AIS-Grade 3

Dear Parents, English: We used books to understand what a simile is. We wrote our own paragraphs using similes. We worked on comparing two stories. We focused on understanding story features and made graphic organisers to show our understanding of a book. We also continued to focus on reading for our correct level. Please allow your child to focus on reading and understanding "level up" books on Raz Kids. Maths: We continued to explore the capacity of containers. We had a challenge to find the capacity and drops in different containers. We used problem solving strategies and addition and multiplication to help us figure this out. We learned the difference between the capacity of a container and the volume of a liquid. We also reviewed x5  multiplication . Unit of Inquiry: We did presentations of our summative assessment projects. We also displayed them in the gym for other classes to see. Science Week: -We explored density (heaviness) of liquids by creatin...

Dear Parents, English: We worked on reading comprehension  using our level books on Raz Kids and practiced using the books to find answers to quizzes.  We read two folktales called "How Turtle got his shell" and "Why Tiger can't climb trees" and discussed the plot, characters, setting, and comparisons in the books. We used apostrophes to learn about possessive nouns . We found that when 'im' or 'un' is before a word it gives it the opposite meaning. Maths: We practiced finding the volume of shapes by counting the cubes, and also discovered that we can find the volume by multiplying the length x width x height. We inquired into containers and how much they good hold, capacity . We had a challenge to find out which container could hold more. We finally discovered that we could use measuring jugs to find out the capacity. We also reviewed x3  multiplication . Unit of Inquiry: We worked very hard to finish our summative assessment proje...

Dear Parents, English: We took reading assessments on Raz Kids and practiced reading slowly and carefully to make sure we are understanding what we are reading. We read a book in school and at home to practice our comprehension skills. We guessed and then learned the meaning of new vocabulary words, and tried to make predictions about a story from looking at pictures and reading captions . We learned about subject-verb agreement , and using "er" and "est" with adjectives . Maths: This week we learned that volume is the space that an object takes up. We reviewed area and perimeter . We compared different volumes. We practiced finding the volume of images and models using cubic units . We built models using blocks and playdoh and found the volume of the models to help further our understanding of the concept. We also reviewed x2 and x4 multiplication . Unit of Inquiry: We read about animal adaptations and did some art to represent an animal adaptation ...

Dear Parents, Thank you again to everyone who came to Parents' Day! Grade 6 and 7 threw us a party this week for raising the most food for the food drive in the school! We had a lot of fun! English: We learned about irregular plural nouns and made a poster of some examples of words which do not follow the normal rule. We read some poetry about ecosystems and human impact. We then worked with a partner to create our own poems about a chosen biome. We read news articles about the destruction of ecosystems and practiced creating our own titles. Maths: We practiced reading information from and creating bar, line, and pie graphs . We noticed that using a ruler made the graphs more clear and easier to read, and we practiced using the lines in our notebooks to help us write the numbers evenly. We also discovered that if our page is too small for the graph, we can use skip counting to draw the graph and choose a suitable scale . We also practiced analysing graphs and writ...

Dear Parents, Thank you to everyone who came to ICF last week! I hope you enjoyed it! Grade 3 collected more food for the food drive per student than any other class in the school! Fantastic! A reminder that we have Parents' Day coming up next week. Please check the email from the office for more details. English: We practiced reading newspaper articles , with a focus on layout and language used. We created our own drafts of a newspaper article, and worked on turning an idea into a finished product. We read articles from the news about the environment, discussed the intention/ message of the article and brainstormed ideas for our unit. We also practiced adding 's' or 'es' to make a noun plural. Maths: We brainstormed ideas for what a map should like like, what information it should contain, and why we need maps. We then practiced reading a map, made our own maps, and connected to our unit by making a map of a chosen biome. We found locations using co...