We have started a new mathematics unit on geometry. We’ll be exploring figures and solids and the relationships among them.

Our Learning Goals for this unit are:

• describe, name, and sort figures and solids
• describe angles
• build solids
• explore congruent figures and congruent solids
• solve geometry problems

When you are at the grocery store, look for items on the shelves that have the same size and shape, and name the solids. For example, a Toblerone bar is a triangular prism, and a cereal box is a rectangular prism.

Have fun!

Our blog has been quite, but we have undoubtedly been very busy…

For up to the minute updates on what is going on in our classroom you can visit our Twitter Feed.

One of the latest tools that we have been experimenting with is Edmodo. Edmodo is a safe social learning platform that lets our class connect both at school and from home. It’s a place where we can collaborate and communicate about the things that we are learning.  We already even have 3 small interest groups within Edmodo. One of our small groups focuses on polar bears. We post our comments and questions about polar bears, since it is the time when the polar bear migration begins in Churchill, Manitoba.

Parents, please encourage your children to be active participants in our virtual classroom as well!

On a cold and wet September Day we ventured off to Children’s Safety Village and Ojibway Nature Centre.

Here is a collection of some of our day working and learning!

Our Field Trip to Safety Village & Ojibway Nature Centre on PhotoPeach

We have created a WallWisher asking the question… What would you do if a 100 year old tree was going to be cut down in your neighbourhood?

Please share your thoughts with us by adding to our wall and enjoy reading some of our own ideas.

Click on the tree to visit our wall!

We thought you would enjoy just few snapshots of some of our activities during our first week of school!

Our First Week – Grade 3D on PhotoPeach

Welcome back Grade 3′s!

I’m looking forward to a wonderful year working and learning with you.

As we begin our year I can’t help but sharing this poem with you. It reminds me of our work that we did today where we talked about our “schema” for a good student.

I’ll color very carefully.
My writing will be neat.

And I will not be happy,
Till my papers are complete. 
  
I’ll always do my homework,
And try my best on every test.

I won’t forget my promise,
To do my very best! 

Author Unknown

We have been Tweeting almost daily on our classroom Twitter account.  Though we haven’t been posting here in our blog as often we are constantly posting updates about what we are working on and learning in Twitter.

If you haven’t had a look… take some time to read our tweets!

You are familiar with Earth Hour, which will be held on Saturday, March 26 , 2011 at 8:30pm. It is only a hour event but a very important one. We hope that you will participate and spread the word.

Earth Hour

The countdown is on. Every light bulb turned off adds up to a brighter environment.

The Canadian Earth Hour website can be found at http://wwf.ca/earthhour/.

Spread the word……….

I approved many wonderful posts this morning….

Try this little scavenger hunt on our Kidblogs…. I Wordled one of your posts.
Can you find the post that I Wordled? Leave a comment with your guess.

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Storybird is a wonderful site that we have been exploring over the last few weeks.

Storybird provides us with the illustrations and our job is to create the stories to share with you!

We have been learning about the features of a narrative and thought creating our own stories with Storybird would be an awesome place to put what we have learned in to action.
Here is Nathan’s Storybird!
Monsters Every Where on Storybird