Saturday, March 7, 2020

March Update


Hello Parents/Guardians,

Please see our St. Michael Catholic School website for school wide announcements.

It is hard to believe that it is already March.  We have one more week until March Break(March 16th-20th).  This week is Spirit Week and see the link below for the exciting themed days:

Spirit Week March 9th-16th, 2020

Language Arts:

On a daily basis, each student works on their independent reading and shared reading as well.  Grade 3 students are just finishing up their procedural writing.  See the picture below for some of them topics that they chose.  You can also see the criteria that we came up with as a class to evaluate this piece of writing.

We have weekly sight words that we add to our word wall every week. Last week's words were: over, under, should, could, would.  This weeks sight words are: remember, forget, less, more, win, lose.

Our next writing task will be to construct a paragraph using the Hamburger template to guide us.Image result for hamburger writing template

Stay tuned for their topics.

Math

We have been working on Measurement for the last couple of weeks and focussing on the Kilometer(km), Meter(m)and Centimeter(cm)




We will be continuing with Measurement for the next few weeks as well.  Please see the pictures above for areas that we will be covering.

We also make use of Zorbits Math which can be found on the student portal for home practice.  Also, students participate in class through the use of the math learning carpet, math stations for extra practice and weekly math games to enhance their learning.

After this Blog update, I will be switching to only using twitter for class updates.  Please follow me on twitter for daily/weekly updates from now until the end of the year if you have not already done so.  https://twitter.com/TraciNehmeOCSB

Take care and God Bless!

Mrs. Nehme



Thursday, January 16, 2020

Happy New Year!

Hello Parents/Guardians,

Please see our St. Michael Catholic School website for school wide announcements.

Welcome to 2020!


Swim to Survive permission forms went home on Monday, January 13th.  Please return by Friday, January 17th.

Language Arts

Our New Sight Words for last week were: ate, eight, drink, together, laugh, better.

This week's Sight words: first, then, next, finally, January

Each week, students use their sight words in different center activities. We have a center using baking trays and magnetic letters to practice spelling their words.
They have other word work activities and they practice spelling their words. One activity is finiding the consonant and vowels in their weekly words.
 


We have started branstorming ideas for our Procedural Writing, using our sight words, first, then, next, and finally.  We are also working on building paragraphs.


Math

Our focus right now in Math is Geometry. We are working on indentifying angles as right angles and also learning about different sorting rules.  

We will be starting Patterning in the next few weeks, taking us into February.