week 3

Another busy week full or fun and learning!! :)

Now that the weather is becoming cooler and more wet, please have students dress in layers, and please ensure that your child has a pair of clean running shoes to leave at school.

Dates to remember:

- Celebration questionnaire is due this Monday, September 24.

- Terry Fox Run Thursday Sept 27 at 2:30pm (Rain or Shine) Please dress according to the weather.  Students will run or walk around the track on the field for the hour.

- Scholastics Book orders are due Friday Sept 28

- Timeline project due Monday Oct 1.  Presentations will start that day too!

I apologize for the amount of small projects that have been going home this past week.  I wanted to send them home early enough to have time to complete.  These projects will help with various lessons, and will be used for assessment purposes (the timeline) for multiple subject areas. Projects like these will not be coming home as often in the upcoming weeks. I ask that you please help your child, but please do not complete the project for your child.  They need to understand their work in order to explain and discuss their projects. 

Math: We are completing our unit on graphing.  We will have a "show what you know" assessment on Wednesday.  Students will be asked to make and analyse graphs, just as we have done in class.  We will be starting Patterning and sorting on Tuesday.

Social Studies: We have continued our discussions on family, started to make our family trees, and began to look at timelines.  Grade 2 students will be exploring more into celebrations and traditions; while the grade 3s will start to look at early explorers to Canada and First Nations people.

Science: We started science on Thursday.  Grade 2s will be exploring Matter (solids, liquids and gases) while the grade 3s will be examining forces and movement.

Gym: We are playing many co-operative games.

Health: We started health on Friday.  Students were asked to discuss and come up with ideas about healthy eating. 
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Art: We have been looking at Warm and Cool colours.  Warm colours: Red, yellow, and orange.  Cool colours: Blue, green and purple.  We have been working on colouring fall leaves using warm colours with a background that has cool colours.

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Language: We continue to write our "Small moment" stories. We are also discussing Terry Fox.  Please ask your child about what they know about Terry Fox.  We looked at a timeline of Terry Fox's life.

Here are some books we read this week. Please take the time to ask your child about what the book was about and some information they learned from them. 


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Week #2



We made it through our first FULL week of school.  

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** Photos are now available under class photos

Just a few reminders:

1) Please keep all toys and stuffies at home.  They should NOT be coming to school

2) Please bring a water bottle to school everyday

3) If you have not done so already, all students should have a pair of indoor running shoes that should remain in the classroom.

4) I sent home a small family project.  Please help your child complete the 2 sides of the green sheet, as we will be using the information in class.  Please have them done for Tuesday Sept 18.

5)Tuesday Sept 18 is MEET THE TEACHER from 4:30-6:00pm
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We continued our discussion around diversity, respect and families.  Please take a moment to talk to your child about what we have been discussing in class.


Math:

We continue to work on pictographs and bar graphs.  Grade 3 students have started to look at scales (the number on the side of the graph) and choosing an appropriate scale. For example, with larger numbers in a survey, it makes more sense to use a scale of 5 or 10 instead of a scale of 1.

Social Studies:

We have be discussing respect and families.

Visual Arts:

We have been examining Primary colours (Red, Yellow, and Blue) and Secondary colours (Purple, orange, and green)

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Language:

We continue to work on personal narratives and exploring "SMALL MOMENTS".  Student will be focusing on 1 specific idea and adding more details to their stories.  Students have begun using a graphic organizer to help them write their stories.  (Introduction (who, what, where, when), First, Then, Finally, Conclusion).    

We have been focusing on the idea of a watermelon. The whole melon is the idea or topic; the slice is a little more detail; but we want to focus on the seed of the watermelon.  The more detailed part of the moment. We "zoom in" to have a closer look. 

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Here are some books we have read and discussed in class. Please ask your child to tell you about these books.  What was the author's message??

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Unfortunately we had to say good on Friday to one of our Grade 2/3 friends.  Rakan will be missed and we wish him all the best at his new school.

Enjoy your weekend!  It is supposed to be lovely!!  Get out and do some ADVENTURES!! :) 






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