Weekly Times, February 4-8

Weekly Times 

February 8, 2013

Headlines

Units of Inquiry
EARN, SPEND, SAVE, GIVE - How We Organize Ourselves
Class Economy with Single Subject Sterling - salary paid for going to classes
Class Economy with "salary" and "bills" in Euro as well as converting Single Subject Sterling to Euro
Class Shops - selling, buying and reflecting on the process
Grade 3 Market - hand-made craft market by and for Grade 3
 - purchasing raw materials
 - making products
 - selling products from their shops and purchasing from others at the "market"
 - figuring out profit or no profit and diving their income based on amount of investment
 - reflecting on the process

Field trip to Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia -  goes along with "Dig It" from earlier this year, but we were lucky to get the reservation!


Language
Spelling - words that end in -"n" spelled -an, -en, -on
Writing - reflecting on units
Grammar - apostrophes with possessives and plural possessives
Read alouds: Lunch Money by Andrew Clements
Typing practice on Thursdays for half an hour

Peer Leader - 
Skits on feeling jealous at school and how to resolve those feelings


Maths
Making change at the shops
Adding up and converting with money
Recognizing coin equivalencies
Measuring cm and mm - more practice
Measuring with kg and g - using a balance
Reviewing subtraction strategies
Mad Math - quick check of facts

ANNOUNCEMENTS/NOTICES

• Weekend Assignments:  - 
•  Reading Log - Please read aloud with your child for 15 minutes - see letter in the LOG - children should have logged some reading at least 5 times this week with two being their banded books aloud to an adult - as usual
•  Reading Journal - letter - this week it is the same letter for everyone, printed out and pasted in with questions to answer
• Field Trip Reflection sheet

THE FIELD TRIP

GRADE 3 MARKET PREPARATIONS

MARKET DAY!

Our shops

Waiting for shoppers

Come shop at our shops!

Getting change at the bank

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January 28-February 1, 2013

Headlines

Units of Inquiry
EARN, SPEND, SAVE, GIVE - How We Organize Ourselves
Class Economy with Single Subject Sterling - salary paid for going to classes
Class Economy with "salary" and "bills" in Euro as well as converting Single Subject Sterling to Euro
Class Shops - selling, buying and reflecting on the process
"Miguel's Tomatoes" - story of how tomatoes go from farm to table, fresh and canned
Trip to the Supermarket:
  - local and international produce, price per kilogram/liter.  (Many students thought that the price of
            produce is per item instead of per kilogram)
World Trade Game:
 - looking at inequalities in the world
 - wealthy countries had more supplies and money to make "tables"
 - as well as candy distributed based on the percentage of wealth of areas of the world
 - the students chose to share with those who had less
Grade 3 Market - hand-made craft market by and for Grade 3
 - designing business plans
 - purchasing raw materials
 - beginning to make products
 - n.b.  Students may bring in materials from home to use in making their products, but the products must be made at school and the materials should be recycled
Video  on banks and how they work


Language
Spelling - words that end in -"r" spelled -ar, -er, -or
Writing - reflecting on units
Read alouds: Lunch Money by Andrew Clements
Typing practice on Thursdays for half an hour

Peer Leader - 
Review of a sheet with steps for how to speak about feelings when angry, to try to resolve issues with words, skits on feeling jealous at school


Maths
Making change at the shops
Adding up and converting with money
Recognizing coin equivalencies
Measuring cm and mm with pretzels and breadsticks
Measuring for purchasing materials for the market
Mad Math - quick check of facts - multiplication, subtraction, hundred bonds

ANNOUNCEMENTS/NOTICES

• Weekend Assignments:  - 
•  Reading Log - Please read aloud with your child for 15 minutes - see letter in the LOG - children should have logged some reading at least 5 times this week with two being their banded books aloud to an adult - as usual
•  Reading Journal - letter as usual
• Field Trip permission slip and letter

Finding out about products and prices

The walk back to school from the supermarket

Trading to get the materials necessary to produce "tables" in the World Trade  Game

Paying for materials in the World Trade Game

No one can work here because this third world country has raw materials but is lacking technology to  produce tables.  They were eventually given some assistance by the UN.

The "tables", each table produced was paid 50-100 Euros by the World Bank

After representing a third world country in the first activity, he was happy to represent a wealthy  area.

So were they.

The opposite here; they were from a much less wealthy area of the world in the second activity, having been very wealthy the first time.