May 4-8, 2026

          

Catholic Education Week
This week is Catholic Education Week. There are a number of special events planned for us this week by our school and school board. 

Catholic Education Week Activities:

Monday, May 4: Be Community/Spirit wear day, Praying in Colour

Tuesday, May 5: Literacy Day/Buddy Reading

Wednesday, May 6 from 8:15 - 9:00: Muffin & Coffee for Families

Thursday, May 7: Math Day

Friday, May 8: Mass at St. Isidore at 10:00 

Friday, May 8: Zumba at 2:30 for primary students, 3:00 for Junior students

***Please place your order for Scholastic books by Tuesday. This is the last book order of the year. Flyers went home last week or you can also view online and use our class code of RC185840**

Language Goals: We have completed our learning about poetry. Next we will be working on our persuasive letter writing skills. WWW: could, would, should, weather, whether. This is our final week of Word Wall Words.

Read Aloud: We are reading Chapter 10 and 11 of Harry Potter this week.

Math Goals: We have finished our unit on money and have started our unit on probability. Probability is the chance of something happening. We use spinners and number cubes. Our fraction skills will be quite useful. Probability vocabulary: chance, likely, unlikely, certain, possible, impossible, ratio.

Science Goals: We are learning about the main parts of a plant and their functions. This week we are learning about the leaves of a plant.

EQAO: St. Isabel students in grade 3 will be writing EQAO from May 25th - 29th each morning. We will be completing the standardized testing using Chromebooks during class time. EQAO booklet #6 is due Friday, May 8 (please return even if it is not all complete so that we can review & help with understanding). Some students are not finishing the writing portion of their booklet and this is a very important skill for EQAO.

April 27-May 1, 2026

          

Language Goals: We are learning all about poetry! We are writing poems of our own and showing our understanding of written poetry by answering questions. 

Read Aloud: We are reading chapter 9 of Harry Potter this week.

Math Goals: We are continuing to learn about Money and how to make change. We will have our SWYK on Wed. Next up is Probability. Probability is the chance of something happening. We use spinners and number cubes. Our fraction skills will be quite useful. Probability vocabulary: chance, likely, unlikely, certain, possible, impossible, ratio.

Science Goals: Students planted their bulb in soil last week and they are also forcing a bulb in water. We are comparing these two plants as well as learning all we can about the parts of a plant, how plants grow and why we need plants in our lives!

**EQAO: St. Isabel students in grade 3 will be writing EQAO from May 25th - May 29th each morning (please do not book appointments this week in the morning). We will be completing the standardized testing using Chromebooks during class time. 

**EQAO booklet #5 is due Friday, May 1 (please return even if it is not all complete so that we can review & help with understanding).**

Upcoming important dates:

Education Week: May 4-8

Mass at St. Isidore's Church: Friday, May 8

Mother's Day: May 10
Victoria Day: May 18 (no school for students)

April 20-24, 2026

                                       

EQAO - thank you for your continued support as we prepare for the provincial EQAO testing. Booklet #4 was sent home on Friday. Even if students do not finish, please have your child bring the booklet back to school the following week so they can follow & write down their learning as we review the answers!

Language: this week we will continue learning about poetry, both by writing poems of our own and showing our understanding of written poetry by answering questions. Once our unit on poetry is complete we will begin learning about persuasive writing and will start writing our own persuasive letter.  

New WWW: lovable, were, thought, impossible, independent

Math: We continue to learn about money this week. Once we have completed out unit on money we will begin probability. Probability is the chance of something happening. We use spinners and number cubes. Our fraction skills will be quite useful. Probability vocabulary: chance, likely, unlikely, certain, possible, impossible, ratio.

Science: This week we continue our study of plants. We will be watching, measuring and inspecting how our bulbs are growing both in soil as well as those being forced in water. We will be working on two side by side experiments and tracking the growth of our plants frequently.

End of Year Field Trip!

We will be going by bus to Upper Canada Village (rain or shine) on Wed. June 10th. Our bus will leave the school around 9:15 and we will return to school at approximately 4:15 p.m. A permission form will be sent home closer to the day. There are 2 important items that must be taken care of for this special event to take place:

1 - All student activity fees ($30) must be paid via School Cash On-line in order to cover the expenses of this trip as well as our other extra learning initiatives. If you are having trouble accessing the portal please contact the school office directly.

2 - We would love to have some volunteers join us for this trip. All volunteers will need to meet us at Upper Canada Village as we have two full classes this year and the bus will not hold extras. If you are able to drive other volunteers, please let us know and we can offer your extra space to those without a vehicle that day! In order for you to be a volunteer on this trip, you must be on the approved school volunteer list. Please click this link to be approved! Become an Approved OCSB Volunteer

Upcoming important dates:
Friday, April 24: EQAO homework package #4 due

April 19-26: Earth Week
Monday, April 27: PD Day (no school for students)

May 4-8: Catholic Education Week: 

May 10: Mother's Day 

April 13-17, 2026

              

Our grade 3 students are doing an excellent job preparing for EQAO. Thank you parents for assisting and encouraging your child to complete their weekly EQAO Practise Booklets and return them each Friday so we can correct them together. 

