Good afternoon!

We started off the day today with a whole-school house game in recognition of Spirit Day!  It was a great deal of fun and all the students had a wonderful time participating!

Unit of Inquiry: In today's class the grade 3s came together with Mrs. Haag's grade 4 class to watch documentaries on urban, suburban and rural communities.  The students were able to see examples of all three types of communities, watch interviews from members of the different communities and hear the positives and draw-backs of each type of community.  When we returned to class the students were asked to complete a reflection in their journals to summarize the main points they learned from watching the documentaries. Ask your child tonight to share with you what they have learned!

Language: During language today the students worked on exploring types of sentences.  Students were asked to decipher between exclamatory, declarative and interrogative sentences and then write version of each type of sentence on their own.  The students also had their weekly spelling test.  Marked spelling tests will be going home with every student tonight.  I kindly ask that any incorrect spelling word be re-written in their Spelling Book ten times each.  We also read chapters 3 and 4 of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory today.  Once we finished reading as a class the students got into their literature study groups and completed their book review for today.

Math: During math today the children worked on examining place value, working with time, and working on addition in the Abeka math books. 

The students also went to PE and French classes today.

Homework: Read for 2o minutes and record in the reading log, re-write incorrect spelling words ten times each,  Abeka math pages 2 -3, Language page 10 - 11 and Ontario Writing page 74.

Important information: A trip permission form went home with all children last night.  The grade 3 and 4 classes at SJA are taking a trip to the city of Toronto! This trip is a part of our IB Unit of Inquiry that is inquiring into urban and rural communities. On this trip we will be looking at the different elements of the great urban city of Toronto, taking various types of transportation offered throughout the city, and visiting the Cadbury Chocolate Factory. Trip forms are due back with the $14 fee by September 18th. We are looking for 10 volunteers between both classes for this trip who will be confirmed on a first come, first serve basis.  Please make note of the allergy form that is attached to the permission form.  This allergy release form must be signed and returned back to the school in order for your child to be admitted into the factory.

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.


Have a great weekend!


Mrs. Nelson