Our Grade 3 students had a busy first week together at St. Isabel! We are working on getting to know one another and developing wonderful classroom communities.
In order for students to use technology in the schools (chromebooks, etc) we ask that you fill in a Responsible Use of Technology agreement Form with your child. You can do this easily by following these steps: Responsible Use of Technology Form
Here is a quick snapshot of the flow of our day:
We are working on our Digital Citizenship lessons and are beginning to have a very good sense of how to stay and be safe when using technology. If something inappropriate pops up on our screen, we know to click the X and tell an adult. Ask your child what other safety tips they can share with you!
Our focus in Math for the next few weeks will be on Data Management (specifically, collecting & organizing data and creating graphs to show the information. Students must also be able to make conclusions from the information depicted on a graph).
Determining important questions, developing interview skills, along with learning to write a paragraph, are our foci in Language Arts for the next few weeks. Our new Gr. 3 WWW (Word Wall Words) are: have, said, again, because, about. We write sentences using each word and learn about our new WWW throughout the week and then have a little WWW Show What You Know (SWYK) on Friday. Please help your child prepare for this by reviewing the words nightly. If your child does not finish writing their sentences on Monday at school, we ask that you allow them time at home to finish their work (sentences are written in the class Workspace).
In Science, we are beginning our inquiry on soils. We look forward to sharing our “wonders” and brainstorming ways to meet our learning goals for this unit.
**Please follow your child's teacher on twitter (X). We post most days about the learning that has happened and include pictures of the fun we have while doing it! We like to track, as a class, how many likes our tweets get so please make sure you 💓each tweet!
Important Dates:
Wednesday. Sept 10 - Meet The Teacher Night 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Friday. Sept. 13 - International Dot Day - please wear dotted (polka dots) attire to school today. We will be celebrating this special day with many Dot Day activities! Dot Day Website
Homework:
1. We encourage nightly reading out loud (either your child reading out loud to an adult or an adult reading out loud to their child). Please ask questions as you read together - focus on questions that cannot be answered with a yes or no answer. Ask why your child thinks the way they do. Can they use proof from the text to support their thinking?
2. Nightly review of weekly Word Wall Words (see above).
3. Math Facts to 20 - i.e. doubles (8+8=16), addition (3+12=15), subtraction (18-3=15)
Wishing everyone a wonderful week!
Mr. Spearin and Mrs. Brennen
(Your Gr. 3 Team)
