Good afternoon Parents!

Today has been a great day in grade 3 filled with hard workers and lots of participation!

We began with math and worked on rounding-first and front-end estimation. The students seemed to be doing well with this in class and had (a pretty lengthy!) page to complete to practice their skills. Those that finished the sheet in class do not have math homework tonight, those that did not have been sent home the sheet to work on for homework.

As a reminder for parents:

Rounding-First: We round to the nearest 10 or 100 (we have been mainly doing to the nearest 100 thus far). If the number ends in 5 or 50 we round up: for example, 150 would round to 200.

Front-End Estimation: We use the number in the 100’s or 10’s column and ignore the rest (the rest turns to 0’s). For example, 521 would round to 500, or 588 would round to 500, 88 would round to 80.

You must first round and then add or subtract to get your estimated sum or difference.

After math we were working on contractions (words that combine two words with an apostrophe, ex. we would= we’d). To illustrate this we made “foldable contractions” which show the full two words when opened and when folded show the contraction. The students then used contractions in a sentence. They all seemed really excited to make these and they will be sent home after we are finished with contractions for parents to see!

After lunch, recess, and French, we worked on UOI, we began by talking about respect, open-mindedness, and curiosity. We spoke about how even though people may be from the same place they may have very different lifestyles and traditions which is alright and should be respected. This was a precursor to our “Manners Around the World” activity where students are investigating a certain country and exploring their customs, traditions, and way of life. This is to have them understand and be open-minded with the hopes of creating internationally-minded individuals. The students were very curious, and we will be working on this again in class tomorrow.

After second lunch and recess we had music and gym before coming back to the class to do agendas!

Important reminders:

-Tomorrow is casual day, if you have not yet paid for your child to participate please send them in with the fee tomorrow for them to be able to wear casual dress tomorrow!

-Math homework page if it was not completed in class is due tomorrow.

-Spelling work is due Friday

-Read for 25 minutes each night and log in logbook

-Terry Fox pledges are due on Friday

-Bake sale is being held again tomorrow!

-People are losing both toys and uniform pieces. Please make sure that your child’s uniform is labelled, and also remind them that if a toy comes to school it is their responsibility.

Have a wonderful evening!

Ms. Glover