Week of January 29, 2018

Good morning 3EV parents, 

What a busy week we had in Grade 3. Students were busy brainstorming questions to answer and projects to create for Genius Hour. It is great to see their creative juices flowing! This will be a shorter week starting on day 2, with Wednesday a day off for Thaipusam.
I will be out on Monday but have left detailed plans for our guest teacher.

Reading

This week students will continue to read a variety of nonfiction and fiction books and discuss their learning with a small group. We will celebrate World Read Aloud Day on Thursday and will Skype with two authors, Deborah Freedman and Debbi Michiko Florence. 

Writing

Students will continue to work on saying more about each of their reasons. Students will learn that when writers write to convince someone they only put in their best, most convincing evidence. We will also begin to use paragraphs as a way to organize their reasons.

Math

We are continuing to work on finding the area of rectangles. Students will learn about the distributive property as a way to solve area problems and as a strategy to multiply using base 10 blocks. Take a look at this progression video to see how we do this. 

Social Studies

We are lucky to have 2 parent experts come in and speak with grade 3. The topics will be archeology and the legacies that ancient civilizations leave us. 

PE- please consult the class documents tab on our website to see when your child has swimming.