Inter-Lakes School District

The 2012 FAME Variety Show will be happening on  Saturday, March 31st, and it's time to start thinking about your participation! A few rules apply - if you are performing with a specific school group such as a jazz band, a small instrumental ensemble or an organized school vocal group, you can be on stage one other time as well. Otherwise, each person or group will be able to  perform ONCE, so choose your groups wisely. Additionally, please try to keep your on-stage talent to three minutes or less.     Singers, please prepare a KARAOKE style CD for your background music. Last year, there were some problems using IPODS and other devices as background music. More about sign-ups will be available in the March newsletters; but, for now, have fun planning!

A New Year leads to lots of new things in the grade three co-teach classrooms. Students have just concluded a unit in math dealing with place value. We learned about places from the millions down to the thousandths. It’s fun and challenging as we learned to read large and small numbers. Our new unit in math is about geometry. We are talking about lines, segments, rays and angles. Students are engaged in activities that include drawing and naming these objects. We will put segments together to make two-dimensional shapes.
Students are completing their first research project. They have been working in small groups to find out about the  food, the culture and the geography of Russia.

In Math Workshop, the first graders are learning how to    organize and interpret data. Each class conducted a   survey to determine their favorite wintertime activities including sledding, snowmobiling, skiing, building things in the snow and other activities like making snow angels and snowshoeing. Children try to find answers to questions such as: “What is the most popular winter  activity? What is the least popular activity?  How many more people like sledding than building things in the snow?”  Can you add your vote to our graph? Here are the survey results: