Mathletics

I have signed the class up for Mathletics.  It is a great way to practice math facts in a fun and exciting way.  Many of the children would really benefit from math fact practice and speed with facts.

It is easy to access the site from home.  You can go to the St. Cecilia Website and click on the tab that says Student Portal.  Once you are in the student portal, click on the app that says Mathletics and if your child is already signed into Chrome, he or she will go straight into the website game from there.

I will also send home the Mathletic passwords and usernames incase you are having difficulty signing into Chrome with the students accounts (firstname.lastname@ocsbstudent.ca) in which case you can go to the Mathletics Website and use the username and password that has been sent home today.

In addition, there is a Mathletic App that is a free download for iPads.

The students can go "live" and play against students in our class or around the globe.

Have Fun!!


Mrs. Caluori

Remembrance Day

Our School Remembrance Day ceremony will be held this Wednesday in our school gymnasium at 10:45 a.m.  Last week and this week, the students have been working hard on their Pointillism Remembrance Day Art.  The artwork is really coming together and is beautiful!

For more Remembrance Day readings and activities visit
Remembrance Day for Students

Students can bring in money to purchase poppies here at St. Cecilia.




The students have really enjoyed looking at some famous examples of pointillism such as, Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande.    






Here are some other famous paintings that we have looked at and discussed.

Our 5th Global Read Aloud!

I am OK at...One day I will be an expert at...but in the meantime, I will have fun exploring.  An amazing message about having GRIT, persevering and having resilience.

Enjoy the book trailer for this week's read aloud below.

October is almost over! Wow!!!

This week's Global Read Aloud is called Exclamation Mark!  The students are really enjoying our Author Study and are making a lot of meaningful text to self and text to text connections.  This week's reading response is titled "How will you make your mark on the world?".  We are using Padlet to answer this question.

The students really enjoyed watching this little Book Trailer today...

In Visual Arts this week, we are learning about foreground, middleground, background and warm and cool colours.  We have worked hard on our sketches and will be starting with pastels tomorrow.  Ask your child all about it!

Maker Mobile was a HUGE success.  The students used Tinkercad (this is a free website if you want to try it out at home) to create their cookie cutters with a partner and then used the 3D printers to create their projects.  Maker Mobile is through the University of Ottawa and if you decide to create a project at home using Tinkercad, you can go to the University of Ottawa Makerspace on Sundays and print your projects using their 3D printers!  So fun!

Be sure to look through the pictures on our class Twitter to see all of the cookie cutters.

Links below:

Maker Mobile

Tinkercad

We have also been focusing our word work on homonyms.  We are learning that there are many words that sounds alike, but are spelt differently and mean different things.  Our writing goal is to use these words correctly in the sentences we write during Writer's Workshop.  Here is a cute video and a little quiz for extra practice.

In Language, we are busy with our literacy stations writing pretend Halloween Invitations, putting Halloween words into alphabetical order, using Book Creator app to write spooky stories and work on our GRA reading response using Padlet on the Chromebooks.  We are also finishing up our Personal Safety posters and brochures in Health.

Don't forget to check out our Twitter Feed for pictures of classroom activities and learning.  You do not need a Twitter account to follow us as I have a feed on the right hand side of the classroom blog.

All you have to do is scroll down through all of our tweets.

Dance-a-thon is on Friday.  Grade 3 is scheduled to dance during 1st block.  Children are to wear their Halloween costumes, but please leave accessories and masks at home.  I can't wait to see all of the costumes! 

A HUGE heartfelt thank you for all of the canned goods and non perishable food that has been coming in.  All of the food donated will stay within our own community to help out the Barrhaven Food Cupboard.  Thank you again.  Amazing work!

Your Partner in Education,

Mrs. Caluori

More cans please! We have until the rest of this week:)

We Scare Hunger!

Please support the Barrhaven Food Cupboard by bringing in canned food and non perishable food.  Our food drive continues until October 30th.  Thank you in advance.  We can make a difference!

Dance-a-thon

Halloween Dance-a-thon info sheets and pledge envelopes went home today!