Grade 3 Curriculum Update for the Week of June 1

CHANGEMAKER PROJECT Reading/Writing	Students will give their final speeches on Monday. Then, they will give and receive feedback on all their hard work. To finish off our changemaker unit, students will create a comic strip about their changemaker.
Math	We will continue our work in perimeter and area of rectangles and squares. This week’s screen free project will have a Math focus instead of the usual Social Studies/Language focus.
Social Studies	The students will explore how they can be changemakers by performing acts of kindness.
Portuguese	PLA: Reading and spelling study PAL: Revising weekend activity sentences; practicing talking about objects of the house; reading.
PE/Music/Art	PE:Roblox Workouts, Star Wars fitness, Go Noodle Music: Reading Music - Note Name Memory Game Art: Art with Mati and Dada

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Grade 3 Curriculum Update for the Week of May 4

Reading	The class will review previous summarizing strategies with a focus on biographies.
Writing	Students will continue to develop and strengthen their persuasive writing by drafting, revising, and editing their second 5 paragraph essay. The focus will be on transition words and using commas.
Math	Students will compare two fractions with the same numerator or the same denominator by reasoning about their size.
Social Studies	Social Studies will strongly connect to reading. Students will continue to reflect on what makes a changemaker through powerful changemakers of the past and present.
Portuguese	PLA: Gramática: usos de G e Gu (Quizlet)  Leitura: leitura das biografias de familiares  feitas pelos colegas de classe  PAL: Oral language and writing activities about the weekend, parts of the house, family, and routine verbs. Reading on Elefante Letrado.
PE/Music/Art	PE: Let’s practice juggling, some yoga practice and fun superhero  workouts. Remember our live class on Thursday! Music: Reading Music - Bass Clef - Lines Art:  Origami Challenge

Grade 3 Curriculum Update for the Week of April 22

Reading	Students will review their understandings from last week regarding biographies. They will focus more closely on character traits.
Writing	Writing will focus on giving thoughtful and constructive feedback on our writing and that of others. We will be participating in a virtual Grade 2 Writing celebration and also work on our video speaking and presenting skills.
Math	Students will look at fractions as a number on the number line. They will practice representing fractions on a number line diagram.
Social Studies	There will be no Social Studies posted on Google Classroom this week.
Portuguese	PLA: Edição e revisão da biografia de alguém da família; leitura da biografia de Ida Pfeiffer. PAL: Students will be working with verbs in the past to talk about their weekends and routine verbs in the present to talk about things they do everyday.
PE/Music/Art	PE: Workouts for your soul and body as well as agility exercises that can be done with materials found at home. Music: Reading Music - Lines and Spaces Art: Surface texture test

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Grade 3: Curriculum Update for Week of April 6, 2020

Reading	Grade 3 will be starting our new unit on biographies! We will be practicing and reviewing a variety reading strategies to learn about changemakers.
Writing	This is the beginning of our persuasive writing unit. To start, students will build their speaking skills communicating a problem, proposing solutions and begin to organize their thinking. They will also analyse persuasive speeches made by changemakers.
Math	We will start our new unit on fractions by partitioning shapes into equal parts. For example, the class will partition a shape into 4 parts with equal area, and describe the area of each part as 1/4 of the area of the shape.
Science	This is the final week of our Science unit. This week, the students will complete a final project that shows what they know about simple machines, complex machines  and forces.
Portuguese	Unidade Biografias  Escrita da biografia de alguém da família Leitura recomendada na plataforma Elefante Letrado PAL: Practice the assigned song and vocabulary; do the recommended online reading.  Portuguese is assigned on Monday. However, students are expected to complete work each day (10-15 minutes per day). Please review Portuguese Google Classroom instructions carefully.
PE/Music/Art	PE: We will have a bit of yoga, fitness and dancing this week. Music: Reading Music - Treble Clef - Lines Art: A drawing challenge

Grade 3: Curriculum Update for Week of March 30, 2020

Dear Parents,

Every week, we will post a Curriculum Update to inform you of the learning topics for the week. Please note that this is just an overview for you and students will get details in their Google Classroom.

It's also important after the first week of distance learning that your family revisit the student schedules.  Be sure to be flexible with your child and encourage them to take breaks for snacks and movement when needed.  If you need any advice or guidance on this, please contact your child's teachers, counselors, Mr. Boisjoli or Ms. Hammernik.  We would be more than happy to help.

