Day 1!

Announcements

- Scholastic Book orders due TOMORROW (cheques only)
- BBQ forms due TOMORROW!!
- Terry Fox donations due TOMORROW

Bring a Toonie of Terry ($2) tomorrow!
Students are asked to dress in their Gym bottoms and HOUSE SHIRTS tomorrow for the Terry Fox Run. 

Family Handbook acknowledgment is due tomorrow. Please ensure to send this with your child. The handbook was attached in my welcome email.

Welcome BBQ
Our annual SJA and Oakwood Welcome BBQ will be here before you know it! All order forms and payments (cash only) are due by Friday, September 13th). I hope to see you all there!

Terry Fox Run

Our annual Terry Fox run is taking place on Friday, September 13th. Our goal this year is to raise $5,000! Let's go SJA! We can do this!

Pledge forms and donations are due to me by September 13th! Let's see how much our Grade 3 class can contribute towards meeting our school goal. 

Students are to come in their Gym Uniforms on Friday. Please wear your HOUSE COLOUR SHIRT as part of your Gym uniform.

We had an assembly after announcements this morning where we watched a video about Terry Fox and sang a Terry Fox song in French!

Unit of Inquiry/ Inquiry into Language

This morning we spent some time reviewing our classroom expectations to help us ensure that we are following them on a daily basis. After this we went on to read another journal entry from a European settler child. In this journal entry, she talked about how the First Nations (Indigenous Peoples) helped her and her family make food and clothing, along with remedies they used to cure illnesses. In this diary entry, Mary-Ellen explained how they made Pemmican, which is a type of food made from buffalo meat. 

Once we finished reading the diary entry, we went back to highlight the important sentences and pieces of information that tell us how to make pemmican. We learned how to use a highlighter correctly, along with how to distinguish between important information vs. less important information related to our task. When we finished highlighting all the important information, we completed a procedural writing task as a class by writing out the steps you would have to follow if you wanted to make Pemmican. Students then copied this into their notebooks. We will continue to explore and complete procedural writing activities both as a group and independently. We are also working towards ensuring we write the date on all pieces of work to help keep our binders and duotangs organized. 

Music, French and Gym

Check out the blogs below to see what your child did during Music and French

French with Mme. Rawan: https://mmerawansja.blogspot.com

Music with Mrs. McMillan: www.mrsmcmillanmusic.blogspot.com

Gym with Ms. Vasconcelos: https://msvphysed.blogspot.com/ 

Inquiry into Math

We continued to learn about rounding today. We went over the rules for rounding and completed some examples together. Students then worked on rounding word problems. We completed an example together to demonstrate what is expected of them, then students went off to work in small groups to complete these questions. Quite a few students are forgetting to line up their digits in the correct place value when adding, which results with an incorrect answer. We went through this together and students were sent back multiple times until they correctly lined up their numbers. In addition to this, we are working on writing a word sentence that explains what our sum or difference represents. It's important that students recognize what their "answer" represents. 

We watched a rounding song to help build on our understanding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNfz-JU2cKE 

Agenda

- Read for 25 minutes

- Spelling test tomorrow

- Math pg. 13 & 14 in math workbook

- Cursive pgs. 8-11 due tomorrow

- Wear gym uniform and house shirt tomorrow