A New Week

Welcome to Winter!! It's going to be so much fun playing outside at recess tomorrow! Remember to wear all your winter gear including boots.

This will be one of the most exciting weeks of the year with the much anticipated day of Halloween! Other things to note:
Our party will be Tuesday afternoon and you can get dressed in your costume at noon recess.
No school on Wednesday for Professional Development Day.
Book Fair Blizzard continues for 2 more days.
Social test on mapping skills and general geography is Friday, Nov. 3rd.
Musical instruments can go home this week. Congratulations on the good job you did, Students!

And on a personal note - our daughter, Heather, and her husband, Jonathan, welcomed tiny Helayna Lorraine into their family on October 25th. Everyone is doing fine and she is just perfect for cuddling!!

Math Update

We are working in the second math unit, Patterns and Relationships. It's great fun sorting and classifying groups of things. Today we looked at attributes of people : hair, shoes, eyes, and things we can do. We used our classroom matrix and sorted ourselves into groups that matched the attribute cards. Then we worked in groups and sorted a bag of objects. It was hard to think of 2 attributes to use for sorting. We used size, color, texture, and beauty as some of our sorting characteristics.

P.S. The green words are math vocabulary words - students, make sure you know what they mean!

Parents - you can help by asking your child to work with you and demonstrate this activity at home.. Use any objects you have handy (eg. bolts, plastic lids, crayons, seeds, etc.).

Welcome to a New Year!

Welcome to the world of learning in grade 3! We are off to a great start and very busy with learning activities.

Daily activities now include:

- morning assemblies - Tuesday and Friday with character development themes - for October our focus is on respect. On Wednesday and Thursday all students spend block 1 reading - literacy is one of our school's main academic goals.

- Healthy Hearts - activities every afternoon to get us moving and developing personal fitness. We've learnt several new games - Johnny Went to Sleep, Hide the Clothespin, Dog Tag, Quoits, Four Corners, and Traffic Tag.

- math - really focussing on the addition basic facts. Watch for some practise games coming home in the next week - be prepared to play together!

- reading - questions we ask ourselves every time we read are:
What might happen next?
What's the main idea of this paragraph?
What are some details I know now?

Remember to fill in your reading log every day and when the sheet is full, bring it to school to trade in for some prizes!!