Have a great Week 2 of Distance Learning!

Reading	Students will grow their own ideas in response to reading informational texts by asking themselves thoughtful questions, and comparing different points of view, including the author's perspective as well as the reader's.
Writing	Students will make final revisions and edits on their informational books and digitally publish them on Google slides.
Math	The class will finish their study of area. They will focus on finding the area of compound shapes, applying their knowledge of multiplication and addition.
Science	Students will learn about compound/complex machines. On Friday, they will be assigned a project that will finish out science unit on forces and simple machines.
Portuguese	Unidade Biografia - leitura e ficha biográfica PAL: Practice the assigned song and vocabulary; do the recommended online reading.  Portuguese is assigned on Monday. However, students are expected to complete work each day (10-15 minutes per day). Please review Portuguese Google Classroom instructions carefully.
PE/Music/Art	PE: This week in P.E. you will do some amazing workouts, play PE BINGO, and build your own striking          Implement. Music:This week in Music we will practice Kodaly hand signs.  Art:

Fun Offline Activities

Math Update - Module 3 - Topic C - February 13, 2020

Math Update - Module 3 - Topic B. January 30, 2020

Curriculum Update - January 21, 2020

Welcome back families! We are so excited to have everyone back. We feel invigorated and look forward to a successful and productive 2020!

Math:

In math, we will continue working on Module 3. This module builds directly on students’ work with multiplication and division in Module 1.  At this point, Module 1 instruction coupled with fluency practice in Module 2 has students well on their way to meeting the Grade 3 fluency expectation for multiplying and dividing within 100. Module 3 extends the study of factors from 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10 to include all units from 0 to 10, as well as multiples of 10 within 100.  Please continue to check the blog for biweekly parent newsletter.

Language Arts:

Students will be reading informational texts to figure out the main ideas and supporting details. Students will learn how authors use text features to structure their writing and help readers better understand what they read. 

Students will also practice oral and written summaries of what they read. 

In writing, students will transfer their reading skills to help them research and write their own informational pieces. Using authors as mentors, students will follow the writing process to produce their own non-fiction pieces. 

Throughout Language Arts there will be many opportunities to integrate our Science content related to Weather and Climate. 

Science:

We will begin our unit on Weather and Climate. The focus of this unit will be collecting data about local weather, displaying data and making predictions based on that data. Students will inquire into extreme weather events and their impact. We will also be doing various activities in our new Innovation Studio!

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Math Update - November 11

Math Topic B - Measuring Weight and Liquid Volumes in Metric Units

Math Topic A - Time Measurement

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3rd Grade Music Program

The third-grade music program focuses on developing music literacy through the reading, listening and writing of melody. The course includes a thorough treatment of the descending and ascending diatonic scale, treble and bass clefs, discrimination of adjacent notes, hearing and recognizing descending minor thirds, and engaging in short melodic dications on the staff. Kodaly hand signs are applied to singing and interval training, and opportunities are provided for students to apply their new skills through engagement with melodic percussion instruments. Students are also taught to distinguish timbres by listening to dictations from a varied set of instruments: flute, recorder, various types of xylophones, and the piano. 

swimming lessons

Swimming lessons 1st semester (2019-2020)

Hello there! It’s time for our swimming lessons again!

We’ll have 2 groups again. The first one will have swimming classes from Oct 10th to Nov 6th and the second group will have classes from Nov 07th to Dec 11th.

1st month swimming classes

FROM OCT 10TH (DAY A) TO NOVEMBER 06TH (DAY A) 

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
K3/4 CB K3/4 AH	K3/4 JM K3/4 BM	K3/4 FO	K3/4 CB K3/4 AH	K3/4 FO	K3/4 JM K3/4 BM	K3/4 CB K3/4 AH	K3/4 JM K3/4 BM
K5 CB K5 AH	K5 JM K5 BM	K5 BM	K5 CB K5 AH		K5 JM K3/4 FO	K5 CB K5 AH	K5 JM K5 BM
3C	3A	3C	3A	3C	3A	3C	3A
5A	5C	5A	5A	5C	5A	5C	5C
	2C	2C	2A		2A	2A	2C
	1C	1C	1A		1A	1A	1C
4C	4A	4C	4A	4C	4A	4A

