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. 13-17th 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!)
