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In literacy this week, we took are 'dash facts' about our animal and learned how to turn them into a paragraph or report about animals.  We talked about 'hooking our reader' with an interesting beginning and adding voice and reaction into our fact writing to keep the reader interested.  We also created a list of 'fancy fact starters' so that each fact is presented differently.  In word work this week, we focused on 'Bossy R' words, that make the vowel in front of them make the long sound.  On Thursday, we used our letter tiles to build words with 'Bossy R's' in them.   In math this week, we began talking about time.  We learned about the different parts of a clock, the hour hand and the minute hand.  We learned that each number represents 5 minutes on the clock and how hours and minutes are related.  On Friday, we did our 1st clothes line math activity, using our skills reading analog clocks to put the different times in order. In Science thi...

  Happy Lunar New Year!   In Literacy this week, we began looking at non-fiction writing.  We discussed the different types of non-fiction writing and the purposes behind them.  Then we looked at non-fiction text features, things like glossaries, indexes, captions, maps and titles.  Next, the grade 3's completed a scavenger hunt looking for these features in their non-fiction books.  On Thursday, we began researching our favourite animal using Dash Facts, looking through books and websites to find answers to our big ideas or questions. In Math this week, we continued our work with subtraction of 3-digit numbers.  We focused on using our skills to solve word problems and questions that require double regrouping with zeros.  We also played a game, using a spinner to create a target number and then creating a problem that gets them closest to the target number.  We also looked at a 'quick image', to get our math brains working, and had a gr...

In Literacy this week, we began with some self-reflection. We read a book called the Bad Seed and talked about how we can learn to grow and change.  Then we created a ME Tree, writing about the people who support us, the things we are grateful for and what we love.  Later in the week, we reviewed what syllables are and how many syllables are in each word.  We used this knowledge and skills to write a Haiku poem about the Birch Trees we created in art.  In word work this week, we completed a quick quiz on some high frequency words we need to know in our writing. In math this week, we continued our study of subtraction.  This week, we reviewed subtraction with 2-digit numbers and began learning about subtracting larger 3-digit numbers.  We used base ten blocks and a place value chart to learn why it is important to regroup numbers to allow for subtraction.  On Friday, we played a game called 'subtraction stacks' to practice our basic fact fluency. In Soc...