Good afternoon!

We had a fun and busy day in our Grade 3 classroom today!

We started off the day today with language where the students worked on creative writing. The students were asked to use their Creative Writing folders to write a story on a topic of their choice, but were asked to include at least 4 of their weekly spelling words.  The students then took turns sharing their stories with the class.  We heard a lot of very fun and interesting stories on topics such as aliens, royalty, crazy adventures and genies!  As a class we had a language lesson on how to use quotation marks and dialogue tags effectively in their writing.  This is something I encourage you to have your child practice in their writing at home.  The students also worked in their Language books where they practiced their rules of capitalization.

During our Unit of Inquiry today the students had a final opportunity to complete the research booklets they have been working on this week.  They worked so hard on these projects and had a such a fun time presenting and listening to the information their peers had gathered.  After the presentations the students took time to reflect and share one important piece of information they took from the presentations.  Ask your child tonight what they learned!  I have posted some pictures below of the students working, and some examples of their hard work for you to enjoy.

During math today the children continued working on exploring the hundreds place.  In today's class the students took time exploring hundreds charts from 201-1000 and were asked to count in different ways to find patterns in numbers.  Today we focused on counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, and 25s and looked to see patterns we could find in the ones column once we had collected our numbers.  The students are bringing home their Homework book with them tonight to continue practicing finding patterns in the ones column while looking thorugh these hundreds charts.  The students also worked in their Abeka Arithmetic books where they worked on adding and subtracting digits, place value and decimals.

The students also went to PE and French classes today.

Homework: Read for 2o minutes and record in the reading log, practice weekly spelling words, Language pages 12 - 14, Abeka Arithmetic pages 4 - 6 and math pages 18 -19.

Important information: I am still waiting for a couple more permission forms for the Toronto trip our class is taking on October 3rd.  The deadline for payment was yesterday.  If you have not yet sent in the $14 with the signed forms please do so as soon as possible.

The weather is beginning to get colder as I am sure you have all noticed. Please be sure that your children are wearing the proper uniform for the cooler weather. Long sleeved polo shirts, mock turtle necks, 3-in-1 jackets, the house sweat shirts and blazers (grade 4 and up) are the only long sleeves that are allowed to be worn in the school. Unfortunately sweaters and jackets that are not part of the SJA uniform are not allowed to be worn in the school. If you have any questions about the uniform or need to order additional pieces please contact Alpa at uniforms@stjudesacademy.com.


The Terry Fox run is happening at SJA on Thursday, September 26th. Students are asked to collect pledges for this event which will be donated to the Canadian Cancer Society. Pledge forms went home with all students last week. If you have pledge money collected please send it into the school. Pledges can be collected up until the morning of the 26th when the run takes place. For more information please contact Mr. Browning at rbrowning@stjudesacademy.com.


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.

The first casual day of the school year is taking place on Wednesday, October 25th. Students may come to school dressed in any casual clothing they wish as school uniforms will not have to be worn on this day.


Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson