November & December Updates
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Thank you for your continued support over the last
couple months. As you are aware, grade three is a big change with increased
expectations and students have been working hard to meet these expectations.
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Christmas Concert updates
will be posted on Mrs. Bourgeois’ Music blog. Actors were chosen and unfortunately
there was more interest than spots available. Your child will let you know if
they were picked for an actor role. As well, choir has been working extra hard
preparing for the concert.
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Apologies for not getting
the November calendar out to you at the beginning of the month. Please feel
free to add in, to the best of your knowledge minutes for previous days.
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Please sign up when the
conference manager becomes available for a time slot. It is expected that I
meet with a parent for each student.
Mathematics at a Glance
We are continuing to focus on place value, addition and subtraction of 2-digit numbers, and regrouping. When ready we will move on to 3-digit. Please watch the following clips to demo using a number line and solving problems in multiple ways. This will support developing mental mathematical abilities (composing and decomposing).
We are continuing to focus on place value, addition and subtraction of 2-digit numbers, and regrouping. When ready we will move on to 3-digit. Please watch the following clips to demo using a number line and solving problems in multiple ways. This will support developing mental mathematical abilities (composing and decomposing).
mathsolutions.com/NTWNC32
mathsolutions.com/NTWNC33
mathsolutions.com/NTWNC31
Problem Solving
Working through word problems is an
important skill that we will continue to explore on a daily/weekly basis
throughout the year. It is important for students to learn skills such as
highlighting, looking for valuable information, assessing for operation and
ensuring that they have solved the problem.
How to Support at Home
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any dice and card games to
support acquisition of basic facts
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skip counting to support
repeated addition leading into multiplication/division
Sites for Practice
ABCya.com
Language Arts
- biographies
- emphasizing
on summarizing important information in texts
- creating
jot notes
- writing
proper structured paragraphs (topic sentence, supporting sentences/ideas,
concluding sentence)
- creating
paragraphs from jot notes
- using
story planners to create structured stories (characters, setting, problem and
solution, three main events, rising action building to climax of the story)
- using
graphic organizers to brainstorm and structure writing
Word Work Program – reinforces grammar,
spelling rules, alphabetical order and basic sentence structure
Social Studies
Our pop-up event for Diwali was
fun and packed full of learning! We have also had a pop up guest speaker, Donna
Diaz who spoke about her travels in India. We will continue on until the winter
break learning about India.
We are also learning about
Universal Rights and Freedoms of children around the world. Some of our work
has been around war times as well as learning about Indigenous perspectives and
residential schooling.
Science
We will continue completing our
units of Building and Testing with a Variety of Materials. Students enjoyed
creating and testing their skyscraper during their Skyscraper challenge. They
were able to use their knowledge of the leaps of skyscraper building from their
learning of the building of the Burj Khalifa. The next unit of study will be
Hearing and Sound (end of December into January).
Health and Wellness
As classroom communities, we
continue to learn how to support one another in meaningful ways. Opportunities
for learning with an emphasis on working together in groups in order to be productive
have been a priority. Students have also been focusing on acquiring skills in
order to calm their bodies and be in their personal optimal learning zone.
Thank you for your continued
support. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or
concerns.
Mrs. MacQueen