Grade 3s have swim to survive on Friday. If your child's permission form has not yet been returned to school, please return it asap. Also, please review with your child the rules of safety at the pool that will also be reviewed at school: please listen at all times, walk in and around the pool area as well as getting to and from the bus, buddy up with a partner and stay with that partner.
Please have your child wear their bathing suit to school and pack dry underwear and towel, as well as a plastic bag to put wet items in.

Math: Students will continue to explore geometry this week using a variety of shapes.
Language: Students will finish an ad they have been working which combines family life and media literacy.
Homework for both grades:   tell someone in your house what your reading goals are from your cue card at school. Read at least 4 books or stories this week using your goals. Write down three questions about you have about each book or story you have read.   

Math: Students began geometry last week and will continue this week. They are using sheets of paper or square blocks to determine if a shape has a right angle or not. This week we determine if  shapes have angles that are less than or greater than a right angle.
Language: Students will look more deeply at the characteristics of media literacy such as overt and implied messages and target audience. 
Homework:                    grade 3 homework                    grade 4 homework

Math: We will finish subtraction early in the week and move straight into geometry. Students will look at classifying shapes by their geometric properties such as angles size or parallel sides.
Language: We will begin media literacy this week. Students will create a comic and then present this to the class.
Homework:          grade 3 homework               grade 4 homework

Happy New Year!  There are some changes going on in the classroom as the new year begins. Students have new cubby space to make way for a large work area in the hall. This is very exciting and students will see this change when they come to school on Monday morning.
Math: We will begin to look at multi-digit subtraction, including word problems. Students will share strategies and words that cue them to use subtraction, or difference, strategies to solve the problem.
Language: We will look at criteria involved in retelling a story. Much like narrative writing, retelling a story must include a beginning, middle and end, as well as characters or people involved, a setting and must be told in the correct order.
Homework: Cursive writing will come home on paper this week.