Week 9

JC had a birthday a few weeks ago that somehow was written down as 30^th October .. so we celebrated his birthday this week. Happy Birthday J.C.! I hope you had a great day.

Mid-term exams are on Monday and Tuesday. I hope that you all received the exam schedule. If not here is our 3B schedule for the two days.

Monday

Study time until 8:30am

We will start the Humanities exams a bit earlier than on the schedule because we need to do both WSS and English before 10am.

Then there will be a break until the Chinese exam at 11:10am.

After lunch I would like the students to each tie their own Tshirt before we dye them. (If anyone is available from 2 to 3pm I would really appreciate some help to make sure that the bands are tied tightly)

The final exam of the day is CSS at 3:20pm

Tuesday

The Math exam will start at 8:10am (so please do not be late for school)

There will then be a study time until the Science exam at 10:10am

At 11:10 they will go to music and after lunch we have the UNICEF closing ceremony

They will have a regular PE class at the end of the day.

Remember to rest the night before each exam and just relax between each exam. I am sure you will all do well.

I have send home all the workbooks from this quarter so please will you remember to select two or three pages from each subject to bring back to school to put into our time capsule. These pages will be part of your portfolio for the year.

After mid-term exams we will begin chapter 4 in Math which covers Measurement.

In Science we will make our desert and rain forest dioramas before moving onto the next chapter.

In WSS we will be looking at conflict resolution and the services provided by community governments.

In English (because the next two weeks have a lot of extra activities in them) we will take two weeks to do Theme 2 Week 4 lessons. Our story is written by Jon J Muth who wrote Stone Soup based on a fable from Europe. He rewrote it and illustrated it so that it takes place in China. In phonics we look at the Consonant Blends str, scr, and spr; and our Grammar focus is on Singular and Plural Nouns.

We have continued reading the African folk tale, Kabuka and the Magic Calabash. Kabuka has finally found Zaka (the evil magician) and the Magic Calabash. He has even managed to get the calabash which was guarded by enchanted baboons and was in the middle of a pond containing crocodiles! The only problem for poor Kabuka now is “How is he going to get out of the cave without Zaka or the Baboons catching him!” I guess we will find out next time!

A great big thank you to everyone for all the hard work you have put into the UNICEF project, especially the Carnival on Wednesday. It has been a busy term so far but it has been well worth all the effort. Wednesday’s carnival was wonderful and I think everyone had a great time.

We started off in class having a donut eating competition.

We then all had a great time decorating cookies and creating edible monsters.

It was great seeing everyone dressed up in fun costumes. (Spider-man lost his ability to spin a web so had to climb the pole instead!)

I had fun face painting .. and here are some of the finished works of art!

To officially end off the UNICEF project there will be a closing ceremony on Tuesday after exams. The Grade 3 to 6 students will sing “Tell me why?” but I am not sure what the rest of the program will entail. Please will you all wear your yellow (or white) tshirt and blue jeans (or shorts) on Tuesday for this performance.

The next activity coming up soon is “Field day” on 14^th November. Here are some pictures of 3B practicing during P.E.

Here are some photos of the masks Mr. Pousen helped everyone make in art class.

I hope you all have a great weekend. See you on Monday, 3b!

Mrs.DB