AIS-Grade 3

Dear Parents, The students worked very hard to prepare for International Children's Festival. As you know, our inquiry into the Ancient Incas gave us a good opportunity to do Peru for our country. The Grade 3 students were so creative! They made a lot of cool things based on the research they did for their inquiry. I was so proud of all of their motivation and hard work! I hope you all enjoyed ICF! Thank you, Ms. Stacy.

Dear Parents, We enjoyed our first full week back at school! Grade 3 are doing a wonderful job at being kind to each other! In English class, we used the book "Late Again" for shared reading. We highlighted regular past tense verbs, analysed Ming's character, recognised text to self connections, and practiced editing our work using dictionaries. We also split into spelling teams based on an assessment, to help us to learn how to spell at our own level.  We had fun in Maths class with measuring! We brainstormed our prior knowledge of length, used rulers and a metre stick to see how long a millimetre, centimetre, and metre are, and estimated and measured a variety of items. We used our common sense to decide when we should use millimetres, centimetres, metres, or kilometres. We also looked at how to convert between different units of length, and practiced converting. For our Unit of Inquiry, we went deeper with our research of the Ancie