Term 3 Week 7

Dear Parents,

This week the students sat the International Schools' Assessment (ISA). We will get the results early next term and share them with the parents.

We read Brad Needs a Budget and made text-to-life connections, answered comprehension questions, and shared our answers to discussion questions with our classmates.

After reading the story of The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies and watching the video of the book, we wrote a letter to the Berenstain Bears to advise them on how to deal with their demanding cubs. We remembered to use persuasive language.

We used our maths skills to create a budget for the Berenstain Bears to help them with their spending and savings.






We brainstormed ideas for needs and wants.

We showed the difference between goods and services.

We shared our ideas for supply and demand.


After researching needs and wants, we made a poster to show our own personal needs and wants.

We have discovered a lot in our inquiry!





Important:
-There is no school on Monday, February 24th.
-Our field trip will be Tuesday, February 25th (even if we have light rain, we will go ahead. Please send a rain jacket with your child).
-As all of Grade 3 were here for the first Picture Day, we will not be taking any make-up photos on Thursday.

Enjoy your long weekend!
Ms. Stacy.

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