It is difficult to believe that it is already October! I am truly enjoying learning with your child everyday and it was a pleasure meeting so many of you last week at our school Open House/Curriculum Night! Thank you for taking an interest in your child’s learning, your inquiries and constructive feedback are always welcome and appreciated. This a great demonstration of family and teachers working together to enrich your child’s school experience.
Curriculum Corner:
Math: We are continuing to work on our Number Sense and Numeration unit. Building on our prior knowledge, we are moving onto number lines, comparing numbers, place values, rounding, and different ways of representing numbers. Soon, we will also be starting a unit on Patterning.
Science: We have started our unit on Forces causing movement. We will be spending a couple of months investigating various forces, their causes and effects.
Language: We are practicing consistent French language use in class, as well as to be accountable for using an appropriate and respectful choices of words to interact with others in French. Our word work starts to focus on specific sounds that will be utilised to help us read and write. We will learn how to turn simple sentences into more complex, engaging ones. We are learning to use verbs, adjectives and conjunctions to help us add more detail to our sentences and make them more interesting.
Health: We have been learning about the zones of regulation through which we identify our emotions and help us stay in the ideal emotional state for learning. We will further explore the topic by learning about our brain and how it helps us identify and control our emotions. We will also start to talk about the components and characteristics of healthy relationships.
The Arts: the emphasis for arts this month is learning about the creative process. How to take our ideas to paper, makes plans to execute ideas, create drafts or prototypes, get feedback and make revisions before we do a final evaluation. (Which will also be very useful in developing our writing later in the year!)
Mark your calendar for these important dates:
Monday, October 9th –Thanksgiving Day (No School)
Tuesday, October 17th- Paid lunchtime programs begin in multipurpose room
Friday, October 20- PA Day (No School)
Tuesday, October 24th – Hansel & Gretel presentation (Free)
Monday, October 31st (pm) – School-wide Halloween Parade
School play news: This year’s production will be Fiddler on the Roof. Grade 3 students are invited to be part of the villagers’ chorus. They are not required to audition, however they must attend all their rehearsals at recess. Please return all forms to Mme Silver, Mme Jessup or Mme Richardson in order to participate. For more information please see Mme Silver’s blog (http://silverrdps.blogspot.ca/)
Knitting club will be starting soon for the grade 3 students. Students wanting to participate should request a form from me and have it filled by their parents/guardians. If you have any questions about this club, please contact Mme Sewell at Ext. 139.
Our regular visit to the school library will be every day 4 after lunch. Your child is allowed to take a maximum of two French books at a time and s/he can keep them for up to 2 weeks. If s/he finishes reading all the borrowed books before the next regular library visit, s/he can bring them back any day of the week and borrow other books. Please do not forget to initial on the reading log in the blue binder every day to help your child build a lifetime reading habit!
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to write me via Remind App or agenda. You can also call me at Ext. 224. Thank you in advance for your support and cooperation.
M Jung