Week of May 30th

A big thank you to all of our volunteers who joined us at the zoo on Wednesday. The students had a wonderful time enjoying the wonderful weather and appreciating the animals. Our learning and research will continue in the classroom as we discover more about a specific animal chosen from the North American Wild exhibit. While at the zoo, each group was responsible for learning about their preferred animal habitat, life cycle, lifespan, diet, adaptations and any other interesting facts. 




In science this week, we were introduced to the principles of geology and archaeology by excavating a cookie. This cookie excavation helped the students understand how important it is to be careful while excavating fragile artifacts. They also learned how an excavation can destroy a site and why recording the location of artifacts is crucial to preserving archaeological knowledge. The chocolate chips served as the artifacts in this activity, while the cookie served as the archaeological site. We learned that this can be a destructive process and once finished with a site it can't be excavated again. To fix this problem, archaeologists take lots of notes, drawings, photographs, and soil samples, and they write detailed reports so archaeologists in the future can come back to the excavation and learn even more. 





In math this week the grade 3 students learned how to write fractions for a given picture, including fractions that are not unit fractions. They also shaded a picture to show a given fraction and learned how to divide a shape into equal parts in more than one way. Lastly, the same fractions were shaded using different shapes. 

Ms. Yasin's math group worked hard this week on their ordinals review! They learned how to count using ordinals (1st, 2nd, 3rd...) and reviewed how to identify the position of something in a sequence! The group ended off the week going on a word problem hunt for 2 step word problems that involved addition and subtraction. This was a great opportunity for students to put their addition and subtraction skills into action!

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