3B Blog: Weekly Times May 18, 2012

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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!!!!