Day 5!

Announcements

- Scholastic Book orders due September 13th (cheques only)
- BBQ forms due Friday!!
- Terry Fox donations due Friday
Toonie of Terry ($2) on Friday!
- Students are asked to dress in their Gym uniforms and HOUSE SHIRTS on Friday for the Terry Fox Run. 

Family Handbook acknowledgment is due on Friday. 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.

Reading Buddies

Our first day of reading buddies arrived! We are reading buddies with Ms. Gandy's Grade 1 class. The students did a great job at modeling good reading skills. We asked our reading buddies some questions to see if they understood the text. We will be working on modeling reading and comprehension strategies so help the Grade 1s develop their reading skills!

Inquiry into Language

Students were given some time to work on their cursive writing skills. Each week, cursive writing will be assigned on Monday or Tuesday. The pages assigned are not due until the Friday of that week. Students are encouraged to demonstrate their best cursive writing as they will be required to go back and do it again if I notice that it is not their neatest writing.

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/ 

Unit of Inquiry

Today we read the diary of a boy named Patrick, who traveled from Ireland to Upper Canada in the 1800s. The diary described some of the experiences that his family and others went through when they let Europe and traveled to Upper Canada to settle. We discussed some of the risks these families took, and why they would be willing to take such risks. In addition to this, we discussed how these individuals may have felt, what they would have seen, heard and smelled on this boat journey. While reading this diary, we also thought about whether it was written in 1st person, 2nd person or 3rd person.

Using the letter from Patrick, students have describe some of the things they would have seen, felt, smelled, tasted, felt (feelings) and heard. Tomorrow we will assemble our ships in class!

Inquiry into Math

Today we learned a variety of ways to represent numbers. We learned the math vocabulary terms "standard form, expanded form, word form and base-ten form." Standard form and expanded form were new to us. The students were each given one or two cut outs of a number represented in a certain way. Students then had to come up one at a time to organize them in our chart paper according to how the number was represented. It was important for the students to pay attention to where their peers pasted their sheets of paper because they had to ensure that their representation of a number matched the others that were in that row on the chart paper.

Students went on to complete a cut and paste activity where they had to sort and paste a set of numbers represented in standard form, expanded form and word from. It's so important that the students look at each digits value based on its place value as this will help them accurately represented the expanded form of that number. Once finished, students began to work on their workbook homework. 

The students were working so well and wanted to sing a song they learned in music last year while they worked!

Agenda

- Read for 25 minutes

- Spelling due Thurs.

- Spelling test Friday

- Cursive writing pgs. 8-11 due Fri.

- Math: pg. 12 & 13 in workbook

- UOI Voyage to Upper Canada