RED GREEN DAY CHANGED TO DEC.19, 2017

Hi everyone! We have had a small change to our December events. The red/green assembly has been moved from Dec. 21st to Dec. 19th and the spirit assembly will also be held at 12:45 on December 19th, which is also HOT LUNCH day!

We are still planning to go skating to NCSC leaving at 9:45am, skating from 10-11am.  Please let me know if your child needs skates and what size is best.  We currently have enough drivers to take 14 students and need help to transport 8 more. If you can help out please contact me. 

Our classroom Christmas Party will be held the afternoon of December 21st, if you signed up to send treats, I will be sending you a Dojo note soon! Thanks again for all you do for our classroom and our school!

Happy Holidays to all! See you at the concert tomorrow night!

GET EPIC

Thanks so much to everyone who came out for Parent/Teacher interviews. It was nice to see you and have a chance to talk.   Here is a quick access for kids to get onto Get Epic that you can use at home. Hope you find it useful.

Have a great weekend! Our class code is WKL-9120.

https://www.getepic.com/app/profile-select

Skating Fieldtrip

Also, just a glance ahead into December... we will be going skating to Nicholas Sheran Ice Arena on December 21st and will need drivers for that day. We will leave at 9:45, skate from 10-11, and then head back to the school.

Please class dojo or email if you would like to drive on that day. Also, if you have extra helmets or skates that you would be willing to share, they would be greatly appreciated. 

Christmas Concert

Our class will be performing on Thursday December 14 from 6:30-7:30pm at the College Drive Church (2710 College Drive South) across from the Enmax Centre. Concert time is approximately 45 minutes.  Your family will receive 2 tickets as seating is limited in the church.  If you require more than 2 tickets please stop by the office and pick up a hard copy of the "Extra Ticket Request Form" and return it to the office by November 30th. 

Please have your child arrive at the church between 6:10 and 6:20pm at the main entrance. Children are invited to wear Christmas formal attire or anything special they already have. 

The procedure for picking up your child will be announced at the end of the performance. Hope to see you all there!

October Newsletter 2017

It’s hard to believe that it’s already October! The first month of Grade 3 has flown by! We’ve been working hard on learning routines and have jumped into all our beginning units.  Here’s a quick peek at what’s been going on in the four cores!

LA:  I P.U.T. Reading First Home reading challenge

Reading Strategies: Read like books are gold! / Choose within reach books/Set goals

Writing Strategies: Crafting True Stories/ I remember/Map it out/ think about someone important

Math: Patterning Unit/Math Number Games

Science: Scientific Method/ Hearing and Sound Unit

Social: Mapping Unit coming soon

Themes: BFG, Fire Prevention Week, Halloween

                                                                               Big Ideas: Pay it Forward

Spelling Program

We are starting our spelling patterns program this month called Words Their Way and spelling lists will come home every other Monday in agendas and will be practised for 2 weeks. The students will be working on these words in school but will also have a list of activities to choose from for practise each night. Please take 10-15 minutes each night to help your child choose an activity for pattern practise. 

Spelling tests will happen every other Friday (unless there is no school, then we will have it on Thursday). I have completed a spelling inventory of your child’s strengths and weaknesses in relation to spelling patterns and have grouped them so each child is getting instruction on the patterns they struggled with. We do word sorts and hunts with these patterns throughout the two-week rotation with the goal to help your child recognize these spelling patterns and to apply them to other words rather than just memorizing for the test.  The goal is to apply the patterns during real world writing or typing. 

Thanks so much for your help getting this program up and running! Your time at home is greatly appreciated and I hope to see some great gains for our spellers this year!

Important Dates to Remember

Oct. 8-14 Fire Prevention Week “Every Second Counts: Plan 2 Ways Out”

Oct. 9 NO SCHOOL Thanksgiving Holiday

Oct. 10 NO SCHOOL Professional Learning Day

Oct. 13-17^th Scholastic Book Fair 8:00 – 4:00 / except Friday 14th 8:00 – 12:00.   

Oct. 13 Deadline for hot lunch orders

Oct. 18, 25 After school skating at Nicholas Sheran 3:30

Oct. 19 Dismissal at 11:35 today/NO SCHOOL in afternoon Professional Learning Day

Oct. 20 Professional Learning day: NO SCHOOL

Oct. 23 Picture retake day /4:00 clothing exchange at Wilson

Oct. 24 Hot Lunch Day Gr. 1,2,3: The Chopped Leaf/3:15-8:00 pick up fundraiser orders

Oct. 25 Fieldtrip to Helen Schuler Nature Centre 9:30-11:00/Drivers needed leaving at 9:15am

Oct. 26 Spirit Assembly 12:45

Oct. 31 Halloween parade 12:45 (kids change into costumes at lunch) (Thanks for volunteering to send treats for our party, if you signed up you will be receiving an email/dojo soon! We have 22 students and no nut allergies but 1 pineapple allergy!)

