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April is Poetry Month!
This week we’re going to create a Five Senses Poem about the Great Bear Rainforest.
Click Five Senses Poem for a description of this type of poetry.

Think about what you have learned while reading the articles over the past couple weeks about the Spirit Bear (Monthly News, Non-Fiction article), watching the videos (movie trailer) and listening to Mrs. Roberts’ read alouds.

Below are the 4 steps that you will work through on Tuesday and Thursday. I have used a different location, the beach, as an example.

Use the 5SensesGraphicOrganizer to write as many things as you can think of about the Great Bear Rainforest using your 5 senses.
At the top of the paper, write a colour that comes to mind when you think of the Great Bear Rainforest.
(click on the pictures for a closer look)

After writing down as many words/short phrases as you can, choose your favourite word/short phrase from each sense.
Under Touch, please include words about how the things you’re touching make you feel (in blue ink).

Next, create detailed sentences on a piece of paper or this Great Bear Rainforest Poem graphic organizer.


On Thursday, after having a parent review your work, please use the same Great Bear Rainforest Poem paper to write your detailed good copy on in your neatest printing. Please email me a copy of your work.

Hopefully, if you’re continuing with your spelling list each week, you’ve checked out the great websites under the SPELLING tab above that make practice a little more fun! Below are some more ideas, many may be the same as in the websites, that I’ve found fun in the classroom and I think will be fun with your family!
~ Write down your words and then think of a word that rhymes with each of them.
~ Have a family member scramble the letters in each of your spelling words. You unscramble them.
~ Print sentences using 3 of your spelling words. Keep going until you have used all of your words.
~ Using your finger, trace your words on a family member’s back and have them guess what the words are. After, trade spots.
~ Play “I Spy.” The leader says, “I spy with my little eye a spelling word that has five letters in it and is something you sit on.” A player responds, “Is it chair, c-h-a-i-r?”
~ Play “Hangman” with a partner using your words.
~ See how many new words you can make by making only one change. You may add one letter, leave out one letter, or change one letter. e.g. rule – mule – mole – mile – milk…
~ Reprint your words, leaving out all the vowels (a e i o u). Later, look at the words without the vowels and print the complete words.
~ Number the letters of the alphabet from 1-26. Use your list words to make spell-by-number riddles. Exchange riddles with a family member.
a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4, e=5, f=6     e.g.  m=13 i=9 g=7 h=8 t=20
~ Print your words in alphabetical order
~ Starting with a word from your list, make a word chain
e.g. dog-garden-nest-time (last letter and first letter match)

Thank you to everyone who is emailing me their This Week’s Number! Please click HERE to see an example of a completed sheet as there’s a few common questions and repeated mistakes. Apologies this hasn’t been posted sooner!

Yesterday, April 22nd, was Earth Day! We’d usually be gearing up for our Community Cleanup around Nelson, so I hope that everyone gets a chance to get out for a neighbourhood walk with their family. 
If you’d like to watch a cute Earth Day themed video click HERE. Warning though, if you have younger siblings, you may have to watch it a dozen or so times if they like it as much as Kennedy does 🙂 It’s pretty catchy.
There’s also a mini-book about Protecting the Earth to read through. Afterwards, please click on comment at the bottom of this post and answer the question, What are you going to do to protect our earth this April?
Lastly, please read through the Earth Day Monthly News article below, complete the answers (full sentences when not fill in the blank) and email it to me!
Earth Day 1 Earth Day 2 Earth Day 3

Below is a link for a special online event tonight in celebration of Earth Day. The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre is hosting a Virtual Cosmic Nights from 7pm-8pm. Click HERE before 7pm for your free registration and you will be emailed a link to join the YouTube live stream. Thanks so much to Sophia’s mom for the heads up. Enjoy!!

Please watch the Great Bear Rainforest IMAX movie trailer HERE for a quick look into the world of the rarest bear in the world.
After watching, please read the Spirit Bear information sheet and then complete the Spirit Bear Life Cycle sheet.
Spirit Bear Non-Fiction Text and Activity

Every Friday I would love for you to write a letter to me about your week! 
Using all you have been learning in your weekly letters home on Fridays, I’d like you to now share with me! (I think many of you brought home your Friday Journals before Spring Break) There are ideas on the left (click for a closer look), but you may write about anything you’d like about your week, your school work or other fun you get up to. I can’t wait to hear from all of you!

One of best, and the most fun, ways to practice our math skills is with hands on math games. I’ll be posting many of the games we’ve already played in class so everyone should be familiar with them and eager to teach their parents or siblings how to play!
These games will require dice and/or a deck of cards to play, so if you already have them, great! If you’re like most of us and don’t, please try to borrow or buy some to use. Here is a template to make your own dice Paper Dice Template which is also an option. Games will require counters as well, but anything from coins to rocks can be used. Be creative!

Clear+the+Board
Connect Four Addition
DoublesPlusOneBingo
Roll Climb and Slide along with Roll Climb and Slide Sheet
Sink or Swim
Start with your counter on the start bubble. Roll 2 dice and add them together. If the answer is even, move up towards RESCUED, if the answer is odd, move down towards EATEN.

If you don’t have access to a printer, please continue using the online Math Games posted under the MATH tab and I’ve put links to some favourites right under the MATH tab under Math Games!

Every Monday I’ll post a new “answer.”
Remember Division 8, your challenge is to correctly write a word problem that matches the answer in the comment section of the post.
There are as many different correct answers as there are students in our class!
Good luck Grade 3s! I can’t wait to continue to share every week!!
1st answer:
48 students and 2 adults bowling

For those families that would like to give a test at the end of the week, here is the paper we used in class Spelling Test Paper as an option. Please also let me know if you’d like me to send you a few Review Words and the Sentences each week. I can quickly email them to you so prying eyes don’t spot them on the blog 🙂 Either leave a comment on this post or send me a quick email and I will start sending them to you!