PJ Fast

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Thanks Morning Sound Farm for hosting a wonderful visit from N/K Dufferin school! We respectfully interacted with many baby animals, learned how people on the farm live and where some of our food comes from- like delicious milk from this goat which the children helped to milk.

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Thanks to the Kindness Club for providing that delicious pancake breakfast!

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April is the month to honour the earth( Earth Day, April 10) Room 3 a.m. made sculptures from recycled materials. Students creatively problem solved as well, as this criteria will show!

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Thanks to Speech and Language Specialist Tara for sharing with rm. 3 a.m. how to use various ways to communicate and learn "core" words as well as have a lot of fun!

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A highlight this week in Room 3 a.m. was having math specialist , Mr. Matt, show us new ways to understand addition -using 10 frames , writing what we see on the ten frames with numbers(2+8=10) and using the smart board. Thanks Mr . Matt!

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Room 3 a.m welcomes Matt Wayde ,math support, who will be working with room 3 students and teachers to revitalize numeracy with "fun and learning"!

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U M nursing students came to tell us about germs. In this excellent hands-on presentation we learned what germs are, how they spread & how to stop them, effects of germs, had a germ hunt, "Hot Potato" germ game & designed & named our own germs- I liked : Joey the Germ!

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I Love to Read month guest readers, from Take Pride Winnipeg wow the N-4 crowd

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Children & support teacher Ms. B co-create a Wolf poem in our continuing study of Wolves. Responding to questions that tapped into accumulated knowledge children brainstormed & Ms, B scribed. We reread the poem using -picture cues, alphabet knowldege & sight words

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N/K went to MB. Children's Museum for the program "Paper, Trees and Me". We learned about trees & how they help us. We made paper with recycled materials & petals & seeds. Rm. 3 will plant the paper we made to see if the seeds in it will grow- another level of recycling.

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3 a.m. inquiry into wolves, Ma'iingan , our Seven Teaching animal. We looked at, responded to and asked questions about what we saw. Support Teacher, Carrie recorded words, to become a word wall. After looking carefully at &talking about these pictures, children drew wolves.

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Practicum students began their blocks at Dufferin school this week. Many thanks for the wonderful, caring engagement with students ,

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This week in room 3 a.m.-store inquiry- a word wall using environmental print as a guide. Painting clay hands-a project based on the book "I call my hand gentle" about choosing to be kind to others. Many thanks to a wonderful volunteer!

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Rm 3 a.m & p.m. are doing a store inquiry. Questions- What do we need next ? How do we know how much money to pay? Price tags! Children wrote numbers and put them on items. Then we talked about what things cost how much.

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Room 3 a.m. is setting up a grocery store! Children have meaningful opportunities for lilteracy and numeracy, strategizing and team work that can apply to the real world. Families let your children help you do the shopping!

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Thanks to all the families who came out to share the successes of their children in room 3 a.m. on Nov. 15 and 16

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Thanks to Barb & Linc for visiting Room 3 a.m. Linc is a therapy dog who visits hospitals, seniors & schools. Children in Room 3 a.m. loved having Linc in the room. It gave them a chance to show kindness, gentleness and generosity to all our relations, a way of practicing peace.

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Remembrance day wreath carriers. " To remember is to work for peace"

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Snow day! Room 3 a,m, response journal entries to the book ""Snowman".Question " What does your snow person look like?" Criteria- write your name , the word snow and a picture , and talk about what you have drawn

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Halloween math in room 3 a.m. - pumpkins with geometric shapes. counting spiders( 1:1 correspondence) 8 legs 2 eyes . Happy Halloween!