Weekly Update September 28

Homework

1. Daily Reading for 15 to 20 minutes
2. Word Study
        Week of Sept. 24 Pattern: long a (a_e, ai, ay)
        Week of Oct. 1 Pattern: long e (ee, ea, y)
3. Oral Sharing starts October 9th. Our first topic is Being Thankful

Reminders 

**Please send in any cardboard and newspaper so we can use them during our building unit.

• No School for students on Friday, October 5th
• No School on Monday, October 8th for Thanksgiving
• Mrs. Tomasson - Monday Library exchange
• Mrs. Zaharichuk - Thursday Library exchange

Supporting Your Student

Learn Alberta: Grade 3 At A Glance

Weekly Learning Update

Math: Place Value to 1000
Representing Numbers

• standard form 657
• expanded form 600 + 50 + 7
• word form six hundred fifty-seven                        ⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄
• picture form (Base Ten blocks) ▢▢▢▢▢▢ |||||  ⠄⠄

Ordering Numbers

• Least to Greatest and Greatest to Least

Science: Testing Materials & Design

• Task: Designing and testing paper bridges

Students are learning the principles behind a "fair test" and how the scientific process allows scientists and engineers to discover which materials and designs are best when applied to construction tasks.

What materials can bend? Which materials join easily to other materials? Which materials resist tearing or crushing?

A square, a circle, a rectangle, a triangle -- which shape is the easiest to build AND the strongest?

Social Studies: Making Maps
Students had to create a map of an island. They had to include a title, a key or legend with 5 to 10 symbols, and a compass rose. Next week we will be working on writing instructions on how to navigate to different parts of our islands.

Language Arts
Writing Complete Sentences

• identifying nouns and verbs
• reviewing sentence markers (capitals and punctuation)
• identifying the 2 parts of a sentence: the subject (who or what) and predicate (doing and describing)
• recognizing whether it is a sentence or a fragment

Reading Comprehension Strategy: Making Connections

Powerful readers make connections with what they are reading.  When we read a story, certain parts may remind each of us of different things.  We can make connections to personal experiences, memories, feelings, other books, movies, or to facts and information that we already know.

In the story......

This reminds me....