Good afternoon!

We had a wonderful day today in our grade three classroom!  The students started off the day by working on creative writing.  Today's topic was writing a story about a time they went to the jungle.  There were some very creative stories that were developed and I had a great time seeing them!  Ask your child tonight to tell you about their story.  We moved on to language where the students worked on writing proper sentences.  Students were asked to proofread incorrect sentences and re-write them correctly.  In today's Unit of Inquiry period, the students continued exploring rural and urban communities.  In today's class we focused on the needs and wants of a community.  The students were asked to work in groups to complete a chart where the had to sort through needs versus wants, and also identify wants and needs of a community of their own.  This activity was a lot of fun!  During math today the children continued with their unit on patterning and place value. In today's class we switched gears from hundreds charts and began looking at number lines and how we can use them to help find patterns when counting numbers. 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 art class today.

Homework: Read for 2o minutes and record in the reading log, practice weekly spelling words,  Math Makes Sense Homework book pages 6 -7, complete needs and wants chart if necessary.

Important information: The grade 3 Math Makes Sense program consists of two parts, the in-class textbook/student workbook and the Homework and Practice book.  Everyday the student Homework and Practice book will come home with each student to allow them to practice the concepts we have learned in class.  Please help your child to make sure that this homework book comes back to school everyday.

This Thursday we are taking 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.

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