Ms. Herget's Curious 3rds

What Did Students Do this Week? Over the past two weeks, our Grade 3 students have been celebrating the Olympics through meaningful cross-curricular learning activities. It has been an exciting way to connect current events to students’ literacy and math skills! In Language Arts, students practiced their reading comprehension skills by reading Olympic-themed texts and answering questions that focused on identifying key details, making connections, and understanding main ideas. They worked hard to support their answers using evidence from the text. Students also completed small research projects on different countries and Olympic athletes. They practiced identifying important facts, pulling out key information, and recording their learning in an organized way.  Our writing activities focused on using adjectives and adverbs to make descriptions more detailed and engaging. Students wrote about athletes and events, working to make their sentences exciting. In Math, students tracked...

We hope you have a wonderful long weekend celebrating family! We will see your child back at school on Tuesday, February 17th. What did Students Do This Week? This week, students explored the concept of time. Through mini-lessons and hands-on math stations, they practiced reading and setting times on both analog and digital clocks. They also explored a.m. and p.m, as well as telling time with a 24-hour clock. Math (Time) Learning Outcomes I can look at relationships between seconds, minutes, and hours I can tell time using analog and digital clocks I can relate minutes past the hour to minutes until the next hour (e.g. It is 6:45 pm or quarter to 7:00 pm) I can describe time of day as a.m. or p.m. within a 12-hour day I can express time of day using the 24 hour time Possible Questions to Ask Your Child What is the difference between a.m. and p.m.? How many minutes are in an hour? How many seconds are in a minute? If it is 4:45 p.m., how else would you say this time? What time is it? (...

                                                       Hello families, My name is Ms. Herget, and I’m very excited to be working with your child this year. I recently graduated from the University of Alberta in 2025 with my Bachelor of Education, and I have been working in elementary classrooms since then. It has been a great first week getting to know the students, and I’m looking forward to continuing our learning together. Thank you for your support! This week in Grade 3, students began learning about Earth’s systems and how the layers of the Earth tell a story about our planet’s past. Students used visual journals to draw, label, and explain the four layers of the Earth, helping them organize their ideas and show their understanding. They also created hands-on clay models to build the layers in 3D, giving them a concrete...