F is for FREEZIES & FREE TIME

IMG_5007F ~ We took advantage of the crazy hot weather & headed outside today for some FREE TIME  & cooled down with some refreshing FREEZIES! We enjoyed strawberry, pineapple, green apple & orange!

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Nelson Book Swap! Wed, June 22nd!!

swap 2Nelson’s Book Swap is Back!
Bring in your gently-used children’s books to school from June 6th – 21st.
Story books, novels/chapter books, & non-fiction are all accepted.
Donate as many books as you like & all students will get a new book or two for summer reading!

* * * Parents: If you are available to volunteer on the morning of Wednesday, June 22nd during the swap, please contact Mrs. Roberts in the library. * * *

THINK MATH ~ 32

Thank you to all the students who created questions to our Think Math answer last week:
The answer is 17 Sports Day stations. relay-race-smiley-emoticon
16 stations are in action on Sports Day. Sean makes a station that is really fun. How many stations in all? ~ Daniel
There are 16 people getting ready to do the Sports Day stations & Casandra was late. How many people getting ready for Sports Day stations now? ~ Cayla
20 people were playing in a station. Zack said to 3 people, Let’s go play video games. Then 2 more people came to go to a station. I said, “Come to my house. Lets have a party.” What is the sum? ~ Cameron
There are 20 Sports Day stations. Then Cayla got an idea & made 1 more Sports Day station. Then Julia said, “There has to be a doughnut Sports Day station!” So she made one! Then Chloe said, “I’m tired” so she got rid of 2 & 1 more that was the doughnut one. Julia got mad so mad that she threw doughnuts at Chloe & then Chloe fell into doughnut lalaland. So then Sahana said no one is coming to my station so she closed her station. Then Cayla said, “I want a macaroon” so she closed her station & left for her macaroon. How many Sports Day stations still there? ~ Casandra
There were 10 people doing sports. 2 minutes later Sahana bakes macaroons for everybody. 2 people go get some. Then Sahana joins Sports Day! Then Chloe makes 3 more people join. Then Chloe & Mrs. MurMurMur join. Then Julia gets 2 people to go buy her doughnuts! Then they come back. Then 3 people leave. Then Cayla joined & stays for 2 mins then leaves to buy a cat then comes right back! Then Casandra drags 4 people to Sports Day. Then Vera joins! Then Casandra wins 1st place! & celebrates with throwing a doughnut in Chloe’s face then goes to Doughnutland. How many people in Sports Day? ~ Chloe

IMG_5005Here’s this week’s answer! Good Luck Grade 3s! Remember there are as many different correct answers as there are students in our class! I can’t wait to share the answers next Friday!
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G is for GAMES

IMG_4910G ~ 2 days full of GAMES! We celebrated with the run through of Primary Sports Day on Thursday, learning 7 new GAMES as we went through all the stations, & then on Friday we had our annual SPORTS DAY!!

I had so much fun at the scorekeepers table with Miss Gatenby & I hope you all had fun participating in all the stations & competing in the tug-of-wars too! Congratulations to BLUE HOUSE on their big Sports Day win!
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E is for ESTIMATION

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E ~ JujubesM&Ms, Jelly BeansMike&Ikes… Count the Candies!!

We spent the morning using referents & good ‘ol fashioned thoughtful guesses to ESTIMATE how many candies were in the jars.

After all the Guessing Jar estimates had been counted, the winners were announced in the afternoon. Drumroll please………

Lincoln, Benson, Shathu & Cayla had the closest estimates with Lincoln making a perfect estimate!!
Well done to all Division 8 students for their excellent estimates! Can’t wait to enjoy the candies at another Alphabet Countdown day very soon…

Speed Demons 2016

Nelson students in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 participated in our annual Speed Demons competition last Friday afternoon. Division 8 had lots of fun racing against other grade 3s & all did an awesome job! Click on the runner below to see everyone fly!sports_run

D is for DINOSAURS

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D ~ DINOSAUR 
books, drawing books, matching games, pattern blocks, posters, toys & more! We spent the day learning lots about dinosaurs, doing different dino activities in the morning & then learning more about dinosaurs from Bill Nye the Science Guy in the afternoon.
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C is for CHALK

IMG_4763C ~ pinkorangebluegreen, white…sidewalk CHALK!
We got our creative juices going & decorated Nelson’s cement surfaces with our chalk pictures & writing. Thank you rain for holding off!

 Click 3865335-smile-sign-smiley-sketched-with-white-chalk-on-blackboard to see our fun!

We Create Change

FullSizeRenderFor 2 weeks, Me to We members will be collecting coins as our final 2015/16 fundraiser towards providing clean water to people in need in Ecuador.
Students will be visiting classrooms every morning to collect!
Please dig into your piggy banks to help us meet our year goal of $800.00 for Ecuador.

B is for BUBBLES

IMG_4714B ~ bubbles, Bubbles, & MORE BUBBLES! Using hand made pipe cleaners & even our hands, we created hundreds of beautiful bubbles!!
 Click    1280337hlt3uzzwj4to see our fun!