Ice-cream fun!

This week in art we learned some new things. We learned about tints, shades, and values.

A tint is when you mix a color with white (it gets lighter).
A shade is when you mix a color with black (it gets darker).
And value is when you show the color scale going from light to dark.

To demonstrate our new knowledge we did some yummy ice-cream art.
We started by choosing a color and painting one scoop that color.

 

 

 

Then we mixed in a little and a lot of white to two more scoops.
Some of the students were shocked that their red ice-cream was turning pink!

Then we added black to our ice-cream scoops and look what happened:

On day two we cut out our ice-cream and made cones. We also added sprinkles (felt) and of course we had to add a cherry on top!

It was a wonderfully delicious week in 3B!

P.S. Sorry that some of the pictures are upside down, I couldn't quite figure out how to flip them. :)

All About Kamsack

These next few weeks we will be learning about communities all over Kamack, Saskatchewan, Canada and the world. We will look at different cultures and traditions of these communities.
 To start off the unit we began with the community of Kamsack. The students brainstormed a list of things they loved about Kamsack.

During our community unit one of the cities we will be learning about is Saskatoon. To help us learn more about Saskatoon we are going to exchange letters with grade three class in Saskatoon. We wanted to teach the grade three's a little about Kamsack so we made them a class book. Each child made one page. At the top of the page they wrote out a "Kamsack Fact". Then they had to write one thing they love about Kamsack. Hopefully this will teach the grade three's in Saskatoon a little about our community.

 

 

The Power to Connect

This month in 3B we are working hard on connecting what we are reading to our lives. This will help us to become better readers because when your brain is connecting to what you are reading it will be easier to understand, and retell what you are reading.

 I have been modeling making connections all week with the students. I choose a book that I connect to and show the students what my brain is doing while I read. This includes me making connections to the text, pictures, characters, feelings and emotions. The students then respond with their own connections. Since we are all so different in 3B and make are own connections the students choose books from book bins of books I have collected from the library.

To visualize how many connections we are making the students write down each time they make a connection and I add it to our "connection train."

This week we are going to start sharing are connections which will allow us to make text-to-text connections.

Creating Yearbooks

This week we said goodbye to September and welcomed October. To say goodbye to September the students began making a grade 3 yearbook. Each month they will do a one page write-up summarizing our month together. Then they will create a picture page using pictures I took throughout the month and various art supplies. At the end of the year I will put their yearbook pages together and they will have their own yearbook to take home. To inspire the kids I brought one of my old yearbooks in and had the students guess which picture was Ms. Baranowski! Showing them my yearbook got them excited about creating their own.

We began working on the writing process by brainstorming in partners and then as a class before the students began their writing.

Here are some pictures of the writing process. (You will have to wait till June to see the finished product!):

Who needs soil?

This week in 3B we answered that question. All week we looked at different plants, animal and people that need soil.To answer that question I divided the students into two groups. Each group received a large piece of paper and some markers. They were given 15 minutes to write all of the things that need soil and this is how it turned out: