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//**Week 33 - May 7th to 11th**//

__ **Grade 3 - English** __ > Tip 1: Use part of the question in your answer. > Tip 2: Did you answer all parts of the question > Tip 3: Be sure to include specific details from the text to support your answer. __ **Grade 3 - Math** __ __ **Grade 5 - English** __ > Tip 1: They identify their purpose. > Tip 2: They change their point of view, for example, they change from third person (he/she) to first person (I/me). > Tip 3: They use words and phrases that fit the time and place (setting) __ **Grade 5 - Math** __
 * Working on Writing - Answering short answer questions relating to texts read in class.
 * Listening to Reading - Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
 * Table Talk: Ask your child to identify the 3 tips talked about in class.
 * This week's focus: 3-D Geometry - Properties of 3-D prisms and pyramids
 * Let's Talk Numbers: Ask your child to identify the properties of 3-D shapes that you spot around your home or in your community. Talk about the name of the shape, the number and shape of its faces, the number of edges it has, and its vertices. For example, if you see a garbage can at the park. Is it a cylinder or a square-based prism? How many faces does it have? What shape are its faces? How many edges? How many vertices?
 * Read Aloud: Flipped
 * Working on Writing - Matching Voice to Purpose. We need to make sure that if we are writing about a serious topic that our voice maintains a serious tone throughout our writing.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child to identify the tricks writers use to match their voice to their purpose.
 * This week's focus: 3-D Geometry - Identifying and constructing nets of 3-D shapes
 * Let's Talk Numbers: Ask your child what a net is. Ask your child why grade 5 students need to learn about nets before grade 6.

//**Week 29 - April 9th to 13th**//

__ **Grade 3 - English** __ __ **Grade 3 - Math** __ __ **Grade 5 - English** __ __ **Grade 5 - Math** __ > @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-imFslMIN1g
 * Working on Writing -
 * Listening to Reading - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
 * Table Talk:
 * This week's focus: Division
 * Let's Talk Numbers:
 * Read Aloud: Flipped
 * Working on Writing - Putting the finishing touches on our Game Summaries and Character Origin Stories
 * Table Talk: Ask your child about their group's game.
 * This week's focus: Converting Mixed Numbers to Improper Fractions and the reverse Improper Fractions became Mixed Numbers
 * Next week's focus: Order Fractions
 * Let's Talk Numbers: Here are some videos to show these conversions. @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shpf9krdXQQ

//**Week 28 - April 2nd to 6th**// Monday - Holiday

//**Week 27 - March 26th to 30th**// Friday - Holiday


 * //Week 26 - March 19th to 23rd// **

__ **Grade 3 - English** __ __ **Grade 3 - Math** __ __ **Grade 5 - English** __ __ **Grade 5 - Math** __
 * Working on Writing -
 * Listening to Reading - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
 * Table Talk:
 * This week's focus: 2-D Geometry - Transformations - Slides, Flips, Turns
 * Let's Talk Numbers:
 * Read Aloud: Flipped
 * Working on Writing - We spent the week completing game summary graphic organizers in preparation for our Coding Quest Arcade coming up in May
 * Table Talk: Ask your child about their group's game.
 * This week's focus: Locating objects using ordered pairs in single quadrant grids.
 * Next week's focus: Transformations - translations using cardinal directions and reflections.
 * Let's Talk Numbers: Ask your which coordinate gets named first in an ordered pair. The vertical or the horizontal coordinate?


 * //Week 25 - March 5th to 9th// ** No school next week - Happy March Break!

__ **Grade 3 - English** __ __ **Grade 3 - Math** __ __ **Grade 5 - English** __ > Form 1 - The author tells all about one thing then all about the other. > Form 2 - The author tells all of the similarities of both things then all of the differences of both things. > Form 3 - The author compares the two things one-point at a time by giving a similarity or a difference. __ **Grade 5 - Math** __ > @https://www.geogebra.org/m/JHgTXKrt
 * Working on Writing - We shared our Pink Shirt Day poems. We also had two journal entries - you are playing a board/video game with a friend and suddenly things from the game start to happen in real life AND which is better March break or winter break? Why?
 * Listening to Reading - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
 * Table Talk: Ask your child to read their group's pink shirt day poem to you and talk about their group's perspective (the bully, the bullied, the bystander, or the brave).
 * This week's focus: 2-D Geometry - Identifying polygons by their properties (vertices, sides, right angles, lines of symmetry)
 * Let's Talk Numbers:
 * Read Aloud: Timmy Failure - Mistakes were Made
 * Working on Writing - Compare and contrast writing. We looked at the 3 forms that compare and contrast writing often take.
 * Table Talk: What topics did your child choose to compare and contrast?
 * This week's focus: Constructing triangles using protractors & rulers, compasses and dynamic geometric software.
 * The following are links to sites we used to construct triangles online @https://www.geogebra.org/geometry or
 * Let's Talk Numbers: After the break, we will be locating objects using the cardinal directions (i.e. north, south, east, west) and coordinate system. Feel free to expose your child to maps and or challenge them to a game of Battleship during the break.


 * //Week 24 - February 26th to March 2nd// **

__ **Grade 3 - English** __ __ **Grade 3 - Math** __ __ **Grade 5 - English** __ __ **Grade 5 - Math** __ >
 * Working on Writing - I Am... poems. We took advantage of pink shirt day to place ourselves into one of four different perspectives that of the bully, the bullied, the bystander, or the brave. In these groups, we brainstormed ways to complete a poem template. Looking forward to sharing these poems with you next week.
 * Listening to Reading - We began reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child which perspective they had to consider while writing.
 * Table Talk #2: Ask your child about Edward. Kate DiCamillo does an excellent job describing Edward. Can your child remember what he looks like? ( Edward had china arms, legs, paws, a head, a torso and a nose. His arms and legs were jointed and joined by wire so that his china elbows and china knees could be bent. His ears and tail were made of real rabbit fur. He measured almost three feet from the tip of his ears to the tip of his feet. His eyes were painted a penetrating and intelligent blue. He had long elegant whiskers and an extraordinary wardrobe complete with silk suits, leather shoes, and a wide array of hats. He even had a gold pocket watch.)
 * This week's focus: finish up with Money
 * Add and Subtract Money
 * Let's Talk Numbers: If you've not seen their money work. Please ask your child where it is. We will be moving onto 2-D Geometry next week.
 * Read Aloud: Timmy Failure - Mistakes were Made
 * Working on Writing - Put the finishing touches on our organizational writing.
 * Reading to Self - //The Greatest Trick// and //The Famous Rockettes//
 * Reading Strategy - Making Connections
 * Table Talk: Ask you child which form of organization they choose for their writing assignment and WHY. Assignment #1: Write a description of your favourite room in your home. Assignment #2: Write a paragraph that tells what you liked and disliked about the last movie you saw. OR Assignment #3: Write a paragraph that tells how to do well in school. Explain the effects of good behaviour and study habits.
 * This week's focus: Classifying triangles according to angle size and side lengths
 * We watched the following video after discussing and practicing triangle classification @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCuxvgCo0Jc
 * Let's Talk Numbers: Ask your child how they would classify a triangle with three 60 ° angles and equal side lengths. What about a triangle with a 130 ° angle and two equal side lengths? Can they tell you the characteristics of a right-angled scalene triangle? (one right angle and 3 different side lengths)

