Hi everyone!
Your child has a small homework assignment tonight! When they are doing their home reading ask them to find and write down ONE example of figurative language. In class the examples we covered were :
1. she was as tall as a giraffe
2. He was as brave as a lion
3. It's raining cats and dogs
4. don't cry over spilt milk
5. laugh like a barrel of monkeys
Your child can write the example they find on a sheet of paper and be ready to share it with the class tomorrow. Happy reading!
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Saturday, 5 January 2019
Happy New Year 2019!
Mrs. Payne’s Class Newsletter 2019
Welcome back! Hope everyone had a restful holiday and
enjoyed some quality family time!
January is a busy month with lots of new projects and some fun spirit
days!
LA: Home
reading challenge continues! Please be sure to have agendas turned in
everyday so we can include your nightly reading on the bookmark levels.
Congratulations to everyone who has “levelled up"
Reading Strategies: Tackling More Challenging Texts
Finished tackling hard words takes grit/ Readers Climb the
Hurdle of hard words by: chunking words/ thinking about the story/using textual
clues to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words: gist, synonyms, antonyms,
explanation, prefixes/ Next lessons include making sense of figurative language/
talking back to the text/and considering the author’s purpose
Writing Strategies: Changing the world/Opinion Writing Unit
See a problem-imagine
a solution/ write about beautiful things/use because to explain why someone
noteworthy should be recognized/ OREOs format: Opinion, Reasons, Examples,
Opinion (restated)/brave bold thesis statements/ consider your audience/
Words Their Way: we are continuing with this differentiated
spelling program where your child will bring home new lists on Monday that will
be worked on for 2 weeks at a time.
At the end of the 2 weeks, there will be a spelling test on Friday (or Thursday
if there is no school on Friday). Thanks for your support at home working on
these sometimes-tricky spelling patterns! First new lists will be coming home Monday
January 14, 2019.
Math:
Completed patterns and numbers to 1000 and will do a quick review of addition
and subtraction/skip counting by 2,3,4,5,10, 25 then moving onto
Multiplication!
Science: Completing
Testing Materials and Designs and then starting Project Based Learning: Looking at Lethbridge soon. Building with a Variety of Materials
Social: We have
completed Quality of Life in our 4 countries India, Peru, Ukraine, and Tunisia
and are continuing traditions and celebrations
in relation to Canada.
Word Work Themes: New
Years and Winter
7 Sacred
Teachings: Wisdom
Important Dates to Remember
Jan. 7- Hot Lunch order deadline
Jan. 8, 15, 22- Free after school skating at ATB centre
Jan. 9- School Council meeting 7pm
Jan.14 New spelling lists
come home
Jan. 18 Dress up as your
favourite book character
Jan. 22-Hot lunch day (Pizza)
Jan. 24- Spirit Assembly 10:20 in the gym
Jan. 25- spelling test
Upcoming Fieldtrip in February
We will be skating again, at Nicholas Sheran Friday, Feb. 14th from 10:15-11:15am. If you are able to help supervise please dojo/email. Students will again be bussed so no drivers are needed. Thanks a bunch!
Saturday, 1 December 2018
December News 2018
Important Dates to Remember!
December 4-
After school skating is held every Tuesday at 3:15 at ATB! It’s free and fun!
December 6- Christmas
Gala at MMH! 6:00-7:30 pm Everyone
is invited! This is a come and go event, pop in and out, or stay for the whole
event.
December 11-
Hot Lunch Day
December 13-
Carolling in the gym 6:30pm hosted by MMH school council
December 13- Bussed Fieldtrip to
Galt Museum: Ukrainian Connections (12:50-2:10)- see attached note
December 17-Christmas carols
singalong in the gym 12:30
December 18-21-Christmas carols singalong
in the gym 8:30am
December 18- Magic of Christmas
(MMH gym: 6:30 pm) This event will showcase the MMH Senior Choir and Hand Bell
Choir. Choir members should dress in their Christmas best and be at the school by
6:15pm.
December 20-
Bussed Fieldtrip to Nicholas Sheran Ice Arena Skating (1:00-2:00) - see
attached note/ Wear Red and Green today!
December 22-January
6- Happy Holidays!
January 7-
First day back
Saturday, 3 November 2018
November News 2018
Thanks so much to everyone who sent
treats for our party ! They were delicious. The kids had fun parading through
the halls and I’m sure they had a great night of trick or treating! Also, thank
you to the many parent volunteers who
helped supervise our Helen Schuler fieldtrip! Here’s a look at our month of November!
LA:
Home reading bookmark challenge
continues. Each night read earns a hole punch in card.
Reading
Strategies: Building a Reading Life continues/ Novel: Stone Fox
Finished
Understanding the Story/Readers Check for Comprehension 1. Who is in this part
2. What just happened 3. Does this fit with something that already happened, or
is this new? / What mind work is the text signalling me to do? Envision a
mental movie or collect information to make a list/ predicting and retelling
November
Lessons: Tackling Hard words takes grit/ Readers Climb the Hurdle of hard
words by: chunking words/ thinking about the story/using textual clues to
figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words: gist, synonyms, antonyms,
explanation, prefixes/ making sense of figurative language/ talking back to the
text/ considering the author’s purpose
Writing
Strategies: Crafting True Stories Unit continues
To
write a true story:
1.
make a
mental movie of what happened, telling it in small detail, bit by bit.
