Hello Everyone,
A short week but a busy week last week. Take a look at the photos as a launching pad to ask your child questions about what they are learning about.
The students were reminded that Easter is not just reserved for the Easter weekend that we were off from school but the 50 days leading to Pentecost.

Our time in the Learning Commons is split between taking out books and computer coding Ozobots to do certain things. Ask your child how to get the Ozobot to pause.

We have spent many classes learning why and how to multiply. We have learned different strategies on the Smartboard, paper pencil questions, playing multiplication games and going to websites such as ixlmath.com and iknowitmath.com to practise these facts.

The class is busily working on their Young Authors stories for our upcoming Education Week. The class knows that we have only 2 more language blocks of time dedicated to getting our stories to the final product. Ask your child where they are in the story writing process.

In Health, we continue to talk about prescription, non-prescription and illegal drugs which would be alcohol and tobacco in grade 3. Last week's focus was learning about positive and negative peer pressure. Ask your child what the book below has to do with peer pressure.

St. Rita is kicking off Education Week with an Open House on Monday May 6th at 7:45 am until the beginning of first block. You are all invited! Please see the memo your child is bringing home this Monday April 29th and be sure to check out the St. Rita website for a breakdown of each day's events.

 A FEW THINGS T REMEMBER.....

• Cake Walk is this Friday May 3rd. Notes and tickets went home with your child last week.
• Homework looks a little different this week. The focus is on the accuracy and efficiency of multiplication sentences
• Please check your child's agenda daily and keep any flyers or pamphlets at home. I am noticing that these items are not taken out of your child's agenda which makes it more likely to get lost. 

Hello Everyone,
Take a look at our busy week.

 We had our first lesson for Swim to Survive at Plant Bath. All went seamless except for our return back to school and we all know how that ended. Thanks to all for your patience for this unforeseeable event.

 We had a workshop on indoor tennis for our gym class. It was interesting to see how the students adapted to being asked by the tennis expert to work on control of the ball rather than power.

 In Math, we explored 4 different strategies to multiply. Ask your child which strategy made the most sense to them.  Below, you can see that we spent more time on using arrays as a strategy as it lended itself well to some area problems we were still finishing up.

We have had much success with our bean plants. Ask your child at what stage of the life cycle is their bean seed in. Below, you can see that leaves are developing in these plants. Perfect timing for our lesson on Monday-photosynthesis!

In Language, your child has written a short story about the adventures they would go on if they found a map and also if they were a school bag, what would they look like and where they would go if they were the school bag. We have looked at exemplars to see what a level 2,3 and 4 story looks and sounds like. This week coming, your child will be asked to write their own adventure story in preparation for Young Authors in early May.

A FEW THINGS TO REMEMBER.....

• NO school on Good Friday (April 19) or Easter Monday (April 22)
• NO homework this week because Easter celebrations
• Swim to Survive on Wednesday April 17th
• Please check your child's agenda daily 
• Permission note coming home for Museum of Nature outing
• Stations of the Cross presentation this Thursday at 10:15 am in the gym. All are welcome

Hello Everyone,
Use these photos as conversations starters with your child to get your child to explain in more detail what our class has been up to.

 In Math, we are wrapping up our unit on perimeter and area. Our class has had lots of practice to recognize when to use perimeter and when to use area and how to apply the strategies for each.

 We've read and looked at many adventure stories to see if the story had all the parts needed for a good story. last week, our class had the chance to write an adventure story together. Ask your child about My Pup the Paw Shaker. What strategy did we use to hook the reader? How many events did we include? What was the challenge in the story?

 We took one final look at our bean seeds that germinated over the past week. Many children had much success with the germination process. We lost a few seeds to rot and mould but most were healthy enough to plant in pots with soil.  Ask your child to label the parts of the seed for you.

Our class had the opportunity to listen to a presentation put on by The National Gallery of Art. The class listened intently to the stories of what inspired the artists to create the particular piece of art.

A FEW THINGS TO REMEMBER........

WE ARE GOING SWIMMING APRIL 10, 17 AND 24th.

Please check your child's agenda for the reminder note that was sent home on Friday.

THIS WEEK IS SPIRIT WEEK

Please check your child's agenda for the reminder note that was sent home on Thursday, last week's blog post or the St. Rita website calendar.