This week flew by! Can you believe it is almost Halloween? We certainly cannot!

Since Monday was election day, we took it upon ourselves to have our own election for class president. Each class has a backup for those days where the president cannot make the weekly school council meeting. The students took some time to campaign and write their speeches.

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Before campaigning, we talked about the qualities of a good leader and acknowledged that not all leaders are the best fit for the job.

                                                  

Congratulations to Alex and Kristian for becoming our grade 3 class presidents! And congratulations to Orly and Silvan who become our class vice-presidents.

We continued to learn about geographical land regions and what they have to offer in Social Studies. This week we learned about India.
 

We love art in grade 3 and are very proud of our spooky silhouette art. Isn't it cool?



We write poetry every Wednesday and stuck with our spooky theme while writing Haikus.

We ended off our week with an invigorating pep-rally! Inferno made an appearance and he was a super big hit. We have four houses: Ospreys, Buzzards, Snowy Owls (Mrs. Sprau's class), and Nighthawks (Ms. Hardacre's class). The entire school population is divided into these four houses and we spend all year tallying up house points in competition to have our house name engraved on the school cup. The Nighthawks are currently in the lead!
 

Socktober

This week at Elboya school was a busy one and a short one! All grade three's worked hard and accomplished a lot!

Our Socktober challenge is well under way!  Thank-you to those families who have kindly donated well needed socks and underwear!  Our collection is growing.  How many more can we collect by the end of the month?


In Social Studies, we worked on an interactive Land and Resources map of Peru! As a whole group we read out loud information from our social studies texts book and discussed the important information to then make jot notes. By the second and third round, they were really getting the hang of it!



Our poem of the week was a HAIKU. The Haiku is a Japanese verse in three lines.  The 17 syllables are a compressed form which is a composition in praise of nature.
Our Haiku Poems are composed around their Silhouettes!
Here is a little sample of some rough copies:



In art we have been learning about what a silhouette is.  This is what we found out:
A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject.
Every grade three student drew a silhouette onto a water colour background.  They turned out amazing.  They really took their time to add thoughtful details.  The art work will be revealed next week!  Stay tuned! We will post EVERYONES Masterpiece!

We ended the week off with YOGA in the classroom.  The theme was STAR WARS.  It was a wonderful way to start off the morning! You can do this at home! Cosmic yoga for kids



Have a wonderful weekend Grade three families!

Love,
Mrs. Sprau and Mrs. J
p.s. Ms. Hardacre will be back on Monday!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

We had a week filled with gratitude and kindness.

Every Wednesday we will be writing poetry.  This was our first Wednesday and we tackled the ACROSTIC poem.  As a whole group we brainstormed many things we are thankful for.  You will be happy to know that FAMILY was top of the list.  THANKSGIVING was used as the base. Here are a few samples of their poems!










Last Friday we started working on an art project using pastels.  The final projects are beautiful - some lovely fall leaves behind trees.












Happy long weekend and Thanksgiving to all of you!  See you on Tuesday!

                                       

                                        Thank-you Simon!