** //Week 23 - February 19th to 23rd// ** Monday - Holiday (No school for students or staff.) Friday - Unicorn Day! __ **Grade 3 - English** __ __ **Grade 3 - Math** __ __ **Grade 5 - English** __ __ **Grade 5 - Math** __
 * Working on Writing -
 * Listening to Reading - We had the privilege of listening to Ms. Giaccone reading about Humphrey
 * Table Talk:
 * This week's focus: Money
 * Grade 3 students are responsible for being able to add and subtract money amounts to make simulated purchases and change for amounts up to $10.
 * Let's Talk Numbers: If possible, show your child real Canadian currency including pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, loonies, toonies, $5 and $10. Have them tell you the value of various bill and coin combinations. Challenge them by asking them to make fictional purchases. What bills and coins will they be using to make these purchases? If they use a higher amount than the purchase price, what change will they receive back?
 * Read Aloud: Timmy Failure - Mistakes were Made
 * Working on Writing - When you write an explanation, you can organize your details by cause and effect - how or why one thing makes another thing happen.
 * Table Talk: Ask you child which form of organization they choose for their writing assignment and WHY. Assignment #1: Write a description of your favourite room in your home. Assignment #2: Write a paragraph that tells what you liked and disliked about the last movie you saw. OR Assignment #3: Write a paragraph that tells how to do well in school. Explain the effects of good behaviour and study habits.
 * This week's focus: 2-D Geometry/Measuring angles using a protractor.
 * We watched the following video after discussing the parts of a protractor @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrFOrFPpn2o
 * Let's Talk Numbers: Ask your child about acute, right, obtuse and straight angles. (Acute angles are angles less than 90°. Right angles are 90°. Obtuse angles are angles more than 90°. Straight angles are angles that measure 180°.)
 * Let's Talk Numbers 2: Ask them what common office tool they can use to estimate angles before using their protractor.

Friday - PA Day (no school for students)
 * //Week 22 - February 12th to 16th// **

__ **Grade 3 - English** __ __ **Grade 3 - Math** __ __ **Grade 5 - English** __ __ **Grade 5 - Math** __
 * Working on Writing - Putting things in the right order by using introductory words and phrases such as, first, next, then, now, finally, etc.
 * Listening to Reading - We finished Beezus and Ramona - time for a new book.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child what book they may have suggested for our next read aloud and why.
 * Table Talk 2: When you tuck your child into bed Monday night, ask them to describe the events of Family Day. Be sure to encourage them to use introductory words and phrases.
 * This week's focus: Money
 * We are taking a little break from multiplication to allow for some at home practice. Strong multiplication skills make division easier. Grade 3 students are responsible for dividing up to 49 divided by 7.
 * Grade 3 students are responsible for being able to add and subtract money amounts to make simulated purchases and change for amounts up to $10.
 * Let's Talk Numbers: If possible, show your child real Canadian currency including pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, loonies, toonies, $5 and $10. Have them tell you the value of various bill and coin combinations. Challenge them by asking them to make fictional purchases. What bills and coins will they be using to make these purchases? If they use a higher amount than the purchase price, what change will they receive back?
 * Read Aloud: Timmy Failure - Mistakes were Made
 * Working on Writing - Organizing information logically by grouping similar ideas and details together. When you write a description of how something looks, you can organize your details by where things are in relation to each other.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child how they would describe their room in a logical order. HINT: They may want to describe things in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction from the doorway.
 * This week's focus: Money
 * Adding and subtracting money amounts to $1000
 * Let's Talk Numbers: Ask your child to tell you everything they know about 2-D Geometry & 3-D Geometry. We'll begin exploring Geometry after the long weekend.


 * //Week 21 - February 5th to 9th// **

__ **Grade 3 - English** __ __ **Grade 3 - Math** __ __ **Grade 5 - English** __ __ **Grade 5 - Math** __
 * Working on Writing -
 * Listening to Reading - Beezus and Ramona
 * Table Talk:
 * This week's focus: Money
 * We are taking a little break from multiplication to allow for some at home practice. Strong multiplication skills make division easier. Grade 3 students are responsible for dividing up to 49 divided by 7.
 * Let's Talk Numbers:
 * Read Aloud: Timmy Failure - Mistakes were Made
 * Working on Writing -
 * Table Talk:
 * This week's focus: Money
 * Let's Talk Numbers:

The results are in Wiarton Willie and Punxsutawney Phil say six more weeks of winter. Shubenacadie Sam predicts an early spring. You be the judge. Our mascot has also found a name, Jurnee.
 * //Week 20 - January 29th to February 2nd// **

__ **Grade 3 - English** __ __ **Grade 3 - Math** __ __ **Grade 5 - English** __ __ **Grade 5 - Math** __
 * Working on Writing - Designing a juice box for a character from one of the many fables we have read in class.
 * Listening to Reading - Beezus and Ramona
 * Table Talk: Ask your child which character they had in mind while designing their juice box.
 * This week's focus: Multiplication
 * Grade 3 students are responsible for being able to multiply numbers up to 7 times 7. Their 7 times tables.
 * We practiced multiplying by 3s, 4s, 6s, and 7s this week through games.
 * Let's Talk Numbers: Feel free to practice multiplication facts using 3s, 4s, 6s, and 7s. Ask your child how the basic facts 2s, 5s, 1s, and 0s can help them solve this week's facts.
 * Read Aloud: Timmy Failure - Mistakes were Made
 * Working on Writing - Spent time on our mini biographies. Analyzed biography covers to determine the elements they contain. Began creating covers for our classmate's biography.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child what elements make up a biography cover.
 * This week's focus: Division
 * Grade 5 students are responsible for being able to divide 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers. We looked at several methods of division in class. Students are welcome to use any of these methods.
 * Let's Talk Numbers: Ask your child to demonstrate the method they are most comfortable and/or successful with.

Friday - PA Day (no school for students)
 * //Week 19 - January 22nd to 26th// **

__ **Grade 3 - English** __ > 1. The characters in fables are often animals. > 2. All the events connect to the problem at the beginning of the fable. > 3. The characters are usually very clever or very foolish. > 4. Fables teach a lesson, which is often called the "moral" __ **Grade 3 - Math** __ __ **Grade 5 - English** __ __ **Grade 5 - Math** __
 * Working on Writing - Fables. We began looking at fables and the characteristics that make up a fable.
 * The greatest challenge this week was trying to explain the "moral" in our own words.
 * Listening to Reading - Beezus and Ramona
 * Table Talk: Talk to your child about fables you heard while growing up and the lesson that each fable was trying to teach. i.e. The Tortoise and the Hare. Lesson - Slow and steady wins the race.
 * This week's focus: Multiplication
 * Grade 3 students are responsible for being able to multiply numbers up to 7 times 7. Their 7 times tables.
 * We practiced multiplying by 2s, 5s, 1s, and 0s this week through games, books, and monster math.
 * Let's Talk Numbers: Feel free to practice multiplication facts using 2s, 5s, 1s, and 0s.
 * Read Aloud: stay tuned we finally finished Wonder
 * Working on Writing - We began creating chronological timelines for a partner in order to construct a mini biography.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child what life events they felt comfortable enough to share with their partner.
 * This week's focus: Multiplication
 * Grade 5 students are responsible for being able to multiply 2 digit by 2 digit numbers. We were reviewed the 3 non-traditional multiplication methods mentioned last week and added the standard algorithm to our bag of tricks.
 * Let's Talk Numbers: Ask your child to demonstrate the method they are most comfortable and/or successful with.


