AIS-Grade 3

Dear Parents, Here is the story from literacy week. Each class wrote a sentence to make one big Abroad story! Grade 3 added a lot of leaves to the reading tree! In English class, we used some prompts to write a story in creative writing. We used the "Inside your body" book to help us identify the main idea and small details. This exercise really helped us with our unit too! We had fun remembering what syllables are, and worked with a partner to record the syllables of words in a book. We also practiced our reading comprehension, by finding the answers to questions in our book, and extending our understanding by answering a challenging question. In Maths class, we worked on mental subtraction strategies. Although we already knew how to subtract numbers, we went over the concept of what subtraction means and how it changes a number. We used a number of different strategies to practice doing fast subtraction, like related facts, recognising

We had a great week! We were ready to read our Poems in our Pockets on the field trip! Subah's mom came to read to us! We read books at the local library! We did a wonderful job reading to our Preschool friends! We added our time spent reading to the reading tree. We guessed the teachers' favourite books. We dressed up in literacy costumes. Congratulations to Elif and Noah who took part in the spelling bee! I hope everyone enjoyed literacy week and feels a renewed interest in reading! Let's keep our reading going! -Ms. Stacy.

We had a great day in Kids Plaza with our Grade 5 friends! It was very cool to get some hands-on experience to help us with our Unit of Inquiry about body systems.   We took notes so that we can remember what we discovered. We enjoyed a relaxing lunch and chatting about our day so far!  We had fun exploring the instruments and costumes of other cultures. We experimented with a lot of science and technology. The students were very well behaved and principled on the field trip. We had a wonderful day and we didn't want it to end! -Ms. Stacy.