AIS-Grade 3

Dear Parents, Please carefully read the emails about ICF. I sent home the tickets today. Please remember them tomorrow! Thank you also to everyone who donated to our food drive this week! It was great to see the children being charitable and helping those less fortunate than us. If you still have more to donate, please bring to the 10th floor tomorrow. English: We used our skim-reading skills to find interesting facts about ancient and modern Greece. We then sorted through the information we had gathered and used dictionaries and group discussions to understand the meaning of the texts. We chose our favourite facts and displayed them for ICF. Maths: We compared different ways of displaying fractions and began to understand equivalent fractions . We practiced changing a fraction into another fraction of the same value. We also reviewed some  multiplication and division . Unit of Inquiry: We looked at some vocabulary words connected to our unit. We brainstormed what t...

Dear Parents, This week we started our fourth unit of inquiry "Sharing the planet". We also started planning and preparing our decoration for ICF. English: We practiced using the correct  pronouns  in sentences. We learned spellings for homework and did much better in our test this week. We started to explore newspapers and looked at the design and features of newspapers. Maths: We reviewed dividing into equal parts and basic fractions . We played games and practiced activities to remind ourselves how to work with fractions. Unit of Inquiry: We started our new unit by sharing our ideas of what "Sharing the planet" means to each of us. We used persuasive language to say if we agreed with the central idea "Our actions affect life on Earth". We brainstormed ideas, watched videos, and read books to find out what ecosystems are. We visited the library and sorted through books to see if we could find connections to our inquiry, and shared what interes...

Dear Parents, We had a very busy week finishing our third unit, where we are in place and time! We really enjoyed presenting today! English: We improved on our persuasive writing and used this language to convince someone to visit our ancient civilisation. We worked on improving our spellings too and began studying spellings for homework. We guessed the pronouns in some sentences. Maths: We used bar graphs and Venn diagrams . We decided how to represent data we learned about ancient civilisations. We used this to compare the similarities and differences between different civilisations. Unit of Inquiry: We worked on our  summative assessment  to show our understanding of the central idea "Ancient civilisations impact our lives". We made a tourism advert for an ancient civilisation of our choice and presented it to our friends. It was a lot of fun! Next week: We will begin our next unit, sharing the planet! Have a good weekend! Ms. Stacy. ...

Dear Parents, We had a great time on our field trip today! We saw many interesting exhibits and made a lot of connections to our inquiry! We enjoyed a picnic and games at lunch time in the park with a nice view of Osaka Castle! English: We practiced writing to advertise, and noticed that certain words were more effective. We practiced using this persuasive language , and started to use this as part of our tourism advert in UOI. We also reviewed when to use capital letters , and proper nouns . Maths: We continued to work on timelines , and made timelines of our lives. After that, we connected this to our unit by viewing a timeline of an ancient civlisation, and then working on creating a timeline of a different ancient civilisation. We also practiced drawing straight lines , spacing , and rounding to the nearest thousand. Unit of Inquiry: We learned that our summative assessment  to show our understanding of the central idea is to make a tourism advert for an ancient civi...