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

Day 4

Announcements

- Please return all required SJA and teacher forms ASAP (community walk, family handbook acknowledgement, teacher survey, etc.
- Scholastic Book orders due September 13th (cheques only)

Parents, please remember to check and sign your child's agenda on a daily basis. If you write a note for me, please ensure your child knows to show me their agenda in the morning so I am aware of your note.

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.

Community Circle

This morning for our community circle, students had the option to share the highlight of their weekend with their peers.

Inquiry into Language

This morning we "dove" into our Spelling workbooks. Students began to work on Lesson 1 in their spelling workbooks. Most of the students got through a good chunk of their spelling. Our spelling lesson is due on Thursday, and our spelling test will be on Friday. It is important that students understand the meaning of their list words as their spelling tests will require them to use their list words in a sentence that makes sense, and with the words spelled correctly. 

Unit of Inquiry

We began our first UOI with our "Where we are in place and time" unit. We discussed our central idea, key concepts and lines of inquiry. We also discussed the learner profiles (Open-minded), along with the attitudes and attributes (Appreciation & Curiosity) that we will be focusing on during this UOI. 

To begin with, we had a discussion regarding these three questions:

- How do you think Canada has changed from the 1800s to now?

- Who lived in Canada in the 1800s?

- What challenges do you think the people of the 1800s faced?

The students had some really good thoughts that are connected to what we will be learning about. After we finished this discussion, students went around the classroom to engage in discussions with their peers regarding the "discussion card" they landed at. It'll be interested to see and hear their thinking when they find out the modes of transportation and communication that existed in the 1800s.

 

Lastly, the students filled out a "Wonder" sheet to jot down some of the current wonders they have. This will be left up in the classroom for us to add any additional wonders to throughout our unit.

Inquiry into Math

Our focus in math today was on how to add and subtract using place value. Students asked some great questions, such as "What do I do if I have a 0 in my tens and ones place? ex. 600- 121". We went through some examples of how to solve questions like this before beginning our worksheets. When working on the word problems, we discussed the questions together to help us determine whether we had to add or subtract. Students are required to write word sentences to explain what their sum or difference means. Refer to example below

Important notes to remember:

- When subtracting, your top number always needs to be larger than your bottom number

- Always line up your digits in their according place value

- Show your work-- especially when regrouping

- You cannot skip over one place value when borrowing (Ex. if the number is 602, you cannot borrow from the 6 and add it directly to the 2, your tens would have to borrow from your hundreds, then your ones could borrow from your tens-- 6 becomes 5, 0 becomes 10 then turns into 9 since the 2 becomes 12 once you borrow). We went through some examples together. 

French

Check out what your child did during French today by visiting Mme. Rawan's blog: https://mmerawansja.blogspot.com

Library

We visited the library for the first time this year! Check our Ms. Hayward's blog for any updates or events going on: https://sjalibrary.wordpress.com/ 

Agenda

- Read for 25 minutes

- Spelling Lesson 1 

- Spelling Test Friday

- Addition and Subtraction Worksheet

- Return signed forms (Family Handbook)

Tomorrow is Gym!

Day 3!

Announcements

- Please return all required SJA and teacher forms ASAP (community walk, family handbook acknowledgement, teacher survey, etc.
- Scholastic Book orders due September 13th (cheques only)

Parents, please remember to check and sign your child's agenda on a daily basis. 
If you write a note for me, please ensure your child knows to show me their agenda in the morning so I am aware of your note.

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. 

Go Ms. Foti's Class Go!

GOLDEN BROOM!

We have worked SOOOOO hard at keeping our cubby area neat and tidy! All this work paid off because we are the very first class to win the GOLDEN BROOM! Let's keep up the hard work to try and win the golden broom again next week!

House Games

We completed the week with a third set of house games! All three houses won first place in at least one of the games. Zeta remains in the lead with the most house points! 

Inquiry into Language

This morning we began to work on our "Big Day" package. Students were able to engage in table talk while completing this, as long as they remained on task. They selected appropriate work areas where they felt they would best complete their work. All incomplete sheets in this package are for homework and due Monday. I'm excited to see their responses!

Students completed the writing component of their DRA. Again, student's had the opportunity to pick an area anywhere in the classroom to complete this task.

Music, French & 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/ 

AGENDA

- Read for 25 minutes

- My Big Day Package due Monday

- Bring back all forms

Day 2

Announcements

- Please return all required SJA and teacher forms ASAP (community walk, family handbook acknowledgement, teacher survey, etc.
- Scholastic Book orders due September 13th (cheques only)

Tomorrow is our first SPIRIT DAY! Students are asked to dress in their house colours. If choosing not to participate, students must attend school in their full dress uniform.

Parents, please remember to check and sign your child's agenda on a daily basis. If you write a note for me, please ensure your child knows to show me their agenda in the morning so I am aware of your note.

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. 

Go Ms. Foti's Class Go!

Contract Signing

It is official! We have all signed our Grade 3 Contract!

OWA & DRA

Today was a heavy heavy writing day! Students completed their oral reading fluency assessment by reading a DRA leveled book to me. Tomorrow students will complete the comprehension part. Students also completed their first OWA pre-assessment. This task was about writing a letter to a new student. Let's see how much we remember about letter writing... 

Inquiry into Math

Students completed their first math unit pre-test. Our first unit will revolve around whole numbers to 10,000. We had a lot of questions about vocabulary and concepts. I can't wait to see the growth in understanding these math concepts!

French

Check out what your child did during French today by visiting Mme. Rawan's blog: https://mmerawansja.blogspot.com

House Game

We had our second house game today! All three houses did a great job at bringing in quite a few house points!! 

 

Agenda

- Read for 25 minutes

- All About Me worksheet

- Return signed forms

Day 1

Announcements

- Please return all required SJA and teacher forms ASAP (community walk, family handbook acknowledgement, teacher survey, etc.
- Scholastic Book orders due September 13th

Parents, please remember to check and sign your child's agenda on a daily basis. If you write a note for me, please ensure your child knows to show me their agenda in the morning so I am aware of your note.

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. 

Go Ms. Foti's Class Go!

Welcome to Grade 3!

We started our day off by noticing some differences in our classroom this year, and asking any questions we had about objects, routines and expectations. As a class, we brainstormed a list of important characteristics that we want to resemble in our classroom. We thought of what we want our class to look like, sound like and feel like. The characteristics that stood out the most will be resembled in our classroom contract. Tomorrow, all students will sign the classroom contract! 

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

Inquiry into Language
Student's participated in a class Scavenger hunt where they had to find names of their peers who had completed certain activities. It was quite challenging to ensure they asked every classmate.

 

Inquiry into Math
Prior to starting our first math unit, we played a little addition and subtraction game called "Scoot." Addition and Subtraction cards were put out around the desks, and students had to complete the addition or subtraction question that was on the desk they were sitting at and record their work on the recording sheet. When I said "Scoot," students got up and moved to the desk next to them to complete that question. They seemed to really enjoy this game, which is great as they will be seeing more of this game in the future! The students were so quiet while participating in this game!
Check out what it looked like below!

House Game:
At the end of the day, we had our VERY FIRST HOUSE GAME of the year!

Agenda:
- Read for 25 minutes and fill out information in reading log
- Bring back all signed forms