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 Happy Last Full Week until holidays!! This week in literacy, we continued our work on Event stories.  Each student chose a different event in their life to write about.  This week we focused on 'stretching out a key moment' in their stories and creating a 'satisfying ending'.  In word work, we focused on the 2 different sounds 'oo' make in words.  We completed our first closed word sort with a partner, using the 'oo' words. In math this week, we continued with our data management unit.  This week, we continued to look closer at line plot graphs, analyzing them and creating some of our own using first and second hand data.  We also began talking about measurement and worked on a measurement project, measuring different body parts and comparing them to our classmates by creating line and bar graphs. In Social Studies this week, we continued with our study of Peru. This week we talked about the economy in Peru, including the difference between llamas and a

 Happy Second Week in December!! In Literacy this week, we began writing our second type of personal narrative- an Event story .  An event story is like a 'Walking' story, yet it is about an event in the student's life including a beginning, middle and an ending.  This week our mini lesson focused on adding transition words, such as, then, next, finally, after to our writing to move the events along.  The grade 3's planned, drafted, and then revised their writing of a favourite or memorable event in their life.  In word work, we finished our review of long vowels with long U and built words with our letter tiles.  We built words that followed the 'u -e' pattern and the 'ue 'spelling patterns that create the long U sound. In math this week, we focused on a different strand in math, statistics and data management.  We focused on collecting first-hand data, the parts of a bar graph and a line plot graph.  We looked at different examples of bar graphs and an

 In Literacy this week, we discussed another strategy of how to make our writing more interesting.  We focused on using our 5 senses and senses words to paint pictures in our readers minds as we write.  We practised this skill by planning, drafting and revising a 'walking story' about our favourite season.  In word work, we focused on the long o sound and learned 3 spelling patterns using that sound. In math this week, we began looking at addition.  We reviewed what it means and some examples and non-examples of what addition is.  Then we worked on adding 2 -digit by 2- digit numbers and then transferred our skills to adding 3-digit numbers with regrouping.  We also talked about 2 different strategies, stacking and breaking apart. On Thursday, we worked on word problems that involve addition to practice our skills more. In science this week, we continued our study of Rocks & Minerals.  This week, we focused on how rocks can break down into soil and identifying different p