The

Grade 3 Weekly
October 31 - November 4, 2016

This Weeks Focus

Scholastic Orders

Last week Scholastic book orders were

Language Arts

sent home. Please ensure that all orders

We will be focusing on our second writing trait

you would like to place are returned by

this week, Organization. We will review

Tuesday morning with the money or

sequencing words and sequencing stories.

cheque.

Students will then write their own story,

**Wednesday is a half-day. Please have

practicing their sequencing skills, based on the

your child picked up at 12:15.

story The Night I Followed the Dog.

Field Trip

Math
Students will be learning a new strategy to

On Tuesday we will be going on our first

solve subtraction problems counting up. We will

trip to the rice paddies. Please make sure

also be reviewing and interpreting bar graphs

your child wears rubber boots and brings

and pictographs, focusing on the different ways

shoes to change into when we return to

to scale the data.

school. They should also bring their recess

snack and a hat to protect from the sun.

Unity of Inquiry (UOI)

We will begin our week reading the mathematical

Homework

Monday: Counting Up Subtraction Worksheet

Wednesday: IXL U.5 Bar Graphs

Folktale One Grain of Rice, Students will work

in partners to solve different problems based on

the text. On Tuesday we will go to the rice

Thursday: IXL U.9 - Pictographs

paddies to the first time. We will help the

Every Night: Read (at least) 1 book out

rice. We will return multiple times over the next

loud to a parent from Kids A-Z. Then

discuss the book.

farmer plow the field to get it ready to plant

few months to go through the whole process of
planting rice in Madagascar.