We have a busy week coming up!
Monday afternoon is the Engineering Challenge for the junior students. The grade 3s will enjoy watching some of this event while the grade 4s participate.
Tuesday is Shrove Tuesday so all of the students and staff will be enjoying pancakes at school.
Wednesday is Ash Wednesday. We will have a Liturgy of the Word at 10:30 a.m. All parents are welcome.
Friday is our Junior ski trip. It should be a great time for all those students participating!
Please see the grade 3 and 4 homework and updates below:
Math: We are just finishing up linear measurement and measurement conversions (e.g. there are 100cm in one 1m). We will then look at multi-digit addition and subtraction (e.g. 324 + 698).
Language: We continue to read Charlotte's Web. We are using this novel to examine a variety of writing and comprehension strategies. The students looked at the characteristics of a short story (one setting, few characters, one problem, a beginning paragraph with a hook, and a concluding paragraph that wraps up the problem presented) and will write a short story using some information from Charlotte's Web this week.

A friendly reminder for grade 3 parents that the last Swim to Survive day is tomorrow. Also, there will be no skating for the 3/4 afternoon class tomorrow after such warm and sunny weather!
Shrove Tuesday is this coming Tuesday (Feb. 28th). Parent council will kindly be providing pancakes, syrup and butter to all students. Please notify me with a note in the agenda if your child has any restrictions and can't eat any of these items.

I hope everyone had a great long weekend!
The grade 3's have their last Swim to Survive this Friday morning, the 24th. The 3/4 afternoon class will skate again on Friday 3rd block, if conditions are suitable.
Homework: Will come home on paper this week.
Please see the updates below:
Math: We will continue with measurement, looking at linear measurement (for example, measuring length) and units of measure (appropriate units for object measured,and comparing measurement units).
Language: We continue to read Charlotte's Web and answer questions about the novel using proof from the text, and paragraph format.

Just a friendly reminder that there will be no school on Family Day Monday so next week will be a short week. Grade 3s do not have swimming this Friday. They have their last session on the 24th of February. The afternoon grade 3/4 class will be skating this Friday afternoon 3rd block so please be sure your child comes to school with skates and helmet that day.

We have a busy start to this week! The afternoon grade 3 and 4 class will be skating 3rd block tomorrow, so please send skates and helmets. On Tuesday, students will have the opportunity to share Valentines with their classmates, if they choose to do so. We will also be visiting the grade 6 bake sale. Information about the bake sale is on the Weekly Memo. Please send money and a plastic container with your child if possible for their baked goods purchases. Wednesday is Flag Day. All students are asked to wear red and white to celebrate our great nation on this day. We will be singing O'Canada in the gym as a school.
Please see this week's homework.  grade 3 homework  grade 4 homework
Math: Grade 3s experimented with temperature this week. Both grades looked at elapsed time.
Language: We will continue with Charlotte's Web, after having taken a break to do Christmas and New Year's goal setting paragraph writing activities.

Just a friendly reminder that grade 3 students have Swim to Survive tomorrow (Friday) morning so please make sure they bring all necessary items to school in the morning.
Grade 4 students must return their ski trip permission forms by tomorrow if they haven't been returned already. If your child will not be attending, please write a note in the agenda if you haven't already.
These are the names of the students in the class for those of you requesting them for Valentines:

Teresa          Kenshi            Jackson              Matteo D.            Lucia            Sacha           Anna     Mattias        Giovanni         Lucas                 Madison M.         Ava               Elias          Domenic N.     Declan         Sahaara           William              Matteo R.            Veronica                        Geraldine           Jacob            Madison W.                               Venice                 Dominic S.

The Grade 3 students had a great time at Swim to Survive on Friday. While they were swimming, the Grade 4s enjoyed paying some special attention to their reading buddies in Grade 1.
The grade 3s have another swimming session this Friday. Friday is also the school Valentine's Dance. See the Weekly Memo for details. Items for our homeroom Valentine's basket can still be brought in. We are in need of non-food items like a red and white table cloth, pasta bowl, candles or anything else that would enhance the basket.
For Homework this week, both grades should complete any unfinished math homework in their math books. Please send the book back to school each day. The Grade 3s will bring home a language worksheet as well.
Please see the updates below:
Math: Grade 3s have finished telling time to five minute intervals, and Grade 4s to one minute intervals. Both grades will look next at elapsed time.
The attached links will provide information to Grade 4 parents about math concepts covered this week that students will use to complete their homework. They cover median, mode and stem and leaf plots. Mean is also covered at the beginning of one video and students have looked at this concept quickly but it is not a focus so feel free to skip ahead.
median            mode              mean, median and mode          stem and leaf plot

Language: For Media Literacy, the students had a good look at some advertising tricks used for specific target audiences. They will include this information on the covers of their goal setting pieces to try to persuade others to try their goal activity with them. They will also be designing a cereal box cover.

Just a friendly reminder that the grade 3 students have their first lesson for Swim to Survive tomorrow, February 3rd.

Thank you to all those who have contributed to our "All Things Italian" basket so far.  We have lots of pasta and other food items.  We are still short on non-food items such as table cloth, pasta bowl, candles, etc. We would love to have those items to round out our basket.