Reading

• Decodable text to build reading fluency and build skills. 

• Conferencing with the teacher one-on-one, reading in small groups and online reading activities (e.g., work on phonemic awareness, decoding skills, comprehension strategies, fluency and expression, expand vocabulary).

• Knowledge and exposure to various literacy genres (e.g., fiction, non-fiction, poetry).

• Explore various reading comprehension strategies (e.g., making connection, using visualization, making inferences).

• Reasoning and critical thinking skills by evaluating text read (e.g., critiquing).

• Reading responses to demonstrate the ability to: retell the story; relate to the material read and make connections; and reflect on the text to make inferences.

• Read aloud to build: love of reading; model fluency and expression; understand reading genres; model reading comprehension strategies; and expand vocabulary.

• Independent reading to practise reading skills (e.g., Read to Self).

• Shared reading will occur when all students have the same text in front of them and we will read together; this is often done during science and social studies.

• Home reading to practise reading skills.

Writing​

Students will come to understand that we are all writers. We will also have whole-class mini lessons about sentence structure, grammar, conventions (e.g., punctuation, capitalization), and various forms of writing. Assignments will be given to practice new learning. Students will also conference one-on-one with me to review their writing, assist with personal writing gaps, and set goals.

• Generating ideas for writing

• Conventions: use of capitalization and punctuation

• How to write various types of sentences and how to expand sentences

• Word choice using adjectives and adverbs

• Narrative writing

• Procedural writing

• Persausive writing

• Poetry writing

Word Study 

• Daily specific, explicit mini-lessons to build the new 2023 Language curriculum regarding phonological awareness (the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate sounds). The ability to form correct cursive letters on a line will also be explicitly taught as part of our Word Study - Wilson Fundations Program. 

• Some activities to achieve phonological awareness include: understanding syllables;  segmenting, blending, deleting and substituting phonemes (the smallest unit of sound in speech - English has 44 phonemes); suffxes and prefixes, etc.. 

• Sight word weekly practice.

Library Book Book Exchange

• Once a week on Thursdays.

Hands-On Learning

• Often you will find our class using math manipulatives to help bring abstract concepts of math to life. We will work as a whole class, in small groups and individually in our math learning environment. 

Number Talks 

• A Number Talk is a quick 5-10 minute activity that encourages and builds students' mental math capabilities. A question (26+15) is posed to the students and they will be given an opportunity to think of a solution mentally. Students will let me know they are ready to share their answers with a "thumbs up" and when I see most students with a thumbs up, we talk as a group about strategies used to solve the  question (e.g., perhaps one student solved 26+15 by first putting together three groups of ten and then saw that 5+6 is 5+5+1, while another student may start with the biggest number, 26, then add 10, then add 5). Sharing allows students to see how others used mental math to reach the same answer. This exposes students to another way of thinking that they may not have thought of or a strategy they have not tried before.

​Puzzles/ Thinking Tasks/Problem Solving  

• Problem solving will occur in class for each math unit. Students will work on whole-class problems and practice skills individually. These task helps students review concepts already taught and practise various problem-solving skills. 

Curriculum Overview 

• • Social-Emotional Learning Skill and Mathematical Processes  

  • Number:

    • Number Sense

    • Operations

  • Algebra:

    • Patterns and Relationships

    • Equations and Inequalities

    • Coding

    • Mathematical Modelling

  • Data

    • Data Literacy

    • Probability

  • Spacial Sense

    • Geometric and Spacial Reasoning

    • Measurement

  • Financial Literacy

    • Money and Finances

*for specific expectations please review the Ontario Math Curriculum

With Mr. Kovats 

Social Studies builds a foundation for students to begin to understand history and geography. It also builds thoughtful connections between the student and the world around them.

Grade 3:

• People and Environments: Living and Working in Ontario

• Heritage and Identity: Communities in Canada, 1780-1850

• Visual Arts: With Mrs. Flynn 

• Drama and Dance: With Mrs. Flynn 

• Music:  With Mrs. Bustos 

• Physical Education: With Mrs. Flynn and Ms. Sommers

• Please be sure to have indoor shoes for safe participation in gym.

• Health: With Mrs. Flynn