Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had a wonderful and restful weekend!   The grade 3 students started off the day by copying down their weekly spelling words and working in their spelling books.  Each student is going to bring their spelling books home with them every night to be used as a resource to help them study for the spelling test that takes place every Friday.  We moved on to Language where the students worked on identifying interrogative and declarative sentences.  They were asked to write versions of their own types of both sentences as well for practice with proper punctuation.  In today's Unit of Inquiry period, the students explored the differences between rural and urban communities.  We had a whole class discussion with definitions and examples, a comprehension worksheet, and then the students were asked to sort the attributes of both communities into a Venn Diagram.  Ask your child today what they learned! During math today the children continued with their unit on patterning and place value.   As a class we analyzed hundreds charts and explored how we can use them to help with counting. The students worked on questions in their math notebooks in class.  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, Spelling Workbook pages 9 - 12, Math Makes Sense Homework book pages 4 -5, complete math workbook 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.  I am very excited to see what the students discover about our community on this venture!

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