March 4th - 8th

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In grade three this week….

Students continued to work on their reading skills and recording their understanding in their reading response journal. They also practiced reading for information when researching about global citizenship. When researching, they looked for key words and points, recorded these, and explained them in their own words.

The students continued to work on note taking while researching. They worked hard to make sure they only wrote down ideas they understood and putting them into their own words. Students did a great job of looking up words they were not sure of and then recording them. One example of this was the word “drought”. When a group did not know what this word meant, they looked it up in the dictionary and then recorded their understanding in their notes.

Students worked on using a variety of strategies to understand multiplication. The strategies they worked on included visuals, repeated addition, skip counting, multiplying by one, and the commutative property (2x3= 3x2=). Ask your child to show you how they prefer to solve questions, such as 3 x 4 = and 5 x 2 =.

The grade threes continued to research about other countries. They learned that organizations, such as UNICEF and the WE Movement help globally. They also learned how these organizations help communities around the world in ways such as by improving their access to water and education. In addition, students had an opportunity to research how the Red Cross supports communities during emergencies, such as natural disasters. Ask your child to name one organization that helps globally and how it helps.

Students did a great job using plasticine to demonstrate their understanding or one of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ask your child to share which right they made a scene of and to explain why they did it that way.

In PE, students had another great week of gymnastics exploring different stations. The stations required students to use different skills, such as balancing, hanging, rolling, and climbing. All of the stations developed the students’ core strength. Ask your child to tell you their favourite gymnastics station.

Thank You
Thank you to all those who volunteered for Fun Lunch and Sibbald U. Your help is much appreciated!

Upcoming Dates
Mar 12 - School Council 
Mar 21 - Fun Lunch 
Mar 21 - Last Day of School Before Spring Break 
Mar 21 - Student Led Conferences 
Mar 22 - Student Led Conferences
Mar 23 - 31 – Spring Break
Apr 1- School Resumes 
April 9 - School Council 
April 8-18 - Dance Residency
April 19 - Good Friday -No School 
April 22 – Non-Instructional Day -No School
Apr 25 - Fun Lunch 

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