2.
Remember your writing goals
3.
Rehearse for your writing by storytelling like
Robert Munsch
4.
Try different leads for your story (will you
start with action, dialogue, or setting?)
5.
Write a flash draft
6.
Revise
Math: Numbers to 1000 Unit
Science: Finishing
Hearing and Sound
Testing Materials and Designs Unit starting soon
Social: Quality of Life in 4 countries of study: India, Peru,
Ukraine, Tunisia
Themes: Remembrance Day
Big Ideas: Growth Mindset with Mojo
Seven Sacred Teachings: Bravery/Bear
Spelling Program Update
Congratulations on a
great start to our spelling program! The kids are doing well with their lists
and are mastering a ton of new words and patterns. I am excited to see that
many of them are getting their 2 mystery challenge words correct on their
tests, this tells me they have internalized the pattern and can generalize it
to new words! Way to go! They love their
partner practise time using games like tic tac toe and have individual practise
time doing regular sorts, speed sorts, and a choice of word searches, ABC
order, or sentence creation tasks. Thanks
so much for your help at home with this program! I can see the results of our combined efforts
already!
How to Book Your Parent
Teacher Interview
November is always an
exciting time with the opportunity for teachers and parents to celebrate
student learning through the interview process.
Parent Teacher Interviews will take place at MMH in November. Grade 1 to 5 interviews are scheduled for
November 22. Instructions on how to book
your parent teacher interview are here!
Step 1: Open to Parents Thursday,
November 1. To register, please click on
the “Parent Teacher Interview” button on the home page or under the “Quick
Links” section of our website http://mmh.lethsd.ab.ca. Please click the
“Register for an account” link (as shown below).
Step 2:
Enter all the information into the required fields. Please make sure to select Parent in the
“Tell us who you are?” drop down menu and then hit submit.
Step 3: Once you have
successfully logged in please select the date you wish to schedule a time.
Step
4: Book Your Parent-Teacher Interview - You will see the teacher’s
schedule. From the times listed please
select one and click the “Book” button.
After booking your appointments you can print off your schedule. You can log into the system at any time to
view your bookings, print, cancel or reschedule appointments by going to the
specific day you have booked and at the bottom of the page view your
appointment time by clicking on “View my Parent Teacher Interview Schedule”. You can also book additional appointments
with other teachers as well. Please do
not call the office if you have forgotten your time. Unfortunately, the office is not staffed to
handle this volume of calls.
Step 5: Write down your interview
time(s) for future reference. Step 6: Please attend your Parent-Teacher
Interview on time.
Important Dates to Remember
Nov. 5-Deadline to order hot lunch
Nov. 8-
Booster Juice Day/ pick up fundraiser orders
Nov. 9-Remembrance Day assembly 10:30 in
the gym
Nov. 12-No School- Remembrance Day
Nov. 13 -No School Professional Learning Day
Nov. 14- school council meets at 7pm
Nov. 15-Roc Your Mocs Day
Nov. 20- Hot Lunch Day for Gr. 1,2,3/Report
Cards come home
Nov. 21- Dress Up as your favourite Animal
Day/ Earth Rangers 2:00
Nov. 22- no school for students due to parent teacher interviews 8:30am-8pm
please sign up online/instructions included in this letter
Nov. 23-No
school professional learning day
Nov. 29 Spirit Assembly 10:20 am in the gym
Sunday, 30 September 2018
October Newsletter 2018
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 and what’s coming in the four cores!
LA:
Home reading book mark challenge: Check out the What's New sidebar link to our One District One Book coming March 2019!
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 coming soon
Science: Scientific Method/ Hearing and Sound Unit
Social: Mapping Unit
Themes: BFG, Fire Prevention Week, Thanksgiving, Halloween
7 Sacred Teachings: Respect
Spelling Program
We started 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 need to
practise at home. Please take 10-15
minutes each night to help your child cut apart word lists and sort them
according to the pattern.
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. 1- Fall Fundraiser Kick Off/ ORANGE SHIRT DAY
Oct. 8 NO SCHOOL
Thanksgiving Holiday
Oct. 9 NO SCHOOL Professional Learning Day: Literacy Day
Oct. 10 Walk to school day
Oct. 11-16th Scholastic Book Fair 8:00 – 4:00 / except
Friday 14th 8:00 – 11:40.
Oct. 16 Deadline for Fundraiser orders
Oct. 18 Dismissal at 11:40 today/NO SCHOOL in afternoon Professional Learning Day
Oct. 19 Professional
Learning day: NO SCHOOL
Oct. 22 Deadline for Booster Juice orders
Oct. 23 Hot Lunch
Oct. 24 Picture retake day
Oct. 25 Spirit Assembly 12:30 Wear Blue and Gold
Oct. 30 1:00 Fieldtrip to Helen Schuler Busses will be
provided-supervisors needed see attached
Oct. 31 Halloween Parade 12:30 (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 19 students and no nut
allergies.