 * //Week 18 - January 15th to 19th// **

__ **Grade 3 - English** __ > 1. The characters in fables are often animals. > 2. All the events connect to the problem at the beginning of the fable. > 3. The characters are usually very clever or very foolish. > 4. Fables teach a lesson, which is often called the "moral" __ **Grade 3 - Math** __ __ **Grade 5 - English** __ __ **Grade 5 - Math** __
 * Working on Writing - Fables. We began looking at fables and the characteristics that make up a fable.
 * The greatest challenge this week was trying to explain the "moral" in our own words.
 * Listening to Reading - Beezus and Ramona
 * Table Talk: Talk to your child about fables you heard while growing up and the lesson that each fable was trying to teach. i.e. The Tortoise and the Hare. Lesson - Slow and steady wins the race.
 * This week's focus: Linear Measurement and multiplication
 * Grade 3 students are responsible for being able to multiply numbers up to 7 times 7. Their 7 times tables.
 * Let's Talk Numbers: Feel free to practice multiplication facts up to 7 X 7 and beyond if your child is ready for it.
 * Read Aloud: Wonder
 * Working on Writing - We began work on sequencing. When you write, you have to organize your information. For instance, if you're writing about how to make or do something, or how to get somewhere, you have to describe the steps in the right order, or sequence. This is called sequential order.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child what transition words or phrases can be used to show sequential order (i.e. next, then, after that, finally, first, etc.)
 * This week's focus: Multiplication
 * Grade 5 students are responsible for being able to multiply 2 digit by 2 digit numbers. We were introduced to 3 non-traditional multiplication methods this week.
 * Let's Talk Numbers: Ask your child to demonstrate the 3 different methods of multiplication ( Window/Magic Box Method, Breaking Apart Method. Lattice Method)


 * //Week 17 - January 8 to 12th// **

__ **Grade 3 - English** __ > 1. The characters in fables are often animals. > 2. All the events connect to the problem at the beginning of the fable. > 3. The characters are usually very clever or very foolish. > 4. Fables teach a lesson, which is often called the "moral" __ **Grade 3 - Math** __ > - draw items using a ruler, given specific lengths in centimetres (Sample problem: Draw a pencil that is 5 cm long); > - compare and order objects on the basis of linear measurements in centimetres and/or metres (e.g., compare a 3 cm object with a 5 cm object; compare a 50 cm object with a 1 m object) in problem-solving contexts __ **Grade 5 - English** __ __ **Grade 5 - Math** __ >
 * Working on Writing - Fables. We began looking at fables and the characteristics that make up a fable.
 * The greatest challenge this week was trying to explain the "moral" in our own words.
 * Listening to Reading - Beezus and Ramona
 * Table Talk: Talk to your child about fables you heard while growing up and the lesson that each fable was trying to teach. i.e. The Tortoise and the Hare. Lesson - Slow and steady wins the race.
 * This week's focus: Linear Measurement
 * centimetres (cm), metres (m), kilometres (km)
 * Grade 3 students will be able to:
 * We talked about perimeter and area and spent time calculating both through a game called Racing Rectangles.
 * Let's Talk Numbers: Ask your child about perimeter and area? What is perimeter? How is perimeter calculated? What is area? How is area calculated?
 * Read Aloud: Wonder
 * Working on Writing - Maintaining our focus has been the focus of our lessons this week. We examined several pieces of writing, some where the writer maintained focus and others where the writer or author did not. Students were asked to brainstorm a trip they have taken in order to demonstrate the skills that were learned this week.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child strategies they can use to make sure that all of their sentences focus on the topic. Which details are probably not important to the topic?
 * Table Talk #2: What is a topic sentence?
 * This week's focus: Linear Measurement as it relates to perimeter and area
 * millimetres (mm), centimetres (cm), decimetres (dm), metres (m), kilometres (km)
 * Grade 5 is the year of the rectangle. Grade 5 students should know the formula for calculating area of a rectangle/square. They should also be able to break down irregularly shaped rectangle shapes into rectangles. For example, what is the area of the following shape?
 * Let's Talk Numbers: What is the formula for calculating area of a rectangle/square?


 * //Week 16 - December 18th to 22nd// **

__ **Grade 3 - English** __ __ **Grade 3 - Math** __ > a) The Last Jedi movie is 153 minutes long. How many hours will it take to watch the movie? > b) It is recommended that you get 9 to 11 hours of sleep each night. If you sleep for 9 hours, how many minutes of sleep will you have gotten? > c) M. Meilleur spent 4 days looking for paper plates for the Holiday concert. How many hours did it take him to find the plates? > d) It took Susan 120 hours to read The One and Only Ivan. How many days did she spend reading? > e) Only 11 weeks left until March Break. How many days is 11 weeks? > f) Cadoc will celebrate his 9th birthday in 58 days. How many weeks does Cadoc have left before he turns 9? > g) Many of you will graduated from Jockvale Elementary in 3 years. How many weeks until you graduate elementary school? > h) Mrs. Dowdall says there are 364 weeks in 8 years. Is she correct? Show your thinking. __ **Grade 5 - English** __ __ **Grade 5 - Math** __
 * Working on Writing - Every story has a beginning, middle, and end. This week's focus: What happens in the middle of a story? For a story to be good, it has to have something interesting happen in the middle of it. It also has events that make sense and are in the right order.
 * Listening to Reading - How to Tame a Bully
 * Table Talk: Ask your child what they think happened in the middle of Mean Mauler and Me, a short graphic story with a beginning and end but no middle.
 * This week's focus: Word Problems (Time Problems) Revisited
 * We spent the majority of our week looking at word problems involving the relationship between minutes and hours, hours and days, days and weeks, as well as, weeks and years again.
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Ask your child questions such as:
 * Read Aloud: Wonder
 * Working on Writing - We used the success criteria checklist (developed last week) to make sure that our letters to Principal Darragh and Vice Principal Ocquaye meet our expectations.
 * Reading to Self - Some of us had reading passages to wrap up.
 * Table Talk: Talk to your child about books you read when you were 10. Is there a book you think he or she may enjoy that you enjoyed at their age? Perhaps they would enjoy one of the following books over the holidays. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. Rules by Cynthia Lord. Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh. There are so many good books available. Try to take some time to just snuggle up and read.
 * This week's focus: Linear Measurement
 * millimetres (mm), centimetres (cm), decimetres (dm), metres (m), kilometres (km)
 * Grade 5 students will be able to solve problems requiring conversion from metres to centimetres and from kilometres to metres.
 * Let's Talk Numbers: How many mm are there in 1 cm? How many m are there in 6 km? If I need 7 metres of ribbon to decorate my pillowcase, how many centimetres of ribbon will be needed? If grandma's house is 12 kilometres away, how many metres will Little Red Riding Hood have to travel through the woods to grandmother's house?


