The ThreeHouse

 The Threehouse painted with common Indian spices today. Some of the spices we used included cloves, pepper, cinnamon, turmeric, chilli and curry powder. Spices make great paint and have the added bonus of smelling great! Our classroom smelled like butter chicken and holiday baking. The students mixed spices and blended spices to paint their Indian monument. Ask your child what spice was their favourite. 

  Today we began our CBE Minecraft Challenge. We will be building and creating through Minecraft for Education and today we learned the basics; how to log on how to create our avatar how move around the arena how to enter creative mode how to access our inventory how to place and mine, build and destroy how to change settings Ask your child what they built today!  We will be using it in class throughout the year. Minecraft: Education Edition can also be installed and used at home if you choose, totally optional. It is a free download and instructions are available at this link:  Installation instructions for Minecraft: Education Edition Your child's login information is their student id number in this format: studentid@edu.cbe.ab.ca, and their password is the regular password they use to login to Google.  Example: 100018342@edu.cbe.ab.ca John123! If you have any questions just reach out to your teacher. Enjoy!

  We had a great time during Buddies today. Mrs. Thouin's class taught their Grade 2 buddies how to log on to the school laptops. They were patient and kind teachers. Mrs. Depner's class built and tested anemometers with their Grade 5 buddies. It was made of wood and aluminum and it tests how fast the wind is blowing.  We have all been practicing our Winter Concert song called "It's Time for Summer." Ask your child to sing it for you!

Today we learned to play a game about Math Bonds using addition and subtraction. Ask your student how to play and give it a shot! Bonds. Math Bonds. 🤵

  In writing, we are working on including a varied range of sentence beginnings, sequencing writing in a logical order and checking our writing for fluency. Our current writing project is called The Best Excuse. It follows a repeating paragraph sequence. Students planned details sequentially  ensuring that their writing was organized and made sense. Emphasis was placed on the use of transition words throughout their paragraphs. Please make sure to book your parent teacher conference! We look forward to meeting with you soon.

In math, we have started a unit in graphing. We are learning about bar graphs and dot graphs. Graphs have an x-axis and a y-axis. Graphs have a title. Graphs have labels. Graphs tell us information. We are gathering and interpreting first- and second-hand data in graphs. We counted and tallied our favourite sports, favourite colours and favourite seasons etc. We made bar graphs to interpret our data. Ask your child to interview family members to collect data. Your child should be able to graph the information they collect in a bar graph. Here are some suggestions: favourite meals, favourite family outings, favourite family holidays.  Have a fabulous weekend and stay well. 

  Book your Parent/Teacher Conference Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held on Thursday November 24 from 4pm-8pm and Friday November 25 8am-12pm. Time slots are 15 minutes. Parent Conferences will be available for Parents/Guardians to book online using their MYCBE Account on November 18, 2022, at 6:00pm. We are looking forward to meeting with you to share your child's learning progress. Also please note that our Student Teachers will be present during these conferences. If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to your teacher.  Today we did a Kahoot to help us study for our unit test about Rocks and Minerals. Students were surprisingly competitive and the scores were very close! Ask your child what their answer was for one of the Kahoot questions. 

 Hi families, The wind was bitter today but we were grateful to get some time outside! We observed many types of snow and ice on our walk, noticing the effects of melting and re-freezing on the snowdrifts and sidewalks.  Ask your child what activity they did with their Buddies this afternoon- both groups had a fantastic time.

 The  Alberta Musical Theatre Company came this afternoon to perform "Jack and the Beanstalk" for our school. We enjoyed listening to their talented singing and watching their riveting   performance . Ask your child what was their favourite part of the presentation.  In Social Studies, we are continuing to study the country of India. We started by learning about its five geographical regions., then the climate. Today we zoomed in on four important monuments. Your child will begin a short research project about one of the four monuments that we are studying. Ask your child which monument they picked and what have they learned about it so far. 

 Today we worked on a visual journal representation of the layers of soil present underground. We also did some research about the climate in India and how it compares to Canada. Ask your child how many seasons India has and what they are called. 

 Today we observed and participated in the Remembrance Day assembly. Thank you to all the friends and family that were able to join us. The Threehouse has created a collective piece of Remembrance Day art as seen above. We made a stamp and each student took a turn creating their very own poppy. Together we remember.  Please remember that there is no school tomorrow. Have a fantastic weekend. 

We are learning how to round in math. Rounding makes a number more simple when knowing the exact number isn't important. We use rounding in day to day life. Ask your child for an example of when you would use rounding? (Think of examples like; distance, time, money) We are starting by rounding to the nearest ten and will also be learning to round to the nearest hundred and thousand. Rounding makes numbers easier to use. What words do we use when we are rounding? Ask your child to round a few numbers to the tens place for you and ask them what the rounding rule is.  Tomorrow is our important Remembrance Day assembly. The assembly will start at 10:30 am. If your child goes to Girl Guides, Brownies or Beavers, they can come dressed in their outfit for the day. Otherwise, please dress in red or black if possible. Our classroom collective poppy art will be on display at the assembly.   

This week we will be learning about Remembrance Day and studying it's significance in our lives. Copperfield's Remembrance Day assembly will be on Thursday, November 10th at 10:30 am. Parents are invited to attend. Our Remembrance Day art will be completed in a complication of dots called Dot Art. We look forward to sharing our work with you.  Please make sure that your child comes to school dressed for the weather. 

Veterans   Food   Bank The   Veterans   Food   Bank   of Calgary is a service provided by CALGARY   VETERANS   SERVICES SOCIETY, founded in August 2018, to serve   food   security and other resource needs of   veterans   from Calgary and surrounding area. The   Veterans   Food   Bank   of Calgary supports   veterans   who served in all branches of the Canadian Armed Forces, Reserves and first responders. Copperfield School will be collecting  non-perishable  food   donations through November 10. If you can donate   food   items, it would be greatly appreciated. Items that are urgently needed are canned meats and chili/stew, ground coffee, flour, cereal, Kleenex, pudding cups, canned mushrooms, juice boxes, granola bars, cookies, rice, pancake mix, men's underwear and undershirts, hamburger helper, plastic wrap, toilet paper, mac and cheese, and spices. Thank you for your su...

It was a wonderful winter day for our grade 3s. Please ensure that your child is dressed and ready for winter weather. Students play outside at least twice a day and we do a lot of outdoor learning. Being ready for the weather is important and helps our students get the most out of their day.  Wednesdays is Buddy Day. Ask your child what they did with their buddy class. Building community and getting to know other teachers and students around the building improves our sense of wellness at school. We all logged onto Prodigy.com and played for the first time.  Students had a blast. Instructions and logins have gone home. Feel free to use this great math resources to supplement learning. 

 Welcome, Ms. Graf and Ms. Woytowich! Our student teachers had a great time meeting the students today. We worked on a model of the layers of the earth today- be sure to ask your child the names of the layers.