Welcome to 2020! January 10th updates

Friday, January 10th 2020

Welcome to 2020 Grade 3 Families!!

It has been an interesting, busy, productive week in grade 3!

This week we learned about the Zones of Regulation - all about how our feelings fit into the Green, Yellow, Red, and Blue zones. We discussed ways of coping with our big feelings, and how we can help ourselves move back into a Green, calm, focused mindset where we are ready to learn. We also made Cootie Catchers to write down how we would cope with our feelings.

In Literacy we started working on editing skills - checking for spelling and punctuation. We also read an Indigenous folktale called “Frog Girl” and summarized the story using the 5 W’s. This connects to our Social Studies curriculum as we will be looking at Traditions and Folktales from our 4 countries.

In Math, we started multiplication strategies with repeated addition (3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = ), and skip counting 2, 4, 5, and 10! Make sure to practice these skills with your student to build their knowledge.

In Science we began our Hearing and Sound unit by listening to nature sounds, and identifying sounds we would hear in and around the school. Next week we will be talking about what sound is and the parts of the ear.

We are excited to bring back two programs, Simons Valley Reads and Simons Valley Mathletes in 2020! Both programs were a HUGE success because of volunteers such as you! We are hoping to run an 8 week program of both SVS Reads and Mathletes starting January 28th for 1 hour a week.

Here is a brief description of the two programs (little different from last year) but just as impactful!

SVS Reads

• To support our Grade One/ Two/ Three students, we are looking for parent volunteers who would be able to come once a week for an hour and work with two students. Volunteers would work with a student for 20 minutes each practicing high frequency words, sentence work and of course, reading a short story. All of the materials will be provided for you!

SVS Mathletes

• The second program, Simons Valley Mathletes is a program designed to help our grade 3 to 6 students develop proficiency in mathematics. The focus this year will be to strengthen basic math facts. With this program, as SVS Reads, we are looking for parent volunteers who would be able to come once a week for an hour and work with two students. Volunteers would work with each student for 20 minutes making numbers, practicing basic math facts and then playing a math game. All of the materials will be provided for you.

If you are interested in volunteering with either program, please contact us at ggdavidoff@cbe.ab.ca or bghordern@cbe.ab.ca before January 14th.

Upcoming Dates in 2020:

• January 15th It’s A Crime Not To Read
• January 16th Little Caesars Hot Lunch
• January 24th CAD from 12:20-1:20pm
• January 31st PD Day (no school)
• February 13th-14th Teacher’s Convention (no school)
• February 17th Family Day (no school)

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Sinden