Week beginning January 9th

Dear Parents,

We have had a busy week!

This week in Literacy we have been learning and practicing the reading strategies: check for understanding ( check if you can summarize the main points in a reading every few pages) , back up and reread (when meaning breaks down, go back and reread to understand the meaning of the section), cross checking (ask yourself: does the word look right, does it sound right, does it make sense) and tuning into interesting words. We have began reviewing and practicing when to use capital letters. In writing we began to look at how to write a paragraph and focused on the topic sentence. Our Novel Study: Third Grade Angels will be on going.

Next week we will look at the following reading strategies: review of the importance of good fit books, Monitor and Fix up (stop and think if the reading makes sense and the understand what it is about, if not they go back and fix it [summarize it, go back and adjust reading rate, read the text and read carefully, etc.) and voracious reading (readers become more fluent by increasing their volume of reading). We will also continue to review the reading strategies from this week. In grammar we will keep practicing capital letter rules and in writing we will looking at topic sentences again and if we are ready, start looking at supporting sentences.  Third Grade Angels and Monthly News comprehension will be ongoing.

In Math we completed our time unit.  We will return to it again next term. We also began working on subtraction with regrouping.  We will continue on with this next week and begin looking at multiplication at the end of the week if we are ready.


Uniforms:
Please ensure PE strips, school tops, school pants and sweaters are labeled. Also, could you please the items you have at home.  A few children in the class are missing various articles of clothing.  It would be wonderful if they were found!

Up coming events:
Praise and Worship club every Monday from 3 - 3:30
Professional Development Day on the 23rd of January - No School
Open House - February 5th