April 23-26

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This week in grade three from the students' perspectives:

“We were working on our proposals.” EM

“In math, we are learning about shapes. We read books on triangles, squares, and circles. “GS

“In math, we are learning about shapes and we are doing polygons. A polygon is a shape with three straight sides or more and it’s a closed shape.” SS

“This week at school, we did testing for our Little Free Pantry and my group tested 6 posts and it held 26 books. “EVK

“We tested posts for the LFP and in my group, we did four legs and we balanced 27 books on top of the paper. We rolled a piece of paper and then rolled another piece of paper. I learned that if we put just the paper down, it wouldn’t balance, but if we put the book on paper, it would balance (the weight on top helped it balance).”ES

“In STEM, we tried to build a tower. For the first one we tried to build it and for the second one we tried to build it without leaning. For the third tower, we tried to put cards on it. For the fourth one, it had to stand on its own for one three, or five minutes.” EM

“I would like to connect to another student’s idea…we made the Calgary Tower and we made it out of toothpicks and plasticine. “AV

“In PE, we started to learn how to play badminton.” OR and JP

“In music, we’ve been doing recorder and we’ve been doing recorder karate and I have my white belt.” EW

“In music, we did our test to see if we could all do “Hot Cross Buns” on the recorder.” WC

“This week, it was Jersey Day and everyone got to wear their favourite jersey. It was Fun Lunch and we had Jugo Juice.” CB

“We are still doing raffle tickets for Camp Kindle for kids with cancer. “ BV

Thank You
Thank you to the volunteers who helped make Thursday's Fun Lunch (Jugo Juice) a success.

Upcoming Dates
May 2 - Lunch Lady 
May 9 - Lunch Lady 
May 10 – Shave Your Lid Event 
May 14 - School Council 
May 16 - Lunch Lady 
May 16 - Volunteer Tea 
May 17 - No School 
May 20 - No School 
May 23 - Fun Lunch / Spirit Day 
May 30 - Kindergarten Orientation



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