Mr. McCallum - Archive - 08/2014

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Posted: October 1, 2013

In our book today we read about how hard it can be to travel with pets, especially if you have lots of pets (like crickets).  We learned about an animal with super hearing!  Do you remember what it was?  In math we did a senteo review and continued to work with numbers to 1000.  In Language Arts we worked on improving our "detail sentences" by asking questions.  In PE it was tally Tuesday!  Great training for our cross country runners!  We had guidance with Mr. Murphy and worked on maps and our community with social studies.  In science we talked about soil, and who lives in it.   Who lives in our soil? 

Posted: September 30, 2013

We started off the day talking about old one room school houses.  We talked about how to show a drink was hot, instead of just saying it.  In LA  we continued to work on our daily 5 routines.  We read about the dangers of drinking salt water, especially if yourre a dog!   In Math we reviewed our Adding steps (Do you remember what we call the steps for doing something?), and worked from our text book.  Our cross country runners practiced for the hilly Hallow by running on the hill by the church!  In Science we talked about living things that affect the soil.  In Social Studies we practiced using our maps.  Another busy day in Grade 3.

Posted: September 26, 2013

Today went by in a flash!  We started the day trying to figure out how to spell "furniture" and we read about how powerful lightning could be!  We had a late recess when we got our pictures taken.  We had PE with Mrs. McCarthy and Library.  In Science we looked at two new words, gravity, and atmosphere. In Art we looked at different lines.  Tomorrow at 12:30 we will have a very brief awards assembly followed by our laps around the school for the Terry Fox Walk, all are welcome to attend!  See you tomorrow.

Posted: September 25, 2013

A wonderful Wednesday!  It turns out it might not be a great idea to tie your dog to your table when youre eating.  Do you remember why?  This week is Smile Cookie Day at Tim Hortons so we had a special treat at recess!   For Math Today we reviewed our rules for our Adding Algorithm and worked out of the book on Standard Numbers and using drawings to represent numbers.  In Language Arts we worked on some special letters.   In PE we had tally Wednesday.  In Computer we worked on some awesome shortcuts that are going to come in handy with the Ctrl Button.  Do you remember any of them?  Good luck to the runners in cross country tonight at Croft!TOMORROW IS PICTURE DAY!  BRING YOUR SMILES ON YOUR FACE, NOT IN YOUR POCKET!!! 

Posted: September 24, 2013

Posted: September 24, 2013

Today we started of learning about light bulbs!  The chapter in our book was called Jail Break, do you remember why?  In Math we started to look at numbers to 1000!  Only 900 more numbers than last year!  Mr. McCallum had to go to the internet to find out what Bannock was!  Can you believe he didnt know!  In Language Arts we had a guest teacher and went over subject and predicate.  Those are fancy words!  We had a guest teacher for PE and played some cool games.  After PE  we had Mr. Savoy come in and teach us about GPS units for social studies.  Do you remember what GPS stands for?  Once we learned how to work the units we went on a small walking tour to see some of the cool historic buildings in our very own neighbor hood!  What a cool way to end the day.  Remember Thursday is picture day!  See you tomorrow

Posted: September 23, 2013

Today I learned how a porcupine sounds, and how to doodle one quickly.  We worked on reading mazes and reviewed our Math Vocabulary.  We also looked at our adding algorithm in math.  In Language Arts we worked on our Read to Self and did some group writing with our pattern for "Problem, try, try, solve".  Do you remember why Mr. McCallum said its a good idea to pick a little problem?  In Gym today we learned how to play "Dead Ant Tag".  In Health we talked about the dangers of smoking.  In science read about how all plants need soil.  We finished off the day looking at Maps, and learning about Canada and New Brunswick.  We also had to have a little talk about building our stamina for sitting in our chairs at our desks.  Some of us are still having trouble with the extended day.  (I think extend is a math word too, do you remember what it means?)  I hope tomorrow afternoon is nice!  We are hoping to have a special guest!  Keep your fingers crossed and see you tomorrow.

Posted: September 19, 2013

I forgot to write up the blog before I left school today, so this will be my first attempt at an entry from my cell phone. We started off the day with some writing to SHOW not TELL that a person was hungry, how would you do that? We looked at some Emperor Penguins, do you remember anything about them? In math, we reviewed our vocabulary using Senteo's and made a video I hope to post soon on how to use a text book in math. Stay tuned for that gem. We had PE after lunch and learned about maps in social studies. We made origami in Art class today! origami is a fancy word for folding paper? what did you fold your paper into? A HUGE thank you to Mrs. Noel for helping me out at the end of the day. The time is flying by AND fall fair is this weekend! Hope everyone gets a chance to take part in all of the festivities, it's going to be great. Have a great night and see you tomorrow. :)

Posted: September 19, 2013

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Posted: September 18, 2013

Today we talked a little bit about lizards as pets.  In our book we might be in for some bad news, it looks like one of the characters might need to find a new family to live with!  In Language Arts we are learning how to make a proper paragarph.  There are a lot of things to remember, can you remember any of them?  In math we continued to work out of the text book on patterns and use pattern rules!  We had Pizza for hot lunch today.  In PE we went outside to play soccer.  In Health we talked about communicible and non communicable diseases and the pipes that run blood to our hearts.  In computer class we talked about how some people on the internet may not be who they say they are sometimes.  We went over some of the parts of our browers and then played some online math games. 

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