Choice Time

In classrooms around our school, the first 15 minutes of every day are spent doing Choice time activities. After students in our class have retrieved their ball from the gym and opened their planner on their desk, they are welcome to engage in many different activities in our classroom while socializing with their classmates. This helps everyone settle in for the day at school. Here are some of their choices:

Lego

Lego

Puppet Theatre

Puppet Theatre

Arts & Crafts

Arts & Crafts

Draw

Draw

Candy Land

Candy Land

Read

Read

Battleship

Battleship

Spinners

Spinners

What is your favourite Choice time activity?

BE

Today we made a bulletin board for our classroom. On it we posted the values of our classroom, words we want to aspire to BE:

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Our board isn’t finished. We have several strips of paper on the side so that we can add words we believe in to our board.

Have you thought of a word you would like us to add to our board?

The Best Part of My Summer…

Coming back into a new school year, I think it is important for students to get the opportunity to share their stories from the summer. During our first week, we created a chart about all the different things kids did in our class.

This week we got to work on writing down some of these stories. Here are a few samples:

Sunflowers

Fall is just around the corner, we can all feel it in the air! I thought our classroom could use a little brightening, so we decided to make sunflowers this week. The students cut out the petals themselves, glued everything together and then used tissue paper wrapped around a pencil to make the “seeds” in the center. I think they look great!

Welcome!

Welcome to Mrs. Kostiuk’s Grade 3 Class Blog! I am very excited to be at a new school this year and to be blogging our many experiences and discoveries together. I plan to use this blog to connect with parents, as well as other students and classrooms outside of our school. I can’t wait to meet our class tomorrow :)!