 * //Week 15 - December 10th to 15th//**

__**Grade 3 - English**__ > (HINT: 1. Create a sense of mystery. 2. Use sound words. 3. Ask the reader a question. 4. Use quotations.) Why might these be considered powerful beginnings? __**Grade 3 - Math**__ > 1. read time using analog clocks, to the nearest five minutes, and using digital clocks (e.g., 1:23 means twenty-three minutes after one o’clock), and represent time in 12-hour notation; > 2. solve problems involving the relationships between minutes and hours, hours and days, days and weeks, and weeks and years, using a variety of tools (e.g., clocks, calendars, calculators). __**Grade 5 - English**__ __**Grade 5 - Math**__
 * Working on Writing - Every story has a beginning, middle, and end. This week's focus: What makes a powerful beginning?
 * Listening to Reading - We have begun two new books. 1. Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary and 2. How to Tame a Bully by Nancy Wilcox Richards. The first book is being read for the pleasure of reading. The second book is being read as a springboard for circle discussions.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child the four tricks writers use to make people want to read more of what they have written.
 * This week's focus: Word Problems (Time Problems)
 * The grade 3s are responsible for two expectations in time. By the end of grade 3 students will,
 * We spent the majority of our week looking at word problems involving the relationship between minutes and hours, hours and days, days and weeks, as well as, weeks and years.
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Ask your child how many weeks old they were when they celebrated their 8th birthday? Perhaps you can figure out how many weeks old each member of your household is. Calculate how many days their are left until March Break or summer vacation. How many weeks make up that many days?
 * Read Aloud: Wonder
 * Working on Writing - We identified the learning goals and discussed the success criteria for our formal letters to Principal Darragh and Vice Principal Ocquaye. Our success criteria: Presenting an idea to Principal Darragh or Vice Principal Ocquaye that will make Jockvale or our community a better place; Eliminating the use of slang or "pre-teen speak"; Avoid using double negatives; Writing a formal letter to the principal or vice principal; Include a minimum of 3 supported specific details as to why this change should be considered; Using a dictionary to confirm the spelling of misspelled words ; Correct any red squiggly underlined words - if using a Word Processor; Using a thesaurus to replace boring or overused words are based on the following Learning Goals: Purpose and Audience 1.1, Voice 2.2, Point of View 2.5 and Vocabulary 3.3
 * Table Talk: What is a thesaurus? What is it used for?
 * This week's focus: Elapsed Time, 12-hour Time and 24-hour Time
 * We worked on calculating elapsed time to the nearest minute between the start of an event and the end of that event
 * Determining elapsed time in word problems involving days, weeks, months and years
 * Converting time from 12-hour to 24-hour and vice versa.
 * Let's Talk Numbers: How many days hath September?
 * Let's Talk Numbers 2: How do you convert time to 12-hour time when the hour is greater than 12? How do you convert time to 24-hour time when the time is in the AM? What is time is 00:00?

__**Thirty Days Hath September**__ Thirty days hath September, April, June and November; February has twenty-eight alone All the rest have thirty-one Except in Leap Year, that's the time When February's Days are twenty-nine


 * //Week 14 - December 4th to 8th//**

__**Grade 3 - English**__ __**Grade 3 - Math**__ > 1. read time using analog clocks, to the nearest five minutes, and using digital clocks (e.g., 1:23 means twenty-three minutes after one o’clock), and represent time in 12-hour notation; > 2. solve problems involving the relationships between minutes and hours, hours and days, days and weeks, and weeks and years, using a variety of tools (e.g., clocks, calendars, calculators). > Carys and Evan played video games for 8 hours. How many minutes did they play for? > Olivia went to school for 300 minutes. How many hours did she go to school for? > Bob went to Newfoundland for 416 hours. How many days was he in Newfoundland? Show your work. > How many hours are in 4 days? Show your work. __**Grade 5 - English**__ __**Grade 5 - Math**__
 * Working on Writing - Sticking to Your Topic. Taking out details that don't stick to our topic. Students were asked to think about a birthday party they have had or have been to. They then used a web to list details about the decorations, food and activities at the party.
 * Listening to Reading - We finished Third Grade Angels.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child who got the first Halo and why? (HINT: Constantina because she wasn't trying to win the halo for herself but for someone else)
 * This week's focus: Measurement of Time
 * The grade 3s are responsible for two expectations in time. By the end of grade 3 students will,
 * We have spent the last couple of days looking at word problems involving the relationship between minutes and hours and hours and days. Next week, we will look at word problems involving the relationship between days and weeks, as well as, weeks and years.
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Ask your child questions such as the following:
 * Read Aloud: Wonder
 * Reading to Self - Reading to self is one of five tasks mentioned in The Daily 5. The Daily 5 is a literacy structure that teaches independence and gives students the skills needed to create a lifetime love of reading and writing.
 * Working on Writing - Elaborating on Ideas and Details. We looked at several letters throughout the week to determine where we could add more specific details and examples to support our arguments. We ended the week by thinking of a change we would like to see in our community or school and brainstorming (preparing) to write a letter to someone who can make that change happen.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child what change they would like to see and why.
 * This week's focus: Measurement of Time
 * Grade 5 students are expected to be able to tell time to the nearest second using an analog clock. They will also be able to calculate elapsed time to the nearest minute.

> [] > Elapsed time with a t-chart > [] > Elapsed time with a timeline
 * We spent the last 3 days looking at several methods to calculate elapsed time. The following videos were shown in class this week.


 * //Week 13 - November 27th to December 1st//**

__**Grade 3 - English**__ > (HINT: If you don't stick to your topic, your reader may become confused.) __**Grade 3 - Math**__ > 1. read time using analogue clocks, to the nearest five minutes, and using digital clocks (e.g., 1:23 means twenty-three minutes after one o’clock), and represent time in 12-hour notation; > 2. solve problems involving the relationships between minutes and hours, hours and days, days and weeks, and weeks and years, using a variety of tools (e.g., clocks, calendars, calculators). > or an analog clock
 * Reading to Self Passages: No Camp for Me!; Puffins and Penguins
 * Working on Writing - Sticking to Your Topic.
 * Reading Strategy Focus: Visualization
 * Listening to Reading: Third Grade Angels by Jerry Spinelli
 * Table Talk: Ask your child why it is important to stick to your topic when writing.
 * This week's focus: Comparative language while looking at graphs and Time
 * Example of comparative language while looking at the graph below. More people favour soccer than basketball. Hockey is the least favoured sport. Etc.
 * Time. The grade 3s are responsible for two expectations in time. By the end of grade 3 students will,
 * Most of the students seem to be time masters already. We will spend a little more time looking at this expectation next week but if they are already masters this may be a very short unit.
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Have your child tell you the time throughout the day using either a digital [[image:https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRiXBed5R5fxqweXZKfG7POHKMH1iWSi8b9nRP7ivXkc-ynfbiK width="116" height="161" caption="Digital Clock"]]

