Just a reminder that litterless lunch (and snack) starts this week. Please see the reminder that was sent with the weekly St. Gregory memo for details.

Just a reminder that this Thursday is our junior ski trip for grade 4s. Friday is the French trip for junior students as well. Grade 3 students will have a regular school day on these days.

Math: We will continue to look at money, practicing representing money in different ways as well as adding and subtracting money amounts.
Language:  We will continue to use the APEs strategy to answer questions about texts read. Students have received feedback on APEs writing from last week and should work to incorporate that feedback into their writing.
Homework: Please use Dreambox and Razkids this week. In addition to this, please show on paper by drawing coins, three different ways each to show: grade 3 $7.80, $5.75, $5.00; grade 4 $16.48, $76.30, $50.00, $20. 

Math: We will continue our exploration of money for both grades. Grade 4s continue to look at decimals as well.
Language: We had a great look at some APE example answers last week. Students are very generous and helpful in providing their own examples for class feedback, then each student applied the feedback to their own work as required. We will continue looking at this strategy this week.
Homework: Have your child handle money when possible, making small, supervised purchases to count out money and count back change. Please view this video on fractions and do the practice section.       grade 3 homework            grade 4 homework

Math: Grade 3s will estimate, count, add and subtract money to ten dollars. Grade 4s will be adding and subtracting money amounts to one hundred dollars.
Language: We will use the APE strategy to answer questions in paragraph form. The A stands for answer the question. Students must be sure to answer what is asked, using words from the question in their answer. The P stands for proof. Students must include information from the text they have read in their answer to prove their answer is correct. The E in APE stands for extending their answer. This is an opportunity for students to use their own personal experience or opinion to further back up their answer. We will continue to work on answering in paragraph form, using indents to begin each paragraph.
Homework: Please write about your favourite day. It can be a day that happened or a day you dream about. Grade 3s must write at least 3 paragraphs, grade 4s at least 4 paragraphs. Remember your first paragraph introduces the characters, setting and the event taking place. The middle paragraph or two, give information about the main event. The last paragraph wraps it all up, answering any outstanding questions. This type of writing must be in chronological order (the order that things did or would happen). Please use indents to separate paragraphs rather than skipping lines. Please don't erase when editing for your good copy but put one line through changes that need to be made.

Math: Grade 3s will continue to look at geometry while grade 4s explore decimal tenths before we all begin a unit on money.
Language: Students will continue on media literacy and then present their projects to the class. Presentations will be short and only deal with the Family Life/Media Literacy work they have been doing in class. They will be given time to prepare at school.
Homework:  Watch the following video and do the practice questions. The video refers to polyhedra which is a new word but not a new concept.
Another video the students have enjoyed is here. This video talks about measuring angles.
                           Homework for both grades