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Important Notices:
- Please send in a small plastic bottle on Monday. We need it for an experiment and it will not be returned
- MAY FAIR is next Saturday, May 26. Grade 3's game is Olympic Musical Chairs. If you would be willing to donate a half hour of your time to running the game, we would greatly appreciate it!!! If you are available, please send me an email with your preferred time and/or return the letter that was sent home Thursday.
Thank you for your support.
- The DANCE FESTIVAL is Thursday, May 24.
- I have adjusted the settings on the blog so that you may comment if you would like!
THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES:
Units of Inquiry-
Who We Are - Bodyworks
Questions we have
Reading on the Stomach and Digestive System Diagram
Saliva demonstration
Taking our Pulse
Reading about how the heart works
Vocabulary on the Skeletal Muscular System and Circulatory System
ICT -
- short videos on the heart, lungs, brain, stomach from Kid's Health
- Digestive system activity
- Nervous System BBC
- Mavis Beacon Typing
Language Arts
Writing about our weekends
Spelling -consonant clusters
Reading - The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark - Ch. 4 and 5 "Dark is Necessary" and "Dark is Fascinating"
Literature Circle jobs - Practicing Word Wizard, putting it all together
Maths
Place value review
- adding 10, 100, 1000
- recognizing what each digit means in a number
Addition and Subtraction
- review of standard methods
- "counting on" with close numbers such as 201-199 without borrowing
- borrowing with zeros
- ten bonds and hundred bonds (and thousand bonds) 36 + ____ =100 450 + _____ = 1000
NEXT WEEK:
Respiratory System, Nervous System, Body System reviews
Literature Circles
Metric Measures - litres and ml
Preparation for May Fair
Speech marks
Begin to talk about our last unit : Express Yourself
THANK YOU!!!! THE STUDENT-LED CONFERENCES WERE WONDERFUL!!!!
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| Practicing for our Conferences |
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| Conference Day |
