Senteos and smart board. There is something called base ten blocks so you just slide the hundreds blocks or the tens blocks or ones blocks over to the space you put it. We also throw kosh balls at the smart board. Koosh Ball Math is when you throw the ball to get a question to subtract or add. We also do art on the smart board. Only for indoor recess. We can draw on the smart board and some times Mrs. Sahlin or Mrs. Esteves will call up a student and let them do something.

We also have Art Lessons on the smart board. It just shows us what to do.

I am really glad we have a smart board and Senteos to use in our class.

By Abby

 

Guest Blog: My Class is Doing a Presentation

My class is doing a presentation on filling buckets at tomorrow’s assembly. We are going to have parts where we step foreword and say our part. Everybody in my class will have a part. When we are done our parts we will all sing a song about filling our buckets. The lyrics are completed by: Denise Talbott. The song is published by : Ken Beere.

Filling buckets is about filling other’s invisible bucket with nice comments and actions. Everybody carries an invisible bucket around with them everyday.

In class, we made our own buckets and put them on a bulletin board. Now we can write nice comment on a sheet of paper to anyone in our class. You might write something like. “thanks for playing with me at recess. You are a good friend.”

I encourage all of you to try and fill someone else’s bucket today by doing something or saying something nice to them.

You can fill anyone’s bucket, anyone in the world, your friend, sister, brother, family, anyone you meet. Our school is full of bucket filler’s each and every day.

Our class would like to share a pledge with all of you that read this post,

I promise to be a bucket filler ,

Everyday, at home, at school and every where I go.

By Hannah

Calendar Updates

February News

• February 29-Hot Lunch

March News

• March 2-1:50-X-treme Assembly (Mrs. Esteves & Mrs. Sahlin’s Class performs)
• March 5 – Grade 3-4 Choir Performance at the Lacombe Music Festival
• March 7 – Grade 3 Recorder Performance at the Lacombe Music Festival
• March 9-Staff Meeting/PD Day-no school for students
• March 9-9:00-12:00 1:00-3:00 Kindergarten Registration
• March 14-Hot Lunch
• March 16-Green Day-Wear Green
• March 16-6:30-8:30 Family Dance
• March 16-5:00-9:00-Lifetouch-Family Picture (Music Room)
• March 26-30-Spring Break-No School

April  News

• April 3-7:00-School Council Meeting
• April 5-1:50-X-treme Assembly
• April 6-Good Friday-no school for students and staff
• April 9-Easter Monday-no school for students and staff
• April 17-3:00-6:00-Celebration of Learning
• April 19–4:00-7:00-Celebration of Learning
• April 20-Staff Meeting/PD Day-no school for students
• April 27-Bling Bling Day