Grade Three Blog

Good Afternoon, Grade 3 Families! We hope you're having a great weekend with family and friends. Please remember to look over our Feedback Friday from this week, sign and return it to your teacher! With Halloween coming up we wanted to send out a reminder that while costumes are permitted to be worn all day, those with masks, weapons or exceptionally scary ones are not. Students are allowed to bring in snacks/treats for their class on the 31st if they would like. Please be mindful of peanut allergies in grade 3! The children had a lot of fun making a music video this week about the 7 continents, we hope to show it to you at the upcoming interviews. SLA update - the results from our government SLA's will be shared with you at interviews at the end of November. This week we will focus on literacy, math and science pertaining to our class novel study. NO SCHOOL Friday, November 1st. Have a great day! See you tomorrow :)

Good Afternoon, Grade 3 Families! We hope you're having a great weekend with family and friends. Please remember to look over our Feedback Friday from this week, sign and return it to your teacher! Book orders and popcorn came home as well, on Friday. With Halloween coming up we wanted to send out a reminder that while costumes are permitted to be worn all day, those with masks, weapons or exceptionally scary ones are not. Students are allowed to bring in snacks/treats for their class on the 31st if they would like. Please be mindful of peanut allergies in grade 3! This week we began talking about all 5 countries we will be studying this year, to help students compare features like housing, celebrations, clothing, food etc. Your children have been very interested in comparing their locations on maps! In Science we continue to learn a variety of Landforms in our Rocks and Minerals unit! Mr. Wideman lead Phys. Ed. on Friday and we learned some great new games, including

Hello, Grade 3 Families! We hope you are enjoying a beautiful long thanksgiving weekend with your families!  Last week we were very busy collecting information and learning about bar graphs.  We will continue with this work this week and answer word problems about the data we have collected.  Please see the bonus question below that children can do if they are looking for a challenge this weekend.  We enjoyed our walk on Monday and were able to collect rocks for a project we are doing about land formations (which we started learning about last week).  Both classes have started to read a novel titled the " Wish Tree " By Christina Applegate.  The children are so engaged with this novel and we will be exploring the concept of empathy and connecting all curricular areas as we take this journey in literacy.  Please watch the trailer below to see what it's all about! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P5TSKKBIyo Math bouns question:  Make a bar graph by collecting your own

Hello Grade 3 Families! This has been a busy week for us writing our Student Learning Assessments (SLA's) in grade 3! We have also continued into our Rocks and Minerals unit moving into landforms as we took a deeper look at Volcanos! With the SLA's wrapping up this week, we will have more time to begin a new project about Peru for Social Studies. Your children have worked so hard this week writing their SLA's, in lieu of Feedback Friday, please do this addition activity as a family: count the number of doors in your house count the number of stairs in your house add them together write it down on a piece of paper with your name and your parents name who you did the addition with bring it to class your paper will be entered to win a prize! Results will be shared with parents when they have been marked and sent back to us! Reminders: - Bring book truck books back when finished reading them, as the next visit will be October 23rd - Scholastic book orde