Important Updates & Events
1. Over the Spring Break, I recommend you continuing to use Reflex Math website for basic facts practice (students all have their information on a card that was sent home a couple of months ago) and going on Epic Books website and using our class code (sjd1402) to read during the week days!
2. There is no school from Friday, March 20 to Friday, March 27. Happy Spring Break!
3. I am away the week after Spring Break (March 30 to April 2). Ms. Dang is in for me.
4. Friday, April 3 is Good Friday so there is no school.
5. Important: Please continue to practice multiplication and division! Students need to know their facts to 10, divide with remainders, do word problems, show two to three ways to find products/quotients and write related fact families. I will be giving another Multiplication/Division Show What You Know in April to ensure students haven't forgotten these crucial skills!
Learning Updates
Literacy: Students learned another type of poem this week - limericks! We learned that they originated from Ireland, and limericks have both rhyming and syllable rules. Students then wrote their own limericks! We also wrote another Haiku poem about our favourite season and created a beautiful artwork with it.
Math: We continued to learn to read time, draw time, and convert time between 12 and 24 hour clocks. We also learned new vocabulary used to say the time. For example, quarter to, half past, quarter past...etc. Students also did a Show What You Know just to see what we understood!
Wellness: We learned about what makes our body grow and develop. We learned that so many things determine how we grow, like genetics, personality, environment, food, exercise and more! We also talked about why it's important to have a positive self-image, like how it builds our self-esteem and mindset, and how to do that (such as self-talk)!
Technology: Grade 3s had the opportunity to explore with 3D pens! We learned how tricky it can be and how we needed to be patient. We also had a lot of fun.
Student Highlights:
Ayla said: We made pamphlets during our research project and we used our Chromebooks to help.
Emma said: On Tuesday, we dug up some fossils that weren't real. Some of us got one and some of us haven't yet.
Rayan said: On Tuesday, we did Haiku poems again and we had three lines. So the first one needs to have five syllables, the second one needs to have seven syllables and the last one needs to have five syllables again.
Neepseese said: On Monday, we had morning recess in place of gym! Because to test one of our persuasive writings.
Xavier said: On Monday and Tuesday, we did our pamphlets. Some people finished their pamphlets, including me!
Charvi said: On Thursday, we have conferences and we are going today. Our teacher gave us two sticky notes to share what we want to share with our families.
Ezleah said: On Thursday, we did finish up Friday and we only had to do four things. I still had to do one more thing.
Aaliyah said: On Thursday, me and Charvi and Yui and Anshu and Angela, outside, we played family and I was the mom, Charvi was the big sister, Yui was the baby, Anshu was the baby, Angela was the baby.
Mila said: On Thursday, we did 3D pens and I made a rainbow and some other random stuff, like a little ring. People did stick man and stuff like that!
Anshu said: On Thursday, in gym, it was the last day of Nine Squares. Mr. Newton picked random people for each team.
Eli said: On Thursday, we did Mustard Must Do and I finished. I played a game with Rayan, Idres and Guntaaj. Then we did 3D pens and I made a tree stick man and Rayan made Bob and Timmy Johnson.
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