Week 3: September 14-18
🔢Math - Addition, Subtraction & Place Value
Objective: Students will review addition, subtraction, and place-value concepts while explaining their thinking and working collaboratively.
Activities:
Math Detectives: Review place value and number concepts.
Math Challenge Stations: Students complete 2 simple challenges.
Challenge A — Place Value Dice: Roll 3 dice, build the largest/smallest 3-digit number possible, compare numbers, and explain which digit has the greatest value.
Challenge B — Addition & Subtraction Challenge: Students solve a small set of problems and choose one problem to explain to a partner.
📖 Language Arts
Objective: Students will practise speaking and listening skills while sharing a personal experience and responding respectfully to others.
Activities:
Monday News: Students share something interesting they did, saw, learned, or enjoyed over the weekend.
Review speaking and listening expectations:
Listen when someone is speaking.
Look toward the speaker.
Take turns.
Ask a respectful question.
Spelling: Introduce the 10 spelling words. Identify vowels and consonants, look for the spelling pattern, read the words together, and write the words once.
Day 2: Tuesday
🏃Gym/Health - Making Healthy & Safe Choices
Objective: Students will identify choices that help keep themselves and others healthy and safe.
Activities:
Healthy or Not-So-Healthy? Students decide whether different situations are healthy/safe choices and explain why.
What Would You Do? Students discuss simple Grade 3 scenarios with a partner and share how they would respond.
🪴Science - What Do Plants Need?
Objective: Students will identify the basic needs of plants and explain why plants need these conditions to grow.
Activities:
What Does a Plant Need? Review light, water, air, space, and suitable soil/nutrients.
Plant Experiment Prediction: Students compare a plant that receives water and light with a plant that receives no water. Students predict what will happen and draw both plants.
🔢 Math - Addition Strategies
Objective: Students will use and explain strategies for solving addition problems.
Activities:
How Can We Solve It? Use a 3-digit addition problem and discuss different strategies, such as place value, breaking numbers apart, and mental math.
Addition Practice: Students complete a small number of addition problems and choose one problem to explain using words, numbers, or a drawing.
Spelling
Read the 10 words together.
Identify the spelling pattern.
Complete a quick partner word sort.
Day 3: Wednesday
🔢 Math - Subtraction Strategies
Objective: Students will use strategies to solve subtraction problems and explain their thinking.
Activities:
Subtraction Detective: Work through a subtraction problem together by identifying what information is known, what needs to be found, and which strategy could be used.
Independent + Partner Practice: Students complete a short set of subtraction questions, compare one answer with a partner, and explain their strategy.
🏘️Social Studies - Our Community: People & Places
Objective: Students will identify important places and people in a community and describe how they contribute to the community.
Activities:
Community Detectives: Identify important places such as schools, hospitals, stores, fire stations, libraries, and parks. Discuss why each place is important.
My Community Map: Students draw a simple community map including at least 4 important places, roads/paths, a title, and labels.
🪴Science
Objective: Students will review what plants need to grow and make a prediction about plant growth.
Activities:
Review the basic needs of plants.
Complete the plant prediction and exit ticket:
“A plant needs ______ because ______.”
Spelling
Partner quiz on 5 words.
Correct spelling together.
Practise the 2–3 words students find most difficult.
Day 4: Thursday
Language Arts - Personal Narrative
Objective: Students will write about a personal experience using details to help the reader understand what happened.
Activities:
💬 Minds On: “What Makes a Story Interesting?” Discuss what makes a story interesting and create a simple checklist:
Who?
Where?
What happened?
How did you feel?
What details help us picture it?
✏️ A Moment I Remember: Students choose one memorable experience and write about it. Encourage students to focus on one specific moment rather than an entire event or story.
Partner Share: Students read their writing to a partner and listen respectfully.
Spelling
Activities:
Review all 10 words.
Students practise the words they find difficult.
Partner check.
Cover → Write → Check
Day 5: Friday
Language Arts - Spelling Test
Activities:
Review all 10 spelling words.
Identify tricky parts of the words.
Practise difficult words.
Weekly Spelling Quiz
Students reflect:
Which word was easiest for me?
Which word was hardest for me?
🏘️Social Studies - How We Contribute to Our Community
Objective: Students will identify ways they can contribute positively to their classroom, school, and community.
Activities:
Continue Community Map