__**Grade 5 - English**__ __**Grade 5 - Math**__ > 1) 10, 12, 30, 45, 54, 62, 62, 62, 62 > 2) 10, 14, 27, 57, 77, 77, 78 > 3) 21, 29, 29, 29, 29, 41
 * Publication: November 29th. POSTPONED due to technical difficulities
 * Read Aloud: Wonder
 * Working on Writing - Develop your characters, setting, and plot to make your story interesting and detailed. We spent time making our way through the 5 steps in the writing process. Most students are at step 3 or 4. Our goal for next week is to wrap up this piece and move on.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child to identify the 5 steps in the writing process. (Prewriting, Drafting. Revising. Editing/Proofreading. Publishing)
 * This week's focus: Mean
 * By the end of Grade 5, students will calculate the mean for a small set of data and use it to describe the shape of the data set across its range of values, using charts, tables, and graphs (e.g.,“The data values fall mainly into two groups on both sides of the mean.”; “The set of data is not spread out evenly around the mean.”);
 * Solving mean using repeated addition and repeated subtraction
 * Let's Talk Numbers - You can help your child by having them calculate the mean for the following data sets. They have been encouraged to calculate the mean using repeated addition and/or repeated subtraction. (Mean = average)

Friday - PA Day (no school for students)
 * //Week 12 - November 20th to 24th//**

__**Grade 3 - English**__ __**Grade 3 - Math**__ > Greatest Number - Lowest Number = Range. __**Grade 5 - English**__ __**Grade 5 - Math**__
 * Read Aloud: Third Grade Angels by Jerry Spinelli
 * Working on Writing - Choosing strong details to support our topic. Giving examples to explain our ideas. We ended the week by choosing strong details to help plan our writing. Next week, the students will use the details from their "My Ideal Pet" graphic organizer to write a paragraph that describes their ideal pet.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child about their "ideal pet". What it does. What it looks like. What it sounds like. How they would care for it.
 * This week's focus: Mode and Range
 * We watched the "Triple M Crew" explain Mean, Median, and Mode @https://youtu.be/5C9LBF3b65s
 * By the end of Grade 3, students will demonstrate an understanding of mode (e.g.,“The mode is the value that shows up most often on a graph.”), and identify the mode in a set of data.
 * Range is the difference between the greatest number and lowest number in a data set.
 * Let's Talk Numbers - You can help your child by providing them with 5 to 6 numbers in a data set and asking them to identify the mode (the number that appears most often)
 * Lets's Talk Numbers 2 - You can help your child by asking them to calculate the range using the same data sets as mentioned above.
 * Publication: November 29th.
 * Read Aloud: Wonder
 * Working on Writing - Develop your characters, setting, and plot to make your story interesting and detailed. We spent time making our way through the 5 steps in the writing process. Most students are at step 3 or 4. Our goal for next week is to wrap up this piece and move on.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child to identify the 5 steps in the writing process. (Prewriting, Drafting. Revising. Editing/Proofreading. Publishing)
 * This week's focus: Mean
 * We watched the "Triple M Crew" explain Mean, Median, and Mode @https://youtu.be/5C9LBF3b65s
 * We sang along with Mr. Peters' Lazy Song Parody @https://youtu.be/IHginNwss5c
 * By the end of Grade 5, students will calculate the mean for a small set of data and use it to describe the shape of the data set across its range of values, using charts, tables, and graphs (e.g.,“The data values fall mainly into two groups on both sides of the mean.”; “The set of data is not spread out evenly around the mean.”);
 * Let's Talk Numbers - You can help your child by providing them with 5 to 10 numbers in a data set and asking them to calculate the mean (the average)
 * Let's Talk Numbers 2 - Ask your child what steps are involved in calculating the mean.

__**Grade 3 - English**__
 * //Week 11 - November 13th to 17th//**
 * Read Aloud: The One and Only Ivan - 18 pages left for Monday. What will we read next? Perhaps some picture books?!?
 * Word Work - We did not spend a lot of time working with words this week. Between workshops and skating hoping to get back to this next week. Only gluing and sentences this week.
 * Working on Writing - Adding details to our writing. We looked at some of the learning goals associated with this task and developed success criteria (look fors) as a class. We then spent time focusing on adding sensory details to our writing (things we can see, hear, feel, smell, and taste).
 * Table Talk: Look at a picture with your child. Ask them to tell you details that they can see. See below for an example.

The girl is blowing bubbles. She is wearing a blue with white polka dotted vest jacket. Etc.

__**Grade 3 - Math**__
 * This week's focus: Venn Diagrams
 * We used hula hoops to create an interactive Venn Diagram with items found within our classroom
 * We spent time doing a couple of sorts before the students were asked to create their own sorts into their math notebooks.
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Create a Venn Diagram to sort items found within your home, at the hockey rink, or elsewhere outside of the classroom. Be sure to ask your child why they placed certain items where they did.



__**Grade 5 - English**__ __**Grade 5 - Math**__
 * Submission of articles for final edit: November 22nd. Publication: November 29th. It is hard to believe we're close to wrapping up another edition and month of school.
 * Working on Writing - Adding details to our writing remains our focus. We've added details to our: characters (full name, age, appearance, goals, strengths, weaknesses),setting (time of day, location, sensory details about the location - what it looks like, smells like, what you can hear, feel, touch), plot (introduction, rising acting, climax, falling action, resolution).
 * Table Talk: Why is it important to add details to your writing?
 * This week's focus: Data management. Broken-Line Graphs
 * Stem-and-Leaf Plot review
 * Construction of Broken-Line Graphs
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Ask your child the steps involved in constructing a Broken-line Graph. (Step 1 - Calculate the range of the data by subtracting the lowest number in the data set from the highest number in the data set. Step 2 - Choose an appropriate scale based on the range of your data. Step 3 - Set up the y- and x-axis. Step 4 - Plot your data points. Step 5 - "Connect the dots". Step 6 - Label your vertical and horizontal axes and title your graph (the title and labels should match the data being graphed). Step 7 - Look for trends in the data. Are you able to talk about why these trends exist (for example, we looked at precipitation changing throughout one year in BC or Australia and the length of our shadows changing throughout a day)
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Ask your child if they remember the 8 checklist items for creating a Broken-line Graph: 1. title 2. y-axis label 3. x-axis label 4. scale (skip counting) 5. categories/sub-titles 6. data points and line segments 7. neatness 8. Trends - increasing, decreasing, or staying the same.

__**Grade 3 - English**__ __**Grade 3 - Math**__ __**Grade 5 - English**__ __**Grade 5 - Math**__
 * //Week 10 - November 6th to 10th//**
 * Read Aloud: What is Peace?
 * Word Work - We were so close to finishing sort #3 within one week. Only gluing and sentences remain.
 * Working on Writing - Adding details to our writing. We will look at some of the learning goals associated with this task before working our way through some scaffolding activities.
 * Working on Writing - Creating an acrostic PEACE poem.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child to tell you what peace means to them.
 * This week's focus: Creating and reading horizontal and vertical bar graphs.
 * Mini Classroom surveys using whiteboards. Survey results were then used to create horizontal or vertical bar graphs. We began looking at each other's graphs using our Apple TV.
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Ask your child if they remember the 7 checklist items for creating a bar graph: 1. title 2. y-axis label 3. x-axis label 4. scale (skip counting) 5. categories/sub-titles 6. data (bars) 7. neatness
 * We have one more in class working period for November's paper on Tuesday the 14th. Submission of articles for final edit: November 22nd. Publication: November 29th. It is hard to believe we're close to wrapping up another edition and month of school.
 * Working on Writing - Adding details to our writing remains our focus. We spent some time looking at some of the learning goals associated with this activity. The students helped to create a kid-friendly success criteria checklist which we will be referring to throughout this writing task.
 * LEADS training wrapped up this week. LEADS is the next step in WITS. L (Look & Listen), E (Explore Points of View), A (Act), D (Did it work?), S (Seek Help).
 * Table Talk: Why is it important to add details to your writing?
 * This week's focus: Data management. Discrete Data versus Continuous Data
 * Review of graphs: Pictographs, Bar graphs (Horizontal, Vertical and Double)
 * Next week: We will review Stem-and-Leaf Plots before being introduced to Broken-Line Graphs (grade 5 focus)
 * Let's Talk Numbers - What is discrete data? (information that can be counted such as goals in soccer) What is continuous data? (information that needs to be measured such as save percentages within the NHL, your weight, your height, etc.)
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Ask your child if they remember the 7 checklist items for creating a bar graph: 1. title 2. y-axis label 3. x-axis label 4. scale (skip counting) 5. categories/sub-titles 6. data (bars) 7. neatness

