Welcome to Grade 3A!

What's Happening In 3A

September, October, November

Language Arts: Daily UFLI practice, narrative, informative, and persuasive writing, editing sentences for correct spelling and grammar, focus on capital letters and punctuation, Lulu novels, Frog and Toad, introduction to DEAR (Drop Everything and Read), introduction to reading and writing workshops, visualizing, predicting and inferring skills, Read & Respond exercises, journaling.

Math: Skip counting, patterning, mental math, place value, review. 

By the end of grade 3, students are to be able to show number sense with numbers from 0-999. This includes flexible representing of number (for example, 100 can be 10 groups of 10, 2 groups of 50, 100 one units, 5 groups of 20, 25 groups of 4, etc.). We practise skip counting to bridge over 100 (95, 100, 105, 110, 115....995), ordering numbers by comparing the value of digits in their place, determining which numbers are less than or greater than other numbers, and rounding.
Estimation is a part of number sense.  Students will continue to practice estimation and rounding throughout the year. Graphing and charting will also continue throughout the year.

Each week, the students are learning and practising different addition strategies to support their learning and faster recall of the 0-20 addition facts.  Students are learning to communicate their thinking in multiple ways, including written, numerical and symbolic and verbally, and concretely with models/drawings.

Social Studies: Cultural "Identitrees", cultures around the world, introduction to First Nation communities of BC

Science: Biodiversity and its importance in ecosystems, interconnectedness, First Nations knowledge of living things, introduce the concept of matter

Religion: Daily prayer, Mary as the most faithful disciple, Praying the Rosary, getting to know the Saints

Technology and Design: Ipad use, coding, Epic Books, Lexia, Mathletics

Health and Career: Exploring and learning about mental health and social learning through our school programs Open Parachute and Incredible Flexible You.

P.E

Mr. Peter Chimich is our gym teacher.

P.E. is on Mondays and Wednesdays. Students should come to school wearing their P.E. strip. All information can be found on the website.

Athletic News

FRENCH

Mme. Samantha Stone is teaching French. 

We have French from 1:00 -1:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

MUSIC

Miss Kathleen Seu is teaching Music. 

We have Music twice a week, on Wednesdays and Fridays.