Happy Tuesday!

The students started off with a writing activity, which was to create a class survey and represent the data effectively. The students had some unique ideas about what survey their fellow classmates about. Some memorable survey questions were: What is your favourite sport? And what is your favourite food?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Surveying and graphing the information including all elements of graphs is an important skill your children can use to express information. Later on in language we completed our last Olympic Games activity. Today we put a spin on it and completed a creative writing activity where I asked the students to write a letter to an athlete and tell either their favourite sport or what they have learned about the Olympics as well as ask any questions they might have.

Next we worked on our UOI, today was the first day of our summative task. Students were busily brainstorming what they wanted to do for the research project. Students seem keen to get started on this summative. I cannot wait to see what they come up with!

Name - Summative Topic

Angela – Pioneer Children

Aziz – Blacksmith

Shrihan - A day at school for a pioneer child

Sofia – Aboriginal children

Mark – Tinsmith

Seanna – pioneer families

Arin - pioneer Doctors

Zuri – Aboriginal chores

Alex – Pioneer

Ninara – Pioneer travel

Christina – How Aboriginals have helped pioneers

Aryan – Pioneer homes  

In math we continued to explore the in our Motion Geometry unit. Today we tackled turns on grids. First we reviewed the qualities of a slide then we introduced the properties of a turn as a class. After working as a group that activity students completed practice problems from the text in small groups to continue learning the concept of turning shapes on a grid. In the afternoon we also had a chance to work on ABeka.

Homework: Read for 20 minutes and record in the reading log, Olympics letter, practice Spelling words, Math 142-143, and ABeka 67-68.

Important Information: 

Registration has now been opened up to the public.  If you have not yet returned your re-registration package for next year please do that quickly so that your child doesn't miss a spot!

Please return field trip form for Mountsberg Conservation and cheque by Thursday, February 27, 2014.  

This Wednesday, February 26^th is Casual Day, for those students who have paid to participate.

At the end of the month, Thursday, February 27^th we will have our Lower School Oral Presentations event (Angela, Arin and Sofia will represent the grade threes)! All parents and guardians are encouraged to attend this exciting St. Jude’s event.

Below is a picture from our summative work period and Math class!

St. Jude’s is starting their very first Soccer Club. Try outs are the third week of March. The team will be made up of students 10 and under.

Hot lunch order forms for April are due Mach 7^th.

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson and Ms. Barber