__**Grade 3 - English**__ __**Grade 3 - Math**__ __**Grade 5 - English**__ __**Grade 5 - Math**__
 * //Week 9 - October 30th to November 3rd//**
 * Word Work - Sort, Glue, and Write sentences for word sort #2. Next week, we will get new sorts. We are starting to get the hang of this. Perhaps next week's sort will start and end within the same week?!? Stay tuned.
 * Working on Writing - Roll & Write - constructing and illustrating silly sentences. Remember each sentence starts with a capital and ends with a period, exclamation mark or question mark.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child if they know how a sentence should start and end.
 * This week's focus: Finish up patterning so that we can move onto data management
 * Data Management Launch
 * Mini Classroom surveys using whiteboards
 * Button Sort (sorting and classifying objects using two or more attributes simultaneously (Sample problem: Sort a collection of buttons by size, colour, and number of holes.)
 * Let's Talk Numbers - If you or your child has a collection at home (i.e. hockey cards, stickers, Pokémon Cards, books, etc.), see if he or she can organize that collection of objects into categories, by sorting and classifying using two or more attributes simultaneously (Example: Sort a collection of Pokémon Cards by type (grass Pokémon versus water Pokémon), strength, Pokédex number)
 * We set dates for our November edition. In class work periods: November 3, 6, and 14. Submission of articles for final edit: November 22nd. Publication: November 29th. It is my intention that each child gets an opportunity to work on each section of the newspaper before the end of this school year. It is also my intention that each student gets an opportunity to work with a different partner each month.
 * Working on Writing - We read about George. Unfortunately George was a boring character, so we used our imaginations to give George a full name and age. We explored what George may look like, as well as, his strengths and weaknesses. Adding details to our writing will be our focus.
 * LEADS training continued this week. LEADS is the next step in WITS. L (Look & Listen), E (Explore Points of View), A (Act), D (Did it work?), S (Seek Help). Only one more lesson left. Lesson S (Seek Help) - We saved the best for last. This is the strategy we really want to see our students using.
 * Table Talk: Why is important for authors to give their characters interesting qualities and traits?
 * This week's focus: Finish up patterning so that we can move onto data management
 * Data Management Launch
 * We used Google's Word Cloud Generator to begin creating a data management word cloud based on grade 5 expectations. Can you tell what we will be focusing on for the next few weeks?


 * Let's Talk Numbers - See if you can find graphs outside of the classroom. Look in newspapers, magazines, or informational texts. What types of graphs were you able to find?


 * //Week 8 - October 23rd to 27th//**

Our WE Club is collecting non-perishable items for the Barrhaven Food Cupboard until Tuesday, October 31st. WE Scare Hunger!
__**Grade 3 - English**__ __**Grade 3 - Math**__ __**Grade 5 - English**__ > PARENT HINTS - Strategy #1 - Think about what is happening in the text. Strategy #2 - Read slowly. Think about the main idea of each section. __**Grade 5 - Math**__
 * Reading to Self - It is amazing to see how much their reading stamina has improved since first being introduced to the Daily 5. They are encouraged to continue reading daily as we do not always get the opportunity in class.
 * Working on Writing - Students were asked to describe the main character in their non-fiction book OR to tell us the events/situation/facts from their non-fiction story
 * Reading to Someone - We shared our first day of school stories aloud during carpet time
 * Listening to Reading - We are a little over halfway through The One and Only Ivan
 * Word Work - Sort and Write
 * Table Talk: Ask your child about their English reading book. Ask them to describe a character that they would like to meet from their book (this character does not have to be one that they like, but a character that they think would be interesting). Have them list 4 questions that they would ask him/her.
 * This week's focus: Patterns in T-Charts
 * Geometric/Symbol Patterns
 * Patterns in T-charts and calendars
 * Our next unit of study will be Data Management (graphs)
 * Patterns in mathematics exit card results were sent home this week. Please ask your son/daughter to show them to you.
 * Let's Talk Numbers - How can a t-chart help you to solve a problem?
 * Newspaper Update - We did it! We made our deadline. It is just too bad that our school website is down until the 30th. I will send the finished product to you via email. We are very proud of the way it turned out.
 * Read Aloud: Jake Drake Bully Buster
 * Reading Passages: The Big Interview; In a Pickle
 * Reading Strategy Focus: Monitoring Comprehension - The students are learning to pay attention to what they are reading and to notice when they are losing focus or when their comprehension is breaking down. There are many strategies to help them overcome their difficulty.
 * LEADS training continued this week. LEADS is the next step in WITS. L (Look & Listen), E (Explore Points of View), A (Act), D (Did it work?), S (Seek Help). Only two more lessons left D & S.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child what strategies they can use if they lose focus or find that their comprehension is breaking down.
 * This week's focus: Patterns in Spreadsheets
 * Let's Talk Numbers - How is a spreadsheet useful for calculating prices at a garage sale? What happened to the cells in the spreadsheet when you reduced the prices?
 * Our next unit of study will be Data Management (graphs)
 * Patterns in mathematics exit card results were sent home this week. Please ask your son/daughter to show them to you.

Our WE Club will be collecting non-perishable items for the Barrhaven Food Cupboard beginning Monday and lasting until Tuesday, October 31st. WE Scare Hunger!
 * //Week 7 - October 16th to 20th//**

__**Grade 3 - English**__ __**Grade 3 - Math**__ __**Grade 5 - English**__ __**Grade 5 - Math**__
 * Reading Passages - Odd Baby Birds; Ways Dogs Talk
 * Word Work - Sort #2 from Words Their Way. Please bear with me as this is my first year using this program.
 * Working on Writing - We used our details to create a brief (short) story about our first day of school.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child what they remember from their first day. It is interesting to see what memories they hold on to.
 * This week's focus: Patterns in Mathematics
 * Growing (increasing), Shrinking (decreasing), and Repeating Patterns
 * Extending growing, shrinking and repeating patterns
 * Patterns in 100s charts
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Ask your child what patterns are created on a 100s chart when you count by 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, and 10s.
 * Look for patterns in mathematics exit card results next week
 * Newspaper Update - Most students submitted their articles on time. We are hopeful that the final product will be available on the school website next week. If your child has not made up their mind on a pseudonym, now is the time.
 * LEADS training continued this week. LEADS is the next step in WITS. L (Look & Listen), E (Explore Points of View), A (Act), D (Did it work?), S (Seek Help). John McCrae students will be visiting us in class and on the yard once per week for the next five weeks.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child if they know what LEADS stands for. Ask them if they know why they are receiving LEADS training.
 * Table Talk #2: Ask them what pseudonym or pen name they would like to use for October's paper.
 * Table Talk #3: What is a paragraph?
 * This week's focus: Tables of Values and Algebra
 * Growing (increasing), Shrinking (decreasing), and Repeating Patterns
 * What is the value of x?
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Ask your child simple equations with a missing number and see if they can determine the value of the missing number.
 * Look for patterns in mathematics exit card results next week