October 1, 2018
Dear
Parents,
The Grade 3
Team has decided to take the kids to Helen Schuler to the Sounding Off
presentation as part of our Science curriculum. Mrs. Payne’s and Mrs. Moore’s
class will be going on Tuesday, October 30th from 1:00-2:20.
We have
booked and paid for busses to transport the children therefore parent drivers
are NOT required. However, we will still
need a couple of parents to either ride the bus with the class or simply meet
us at the Nature Centre to help supervise.
If you are
able to meet us at Helen Schuler to help with supervising students please
return the bottom portion of this letter to your child’s teacher or send a
quick message on Class Dojo.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Please return this portion of this
letter by Friday, October 12th)
Student Name: ________________________________________
____ I can
supervise children at Helen Schuler and will meet you there.
____ I have
already filled in a driver’s form this year.
____ I can supervise children at
Helen Schuler and will ride the bus with you.
______________________________
(Parent’s
name & phone #)
Sunday, 4 February 2018
Grade 3 Looking At Lethbridge PBL
Here are a few pictures from our visiting councillor and architect to kick off our Looking at Lethbridge Project! Thanks so much to Lethbridge City Councillor Ryan Parker for stopping by to talk with all of our Grade 3 students and also to Jessie Potrie from FWBA Architects for explaining the fine details of architecture design.
Students will be making blueprints for their projects this week and will need a piece of cardboard roughly 15 X 18inches to build their structures on. If you could send a piece of cardboard by February 26th that would be perfect! Thanks a bunch!
February Newsletter 2018
Writing Strategies:
Changing the World/Opinion Writing Unit
continues. We’ve worked on finding and
solving problems both large and small and just yesterday wrote a letter to mom
and dad trying to persuade you to buy a pet!
I must admit they had some convincing arguments! We will continue with this
type of writing for February using the OREO format: Opinion, Reasons, Examples,
Opinion (restated)/brave bold thesis statements/ consider your audience/
Math: We’ve
finished skip counting, money, addition, and subtraction, and have started multiplication! In Grade 3 kids need to
know their times tables facts to 5X5. We
are learning that if we can skip count, we can learn our facts quickly! We know
the parts of a multiplication equation including the terms product and factors
and talked about the commutative property which tells us that if 5X1=5 then
1X5= 5.
Science: Looking at
Lethbridge Project! We are becoming Engineers for our Building With a
Variety of Materials unit. We were lucky to have councillor Ryan Parker come to
our school to talk about some of the criteria, problems, and constraints of
building in Lethbridge followed by Jessie Potrie , the architect who helped
design Coalbanks Elementary. He presented some inspiring designs and shared
some 3D models of his work to get the kids excited about their own building
projects. The kids did a survey to find out what type of building was needed on
the west side, narrowed down their choices, graphed their results, and came up
with their number one building choice.
There will be a letter coming home soon asking for materials to build
the final project. We will be drawing up blueprints in the next few weeks and
construction will be underway soon!
Students will be making blueprints for their projects this week and will need a piece of cardboard roughly 15 X 18inches to build their structures on. If you could send a piece of cardboard by February 26th that would be perfect! Thanks a bunch!
Social: Traditions
and Celebrations in all 4 countries continues! A study guide will be coming
home in a few weeks with a quiz to follow which should give the kids lots of
time to prepare.
Word Work Themes:
Valentines Day
Big Ideas: Entrepreneurial Spirit: I am creative, innovative, and
ready to take on a challenge. I am on time, I come prepared to learn, I use
class time wisely, I complete assigned tasks, and I accept feedback
Skating Fieldtrip:
Thanks to those who have already volunteered to drive to skating on Feb. 16th .
We are in need of a few more so please return the bottom of the form if you are
able to help out, or email/Dojo me! Thanks so much! We are covered for drivers! Thank you!!
Important Dates to Remember in February!
Feb 6 - Town Hall Meeting
Feb 7 - School Council
Feb 9 - Hot Lunch Deadline
Feb 13 - Choir
Feb 15 - Jersey/Team Shirt Day
Feb 15 - Spirit Assembly
Feb 16 - Grade 3 Skating at the ATB
Centre 10-11am-
we have all our drivers now! thank you everyone!
we have all our drivers now! thank you everyone!
Feb 20-23 No School- Reading Week & Teacher’s
Convention
Feb 26 - Random Acts of Kindness
Feb 27 - Random Acts of Kindness
Feb 27 - Hot Lunch Grades 1, 2, 3
Feb 27 - Choir
Feb 28 - Pink Shirt Day
Feb 28 - Hot Lunch Grades 4, 5
Our
Valentine’s Class Party will be the afternoon of Wednesday, February 14th.
Thank you to
the following people for providing snacks:
Veggies Tray: Avery
Crackers and cheese: AddyM.
Fruit tray: Zander
Cookies or
muffins: Calum
Drinks and
plates: Ronin
Meat and pickles: Caleb
Thanks so much everyone! We are now covered for snacks! :)
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