Andrea Ramires is the PE teacher 

Enrico Pasquini is the PE teacher

2nd month swimming classes  

FROM NOV 7TH (DAY B) TO DECEMBER 11TH (DAY F)

Please note that on the week of 18th to 22nd of November THERE WILL NOT BE ANY SWIMMING CLASSES DUE TO A SAAC SWIMMING MEETING. During this week, all classes will be in the gym.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
K3/4 FR	K3/4 JB	K5 FO	K3/4 FR	K5 FO	K3/4 JB	K3/4 FR	K3/4 JB
K5 FR	K5 JB		K5 FR	K5 JB	K5FO	K5 FR	K5 JB
3D	3B	3D	3B	3D	3B	3D	3B
5B	5D	5B	5B	5D	5B	5D	5D
2D	2B		2B	2D	2B		2D
1D	1B		1B	1D	1B		1D
4D	4B	4D	4B	4D	4B	4B	4D

Gisela Maldonado is the PE Teacher

Enrico Pasquini is the PE Teacher

October, 2019

10 (A)

14 (B)

15 (C)

18 (D)

21 (E)

22 (F)

23 (G)

24 (H)

25 (A)

28 (B)

29 (C)

30 (D)

31 (E)

5E

5E

5E

5E

4A

5E

5E

4 A

5E

CB AH 3/4

JM BM 3/4

FO 3/4

CB AH 3/4

FO 3/4

JM BM 3/4

CB AH 3/4

JM BM 3/4

CB AH 3/4

JM BM 3/4

FO 3/4

CB AH 3/4

FO 3/4

CB AH 5

JM BM 5

BM 5

CB AH 5

JM 5 FO 3/4

CB AH 5

JM BM 5

CB AH 5

JM BM 5

BM 5

CB AH 5

3 C

3 A

3 C

3 A

3 C

3 A

3 C

3 A

3 C

3 A

3 C

3 A

3 C

5 A

5 C

5 A

5 A

5 C

5 A

5 C

5 C

5 A

5 C

5 A

5 A

5 C

2 C

2 C

2 A

2A

2 A

2 C

2 C

2 C

2 A

1 C

1 C

1 A

1A

1 A

1 C

1 C

1 C

1 A

4 C

4 A

4 C

4 A

4C

4A

4 C

4 C

4 A

4 C

4 C

November, 2019

01 (F)

04 (G)

05  (H)

06 (A)

07 (B)

08 (C)

11 (D)

12 (E)

13  (F)

14 (G)

25 (D)

26 (E)

27 (F)

5E

5E

4 C

4 B

4 B

JM BM 3/4

CB AH 3/4

JM BM 3/4

CB AH 3/4

JB 3/4

FO 5

FR 3/4

FO 5

JB 3/4

FR 3/4

FR 3/4

FO 5

JB 3/4

JM 5 FO 3/4

CB AH 5

JM BM 5

CB AH 5

JB 5

FR 5

JB 5

FO 5

FR 5

FR 5

JB 5

FO 5

3 A

3 C

3 A

3 C

3 B

3 D

3 B

3 D

3 B

3 D

3 B

3 D

3 B

5 A

5 C

5 C

5 A

5 D

5 B

5 B

5 D

5 B

5 D

5 B

5 D

5 B

2A

2 A

2 C

2 B

2 B

2 D

2 B

2 B

2 D

2 B

1A

1 A

1 C

1 B

1 B

1 D

1 B

1 B

1 D

1 B

4A

4 A

4 C

4 B

4 D

4 B

4 D

4 B

4 B

4 D

December, 2019

02 (G)	03 (H)	04 (A)	05  (B)	06 (C)	09 (D)	10 (E)	11 (F)
		4 D					4 B
FR 3/4	JB 3/4	FR 3/4	JB 3/4	FO 5	FR 3/4	FO 5	JB 3/4
FR 5	JB 5	FR 5	JB 5		FR 5	JB 5	FO 5
3 D	3 B	3 D	3 B	3 D	3 B	3 D	3 B
5 D	5 D	5 B	5 D	5 B	5 B	5 D	5 B
	2 D	2 D	2 B		2 B	2 D	2 B
	1 D	1 D	1 B		1 B	1 D	1 B
4 B	4 D		4B	4 D	4 B	4 D