Monday - Holiday (No school fior students or staff.)
 * //Week 6 - October 9th to 13th//**

__**Grade 3 - English**__ > 1. Eyes = look at the person talking to you > 2. Ears = both ears ready to hear > 3. Mouth = quiet - no talking, humming, or making sounds > 4. Hands = quiet in lap, pockets, or by your side > 5. Feet = quiet on the floor > 6. Body = faces the speaker > 7. Brain = thinking about what is being said > 8. Heart = caring about what the other person is saying __**Grade 3 - Math**__ __**Grade 5 - English**__ __**Grade 5 - Math**__
 * Read Aloud: Whole Body Listening Larry at School
 * Word Work - We had our first experiences with //Words Their Way// sorts. //Words Their Way// is a developmental approach to phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction where students examine, manipulate, compare and categorize words.
 * Scholastic Flyers for September and October are come home Wednesday. Orders due next Wednesday, October 18th (or Friday at the latest as my grade 5s have until then to decide). NOTE: Participation is completely OPTIONAL.
 * Details. Using the "5 Ws" to add details. Details are ideas that make our writing more interesting. Some details tell who and others tell what. Who and what are two of the "5 W" details.
 * Table Talk: See how many of the 8 things involved in whole body listening your child can remember. Talk about the ones they may have missed and why they are also important especially while at school.
 * Table Talk #2: Ask your child to name the "5 W" details.
 * This week's focus: Patterns in Mathematics
 * Growing (increasing), Shrinking (decreasing), and Repeating Patterns
 * Extending growing, shrinking and repeating patterns
 * Calendar and 0-99 chart patterns
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Look at a calendar together and see how many patterns you can find. Example, choose a day of the week. Look at all the dates in a month on that day. What pattern do you see? What pattern do you see from one day to the next? Every second day? etc.
 * Newspaper Update - Extra, extra! Read all about it! Articles are due for final edit on October 20th and our newspaper will be ready for release on October 26th. We talked about developing pseudonyms (a fictitious name) for our newspaper articles.
 * Read Aloud: Each Kindness
 * WONDER Trailer - So excited as we've been reading about August's world during our daily Listen to Reading.
 * Scholastic Flyers for September and October are coming home today. Orders due next Friday, October 20th. Participation is completely OPTIONAL.
 * LEADS training began this week. LEADS is the next step in WITS. L (Look & Listen), E (Explore Points of View), A (Act), D (Did it work?), S (Seek Help). John McCrae students will be visiting us in class and on the yard once per week for the next six weeks.
 * Table Talk: Ask your child if they know what LEADS stands for. Ask them if they know why they are receiving LEADS training.
 * Table Talk #2: Ask them what pseudonym or pen name they would like to use for October's paper.
 * This week's focus: Tables of Values for growing, shrinking, and repeating patterns.
 * Growing (increasing), Shrinking (decreasing), and Repeating Patterns
 * Modeling patterns with tiles to match our table of values
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Ask your child what they think a table of values describing a pattern is __**most**__ useful for.

Tuesday - Lockdown Practice Wednesday - Bus Evacuation Friday - PA Day (no school for students) NOTE: Monday is a holiday (no school for staff or students)
 * //Week 5 - October 2nd to 6th//**

__**Grade 3 - English**__ __**Grade 3 - Math**__ __**Grade 5 - English**__ __**Grade 5 - Math**__
 * Reading Passages: Learning About Chimpanzees; and Charles the Grouch
 * Reading Strategy Focus: Making Connections
 * We spent time Making Words this week as one of the Daily 5 menu items is Word Work. The students were given paper to make letter cards. On Monday, we worked with the vowel letter a and the consonant letters c, c, h, r, s, and t and were able to create 26 English words. On Tuesday, we worked with the vowel letter a and the consonant letters h, l, p, s, and s and were able to create 22 English words.
 * Table Talk: Ask about our new English library, what books your child is most interested in reading and why.
 * This week's focus: Patterns in Mathematics
 * Game of the Week: Place Value Yatzee (3 or 4-digit)
 * Growing (increasing), Shrinking (decreasing), and Repeating Patterns
 * Extending growing, shrinking and repeating patterns
 * Let's Talk Numbers - If you start a number pattern, can your child finish it? For example, write the next three terms in this pattern 4, 8, 12, 16, ….)
 * CASI Update - With all the interruptions over the last few weeks, it has been extremely hard to find the time to finish up this assessment. We are getting closer day by day. Thank you for your patience. Slow and steady wins the race.
 * Our newspaper is coming along as well. The editor-in-chief (aka Mrs. Dowdall) will be meeting with each of the groups next week to make sure things are on track and to set some deadlines as a group.
 * Topic Sentences - A topic sentence clearly states the main idea of a paragraph. Every detail in a paragraph must support the main idea, or it doesn't belong in the paragraph.
 * Placemat activity - What does "safe" feel like, look like, and sound like? What does a positive learning environment look like, feel like, and sound like? What does "a sense of belonging" feel like, look like, and sound like?
 * Table Talk: Ask your child to read a paragraph from their favourite book. As a follow-up ask them what the paragraph was about and whether or not they can identify the topic sentence.
 * This week's focus: Patterns in Mathematics
 * Game of the Week: Place Value Yatzee (6-digit or decimal #s)
 * Growing (increasing), Shrinking (decreasing), and Repeating Patterns
 * Table of values for a growing pattern
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Ask your child how many bulbs they needed for their size 1 letter. How many for size 2? How many for size 3? Are they able to identify the pattern? For example, my size 1 "s" took 14 bulbs. My size 2 took 19. Size 3 took 24 bulbs. My "S" pattern increased by 5 bulbs each term/size. CHALLENGE: If you have access to 65 bulbs, what is the largest size letter you can create?

