Soaring to Greater Success in Literacy!

Welcome to our class blog! We all want to improve the literacy skills of our children. Let's work together to make this happen! On this blog, you can post book responses with your child! You can also comment on any of the responses posted on our blog! I encourage you all to visit our favourite links! One of the links is Indigo Love of Reading Foundation. This is a wonderful foundation making a tremendous difference in school libraries across Canada! Visit their website! You'll be touched by how they are doing such a great part to improve literacy skills in Canadian schools!

Hey Grade Threes! What great books are you reading now? I can't wait to read your posts! Happy blogging :)

Mrs. Stone

Thursday, June 24, 2010

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

Hi Grade Threes!
Well, it's hard to believe there is only one more day left in the school year! I just want to say I have enjoyed having you all in my class this year! Remember to keep working hard each and every day! Don't forget to read over the summer! I wonder what great books will be in the bookstores. hmmmmmmmmm.... Have a great summer everyone :)))
Mrs. Stone

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Grandpa Joe: Open it, Charlie. Let's see that Golden Ticket.
CHARLIE: Wouldn't that be fantastic?
MRS. BUCKET: It's not fair to raise his hopes.
GRANDPA JOE: Never mind. Go on, open it, Charlie. I want to see that gold.
MRS. BUCKET: Stop it, Dad.
CHARLIE: I've got the same chance as anybody else, haven't I?
GRANDPA JOE: You've got more, Charlie, because you want it more. Go on, open it.
This text reminds me about our Indigo Love of Reading Grant application! Wouldn't it be so fantastic if our school actually won???Winners will be announced this week! Like Grandpa Joe said, We've got more of a chance "...because [we]want it more!" When I look back at all the wonderful things our school has done to promote literacy, I know in my heart we are already winners for what we do everyday :) Congratulations to you all, students, parents and SJE staff for your great efforts to promote literacy each and every day:)
Mrs. Stone

Monday, May 17, 2010

Ice Breakers

I give this book a 4.This book is all about ships that can beat up ice for all other boats that can.t.Ice breakers are big and strong because they are made up of steel that is very thick and also there front of the boat is call a bow.The hull that is under the bow is shape like a knife .This helps the icebreakers cut through the ice .If it wasn.t for icebrakers it would be very hard for other small boats do there job because of the thick ice that there is around in some places. BY ANDREW SIMMS

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Keep on blogging :)

Hi grade Threes! Guess what? We have reached 258 posts! That's awesome! I am very proud of you all! Keep on posting about the great books you are reading! Happy blogging!
Mrs. Stone

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Millions of Insects


This book is about insects. I know this because in each visual there is a picture of a bug. I also know this because the title is Millions of Insects. This reminds me of when I was in the Insectarium in Deer Lake . There was a room with lots of butterflies one of them landed on me!
This is a relly great book. I would give it 5 stars

By:Cameron

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Toothwalkers

I give this book a 3.This book is all about walruses and how they live.Walruses lives in icy places they have thick blubber to keep them warm,also there skull is thick . That helps them to protect there brain from ice when they pushes through the thick cold ice.They have tusks also, that helps them to get around on the ice . But male walruses uses their tusks to fight. Walruses eat shelfish like crabs.sea urchins,fish and birds.Mothers walruses feeds their calf up to two and half years. BY ANDREW

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Using A Beak


This book is all about birds that use their beaks.Some things it talks about are using a beak,beaks for cracking things,beaks for poking,beaks for scooping,beaks for fish and beaks for feeding chicks.Some birds in the book a Kaka,Macaw,Hummingbirds,Kiwi,
Ostercatcher,Curlew Sandpiper,Ducks,
Flamingo,Kingfisher,Gannet and Owls.I learned a lot from reading this book.Did you know that some birds live underwater!Also did you know that some birds use there beaks to feed there babies!I really loved reading this book!By:Erin Bungay

