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.

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

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.

Merry Christmas

Hello Parents/Guardians,

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

Language Arts

We have been working on our Procedural writing for how to build a snowman as well as our Descriptive writing in describing something about Christmas.  When we describe something, we try to have the reader visualize what we are trying to say.  So, we use our 5 sense to help us.

Please see the following pictures to help see what we have been working on.

Math

Students are collecting and organizing data.  Students will be graphing their collected data into simple bar graphs.

Please stay tuned for the next update coming in the New Year!

October 2019

Hello Parent/Guardians,

Please check the St. Michael School Web Site for up to date information on our school year.

I am your child's Language and Math teacher for the 2019/2020 school year.  Septemeber was a busy  month practicing and reviewing Language and Math skills.  I will be using this blog at the beginning of every month to give you an update on your child's activities in Language and Math for the upcoming month.

Math

We have spent the last few weeks reviewing our addition and subtraction strategies for one and two digit numbers. We have spent some time working on skip counting forwards and backwards for our number sense strand. The students are working really hard in these areas. We have also extended our learning using the classroom learning carpet, zorbits(online math game) and individual and guided practice.  As we begin October, we will be completeing skip counting, and beginning to reperesent, estiamte and compare whole numbers.

Language

During September, we have been focusing on our daily silent reading program.  Be sure to ask your child how many leveled books they have read so far!  Each child receives a reading bag with their leveled book and are asked to read that book at the beginning of their Language Block.  Students change their leveled book upon successful completion of their required reading.  We have also been learning about and reviewing nouns and adjectives. Students have also been practicing their spacing and directionality of letters when they are writing their sentences.  During the month of October, students will focus on retelling stories through their writing and continue with their leveled reading.

Stay tuned for the November update for Grade 3 Language and Math.   Please follow me on twitter @TraciNehmeOCSB for daily highlights.

God Bless,

Traci Nehme

Welcome to the 2019-2020 School Year!

My name is Traci Nehme and I would like to welcome you to the 2019-2020
school year at St. Michael Catholic School. This is my first year at St. Michael
and I am excited about the year ahead. I am the Vice-Principal here at
St. Michael and I will also be teaching Grade 3 math and language to your
son/daughter.

Mme. Leman will be your child’s French teacher and Clare McGrath will be
your child’s Science, Physical Education, and the Arts teacher.

I am looking forward to working with your child this year and I also look forward
to meeting you. I will be using this blog as a way of communicating with you
and letting you know what we are working on as the school year moves forward.
We will also be using student agendas on a regular basis for communication
between home and school.  

Please follow me on twitter @TraciNehmeOCSB for daily highlights. 

Please contact me anytime if you have any questions or concerns.
All the best in the year to come!

God Bless,

Traci Nehme