Tuesday - WITS Kick-off Assembly Wednesday - Meet the Teacher 5-7pm Thursday - Terry Fox Run/Walk Friday - Photo Day and Family Photo Night
 * //Week 4 - September 25th to 29th//**

What a hot and busy week. It was so nice to meet a number of parents Wednesday night and I look forward to meeting more of you in November. Below is a brief summary of what we've been up to:

__**Grade 3 - English**__ __**Grade 3 - Math**__ __**Grade 5 - English**__ __**Grade 5 - Math**__
 * Read Aloud: The Invisible Boy@https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okAJ62ia63Q
 * School wide follow-up Activity: I Feel Visible When...
 * Reading Passages: Sparky the Wonder Dog; Whoa, Boy!
 * Reading Strategy focus: Making Connections
 * Table Talk: Talk about when you feel visible and why
 * This week's focus: Wrapping up our first numeration unit.
 * Reading, representing, and comparing whole numbers to 1000.
 * Rounding 2-digit numbers to the nearest 10
 * Counting forwards by 1's, 2's, 5's, 10's, 100's to 1000
 * Counting backwards by 2's, 5's, and 10's from 100 and from 1000 by 100's.
 * Exit Card - 3-digit subtraction, ordering numbers and number words
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Patterning will be our next unit of study. See if your child can identify numeric and/or geometric patterns in their environment.
 * Read Aloud: The Invisible Boy @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okAJ62ia63Q
 * School wide follow-up Activity: I Feel Visible When...
 * Comprehension. Attitude. Strategies. Interests. (CASI Reading Assessment) The grade 5 students completed their first CASI on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. A few students have some finishing touches to put on their answers next week. Hopefully we can go over their answers later in the week in order to diagnose student strengths and learning needs.
 * On Friday, we began production of our first edition of Jockvale News - stories written by students, for students. Stay tuned for more information on due dates and publication.
 * Table Talk: Talk about when you feel visible and why.
 * Table Talk 2: Ask your child which article they are responsible for in October.
 * This week's focus: Wrapping up our first numeration unit.
 * Rounding decimals to tenths
 * Reading, representing, comparing, and ordering whole numbers and decimal numbers from 0.01 to 100 000
 * Printing number words to 10 000
 * Counting forwards and backwards by hundredths
 * Exit Card - Number words, rounding to tenths, and ordering numbers
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Patterning will be our next unit of study. Can your child predict the number of tiles needed to build the 10th L in this pattern?

Friday - Terry Fox Assembly 9am NEXT Wednesday Meet the Teacher 5-7pm
 * //Week 3 - September 18th to 22nd//**

__**Grade 3 - English**__ __**Grade 3 - Math**__ __**Grade 5 - English**__ __**Grade 5 - Math**__
 * How to write a topic sentence was this week's focus. We reviewed the concept of **main idea**. //A main idea tells what a piece of writing is mostly about. The main idea is expressed in what is called a **topic sentence**.//
 * Next week we will revisit main ideas and topic sentences before moving on to **supporting sentences**.
 * Read Aloud - Decibella and her 6-inch VOICE (Isabella loves using her loud voice so much, everyone call her "Decibella!" Until her teacher introduces the "five volumes" of voice.)
 * Table Talk - Ask your child to demonstrate their five volumes. "Slurpadoodle!"
 * Parents should have seen their child's first math results come home earlier this week. Addition, Subtraction, and Fact Families #nosurprises
 * This week's focus: 3-digit + 3-digit addition and 3-digit - 3-digit subtraction
 * Students should be familiar with place values up to a thousand in grade 3
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Ask your child to count forward by 1's, 2's, 5's, 10's, and 100's to 1000 from various starting points, and by 25's to 1000 starting from multiples of 25 using a variety of tools and/or strategies (e.g., skip count with and without the aid of a calculator; skip count by 10's using dimes)
 * We began the week with a discussion of creating a monthly newspaper/newsletter for Jockvale. First edition to hit the web in October if all goes according to plan.
 * The remainder of the week was spent revisiting and improving upon our summer writing assignments. Strong openings for writing. Specific details. Ending our stories with a BANG! We are hopeful that these will be available for next week's meet the teacher. If not, soon. I must say I've seen lots of improvement since our first drafts. I'm hopeful the students feel the same.
 * Parents should have seen their child's first math results come home earlier this week. Addition, Subtraction, and Rounding #nosurprises
 * This week's focus: 5-digit + 5-digit addition and 5-digit - 5-digit subtraction
 * Students should be familiar with place values up to one hundred thousand and down to hundredths in grade 5
 * Let's Talk Numbers - Ask your child to use estimation when solving problems involving addition and subtraction of whole numbers, to help judge the reasonableness of a solution.


 * //Week 2 - September 11th to 15th//**

__**Grade 3 - English**__ __**Grade 3 - Math**__ __**Grade 5 - English**__ __**Grade 5 - Math**__
 * Letter to My Future Self writing activity to be kept and given back during the last week of school
 * Specific details make our writing better. This week's focus was choosing a strong idea to make your idea more specific and clear.
 * We spent time writing complete sentences with capitalization and punctuation!
 * Adding and subtracting with tens
 * Mental Math using friendly numbers and regrouping
 * Number Sentences
 * This week's games - (1) Treasure Staircase and (2) Operation 25
 * Exit Card
 * 4 kinds of sentences: Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, and Exclamatory.
 * Focus on Strong Ideas - we know that the best writing begins with a strong idea so we practiced narrowing our focus this week.
 * Ask your child about the possibility of a school newspaper brought to you by the grade 5s.
 * Mental math (using friendly numbers)
 * Estimating the reasonableness of our answers using rounding
 * Place Value up to hundred thousands and down hundredths
 * Exit Card

Monday - no school Tuesday - 1st Day of School
 * //Week 1 - September 4th to 8th//**

What a great first week of school. Thanks to all for helping to make it as such. Below is a brief summary of what we've been up to.

__**Grade 3 - English**__ __**Grade 3 - Math**__ __**Grade 5 - English**__ __**Grade 5 - Math**__
 * Read aloud - Miss Nelson is Missing
 * Class expectations
 * Words Their Way (spelling assessment)
 * Number sentences with a special focus on addition and subtraction sentences
 * Addition and Subtraction fact families.
 * Ask your child to talk to you about the sock eating dryer example.
 * Read aloud - The Giving Tree
 * What Can I Give to My Classmates/Class writing activity
 * Non-fiction narrative about something that happened during summer vacation
 * Words Their Way (spelling assessment)
 * Addition and Subtraction review
 * Ask your child about the movie tickets they won, who they could take to the movies and how they solved this problem.

Welcome to our classroom website! Here you'll find important information, the class calendar, and a few other things. Don't be shy have a look around.

Daily Schedule 8:20 - Yard Supervision 8:30 - Morning Block 10:30 - Nutrition Break # 1 10:50 - Recess # 1 11:15 - Middle Block 1:15 - Nutrition Break # 2 1:35 - Recess # 2 2:00 - Last Block 3:00 - Dismissal


 * Please browse through the pages of this site to familiarize yourself with the variety of information available.**


 * I update this site once or twice weekly with news, reminders and homework.**


 * Students and parents are strongly encouraged to "bookmark" this address in their Favourites, and check it regularly.**

__**REMINDER: Communication is the key to success!**__ Please do not hesitate to contact me at school if you have any questions, concerns or //celebrations.//

Writing a note in your child's agenda is the easiest way to get a hold of me as I look at the student’s agendas every day. If you would rather, you can call me at the school 613.825.1224 and leave a message. While I try to check my messages every day, I am rarely at the phone, so while I may listen to your message, please be advised that it could be a couple of days before I have the opportunity to respond to you. Just a kind reminder that “popping in” to speak to me, especially in the morning, is not convenient. I love to meet with you personally, but please make an appointment with me if you would like to meet face to face. You can also send me an email, which I check regularly - the format for our Board is [firstname].[lastname]@ocdsb.ca