Read - A - Thon!

March is almost here!

Upcoming....

Read-A-Thon letter came home earlier this week.  Monday, March 2nd is the START!  Track your reading on the calendar that came home.  Mrs. Swain will be reading to us in the afternoon on Monday.  Don't forget to dress as a teacher! ;)

REMEMBER -

• Reading Book Reviews are due MONDAY, MARCH 2nd!  We will be sharing these in class on Monday and be making a class book with them.  Do your BEST work. Remember the novel, Frecklejuice, I read to you and the Book Review I showed you on the Doc Cam as a guide.

• TWAS is due Monday!  Most of you wrote about Albert's Bench!  Some of you wrote about Pink Shirt Day, Constable Mattice's visit and lesson about making choices!

• Learning Partnership (EA) with BMO/Coppercares Job Applications are due first thing Monday, March 2nd.  5 students already handed theirs in this past week, thank you! 

• We will have Auskick back on Thursday and Friday of this week.  

OPPORTUNITY:

Does someone in your family have a favourite book or love to read?  IF SO, we'd love them to come in and be a GUEST READER for our class!  Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, are welcome to come read their favourite book to us!  Just have your SPECIAL GUEST READER 'wannabe' email Mrs. Ross (kaross@cbe.ab.ca) to set up a time and date to come in.  I can even suggest some books or borrow them from our library!  

THIS WEEK AT SCHOOL....

Jarrod from Auskick taught us Footy!  This is Australian Football.

Our School Police Officer, Constable Mattice, read us the book: The Three Questions, and taught us about making good choices!  

We had a science building challenge to make a bench for Albert our class dino! We had to use a fastening technique that we learned about.  This was about planning, cooperating, persevering and experimenting!  This was our first iteration and we have a chance to improve our first prototype on Monday.  Here's us in action:

I wonder what we will learn or discover or be curious about next week? 

Pink Shirt Day!

Pink Shirt Day

Today was Pink Shirt Day to stand up to bullying.  We had a talk about lifting people up and doing the right thing.  The grade 3s performed a wonderful assembly to share about the day and importance of being kind.  Here is a picture of our class in our pink attire:

Here is a website with information: https://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/what-is-pink-shirt-day

Coming Home Today:

• Information about COPPERFIELD'S READ-A-THON! Each student has the details in his/her backpack.  This will take place now until March 16th!  Don't lose your pledge sheet and calendar!

• Thursday, February 27 from 6 - 7 is our school's Literacy and Math Night. Hope to see you and your family to learn something new and fun! 

• If interested a JOB APPLICATION is coming home for our EA (business) known as Coppercares.  These are to be completed at home and returned to me on Monday, March 2nd.  

• Lunchroom tax receipts, if you paid there is one in those students' backpacks.

Remember:

If you have boxes and paper towel tubes we can use them!  We will need them for building challenges and Coppercares.  We will be building tomorrow (Thursday, March 27th).  Thanks to the families who have sent in items already!  This is a great start. 

Upcoming events

Pink Shirt Day: February 26th!

The Grade 3 Students are going to be hosting the Pink Shirt Day Assembly! You are invited to join us on February 26th at 2:00 pm in the gym. We will be singing songs, reciting poetry and celebrating kindness!

We hope to see you there and remember to wear your PINK Shirt that day!

Choices

Thursday, Feb 27th, Constable Mattice will be in our classroom sharing a lesson about choices.

Homework, please 

Please bring in paper towel tubes, clean paper rolls (empty) and flattened carboard boxes.  We will be doing a building challenge on Thursday afternoon and Friday. 

PROUD TEACHER.....

Thanks to all the students who completed their good copy pen pal letter over the weekend!  They are FINALLY ready to send.  Everyone works at a different pace but we were running out of time (6 weeks or so in class). This may happen from time to time, but I try to give many in class chances.  I am so thrilled with the effort, responsibility and engagement in this authentic (real life) task!