Good afternoon!

Today was a great deal of fun in the grade 3 classroom!  The students started off the day today working on their proofreading skills.  They had to read a paragraph about rural communities and find all the mistakes and correct them.  The students had a great deal of fun as they raced to see who could find all the mistakes first!  We moved on to language where the students were introduced to our first novel study of the year- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  Throughout this novel study we will read the chapters together as a class, and afterwards the students will meet in their novel study groups where they will discuss and record important elements of the chapter such as the plot, the setting, the connections to real life, and predictions for future chapters.  Each child will produce their own novel study which they will be assessed on individually, though they have their group of students to work with, to bounce ideas off and to reflect on the chapter with.  In today's session we read the first two chapters of the novel which were a lot of fun! In today's Unit of Inquiry period, the students continued exploring rural and urban communities.  In today's class we focused on the differences between 'goods' and 'services'.  Students were asked to work on a comprehension activity on these two concepts after we had a group discussion and class brainstorm to inquire into these topics. Ask your child tonight to tell you what they know about the differences between goods and services! During math today the children continued with working with number lines. In today's class we focused on how number lines can be used to help with estimating.  Their math Homework and Practice book will be brought home with them every night to reinforce concepts learned in class.  They also went to PE and french class today.

Homework: Read for 2o minutes and record in the reading log, practice weekly spelling words,  Math Makes Sense Homework book pages 8 -9, complete Goods and Services chart if necessary and Cursive page 14 - 15..

Important information:  Tomorrow is our class trip to No Frills on the SJA bus to help explore the needs and wants of our community.  The trip will begin at 9am and we will return to the school by approximately 10am.  Please make sure to help your child to arrive at school on time so that they don't miss the bus.

We are looking to have small boxes collected for an upcoming project in our Unit of Inquiry. The students are going to be asked to build small scale rural and urban communities. Please help us with this project by collecting and sending in small boxes that we can use. Please see the form sent home yesterday for more information.


Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson