Monday November 20th 2017

Highlights

Today was another busy day in grade 3! We started the day with morning challenge (If you could have 3 wishes what would you wish for?). There were some very creative answers! In math today, we played a game called race to zero. We used calculators, number cards and place value cards. It was a great game! We had music and gym this morning. After gym, we had spelling. The new list is in their green folders. Please practice these words at home. There will be a quiz on Thursday. We had Daily 5 before lunch. After lunch, we had writing and language arts. Today in writing, we talked about the three different genre's of writing (narrative, expository and persuasive). We read some paragraphs and decided which genre of writing it was. We also did some work on proper nouns. At the end of the day we had social studies. We looked at the map of India today. We labeled the different countries that surround India. We also watched short video that shows a bird's eye view of India. We discovered that there are a lot of ranges mountain in India. 

Important Information:

The school is collecting non-perishable food items for the Mayor's Food Drive. If you would like to donate the student's can bring in the items in the morning and put them in the boxes at the front of the school. The food will be going to the Calgary Food Bank.

Reminders:

• Healthy Hunger: To register your child for Fun Lunch, please visit www.healthyhunger.ca 
• Our class Library checkout day is every Thursday. Please return library books each week! 

Homework:

~ Spelling: Monday: suddenly, slowly, loudest, never, often

                       Tuesday: seldom, playfully, carefully, beautiful, funny

                       Wednesday: clever, fearless, lucky, luckily, angry

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

~ Math: Test on Thursday for numbers to 1000

Work on homework pages that have been sent home from Unit 2: Numbers to 1000. 

• Lesson 1: Read and represent numbers to 1000
• Lesson 2: Explore place value with 3-digit numbers using base 10 blocks.
• Lesson 3: Represent numbers in more than one way using base 10 blocks. 
• Lesson 4: No homework
• Lesson 5: Use place value to compare and order 3-digit numbers.
• Lesson 6: Skip count by 5s, 10s, 25s, and 100s.
• Lesson 7: Use skip counting to find the value of a collection of coins.
• Lesson 8: Representing numbers in more than one way using coins. 
• Lesson 9: Skip count by 3s and 4s. 
• Lesson 10: Estimating to 1000.
• Lesson 11: Represent 1000 using Base-Ten materials. 

Ask Me About:

~  The 3 different types of writing genres (narrative, expository and persuasive)