We Made a 1000 Chart

Our grade three classmates have been working together to create a 1,000 chart. It is tough to take a picture of the entire thing because it is so big, but here is what it looks like. We are now using it to help us with our addition and subtraction to and from 1,000.

Have you ever made a 1000 chart?

The Peace Book by Todd Parr

On Thursday we had a discussion around Peace. We started our discussion by reading The Peace Book  by Todd Parr.  If you're not familiar with this wonderful book please check out the video below of Todd Parr reading the book.

Planting a Promise

This year we were invited to take part in a program called Planting a Promise which provided us with some daffodils to explore and plant.

First we did some wondering and came up with these wonders.

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Then we took some time looking closely at some of our daffodil bulbs.  They looked kind of funny, but we learned about the different parts.

Next we opened one up and took a peek inside.

Then it was time to prepare the garden to plant.  We invited the Gr 4-7 SAIL class to join us as well. When we looked a bit closer to the area we wanted to plant we realized it needed a lot of TLC. We spent quite a few minutes trying to weed out the weeds and prepare the soil. We realized it would need more time.

We headed back into class and planted a few bulbs in pots in our classroom. We are curious if they will grow inside or if they will only grow outside.

The next week we got back to the garden, We continued to weed, and then we added more soil.

Finally, it was time to plant. With a lot of elbow grease, and patience as we took turns with the tools we had, we planted our daffodil bulbs. 

Now we wait, and watch and hopefully come spring we'll have some beautiful flowers to share with you.

Design Challenges

Today we were introduced to three design challenges. For each challenge we have a goal and some criteria to meet while achieving the goal.  Here are our first three challenges and some of us trying to solve them.

Have you had design challenges before?

Pumpkin Explosion

On Thursday afternoon, we decided to make a pumpkin explode with elastic bands. By the end of the day Thursday we had 329 elastics around our pumpkin but it still hadn't exploded. We were worried it would explode overnight.  But it didn't. :-)

Take a look at what happened...

Pumpkin Fun!

We spent most of Wednesday exploring and learning with pumpkins. We made predictions and estimations. We sorted and grouped. Here are some photos of us in action.

As we learned we also documented our learning using Book Creator on iPad.  If you're curious to learn more about our learning please check out our blog posts.

Grace
Quinton
Jesse
Farhan
Nafay
Sajjad

Guess My Costume

This morning we had a Skype call with Ms. Cassidy's class. We played "Guess my Halloween Costume". We took turns acting out what we are going to be for Halloween and then the other class had to guess. Some of the costumes were tricky to guess but we had fun trying.