Congratulations !

Congratulations to Alex and Destin who each earned Community Certificates at the Reach for the Stars Assembly this morning! Bravo Lauren pour ton effort en français! 

This Coming Week....

        

Here are this week’s WORD WALL WORDS:

        ▫almost  ▫beautiful  ▫friendly  ▫how   ▫was

Week at a Glance

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
▫Reach for the Stars ▫Gym ▫Happy Halloween! ▫Wear Black &  Orange!		▫Library	▫Gym	▫Gym ▫Progress Reports go home! ▫Guess My Monster? with the gr.5 class

▫This week, the students will be hard at work on writing descriptive paragraphs about their monsters. Hopefully we will be ready to play Can You Guess My Monster? with Ms. B’s class on Friday...more to come on this!

                                                               

A HOWLIN' Good Time!

Monster Mania!

Wow! What an imaginative class. Check out their monsters! The students are now going to write an adjective-rich descriptive paragraph about their creations!

This Week: October 24th to 28th

 This week looks packed with fun activities! Here is our week at a glance:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
▫Gym	▫Photo Day!	▫ Library	▫Rosaries @ 12:30 ▫Gym	▫Halloween Dance-a-thon!

                                                

     This week's WORD WALL WORDS are:

  ▫almost     ▫beautiful     ▫friendly     ▫how    ▫was

▫ Our descriptive language unit is going to be lots of fun this week! The students will invent a monster and write a corresponding description. In Art, the students will then create a 3D version of their monster using plastecine!

▫ In Math, I am thrilled  that the students have become quite proficient at conducting surveys, making pictographs and bar graphs, as well as at interpreting them. We will look at circle graphs this week as well as at some EQAO multiple choice data questions. The students will write their practice test by the end of the week. 

▫This Friday is the Dance-a-thon and the kids are welcome to bring their Halloween costumes for this event.  Their costume should not involve any masks or weapon-type props. The primary classes are scheduled to boogie down from 10:10-11:10! Should be exciting!

Conducting a Survey

As part of our Data Management Unit in Math, the students conducted a survey today asking their classmates whether they would rather fly in an airplane, a helicopter or a hot air balloon. They had to keep track of who they asked and plot the collected data on a bar graph. Check out these photos of them in action - they look very official with their clipboards!

Spooktacular Art!

May the Magnetic Force Be with You!

The students explored magnetic force today during Science class. They used magnetic force to separate paper clips from a cup of non-magnetic objects. The first time they were allowed to touch the paper clips with the magnet. The second time, they had to separate the paper clips by not touching them with the magnet.

Scholastic Orders

New Scholastic Flyers are going home today. If you would like to place an order, I will be submitting the class order this Friday, October 21st. Thanks!

Thanksgiving Mass

I forgot to include on our weekly schedule that there is a Thanksgiving Mass this Thursday, October 20th, at 10:00 am.

Week at a Glance - Oct. 17th-21st

The Week Ahead:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
▫Pedestrian Safety Presentation ▫Gym		▫ Library	▫Rosaries @ 12:30 ▫Gym ▫ Mass at 10 am	▫Gym ▫Scholastic Order Due today!

                                                

     This week's WORD WALL WORDS are:
                ▫to    ▫two    ▫too    ▫laughed    ▫who

▫In Math, we are continuing to explore bar graphs and pictographs. The students will be conducting surveys and recording their data using both types of graphs.

▫ In Language, the students will be reading descriptive texts and further developing their visualizing skills! We will be discussing descriptive language (adjectives, adverbs and the use of sensory details).
  

Visualizing

Today we talked about how visualizing can be an effective strategy to connect to a text. 

I then read them the two first stanzas of a very descriptive poem entitled My Neighbour's Dog. The students (and Mrs. Kelly) then drew what they visualized. 

Once they had finished their drawing,  I read the last stanza of the poem. It provides more details and has an interesting twist. The students then drew their new visualization based on the entire poem!

Here are a few of their visual images...

Hula Hoop Huts!

The kids were engineers during gym time today. They even managed to crawl through the hula hoop huts!

Home Resource Folder

Parents!

The Home Resource Folder went home today. It is this year's version of Homework! Let me know in your child's agenda if it didn't make it home to you tonight...I will make sure it gets to you tomorrow! Here is a copy of the letter describing its contents. This letter is in the front flap of the folder, on the backside of the Portable Word Wall.

                                                

Dear Parents,

Today, your child has brought home the Home Resource Folder. This blue folder is to stay home all year. It is meant to provide you with ideas and resources for Language and Math activities done at home. Here is an outline of what is included in the folder:

·         Portable Word Wall: On the back of this sheet is a list of all the grade 3 Word Wall Words.  Each week, I will assign 5 new words from this wall. I suggest that your child highlights the new words each week on the wall. A list of various activities your child can do with these words is also included in this folder (Spelling Activities).

·         How to Choose “Just Right” Books   gives your child a guideline of how to choose books at a level to match his or her reading abilities. When I Read  provides a review of good fix-up strategies to use when encountering challenging words.

·         The Self-Selected Reading Log sheet as well as the sheet Understanding Non-Fiction and Fiction  sheets are a great resource to help with your child’s reading comprehension. The questions on the Log sheet will encourage your child to use reading comprehension strategies such as inferencing, visualizing and synthesizing.

·         The Math sheet gives the students a list of key words used in addition and subtraction problems. It also has a hundreds chart. The students are encouraged to practise counting by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s & 25’s up to 200.

Hope this resource is helpful!

J. Wills

Week of October 11th to 14th, 2016

Week at a Glance

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
▫Happy Thanksgiving!		▫ Library	▫David Bouchard @ 10:00 ▫Rosaries @ 12:30  ▫Gym	▫Gym

                                                

       ▫This week's WORD WALL WORDS are: ▫about ▫before ▫when ▫where ▫enough

         Suggested Activities: Check out the Home Resource Folder  that will be going home tomorrow for a varied list of activities to do with W.W.W.!

David Bouchard (Thursday @ 10:00) is a Metis Storyteller who will be presenting to the students. Here is a link to his website: http://davidbouchard.com/

As October is the month of Mary, volunteers from St. Bernard's Parish will be teaching all the Grade 3 students how to pray the rosary starting this Thursday. They will return on October 20th and 27th.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Feeling blessed and grateful for such an amazing group of students! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families!

Food Drive!

Thank you so much for the Thanksgiving Food Donations! Our prayer table is a cornucopia of goodness each morning thanks to your generous donations!

Evaluation Duo Tangs

The Math Tests went home today in the new Evaluation Duotangs! Most are grey, a few are blue. Can you please review the test with your child and then sign and return it to school? Thanks! No rush...it can be returned after the long weekend. The students did great!

This Week!

Week at a Glance

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
▫Gym ▫Scholastic Order Due!		▫ Library	▫Gym	▫PD Day

   

▫This week's WORD WALL WORDS are: ▫again ▫because ▫first ▫have ▫until

  Suggested activities ▫Use each word in a sentence.

                                      ▫Write the words making the vowels (a,e,i,o,u) one colour 
                                         and the consonants a different colour.

Terry Fox Run!

The Terry Fox Fundraiser and Run were a huge success! We surpassed our $1000 goal by $300! Here are some pics from the week!