Week of March 7th 


For the last few months we have been working hard at developing our writing skills while writing personal narratives, biographies and autobiographies. This week we have turned our focus back to story writing. To help us we have started by creating a fractured fairy tale. A fractured fairy tale is a story that uses fairy tales that you are familiar with and changes the characters, setting, point of view or plot. Usually these changes add humorous to the story. For example, what if Cinderella did not live in a village or cottages, horse-drawn carriages and the royal palace but instead was a cowgirl living on her family's horse ranch out west? How would that change the story and the characters? 


I can find and read/watch or have read to me a common fairy tale.

I can consider how I can create an alternative version to that tale.
I can create a flow chart to brainstorm a  beginning, middle, problem, solution and ending to my fairy tale,
I can use my flow chart to help guide the writing of my story.  
I can revise my completed story to clarify my sentence and add more detail. 
I can edit my story for punctuation, upper case and lower case letters, and no excuse words ( Remember to read it out loud to yourself) 
I can circle any other words I am having difficulty spelling. ( Please never shy away from using a juicy word because you can't spell it!) 
Share your story


In math this week the grade three's were introduced to multiplication arrays. A multiplication array is simply an arrangement of rows or columns that matches a multiplication equation. You can make arrays out of objects or pictures, and you can use any sort of shapes. Multiplication arrays make it easy to visualize multiplication problems and give them a strategy to learn their multiplication tables that is not rote memorization to find the answer. 

In an array the first number refers to the number of rows, and the second number refers to the number of columns. So all of the above arrays are considered 3x4 arrays not 4x3 even though the total number 12 would be the same either way. 

This week Ms.Yasin's math group worked on the standard algorithm (or stacking) strategy for addition and subtraction. After exploring a variety of other in-depth strategies over the last month, students can now transfer that conceptual knowledge into this concise strategy for addition and subtraction. During warmups, students had fun transferring the algorithm strategy into mental math! Students also used their understandings of 10 more/less and 1 more/less to construct a 100 chart puzzle! 





In art, we have been learning how to create a realistic self-portrait. To extend our learning and to have a little fun we have also been looking closely at the works of Pablo Picasso and how the evolution of his style of portrait painting evolved over his lifetime. We discovered that Picasso was brilliant at drawing and loved color, doodling.  We learned he could draw and sculpt just about anything. Over the next few weeks we will continue to look closely at his technique and how it developed as he began to experiment with new ways of drawing people and objects. 







 


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