They're all good eggs!

Who doesn't love a good play on words? Idioms, puns, we love them all in room 208! 

This week's Text of the Week is called "I Got a New Game for My Brother" by Kenn Nesbitt, and we think it's pretty funny! You see the speaker in the poem (we determined it was a first person point of view) TRADED his brother for a new game, rather that GIVE his brother a gift of a new game.  

"The Good Egg" by John Jory and Pete Oswald was the perfect read aloud for today. It's especially timely because given the pandemic, all us eggs need to lower our expectations, try not to worry so much about doing everything "just so" and take care better of ourselves, so we can be a better companion to others.  We enjoyed this read aloud very much and I bet any classroom and family would too!  

Our goal this week of becoming division masters is coming along very nicely! We've been working on finding a fraction of a set, and on Wednesday, students tackled this tricky Math Challenge.  One of my favorite parts of teaching kids how to solve these types of problem is using actual Goldfish crackers in class as manipulatives. As any teacher knows it makes a world of difference in terms of keeping everyone engaged and the learning concrete. I give my students credit for persevering with this challenging skills while learning online.  

As part of our Math Rewind, where we revisit concepts from earlier in the year, we watched an episode of The Odd Squad: Good Egg/Bad Egg (it begins at 13:00) and reviewed: 

• The whole "good egg" thing again 😉
• Probability and how we can use it to make decisions (e.g there's a 10% chance you'll win a raffle if you buy a $100.00 ticket. Do you buy the ticket?) 
• Attributes: what are they and how can we use them to sort objects, find or create patterns?  
• On a lighter note: earlier in the week, we'd talked about what our sofa would say if it could talk. At the very end of this episode Una's lab coat gives her a message "Your hair is soft" and it was just the kind of fun coincidence grade three kids love! 

On Thursday, we'll extend the attribute discussion by working on a task called "Lost and Found".  I'm looking forward to seeing how students might categorize a list of items according to their attributes.  I've done this activity in person a number of times and it always sparks lively discussions and I hope I can replicate this experience for my students at  home!  

Here's our original plan for today. Some items will be moved to next Wednesday, or we'll aim to fit them in on Thursday.  Like most teachers, I tend to over plan, should we fly through things, or an activity just not go our way. Sometimes we veer right off the plan and head in a whole different direction. So while we only have a few weeks left together,  there is still lots we can do and learn!