Dinosaurs Before Dark

This book should have 5 stars because it is about 2 kids named Jack and Annie who find a magicial tree house full of books.When they read the books they come to life. So when Jack reads a book about dinosaurs, they go to the time when dinosaurs lived. They see dinosaurs and they find out that some are friendly, but when Jack and Annie find Tyrannosaurus Rex they find out they are in trouble with a meat eating dinosaur. Jack and Annie quickly run back to the tree house and read the book so they can find their way back home. It is very exciting.
By Daniel

GhostVille Elementry

I really enjoyed this book.Its about a girl named Cassidy who goes to the Hollow Festival with her grandfather.At first Cassidy didnt' want her grandfather to know about the festival.Cassidy thought her grandfather was a bit grouchy and felt he might embarrass her.Cassidys' grandfather heard about the festival.Cassidys' grandfather started to tell cassidy how much fun that her grandmother had at the festival.Cassidy decided to ask her grandfather to take her to the festival.Cassidy and her grandfather had a great time playing games,eating and going on the rides.Cassidy realized that she had alot of fun with her grandfather and felt sorry to think she had not wanted him to go.Susan.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaband

This book is awesome!!! In the story Harry and Harmonie go through a time traveler which you go back in time. When you go back in time you can't be seen because that is the wizard law. They went three hours back. They did that so they could save two innocent lives, Buck Beak and Serious Black. First they went down to Hagrid's and when nobody was looking they untied Buck Beak and went into the forest. Now Buck Beak was safe. Then they went down to the whomping willow. They seen their two teachers, Serious Black and themselves come out of the trunk. They seen themselves because when you go back in time whatever they were doing a figure of them would be doing it. Their teacher Professor Lupin was a warewolf. Serious and the warewolf went down to a lake. The dementors were sucking the happiness out of Serious. Then a spell sent them away. Serious got sent to their castle school and was sent to a cage. Harry and Harmonie saved him because they went on Buck Beak and flew up to the cage. Harmonie blew the bars off and Serious was free!!!

Kiara Young

Piranhas

Wow ! Now this is the book for information. Piranhas is a nice fish to look at but they are so mean. My Dad told me about them and I did not believe him until I read this book. You find out so much about this fish by reading this book and I give it 4 1/2 out of 5. Did you know they have teeth like razors ? Read this book to find out more.

Nathaniel

Friday, May 7, 2010

five little monkeys

My favourite part is when they were flying a kite.
there were 4 monkeys flying a kite.
LUCAS B.

Find Out About Fish


This book is all about fish!I loved this book.It talks about what are fish,what do fish eat and where do fish eat.I know this because in the book it shows it and it talks about it.This book reminds me of a time in my life when I went to a place called Sea World!I saw tons of fish.I saw sharks,fish and sting rays.Did you know that there are 20 ooo kinds of fish and 700 kinds of sharks!I really enjoyed reading this book!
By:Erin Bungay

Piranhas

Piranhas can eat other fish in minutes! People catch piranhas and they use them for food and their teeth for cutting. A family of piranhas is called a school.
by.Nathaniel

Messy Room


This book was about brother and sister bear making their room messy.
By:Jordan

Boats and Ships

I would give this book a 5 because it is a very nice book and I like BOATS and SHIPS. In one of the pictures it shows a steamship that was called Leviathan. She was built 150 years ago. There are also pictures of Aircraft Carriers.
BYANDREW

How is a crayon made?

This book reminds me of when I had a crayon maker and I used it all the time, but mom threw it out.I will give it a 3 or a 4.I learned crayons have to have wax to make their shape .
pacey.

Beatrice

I like this book because the girl didn't like reading a book.
My favourite part is when she did like to read. After a while, her teacher told her to read and she did. And she LIKED IT!

Bianca Snook

When the Volcano Erupted

I give this book a 4.

This book reminds me of a movie
but I don't now what is called.It is about dinosaurs and there was a dinosaur that killed a tyranasaurus rex.
Lucas tibbo0

Five Goofy Ghosts

In the first story it is about a little boy going in a house. He saw a ghost and he ran out the door! He never came back.
kaityn