It is hard to believe that the first month of Grade 3/4 has come to a close. Grade 3/4 students have had a great month and have accomplished a great deal! Friendships have been formed, routines have been established, and the learning has begun! We just know that it is going to be a FANTASTIC year!
Lake Ontario Park
During our first week of school, we visited Lake Ontario Park. Students loved playing games led by Ms. K., running through the splash pad, and climbing on the awesome play structure. It was a great way to get to know one another better and celebrate our first week at school.
The Kingston Fall Fair
On Friday, September 14th the Grade 3/4 class visited the Kingston Fall Fair. Students enjoyed learning, exploring, and tasting at a variety of booths highlighting agriculture in our surrounding area. This year, the theme of the Fair was the turkey. Students even got to meet “Tom the Turkey”! Other highlights of the fair included tasting fresh carrots, petting cows, meeting a police horse, watching a motocross show, and eating corn on the cob!
Learning, learning, and more learning!
Even though we have only been at school for one month, the Grade 3/4 class has already done a lot of learning. In Language Arts, we learned about the differences between retelling and summarizing. We worked to build our writing stamina through journal writing. We just completed a mapping unit in Social Studies which ended with us making our own maps of our dream amusement parks. In Gym, students learned and practiced soccer skills. We have also spent a lot of time working on our Spelling and Math programs this month.
Looking Forward
We have many great things to look forward to in October. Some of the upcoming highlights include trips to Little Cat Creek, Thanksgiving long weekend, a trip to the Corn Maze, Hallowe’en, and finishing our read aloud, The Wild Robot! We will continue to work on our Spelling and Math programs in our groups. In Social Studies, the Grade 3’s will be learning about Ontario while the Grade 4’s explore physical and political regions in Canada. In Gym, we will be playing some cooperative games and beginning our unit on volleyball. We will practice and refine paragraph writing in Language Arts, and continue to work on adding detailed evidence from the text when responding to reading. It is sure to be another super month in Grade 3/4!
What a great start to the school year! Awesome!