Kenneth D. Taylor, Grade 3 - Ms. Hargreaves

Red & White Day   Dear Parents/Guardians: On  Wednesday, June 28th,   our last student school day (reminder:  Early Dissmissal), we will celebrate our Ken Taylor version of Canada Day :) Students are encouraged to wear red & white in recognistion of Canada's 150th birthday!   red, white & true.jpeg   Thank you, David

We had a great presentation from the Calgary Public Library this morning.  It was wonderful because it ties into Canada's 150th Birthday and Mayor Nenshi's request that we do 3 things for change.  Talk about connecting to our learning and an opportunity for us to be activists.  The Public Library's challenge is to do 3 things for Canada: 1.   Read  2.  Learn 3.  Act  Students will be bringing home a card to sign up for this amazing program.  Here is a link to their website as well in case you want to take advantage of this opportunity over the summer:   https://calgarylibrary.ca/3things/ Students can register in person or on-line.

A special request ... can students please bring and extra back to carry home school books/work and other personal items for Monday and Tuesday this week.  Thank you so much. Monday, June 26th Public Library Presentation - 9:15-9:45 for grade 3 in the Learning Commons Wednesday, June 28th  Last Day of School  -- Early Dismissal - 11:30 Year End Assembly 8:30 a.m. Report Cards go home. Thursday and Friday, June 29 and 30  - Appeals Day - No classes.

Wow, I can't believe we are almost at the end of our first year at KTS!  It has been a whirlwind of learning and growth.  I'm proud to say I was your grade three teacher. How lucky I am to have such big thinkers in room 123.  Thank you so much for your curiousness and your desire to transform your thinking. Speaking of the passing of time -- we've been learning  how to tell time and and the different units of time (sec, minutes, days, years, decades, centuries, millenium).  It all comes back to our big question around the cycle of our first year and the development of our identity as grade 3 students in a new school. We been learning how to use an analog clock in IXL math and in our Nature Challenge we are creating timelines.  We made so many connections:  like the clock is really your multiples of 5 or multiplying by 5s.  It's also connected to fractions because 1/2 = 30 minutes and 1/4 = 15 minutes.  We learned that you need to pay at...

Well have you heard the term infographic before?   info = information and graphic = how something is drawn out or represented , like a graph or a a photograph.   Here is an example of one that we analyzed today based on our closer investigation into the whale shark and it's amazing body adaptations.  Did you know it's a filter feeder?  How about that it feeds on plankton?  This led us to our question what exactly is plankton?  Well here you go here is a wonderful infographic that explains it: Can you see the connections to our learning?  The food webs,  life cycles and adaptations.  This then connected to our sorting and categorizing when we realized that there are two categories of plankton:   phytoplankton = microscopic marine plants and zooplankton = diverse marine animals such as krill, fish larvae, jellyfish.  As you can see from the infographic these are important supporters of the ocean ecosystem.   We rea...

Lost & Found Hello Parents and Guardians, As our school year comes to an end and our classroom’s are being tidied, our Lost & Found pile is growing! Please feel free to drop by the school and collect your missing items.  Any items not collect by June 30 th  will be donated. Have a nice day, ​​​​​​​ Barb Rocca Administrative Assistant,  Kenneth D. Taylor School Calgary Board of Education |  cbe.ab.ca t | 403-817-3504