Ms. Laird

Proud teacher moment: today we brainstormed all the learning we did in math today and students came up with this list on their own! WE ARE MATH WIZARDS!!!! 🤩🤩🤩@HABschoolCBE

We are making the connection between multiplication and division crystal clear. Try playing this fun card game at home to practice fact fluency! @HABschoolCBE

Students did a dialogue tag scavenger hunt while reading to a friend. We recorded our new tags on sticky notes and will be finding ways to use them in our writing next week. @HABschoolCBE

Wow, our class is GENEROUS! We raised $108 for Loonies for literacy in ONE DAY. Keep sending in donations if you can, we will be collecting cash until June 10th, and text donations until June 15th! Thank you so much to those who donated! 🙌👏

Psssst… we are having a literacy fundraiser! Every $ sent in before next Friday will be matched to buy reading materials for our school. That means TWICE the funds to buy books for our kiddos! Thank you to families who have already donated 😁

We have been discussing harmful vs. helpful impacts humans have on the environment. We built animal habitats and then tested how negative impacts would change them. Here are some before pictures! @HABschoolCBE

Thank you families who have already donated towards our Loonies for Literacy. You can help meet our goal of $500 towards literacy by texting LITERACY to 30333 and donate $5, use the school code: HAB.

We are working on finding important information in texts. Today, we read a text with a buddy and discussed whether the information we read was important or nice to know. Next, we took jot notes to record that information.

@lairdjan1 @HABschoolCBE Sure can! And it’s fun, too!

@LairdHAB @HABschoolCBE I should come to visit HAB and perhaps your students could introduce me to the world of coding. Can anyone learn how to code?

We used some of our time this afternoon to practice problem solving and coding! We are absolute naturals! @HABschoolCBE

We have been learning how to make bar graphs from first-hand data. Today, we answered the question “what’s the best part about summer break?” Check out our answers! @HABschoolCBE

Happy Earth Day! Today we considered how we can reduce our carbon footprint by changing small habits in our everyday lives. We also tested what happens to living things when we pollute water. Observations will be updated Monday! @HABschoolCBE

We had fun building a free standing animal structure today! We could build any animal out of plasticine as long as it could stand on its own. Check out our creations! @HABschoolCBE

We celebrated the Ukrainian tradition of Pysanky today by making faux-eggs! It took some flexibility and creativity when our materials didn’t behave properly, but our eggs turned out! @HABschoolCBE

We are learning about non-standard units of measurement for time. Today we estimated how many of these units (snaps, claps, stomps) it would take to complete short tasks and then we measured them with a partner. @HABschoolCBE

During design time we reviewed our learning goals and built courage bracelets to celebrate our hard work. These bracelets will remind us to keep working on and improving ourselves. @HABschoolCBE

We worked on the third paragraph of our comparison writing today. We worked together to create topic sentences and then used our research to create contrasting sentences. @HABschoolCBE

Today we celebrated Holi by using straws to blow paint. We will add our portraits on top of the background to simulate throwing coloured powders! @HABschoolCBE

We are working on building student ability to represent number in as many ways as possible. Today, we introduced a new graphic organizer to expand our thinking and show off how much we already know! We’re number wizards in grade 3! @HABschoolCBE

We are learning about the connection between subtraction and addition. Did you know you can use an addition problem to check the solution to your subtraction problem? Ask me how! @HABschoolCBE