Friday December 19th, 2025

Upcoming Dates

December 22 - January 2        Winter Break - NO SCHOOL

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). 

- Math

• 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)
• Reading time on an analog clock. 
• Place Value: expanded form, written form, standard form, and block form 
• 3 digit Addition and Subtraction with regrouping 
• 10 more, 10 less, 100 more, 100 less: Write down a set of numbers and have your child calculate what the number would be if you were to have 10 more, 10 less, 100 more, or 100 less. 
• Skip counting by 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s, and 25s
• Counting money (especially coins) is a great way to practice skip counting. 

- 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 and capitalization 
• Using nouns, adjectives, and verbs within their writing
• Opinion writing: have your child tell you their opinions on things either in verbal or written form, but have them give at least 3 reasons why they have that opinion, and have them further explain each reason as well. 
• Persuasive writing: 

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Literacy:

- We learned about the camel and tiger rule for dividing words based on their syllables. We practiced this skill with a sorting game, word ladders, and then completed word ladders based on riddles!

- We practiced different reading/writing skills by writing observations on picture prompts, answering questions about them, and ordering events in a story based on chronological order. These activities helped us practice inferencing, identifying the main ideas, and sequencing stories. 

- We made winter bucket lists today and they each took them home to complete some items on their list over the break! 

Math:

- We continued with our place value unit and practiced counting the value of coins and bills that were assorted into cups with a partner. We worked on our skip counting skills with the coins, and completed some word problems for adding money with the decimal points. We will continue with this in the new year!

Social:

- We looked at different major landmarks around Canada and learned about the winter solstice with the rest of the grade 3's. We all got together and talked about what it was, and how different cultures have celebrated it around the world for centuries.

Science:

- We had a week of fun experiments to help us understand the topics we have been discussing for weeks! 

- We did a starburst rock cycle, where the class got into groups and smushed bits of starbursts into the sedimentary rock formation. Then we heated up the balls in the microwave until they were soft enough to swirl into the metamorphic stage, and then we heated one up again until it became an igneous rock formation. 

- We made borax crystal ornaments that students got to watch form throughout the week, and they took them home today!

- We made mini Earth's using plasticine and used a different colour for each layer. Each student took theirs home and were told to cut them open with you to show you the different layers of the Earth!

Art:

- We attempted to make an origami bobble head that didn't really turn out, but it taught us that its okay to try something new even if its hard!