June 19th

 Happy Father's Day to all the dads of room 17.

We are almost at the end of the year!  Only 7 more school days left to go.

Your child's last homework was due on last Friday.  I kept the boats over the weekend as we will be taking them outside tomorrow and testing them in a kiddie pool.  Friday was just too rushed with early dismissal to have all 6 classes test their boats. I will be sending them home tomorrow.

I will start sending home notebooks and work that we are not going to need anymore by the end of the week so that they do not have to take everything home the very last day.  

Friday is Sports Day.  Please make sure that your child is dressed for the weather.  Ideally the weather will be good and we will have it outside. We will have an alternate indoor plan if needed.

In Science this past week we used foil containers to test out how cargo ships worked.  We were all surprised how many glass marbles the containers would hold if they were spread out.

In writing students have been trying some different types of poetry.  Last week they finished Diamante poems and looked at concrete poems where the poem takes the shape of the topic.  They did some group brainstorming which they enjoyed using the big chart paper.

Last week in Math we did a variety of centres to reinforce concepts learned this year.

In Social Studies, we finished research and a brochure about a Calgary Attraction.  Their brochure was sent home Friday.

Monday is formal uniform and the grade 3 farewell assembly.  The rest of the year is casual :)

Mrs. Coulling