JUNE EVENTS

May 26 - District Pow Wow at Nicholas Sheran

May 29 – Clothing Exchange

May 30- Dress Rehearsal for Canada 150 Performances (10:30-11:30 & 12:45-1:45)

May 31 – Canada’s 150th Birthday Grade 3 performs at 1:15 in the gym, Gallery Walk to follow

June 1 – Wear Canada Colours Day RED TOPS and BLACK BOTTOMS /Flag photo and Canada Day Cake!

June 6 – Hot Lunch Day (FREE HOT LUNCH PROVIDED BY OUR GENEROUS LUNCH LADIES!)

June 26 – Div2 Sports Day: volunteers welcome! THANK YOU FOR THOSE WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED, WE ARE IN NEED OF 2 or 3 MORE IF YOU'D LIKE TO JOIN US :)

June 27- Class Celebration Party

THANK YOU FOR VOLUNTEERING TO SEND TREATS ON PARTY DAY:

CHEESE & CRACKERS: JEN FLEXHAUG

FRUIT TRAY WITH DIP: MRS. PAYNE

VEGGIE TRAY & DIP: KIM EARL

PAPER PLATES & DRINK BOXES: SARA SMITH

June 28 – Grade Three Year End swim trip to Henderson Pool/Busses provided

June 29 – Last Day of School, 11:35 Dismissal

Canada 150 Invitation

May Newsletter and Spelling Lists

Here are some of the important dates to remember for May and a little sneak peek into June! We have a lot of fun celebrations and fieldtrips planned so thank you in advance to everyone who volunteers both in our classroom and driving on fieldtrips! A hard copy of this is also coming home soon, please check packs! :)

Some of the other news in our classroom for May is that we are starting to learn to cursive write and are embarking on a poetry unit in Language Arts! We are wrapping up multiplication and diving into division followed by Geometry and Fractions!  This month we will be learning a lot about the Ukraine as we continue our Amazing Race and fieldtrip to the Troyanda to watch Ukrainian Dancers. A HUGE HUGE thanks to all the volunteers who came out to help with the Pysanky egg creation! The kids did an amazing job and I was very grateful to have so many willing participants my first time ever making Ukranian Eggs! In Science we are learning more about Life Cycles and will be doing some Animal Research projects as well as creating an A to Z animal adjective/alliteration book as a gift to our preschool book buddies!

One of our big projects school wide this month is the Canada 150 celebration. The grade 3's will be displaying some work in a gallery walk on May 31st at 1:15. Please send The Family Tree homework project to school on Monday May 1st as it is part of this project.  The gallery walk is a drop in, casual type event for you to come and see what we've been working on. Hope you can stop by! Please have your child wear red on June 1st for the outdoor school photo and Canada day cake! yum!

If you would like to volunteer for our Science WOW! stations on May 23 (8:30-11:45) please Dojo me!

Also, if you can drive to Feel the Beat on May 24 (leaving at 9:30am) that would be much appreciated! Just send me a quick message.  Thanks again!

April News

I'm hoping everyone received the Newsletter that went home on April 3rd but just in case it went missing here's an update for April! We have had a crazy busy month so far! Here's a few of the things we've been up to....

 
1. hatched baby chicks and started our Life Cycles Science Unit/Chick City tomorrow!

2. created Easter bunny houses with the preschool

3. started our multiplication unit

4. learned to draw a baby chick and give feedback to friends in Art

5. Launched our Amazing Race PBL for Social Studies

6. Started Badminton in gym

7. Finished building 5 kinds of bridges: truss, beam, arch, suspension, and  cantilever

8. Continuing with Morning Math & Literacy Stations where our focus is contractions, homonyms, suffixes, vocabulary/comprehension sort,  greater than>less than and sum fluency

9. Writers Workshop focus on changing boring words like walked into exciting words like sauntered or paced

 

And there are more things on the horizon....

1. April 12th swimming fieldtrip...Please contact me if you are able to drive for our fieldtrip swimming next week on Wednesday April 12th leaving the school at 9:45. I'll need enough drivers for 26 kiddos!

2. Our Easter party is April 13th , thanks to those who have already replied to send items. So far, plates and napkins, veggie dip, carrots and celery, broccoli and cauliflower and 12 juice boxes are covered, but we are in need of everything else.

3. April 13th Don't forget to dress fancy for our spirit assembly at 2:00pm

4. April 26 Ukrainian Eggs! I am excited and terrified at the prospect of 26 students and open flames! Please contact me if you are brave enough to join us 10:15-11:45

Whew! Thanks for reading to the end! Have a good night!