Grade Three Blog

Hello Grade 3 Families! This week we have worked in Math groups for regrouping practice and word problems! Knowing our doubles quickly will help with two and three-digit questions. We are using the around the world game to practice these! In Literacy Centers this week we completed Life Cycles of a Bat to go with our new novel study, Silverwing. We are reading this together as one big group! We have also been working on persuasive writing, and editing our work to make it more readable.  Your child brought home a letter with their google account information to show you their work on a Social presentation about their culture. Please feel free to help your child add more detailed information at home, and we will designate class time for the majority of the work on this presentation.  Please look in your child's Feedback Friday folders, go over this week's page, sign and return it to school. Students should be keeping each week's page in their folder, to see the growth

Good Afternoon, Grade 3 Families! Thank you for attending the parent-teacher conferences on Thursday and Friday.  It was wonderful to meet with all of you and discuss your child's learning and celebrate their hard work.  This week for spelling practice the words are: -all  -am -are  -at -ate -be -black -brown -but -came Please review them at home, and we will do the same here during Literacy Centers! In literacy, we will continue to work on our persuasive writing skills.  We will have lessons pertaining to conventions and building up ideas to support our topics while writing. We continue to compare 5 countries of study and are looking at different ways people dress in different countries. In math, we will be starting our unit on word problems and continue to work towards improving our basic facts to helps us master making our responses automatic. Please look in your child's Feedback Friday folders, go over this week's page, sign a

Good Afternoon, Grade 3 Families! We hope you have a great weekend together and enjoy the warm weather while it lasts. This week for spelling practice the words are: - little - look - make - play - run - two - three - where - you - yellow Please review them at home, and we will do the same here during Literacy Centers! We continue to compare 5 countries of study, and are looking at different schools. It is very interesting to hear our classes compare Ron Southern to schools in India, Tunisia, Peru and Ukraine! We feel lucky for all the technology we have in our warm, safe, school. In Science we are moving into Life Cycles of various animals and will be doing a big project with this! Please look in your child's Feedback Friday folders, go over this weeks page, sign and return it to school. Students should be keeping each week's page in their folder, to see the growth and what we need to work on! We will continue to work on regrouping, as this is a c

Good Evening Grade 3 Families! We hope you enjoyed a long weekend with an extra day of family fun! Spelling Quiz - We will be starting weekly spelling quizzes this week.  The children will be given their words at the beginning of the week and we will quiz them on their feedback on Fridays. This week's words are:   and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny In social studies, we will be comparing schools in different countries.  In science, we will continue to look at life cycles of different animals, especially those found in the novel the "Wish Tree". We will continue to work on addition with regrouping and place value in math. In Math, we got to try a new website called Splash Math! It was very fun and helpful for Math facts. Reminders:  Parent Teacher Conferences November 21st (3:30-7:30) & 22nd (8:00-12:00) Please return any outstanding library books and work towards your 300 minutes of reading! Have a great week!

Good Morning Grade 3 Families! We hope you had a great Halloween and were able to enjoy the extra hour of sleep on Sunday! Reminders: Remembrance Day Assembly November 8th, No school on Monday, November 11th for Remembrance Day We are comparing housing in Canada, India, Peru, Tunisia and Ukraine which includes building them in Block Craft 3D on iPads! We are having a lot of fun with this project. In Math we got to try a new website called Splash Math! It was very fun and helpful for Math facts. We are going to be adding "Fact Frenzy" to our daily Math lessons where we will have 5-10 minutes to complete a set of computation questions. We will be talking this week about ones, tens, hundreds and thousands place values to ensure we are working in the correct columns for regrouping! Please return any outstanding Library books and work towards your 300 minutes of reading! Have a great week!