Monday, April 13

 Looks like a rainy week ahead!  Please ensure your child is prepared to go outside if it is lightly raining.  Boots can also be helpful as the yard has been fairly muddy in the past week.

Our mass with Father Rick last week was postponed until next week.  Our school will have a short mass hosted by the Grade 2 classes this Wednesday afternoon.

Now for the subjects:

Math - We will be moving on this week to looking at angles on 2-D shapes.  Particularly, we will be using the terms Right Angle, Acute Angle and Obtuse Angle.  After these two lessons, we will be moving onto look at money.

Language - We have another writing task this week.  We are going to write a pretend letter to the principal recommending a piece of yard or gym equipment, and why this would be good for our school.  We will also be doing another EQAO reading through the Wayground website (found on the student portal).

Science - We will be building a paper bridge this week to see how many pennies it can hold.  This is a Mystery Science activity, so there will be hints on what shapes and designs work best.

Dance - For fun, we are going to combine dance with some coding!  There is a fun activity through code.org that will give the students the change to do some choreography through coding.

Tuesday, April 7

I hope everyone had a wonderful and restful Easter weekend.  Hopefully, the warmer weather can get here quickly!

Just some short updates:

Math - We are working on fractions this week.  Using cuisenaire rods, we will be looking at how a "whole" can be different sizes and how we can make equivalent fractions.

Language - We will still have our regular Working with Words lesson.  We will be spending more time with sentence and paragraph writing.  The class will be making sentences from their word list and we will review their superhero power writing.

Religion - Hopefully, the Stations of the Cross mini books made it home last week.  Today, the class will be making Resurrection Wheels for fun.  We also have our mass on Friday with Father Rick.

Science - We have a fun assignment on locating famous world structures this Wednesday.

Dance - We have lesson 3 of 3 from the National School of Dance that will teach us some hip-hop dancing.  This will be on Thursday.

Monday, March 30

 Wow, March really flew by!  Just a few updates for the upcoming week:

Math - we will be moving onto learning about Fractions this week and next week.  

Language - we have been working on sentence and paragraph writing through some EQAO practice tests and writing tasks.  This week, they will be given a new writing task.  They will be ask to write about a superpower they would want and why.

Religion - Lots of lessons about our upcoming Easter and we will be going over the Stations of the Cross.

Science - Short lesson on mad-made vs. natural structures

Dance - We have been learning some hip-hop from some interactive lessons from the Canadian School of Dance.

Monday, March 23

 I hope everyone had a wonderful March Break!  I know I did...just spent a week in Buenos Aires, Argentina!  Quite the opportunity to see that part of the world.

Not a ton of updates right now.  We are continuing with Data Management this week in Math class.  In Language, we will be continuing with some sentence and paragraph writing.  In particular, we will be looking at some of the upcoming EQAO style of questions.  We will be doing this more regularly as we approach EQAO, which will take place in the first week of June. 

Otherwise, limited updates here as we return back to school and we look ahead to the Easter weekend approaching shortly!

Monday, March 9

 Very short post as we head towards March Break!  We are trying to wrap a few things up before the break, so not starting anything too new.

In Math, we have been reviewing Perimeter.  Today, we will review what we did late last week, and try a few of the Magma Math questions.  The rest of the week, I will be introducing data management with particular emphasis on Pictographs and Bar Graphs with scale.

In Language, we have been working on some writing pieces.  Last week, the class worked on a 3 paragraph story about a day they got to be the principal.  We will be reading a few of these this week, and we will also be trying a grade 3 EQAO reading question and how to properly construct a written word answer.  

In Science, we are continuing with structures.  In particular, we are looking at stability.

I hope you all have a wonderful restful March Break!

Monday, March 2

Sorry, it has been a pair of busy weeks for me, so I wasn't able to provide any news.   Some little updates:

• Today we are receiving an Inuit Games presentation in the gym for our class.
• this Wednesday we also have a dance presentation in the afternoon.

In Math, we have moved onto telling time.  Last two weeks, we made our "Metric Staircase" to help us understand the differences between kilo-, centi- and milli- units. We will be continuing a little with this during the week as well, looking at measuring weight and capacity this week.

In Language, there has been a focus on writing short stories.  Specifically, we have been working on a "Dog's Adventure" story which we will be reading some in the class. I have been trying to spend extra time with the class on the editing process, wanting them to focus on sentence structure, punctuation and what a paragraph looks like.  Our next writing task will be n a short story called "The Day I Got to be Principal". 

In Science, we are moving onto Strong and Stable Structures.  We will have an introductory lesson this week.

We will also start some in-class dance lessons through the National Ballet School of Canada.  We will learning about Hip-Hop dance, and learning some of the basic moves.  Lots of fun!

Now a message from the school:

"During the season of Lent, we are called to practice almsgiving — sharing what we have to support those in need. As a school community, we are collecting non-perishable, nut-free food items to give back to families in our local community through The Pavilion Food Bank. Each week will focus on a different food category. 

Thank you for helping us put our faith into action by caring for others in our community."

Kindness Week (Feb. 17-20)

  Next week is Kindness week.  THe student council of the school has organized a Spirit Week.  Here are the activities they have planned.

	Tuesday Dreaming of  kindness	Wednesday Double the Kindness	Thursday Show Some Love to Teachers!	Friday Kind Card Day
February 17-2    0	Wear your favorite pj’s	Wear the same clothes as a friend	Dress as your favorite teacher!	Make a card for someone special