We have a busy week in Grade 3!
Tuesday is Orange Shirt Day. This is recognized across Canada as National Day for Truth and Reconcilliation. It is a day to honour the children who never returned home, and the survivors of Residential Schools and their families and communities. I will be reading aloud picture books and we will be completing small related activities. Please wear an orange shirt on Tuesday.
Wednesday is Meet the Teacher. The classroom will be open from 4:30 - 6:00 to tour the classroom and school. Please note that this is not a time to speak about academic progress. A formal progress report will be going home on Friday, November 7 and I will be having interview times available Nov 11 and 12 in the evening and morning of Nov 14. However, informally, look each week at work sent home in the Friday folder. This should give a small snapshot on activities completed in class. Anytime you would like to have a quick chat with me, please feel free to leave a note in the planner or e-mail me l.murdoch@tvdsb.ca I am happy to meet most nights right after school or I am usually in the building quite early before school a couple days a week.
On Wednesday evening, there are also food trucks available behind the school. As well, the Book Fair is open for families to visit. We also have a class book buying time on Wednesday during the day for students.
This week in literacy, we are working on plural nouns (when to add s or -es, when to change the y to i and add -es, and when to remove the f and add -ves). We are reviewing the spelling pattern of long vowel sounds with a silent e. At home, students should be reading each night. It is a good practice to have them read a portion of a book to you aloud to practice fluency. In the classroom, we talk about linking our words together and paying attention to the punctuation.
In math, we are finishing up our first unit on place value. Students should be able to:
identify the value of each digit of a three digit number (the value of the 2 in 326 is 20)
expand the number 300+20+6
regroup ( 2 hundreds, 12 tens and 6 ones have the same value as 326)
round any number up to 1000 to the nearest 100 (326 rounded to the nearest hundred is 300)
compare numbers using the symbols <, =, or > (326 > 150)
order a group of numbers from least to greastest (or greatest to least)
skip count by 25's, and 50's
skip count by 5's, 10's, and 100's starting from any number (34, 39, 44, 49...) 34, 44, 54, 64...
know the names and value of the Canadian coins and count a group of coins