Just a reminder that we have Tumblers field trip tomorrow followed by the water park. There are no change facilities so if students plan on getting wet, they should wear bathing suits under their clothes. They should have a towel and a set of dry clothes to change into once we arrive back at the school.

There are several field trip notes that have come home. Please be sure to read and return each permission form for your child. The note for the field trip on the 21st refers to junior students. Grade 3s are included in this trip as well.

Just a reminder that we have Scientists in School this Wednesday afternoon and Tumblers gymnastics field trip on Friday. We have field trips also on the 20th and 21st. Notes with information regarding the 21st trip will come home this week. The other two should have come home on Thursday. Please send a note in your child's communicationn folder if you have any questions about upcoming activities.

The grade 3s did a super job writing EQAO! I was very proud of each of them. The grade 4 students were very supportive of their classroom peers. For June, we will be focusing on math and language concepts that will help students for the next school year. We will also focus on religion and family life.
For homework, students should continue to spend time on Raz Kids and Dreambox. Students may have unfinished work to bring home as homework.

This week grade 3 students will review language concepts on Monday and Tuesday and write EQAO on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Grade 4 students will focus on multidigit addition and subtraction as well as reading comprehesion.
Students will bring home any unfinished work for homework this week. They should also spend time on Raz kids and Dreambox.

As EQAO will take place over the course of the next two weeks our classroom schedule will be different than usual. Grade 4s will be working on math and reading comprehension at school and may bring some home as homework. Grade 3s will be writing EQAO in their regular classroom and will have no homework this week or next.

Math:  Students will be learning about mass and capacity. Grade threes will also review concepts taught earlier in the year. Grade fours will practice two digit by one digit multiplication and division.
Language:  We will continue to practice grammar and paragraph and sentence structure through review of concepts taught prevouisly in the year.
Homework: Students can continue to work on math booklets and EQAO work that have come home. They can also spend time on Dreambox and Raz kids.

Just a reminder that this is education week so our regular classroom schedule will be interupted with school wide activities. Please check the calendar for events.
We will continue with multiplication and division for math as well as review of concepts. Language will continue with grammar and review as well.
Homework will continue to come home on paper.

Math: As we finish algebra this week, students will look more closely at multiplication and division.
language: We will review grammar this week as students finish their adventure stories. We will also begin to look at poetry.
Homework: Homework will be coming home on paper as grade 3 students begin review for EQAO. Grade 4 students will be bringing home a math workbook they have been working on while grade 3s will be bringing home EQAO review work. Please have your child work on this review work each week. Please let me know if there is any area your child is finding particularly difficult.

Math: We will begin to investigate algebra this week. Grade threes will determine the missing number in equations involving addition and subtraction while grade fours involve multiplication and division. This concept is familiar to students as they have seen it in class before.
Language: We continue writing adventure stories. When these are complete we will move to grammar. 
Homework: In addition to Raz Kids and Dreambox this week, have your child practice telling time. Grade fours need to tell time to the nearest minute and grade threes to the nearest five minutes. Students should also practice timing events such as driving from place to place, taking a bath or watching tv. This will help them in our upcoming unit on telling time.

Math: Students are determining the area of classroom objects as well as 2-D shapes. Grade 3s are using the grid square method or adding up each side of shapes labeled with a variety of units. Grade 4s are using these methods as well as the LxW (length times width) formula.
Language: We continue to work on adventure stories. Students are very excited about them. They must write in paragraph form, use dialogue to convey information to the reader, and have exciting or dangerous events for the main character to lead to the climax of the story.
Homework:          grade 3                 grade 4     

Math: We will explore how to find perimeter with a side length measure missing before moving on to area.
Language: We will continue our study of adventure stories as we look at how descriptive language can enhance our writing and help create visual images for the reader.
Homework: Please watch this video which discusses perimeter with a missing side and answer the practice questions. This is the language homework for both grades.

Language: We looked an at adventure story today and will continue to look at what makes up this kind of narrative writing this week using graphic organizers and sample texts.
Math: We continue our exploration of perimeter.
Homework: Please use Dreambox and Raz Kids several times this week.

Math: Students will use their linear measurement skills to work with area and perimeter.
Language: We will begin to write adventure stories this week, after students share some of their persuasive writing with other students.
Homework: Please watch this video that will be shown in class, to help your child understand perimeter. Please do the practice questions that come after the video. Also, have your child practice multiplication facts each night this week. Knowing multiplication facts are especially helpful when figuring out area and perimeter.

I hope everyone had a refreshing March break!  Students shared some of their highlights yesterday.
Math: We are starting our linear measurement unit this week. Grade 3s are measuring to the nearest centimetre and grade 4s to the nearest millimetre. Students are also finding personal benchmarks for measure, e.g. my index finger is about 1 cm wide, my foot is 20 cm long.
Language: We are looking at components of media literacy and text features this week. We will also revisit persuasive writing.
Homework:  measure 4 items in your home (gr. 3s to the nearest cm, gr. 4s to the nearest mm). Choose 4 new items and estimate their length based on prior knowledge such as the items just measured. You can use personal benchmarks for the estimation. Measure these 4 items to see how accurate your estimates are. Please record all this information including the units of measure.

Students will come home with a math board game. Please put a paper clip anchored by a pencil in the centre for spinning. Each player draws the amount of money they land on, on a separate paper. The grade 3s play "First to Get to Ten" the grade 4s play "First to get to One Hundred". When a player lands on the random draw space, they can choose to draw one coin or bill of their choice. The first player to reach the desired amount of money, without going over, wins the game. Students have played this game before.

We will start a unit on linear measurement after March Break. As I was gathering materials in preparation for this unit I was very disappointed to discover some students had broken almost every ruler of our class set. Please discuss with your child the importance of respecting school property and materials. This is a great waste of resources and we no longer have a class set of rulers available to the students. Please ensure your child brings a ruler to school which is labelled with their name, for use in class if they do not currently have one at school. Thank you so much for your cooperation and support.
Math: We will finish our money unit this week.
Language: We will begin letter writing format and persuasive writing this week.
Homework: Cursive writing practice and math games will be sent home for homework this week. Students will be able to play these games over March Break if they wish.
                                                     Have a super March break!  

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