Monday March 5th 2018

Highlights:
We had another busy day in grade 3. We started our morning with math. We're reviewing the addition and subtraction unit because there is a test on Thursday. Today, we completed an activity called, 'show what you know.' After math, we had music and gym. In gym, the student's have been learning a hip hop dance and they'll be performing it at Friday's assembly. Parents are welcome to attend: Friday March 9th at 9:45am. We had spelling and cursive writing. The student's were taught the last two lower case swing letters today (r and w). We will be learning curved lower case letters on Tuesday and Wednesday (a, d, g and qu).
We have been working extremely hard on our class book. The student's decided they wanted to change the topic of our book. The student's wanted to write a book using their Olympic research. We discovered our school library has no books about the winter Olympics and they wanted to make sure future student's would have a chance to learn about the winter Olympics. Today, we planned out the cover page, title page, table of content page as well as a few pages we like to leave as a surprise. The student's drew the good copy of their pictures and we will do the good copies of their writing this week. If you would like to order a copy of the class book please read below.

Ordering Class Books - Going home today is an order form for our class book. You do not need to order a book. If you decide to order a book, you need to order online with a credit card or debit card. All fees are paid in USD. Please follow the directions on the order form. There are 3 options for the type of book you can order. PLEASE RETURN THE FORM EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT PURCHASING THE BOOK. In order to receive a classroom book for free all the studetns need to return their form. If you do decide to order a class book, please fill out the paper provided with the authorization code you were given on the website. Forms are due back Friday March 9th

For more information please go to https://studentreasures.com

Reminders:

Math Test on Thursday

Classroom book orders due FRIDAY MARCH 9th

Book Orders due - March 9th 

March 22nd - Jump Rope for Heart pledge forms and donations due.

Homework:

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

~ Spelling:
Monday - mother's, father's, cat's, man's, friend's

Tuesday - mouse's, aunt's, uncle's, cousin's, boy's 

Wednesday - can't, don't, isn't, won't, doesn't

~ Science-in-a-Box: Click here for more information regarding Science-in-a-Box and the schedule! 

~ Math: 

Unit: Addition and Subtraction; Learning Goals

• use strategies to recall basic addition and subtraction facts
• solve addition and subtraction equations
• estimate sums and differences for 2-digit numbers 
• add and subtract 2-digit numbers mentally
• use personal strategies to add and subtract numbers with up to 3 digits
• write and solve addition  and subtraction problems 

Lesson 1: Use strategies and properties for basic addition facts. 

Lesson 2: Use related addition and subtraction facts to answer equations. 
Lesson 3: Find the missing number in an equation. 

Lesson 4: Estimating sums

Lesson 5: Adding 2-digit numbers
Lesson 6: Use mental math strategies to solve 2-digit numbers. 
Lesson 7: Use personal strategies to add 3-digit numbers.

Lesson 8: Estimating differences 
Lesson 9: Subtracting 2 digit numbers 
Lesson 10: Using mental math to subtract 
Lesson 11: Subtracting 3 digit numbers 

Lesson 12: Solving addition and subtraction problems 

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