Our first PTSM of the year

I  would like to thank the parents for making time to attend the PTSM. It was an eventful conference! Appreciate your continuous support.

This week we have been working on our summative task of designing our dream island project. We began by making a blue print of the same. Stay tuned to see the complete project.

In Math, we have been working on  mastering the different strategies of addition and subtraction. We are learning to use the number line and 100 grid to help us calculate faster.

B.U.I.L.D. time

This week we had our class assembly. Along with our Grade 2 friends we shared our learning of the current UOI through music and movement, a presentation and a quiz. It was a lot of fun.  We would like to thank Ms. Amanda to help us put the song in a rap and record it for us. We would also like to thank Durgesh Sir to help us with all the technical difficulties.

Reflections from our PYP friends

Here is a glimpse of our assembly. 

Our presentation on Maharashtra.

Week 7

We began this week by reading the story 'A drop in the lake'. Through the book we learnt how we affect the environment and pollute the lakes, streams and rivers. The book inspired us to make a water filter using everyday things. We decided to make the water filter ourselves and see if it really worked.

We used an empty bottle.... cotton.....sand .... gravel and some dirty water to make out water filter. Click on the videos below to see how we made -

                                              

          

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                                                           Did it work????? Click to find out.

                         

This week, we had a sharing session with one of our ex students Siya Jain. She joined us from Singapore to share about the land forms and climate in Singapore. We shared all about Maharashtra and the land forms that we are blessed with. We realized that Singapore is hot all the time and it rains there through out the year as it is an island. Singapore does not have many land forms and most of the things there are man made. Thank you Siya for sharing with us all about Singapore and the climate there.

We opened our mystery jars this week to find words with the short 'a' sound in them. We said them aloud to understand the sound and then sorted them as per the sound the words made. The mystery jar is going to be teaching us different sounds, spelling patterns, sight words and new vocabulary each week. Wonder what is in there for next week??????

In Math, we are learning the concept of carrying over and borrowing (regrouping ) by using our understanding of place value. When adding two digit numbers, children will be looking at them and deciding if they can regroup ( or borrow) them for a ten.

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B.U.I.L.D. time

In P.E. we are dancing away to stay fit. Watch out moves and grooves here......

Going Further.....

We completed our salt map of Maharashtra. We were surprised to find out about the numerous rivers we have in Maharashtra, the forests...the hills....the mountain ranges..... the plateaus.....the water reservoirs.....beaches..... We truly are blessed with a range of land forms in our state.

We shared our learning with Grade 2 students and showed them how these land forms help us in our lives. Take a sneak peek through the final journey of our project -

We continued working on our land forms journal. We marked out the major lakes found in the world. We researched about how the land forms impact different settlements around them. Learning about how we are affecting these wonderful creations of God was an eye opener for us. 

In Math, we learnt about co ordinates. Once we understood that coordinates are set on values that show the exact location we moved on to understand what are latitudes and longitudes. We tried to find the exact location of few places.

This week we started our Math B.U.I.L.D. centres.

So what is B.U.I.L.D.

B = Buddy games 

(Pretty self explanatory)

U = Using manipulative

At this station we will be using math manipulative to work with . ( snap cubes., base ten blocks/cards, playing cards, counters, coins, dice etc)

I = Independent Math

We will work with math task cards or journal prompts at this station.

L = Learning about Numbers

At this station we are going to be working at strengthening our number sense and /or fact fluency. We will include math computer time here as well!.

D = Doing Math

At this station we will reinforce the current topic of Math that we are working on through a variety of activities.

In Language, we are learning about letter writing. We began with comparing two letters written by the same person. We discovered that the two letters were very different....the purpose ...the format...the language all were different. A small glimpse into what we discovered while we were comparing the two letters.

This week, Grade 5 put up an assembly sharing with us what they are learning in their class. They shared with us about affirmations. We are going to tell ourselves everyday - I am special..I am beautiful.....I can do everything. Thank you for such a positive message Grade 5 and Ms. Cecilia. We will surely try and implement this in our daily lives.

We have started the mystery word jar in our class too! Stay tuned till next week to know what its all about.

Inquiring ahead

The month of August seems to be full of short weeks. In these short spans of time we have been busy learning about some of the major land forms in the world. To portray our understanding of land forms we got into groups and used our bodies to show different land forms. It was a fun task that made us think.

To understand how the land forms are distributed in the world, we began by tracing the map and identifying the various oceans and continents. We researched to find out which are the major land forms in the world and began by marking out the mountain ranges and the rivers in the different continents.
Take a sneak peek here ......

While working on this we get very curious to know about the land forms that we have in our country. So we made a salt map of Maharashtra and shaped up the different land forms we have in our state. Stay tuned to look at the completed map. Maharashtra Salt Map coming soon.....

A short glimpse till you wait ....

A big thank you to Ms. Nirmala and Ms. Siya for sharing about Ganesha in the assembly. It was very interesting.

This week in Math, we have been focusing on comparing numbers and understanding greater than less than and equal to.

Our first unit of Inquiry - Where we are in place and time

We began our new unit this week. We tuned in by coloring the outline map with the colors we think the Earth looks like. We brainstormed what these colors reminds us of.

               We used the Y chart to think about how the Earth looks like .....sounds like..... feels like.

       As part of our prior assessment we shared and discussed with our friends what the puzzles looked like          and what they reminded us of .

               

  A glimpse into what our friends and we thought while looking at the pictures.....

               

                        It was a challenging for us to unfold the central idea but...... we finally figured it out.

This week we also spent some time understanding the PYP concepts. Thank you Ms. Cecilia and Grade 5 for the lovely session.We used the understanding to think of questions that would help us learn more about our unit of inquiry based on the concepts we are going to cover through this unit.

In Math, we have begun working with place value. Place value is important because it helps us understand the meaning of a number. If everyone used numbers randomly no one would know which numbers people meant. We need place value to understand the order as numbers as well.

In Language, we read the story  'The Gruffalos child' and wrote our first reading responses on it. We also reviewed describing and rhyming words through the story. We hunted for all the describing words and rhyming pairs we could find in the book. We are also increasing our word bank by learning to use different words for common words like good, nice, walk......Stay tuned as we fill our word banks!!!!!

We had our first PYP assembly of the year. The third graders had everyone swinging and turning and stamping and SMILING with their song Hey Hey everybody by Mar.

A new start with the Awesome Twosome!!!

Every end is a new beginning.... 

Meet the third graders of the academic year 2014-15. We welcome the awesome twosome....

Aditya Parikh and Laay Patel.

During the last few days we have been busy getting to know each other....setting our class routines.....making up our class essential agreements. We recounted about the exciting times from our summer break.

We worked on our first Math project......Different ways to make a number. We sat and thought of how can we make one number with different combinations. We are trying to work on sharpening our mental math skills.We are still working on it.

We had fun with estimation and numbers. We began with 10 straws and then we tried to estimate how far would 100 straws take us........followed by predicting how far 1000 straws take us. It was a lot of  fun.

             
                 We will be beginning our first  Unit of Inquiry next week. Stay tuned........

Thank you !!!!!

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                  Its hard to believe that this academic year is over!!!! Our journey at Edubridge has taken a pause only to continue its lovely journey forward in Grade 4. Each of you have played a special role in making up the class. Each of you have brought a unique quality that added a touch to our "team". You have all touched my life and this school year in very positive and rewarding ways. Just want to thank each one of you for the sweet moments and memories you have left me with.

                                                

 A peek into some of the wonderful times and things we shared .........

        

Will miss my NNRSJ!!!!

         I would like to end by quoting......

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard!!!

                                                                                                                              --Winnie the Pooh