Friday September 19th, 2025

 Important Dates:

- Friday, September 26, the grade 3 students will be leading the Orange Shirt Day assembly.  Please feel free to join us for this important event to honour the experiences of children who attended residential schools.

Recommended areas to focus on at home to help your child:

- Reading every night:

• focusing on fluency (can they read without stopping to sound out each word),  
• expression (changing their tone of voice to match the punctuation and dialogue of characters), and 
• comprehension (ask your child questions about the story while they read or after they finish). 

- Basic math facts:

• addition and subtraction, both with and without regrouping (this could be practiced using worksheets or card games like addition or subtraction war)
• skip counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, and 25s (a great activity to practice this is by counting coins)

- Writing:

• spelling (you could also practice this skill playing games like 'Horse' using a basketball, net, and choosing different words to spell). 
• printing mechanics (are the letters legible, is their a clear size difference with capital and lowercase letters, are their spaces between the words)
• punctuation 

Morning Activity:

- Grade 2 math review booklet to practice skills from last year. 

Literacy:

- We reviewed our knowledge of nouns and made a page of examples in our writing notebooks, we discussed how every sentence must include at least one noun, and had a mini check-in on identifying nouns within a text. 

- We have been completing standardized government testing this week, and have had some substitute teachers in the classroom as we wrote picture prompts and Friday Letters. 

- We finished our novel "How to be Cool in Third Grade" and practiced making text-self connections by creating a venn diagram comparing the main character to ourselves. 

- We reviewed our knowledge of digraphs and practiced creating words through a word scramble game. This game also allowed us to practice our basic math skills by counting up points. 

Math:

- We continued learning about time and how to read the hour hand on the clock, how to tell how many hours have passed on an analog clock, and how we read the numbers differently when looking at the hour and minute hand. We practiced counting by 5s to read the minutes on the analog clock, and how the number 12 is a 'reset' for the clock (12am - midnight, 12pm - noon, the minute hand reaches 12 as the hour hand reaches the next hour). 

- We have been practicing our basic math facts through our review booklet and playing card games such as addition war and subtraction war, these are very easy games to play at home and great for memorizing basic facts. 

Social:

- We looked back in time at communities around Alberta to see what they looked like in the past, what they look like now, and what they would have looked like if we have never settled in those areas. Then we went outside with Mrs. Coleman's class and did a sit spot activity, where students drew what was in front of them (ex. houses, walmart, etc.) and what they imagined the land looked like before settlement. 

- We identified the different continents around our world, and will begin looking more closely at our country, province,  and city.

- We discussed the importance and history behind orange shirt day, and will continue to discuss this next week, leading up to our orange shirt day assembly on Friday. 

Science:

- Mrs. Coleman joined our class to teach a science lesson about the layers of our Earth, while I joined her class to guide them through an art project for our orange shirt day assembly. 

Art:

- We completed our artwork for the orange shirt day assembly and created some additional artwork that will hang in the hallway for the assembly.