Why do we need blood?

“Why do we need blood? ” is a question that was posed by one of the children in grade three as we began our unit on the human body. Throughout this unit we will be looking at the body as four main interconnected systems (repository, skeletal, muscular and...

A letter for homework?

‘Dear (name of your child)’ began the letter ‘I really think I should give you more homework’it continued. …The letter, part of our persuasive writing exercise is a letter from the teacher attempting to persuade children that they should...

Conveying messages…

Every culture has its own ways or ways of conveying messages. Regardless of the medium used, they all fit under the broad theme of performing arts. This is what we have begun studying for our unit of inquiry. In math we reviewed and practiced our times tables from two...

The goat ate my homework and other stories

Unknown to him, one of the school’s goats had the rare honor of featuring in grade three’s homework this week. For their homework the children are required to construct a story about him using as many adjectives as they can. Nouns and adjectives were a...