AIS-Grade 3

 Dear Parents, We were very sad to say goodbye to Rio this week. We wish Rio and his family all the best in Shanghai and hope to meet them again! UOI: We were very interested in finding facts about Greek mythology and gods, so we split into teams to research about a god, create a poster, and teach the rest of the class about our god. It was a lot of fun finding out about the different gods. We also had Angelique from sixth grade come and teach us about the gods! English: We continued to work on our personal narrative writing skills. We wrote a basic outline of our stories. We learned that an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader. Maths: We worked on some mental subtraction skills. We looked at lines of symmetry and practiced finding all of the lines of symmetry in shapes. Homework: We are struggling to be organised and responsible for our homework. We will be starting "Homework reports" from next week. Every Friday, I will send home a report for

 Dear Parents, We had a great week for Literacy Week! Thank you especially to our parents who came in to read us stories. We really enjoyed them! UOI: We inquired into Ancient Greece. We researched using dkfindout, bbcbitesize, and kiddle. We learned some interesting facts and practiced recording information in our notebooks and citing our sources. Maths: We identified 2D shapes and learned about their properties. We also practiced our four times tables. English: We began working on our personal narratives by picking a day in our lives and narrowing that down to a small moment. We also wrote some poems, discussed genre, and read a lot for literacy week! Thank you, Ms. Stacy.

Dear Parents, We were very excited to be back to school this week!  English: We practiced writing grammatically correct sentences by focusing on present tense verbs and subject pronouns. We noticed that we improved after some practice! We worked on reading comprehension, and also focused on reading at our own level to improve. I strongly encourage all students to read the "level up" books on Raz Kids every day, and answering the quiz questions carefully. By focusing on reading at their own level, students can improve their reading skills. Maths: We reviewed a mixture of different questions, and practiced reading the questions carefully. We reviewed some addition strategies, and worked on the split addition strategy and written addition. We also practiced challenging word problems, and played some fun Maths games. Unit of Inquiry: We were very excited to begin our new unit, where we are in place and time ! Our new central idea is Ancient civilisations impact our lives . We beg