WEEK 3

26-30 AUGUST

E-mail: gabadesco@chatsworth.com.sg

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Class website: http://year3abadesco.weebly.com

MONDAY Swimming with Ms. McLaughlin *wear PE kit to school Parent Orientation for Swim Volunteers, 11am in the Hall TUESDAY PE with Ms. Unso *wear PE kit to school

Unit of Inquiry
Central idea: Exploration leads to new understandings. Theme: Who We Are

Language Arts
We are beginning the year with descriptive

WEDNESDAY Mandarin with Ms. Song Music with Ms. Pittaway Library with Ms. Rich *bring Library bag

writing, using our baby photos to help start off our thinking. We will be writing about who we are and how we have changed over the

Skills: Self-management skills We are inquiring into:

Concepts: change and reflection reasons for exploration attributes of explorers exploration important understandings resulting from

years, using words that help readers paint a picture.

THURSDAY Choir with Ms. Pittaway Mandarin with Ms. Song

Reading
As part of our scope and sequence in

Mathematics
We have done several individual and small group activities to knowledge of number help develop and master our sequences. Please continue to by 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 10s at

Language Arts (Reading), students will

develop personal preferences, selecting

books for pleasure and information. Before to work on different reading skills such as

we begin using the readers in the classroom fluency, comprehension, etc., we would like the children to develop a relationship with books that enables them to connect themselves to its stories and characters.

FRIDAY JY Assembly Class presentations Homework due

practice counting up and down home. We also started looking at odd and even numbers, as well as number patterns.

Homework
Your homework for this week is to prepare and rehearse a presentation for Friday, August 30th, about yourself and your travels. We have all come from and traveled to different places, so choose your favourite destination and tell us: what you liked about the place and why you liked it about your favourite memory from that trip what you learned from traveling there
* Reading and Math homework will be given on Monday.

Class Parent and Swimming Volunteers

A big THANK YOU to Elizabeth Gilbert for being a risk-taker and taking on the role of Class Parent this Another big round of THANKS to the parents who also volunteered to chaperone our children during Swimming class every Monday! year.

We truly appreciate your generosity in sharing your time and presence with our Year 3 boys and girls.

Communication Tree
Please check that the names and numbers in the

attached Communication Tree are accurate. Please let me know ASAP if changes need to be made. I will send a final copy next week with the newsletter.

Tips to help with the homework presentation on Friday, August 30th:

* Bring an artifact or a prop with you to show. * Write notes as bullet points on an index card (like your exit ticket) instead of writing a script - you are going to be talking to the class - not reading! * Practice in front of your family or even just the mirror to gain condence. Remember to speak clearly and condently. * Try to include the listeners so that you keep them interested (perhaps ask some questions). * Use some wow words - Make the other children think Wow!. * Include interesting information, something that the other children will remember.

Chatsworth International School - East Campus Communication Tree

In the event of an emergency, this Communication Tree will be put into effect so that all parents are notied via SMS/Phone Call as soon as possible. It is imperative that each parent follow through with phoning the parents below them on the tree.

Gracie Abadesco

gabadesco@ chatsworth.com.sg

Andrew Gilbert Elizabeth & Richard HP (Elizabeth)! 98593976 HP (Richard)! 91084778 Home ! ! 66490817

Keira Jade Blumanis Judi & David HP (Judi)! Home ! ! 93394635 65255091

Villads Faessler Henrietta & Roger HP (Henrietta)! 96370074

Maahum Adeel Saadia & Adeel HP (Saadia)! 97263446 HP (Adeel)! 82185547 Home ! ! 66492418

Shaboz Hassan Dedi & Murtaza HP (Dedi) ! 92986817

Neel Goenka Ujjwala &Tanuj HP (Ujjwala)! 92292974 HP (Tanuj)! 98466245 Home ! ! 63442729

Charlie Hampton Judyanne & Martin HP (Judyanne)! 85185699 HP (Martin)! 92375362 Home ! ! 66995842

Dominic Howard Carole & Stuart HP (Carole)! 84821707 HP (Stuart)! 91079567 Home ! ! 66803564

Gus Johnson Nic & Gary HP (Nic)! 93964997 HP (Gary)! 91136649 Home ! ! 66806503

Keira Lloyd Alison & Struan HP (Alison)! 91375516 HP (Struan)! 98624151 Home ! ! 66739481

Sivia Mitra Himani & Shoumo ! ! ! HP (Himani)! 83281640 HP (Shoumo)! 96497075 Home ! ! 66496920

Angela Newham Lilibeth & Nick ! ! ! HP (Lilibeth)! 96776167 HP (Nick)! 97308493 Home ! ! 64498257

Joseph Roberts Kate & Sean HP (Kate)! 98535520 HP (Sean)! 97737275 Home ! ! 66485536

Soa Rossetto Mira & Justin HP (Mira)! 91802970 HP (Justin)! 91802764 Home ! ! 65192370

Ruby Simmonds Parents HP (name)! HP (name) Home !

Gregory Taylor Stephanie & Jeremy HP (Stephanie)!98312436 HP (Jeremy)! 98341560 Home ! ! 62419030

Dominic Williams Rachel & Mark

HP (Rachel)!

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The last parent in each case (box in grey) must call the Class Parent to inform them that they have received the information. If a parent cannot get the person they are supposed to call next on the list, they should call the next person on the list and inform the Class Parent they have done so.
As of 23 August 2013