Welcome to 3B

Library Reminders: May 13 – 16      Last week for classes to come to the library to borrow books. May 24              All materials borrowed by students must be returned by this date. Students have been working hard to communicate their understanding of number operations and problem solving this week through a [...]

Dear Parents, Please access the CDNIS online portal using your child’s ID and password to ensure you have downloaded your child’s February Progress Report prior to June’s Progress Report being posted on the site.  There is currently no archiving of past reports on the portal; all documents need to be downloaded to your own files [...]

Student led conferences were a huge success. It was great to see everyone on Wednesday sharing the learning journey with your child. I’m sure the experience was eye opening and rewarding. Your children have worked so hard this year and I hope you got a picture of what we do at school, how their thinking [...]

Preparing for assembly and SLLR really did take over a lot of our time at school this week. We hope you enjoyed they ways we communicated our understanding of energy, sustainability and sharing the planet at our assembly this afternoon. The assembly was entirely student planned and developed. You have incredibly talented children. In mathematics [...]

Your family is invited to join Ms. Tessier, Ms. RB, Ms. Bradburn, Ms. Imai and Ms. Murray in making the 2013 Earth Day Trash Artscape! When: Sunday 21st April We will be on the beach from 10 am until 12pm. As high tide is around 1pm it would be great if you could come before. [...]

In Mathematics students applied understanding of their math facts through word problems and completed an assessment to see the growth of their understanding of different strategies. They continue to use the relationship between multiplication and division to solve division problems and check their answers. Our Literacy and our Unit of Inquiry focus were on the [...]

This week, we continued looking into the  function of different kinds of renewable and nonrenewable  energy types through in depth research in our literacy centres. Students made use of their research skills to gather information about the energy types through reading books, online resources and watching videos. Posters were created about the different energy types. [...]

This week, we started looking into the concept of Function in our Sharing the Planet unit. We explored the idea of function by making “how does it work” cards where students wrote down descriptions of how something worked while others had to guess what was described. Students also explored the concept of function by finding [...]

We were only able to take one parent volunteer on our trip this week. I have notified the parent involved, thanks for all the interest. I hope there will be more opportunities this year. The trip will happen rain or shine and we will be outside for most of the day. Please be prepared for [...]

It’s been such a busy time at school with so much to get excited about; March into Math and Pi day, Spring into Reading and Pajama day, and the Alan Dick walk along with our regular class learning. Just a few reminders: -       If you have not already done so, please return your portfolio to [...]

Sibling families should complete SLLR sign up by Wednesday 13 March. All other families will sign up for SLLR appointments from Wednesday 13 – Friday 15 March.

Find out how Pi relates to Mathematics!

This week we brought our inquiry into How We Express Ourselves to a close with the Spotlight performance and a field trip to the Andy Warhol exhibit, two fabulous ways to see the application of weeks of learning. If you were not aware, students did their own research into the different cultures, wrote their own [...]

Please join us Thursday March 7 at 1:40 sharp for our Spotlight performance in the Alan Dick Forum! You will see a culmination weeks of learning inquiring into culture and their art forms including dancing, singing, drama, visual arts and instrumental expression. It’s an entirely student-driven Spotlight and should be a lot of fun. Please [...]

** Next Week’s Field Trip: Thank you to all the parents who offered to join us on our field trip next week to the Andy Warhol exhibit. We are so lucky to have so many involved parents! Unfortunately we have limited space. I have notified parents by email if they are coming. If you did [...]

To all parents, A reminder Wednesday 13 March is the Alan Dick Memorial Walk. It is an exciting day for CDNIS and we hope you can join us. A few important reminders: Everyone is encouraged to wear pink or their PE uniform with proper running shoes. If your child received a pink t-shirt last year, [...]

What an exciting week of school! The students worked so hard and performed beautifully at the Chinese New Year concert. They were able to make some great connections between Chinese New Year art and traditions to our Unit of Inquiry. Students participated in independent inquiries and explored a variety of cultures by experiencing pottery, masks, [...]

Students shared their individual research this week into art forms in their own culture. It’s wonderful to see students starting to make connections about art forms and describing what they understand about the uniqueness of their own culture. We continued to find out about cultures in guided reading; including Guatemalan, Mexican and different music in [...]

What a busy week! Finding out more about our unit of inquiry is sure keeping us on our toes! This week we experienced Haiku to discover Japanese culture, African dance and drumming to understand West African culture and Aboriginal dot painting to learn more about the Aborigines of Australia. Students also shared their art from [...]