April is Poetry Month!

In Language Arts, we are completing our narrative stories and looking forward to our poetry unit. Enjoy some time with your child reading everything from limericks to free verse! Here is one to get you started:

Raindrops
By Aileen Fisher

How brave a ladybug must be

Each drop of rain is big as she.

Can you imagine what you'd do

if raindrops fell as big as you?

New WWW: almost, also, always, hole, whole 

Math: We are completing our time unit and will be starting our unit on money. We will be learning about coins and their value, adding and subtracting money amounts, word problems and making change from $10.

Science: This week we continue our study of plants. We will start our learning about the various parts of a plant.

Looking Ahead:

Friday, April 17: EQAO homework package #3 due

Monday, April 27: PD Day (no school for students)

April 6-10, 2025

                                         

Happy Easter to all of our Grade Three Families!

***We will be going on our class trip to Upper Canada Village on Wed. June 10th. It is important that you have paid your child's Student Activity Fee (via School Cash Online) so that they can attend this fun adventure with us. If you would also like to join us as a parent volunteer, we need to see your name on our School Board Volunteer list. You must apply by clicking this link: 

https://www.ocsb.ca/contact/volunteers/

If you are not on our list, unfortunately, we will not be able to include you as a volunteer for our trip. We will send out more information and permission forms closer to the date!***

Language: This week we are continuing to work on our narrative stories. Next we will start our persuasive writing unit. We will be writing convincing arguments and counter arguments. April is also Poetry month - we will be writing different forms of poetry all month! This week we are reading Chapters 4&5 of Harry Potter. We continue to learn about various grammar rules for writing and how to determine important ideas when reading texts.

Mathematics: We finished our unit on fractions and will begin our unit on time. Students must know time to the hour, minute, and have an understanding of seconds.

Science: We will continue our learning about plants.

***EQAO Practise booklet #2 is due back to school on Friday (April 10). Please ensure your child brings their booklet back for our consolidation even if they have not finished all of the pages. We will be taking up each question and it is easier for them if they have the paper copy to follow along with!***

Looking Ahead:

Monday, April 6th: Easter Monday (No School)

Tuesday, April 7th: Easter Liturgy at 10:30 a.m.

Friday, April 10: EQAO homework package #2 due

March 30-April 3, 2026

                       

Thank you for your support with regard to helping your child prepare as best as possible for the provincial testing in May. The first booklet went home on Friday, March 27th. Please remind your child to return booklet #1 by Thursday, April 2 so we can take up & review before the weekend. A new homework package will be sent home Thursday.

Language: We will be working our narrative stories this week and will use book creator for our final copy. April is also Poetry month - we will be reading and writing different forms of poetry all month!

Mathematics: We will begin our unit on fractions this week. It is a short unit so we will finish it by Thursday. After that we will begin to learn about telling time. Gr. 3 students must know time to the hour/minute/second. Terms like quarter hour, half hour, half past, quarter past and quarter to, will all be a part of our learning.

WWWs: excite, with, wear, where, we're

Science: We have finished our unit on forces. Our next Science unit will be about plants.

Looking Ahead:

Thursday, April 2nd: Wear Blue for Autism

Thursday, April 2nd: EQAO prep booklet #1 - due

Friday, April 3rd: Good Friday (No School) 
Monday, April 6th: Easter Monday (No School) 

Monday, April 27th: PD Day (No school for students)

March 23-27, 2026

                                 

                                  

In Language, we will finish up learning about the key features of a narrative story (characters, setting, problem, solution, and plot). We hope to begin working on our own narrative stories this week. 

Mathematics: We started our division unit before the break. Practicing times tables (as well as division facts) everyday will help us know our facts and be more prepared to continue our learning in grade 4! 

Science: This will be our final week learning about forces. Our next Science unit will be all about plants. 

WWW: confusion, I'm, vacation, question, that's

In preparation for EQAO, as mentioned before the break, we will be sending work packages home each Friday that must be returned the following Friday (we will be taking them up as a class so students learn where extra review is needed). We encourage children to complete 1-2 pages per night. If they are unable to answer a few of the questions, please do not worry as we will review and explain them fully on Fridays. Booklets must be returned - finished or not- on the due date, so students can write down or correct their answers when we take the questions up as a whole group.

The first EQAO package will be sent home on Friday, March 27 and will be due back to school on Thursday, April 2 (this is a change from above as we will not be at school on Friday, April 3).

Thank you for your support in helping us to prepare your children for the provincial test that will occur in May.

Looking Ahead:

Friday, April 3rd: Good Friday (No School) 

Monday, April 4th: Easter Monday (No School)
Monday, April 27th: PD Day (No school for students)