AIS-Grade 3

Dear Parents, English: We read Flower Power and retold the story using important plot points. We practiced answering Cause and Effect questions, writing adjectives, and identifying sufix -ful words. We also practiced creative writing and independent reading using our leveled readers. Maths: We practiced multiplication skills. We reviewed traditional multiplication techniques, as well as breaking numbers apart. We reviewed x2, x5, and x10 tables. We worked on solving word problem challenges with one and two step multiplication solutions. We also used our understanding of measurement and scale to prepare props and our set for YEP. Unit of Inquiry: We inquired into different artists and learned about their life stories. We focused on painter Andy Warhol and author J.K. Rowling. We continued to work on our performance for YEP. We wrote our script, made props, and designed our set. We are almost finished preparing everything, and will focus on our acting skills next week. Japanese

Dear Parents, We had a short but busy week! We practiced for the ISA tests and agreed that we are excited to do the tests properly next year. Thank you for taking the time to attend PTCs. It is great to have a chance to speak to you in person! Unit of Inquiry: We inquired into different artists and learned about their life stories. We focused on musician Celia Cruz, fashion designer Coco Chanel, and painter Jackson Pollock. We discovered that there are a lot of different art forms, such as music and fashion designing. We looked at some painting by Jackson Pollock and discussed how they made us feel or what we saw in them. We were inspired to create our own paintings in the style of Pollock. We worked on our plot for our YEP play. We split into teams and made plans for our scripts, set design, and props. We will work on these next week. Reminders: -Japanese Culture Day is Thursday, January 21st. Enjoy your weekend! Ms. Stacy.

Dear Parents, During Maths and English time this week, we practiced sample questions for the ISA tests, and worked on how to answer questions. Unit of Inquiry: We have been tuning in to our final unit: how we express ourselves. We talked about inspirations and what inspires us. This helped us to understand our central idea: personal experiences provide inspiration for an artist to create. As this year YEP will be connected to our unit, we also spent time brainstorming and working on ideas for what we can do. We came up with some great ideas that we will continue to work on over the coming weeks! Reminders: -There is no school on Monday. -We will do ISA practice on Tuesday and Wednesday. (Maths is Tuesday if you wish to bring a calculator) -PTCs are Friday. Thank you, Ms. Stacy.

Dear Parents, English: Our focus for our shared reading this week was "Jobs Change". We shared our predictions based on the covers and photographs in the book. We were surprised to compare and contrast jobs nowadays and long ago, and we learned a lot of interesting facts! We learned about using appropriate vocabulary to compare and contrast, such as  both, similar to, like, unlike, but, in contrast, different from. Maths: We explored chance and probability . We looked at different scenarios and decided if the outcomes were impossible, unlikely, likely, or certain . We then used fractions to represent the different outcomes. We played a variety of games to test the accuracy of our predictions. Unit of Inquiry: We had a wonderful week with our summative assessment! We finished preparing our goods, advertising, booth decoration, currency exchange booth, and a donation booth for students who wanted to give to charity. Our advertising worked very well, and every grade fro