3FM update!

After two short weeks, we are settling into a full week of school! 

Language Arts

A new word sort came home this week. Students are working hard to master the spelling rules for the week during their daily sorting activities. Five new word wall words came home on Monday too. When agendas come home on Mondays, please check for the weeks word wall words. To focus your child's word wall work for the week, follow the list below:

- if your child can read and spell all 5 words---> relax! No further practice is required!

- if your child can read but can't spell one or more word---> focus on those words and make sure your child can spell them by the end of the week

- if your child can not read one or more word---> help your child master these sight words by the end of the week. Do not worry about getting them to learn how to spell them, just focus on reading them. This way, students can find them on their word wall and practice writing them from there. 

We have continued with our paragraph writing focus this week. Today students wrote paragraphs describing a piece of art from the travelling art gallery that is visiting our school right now. Students were able to identify the parts of a paragraph: the topic sentence, supporting sentences and concluding sentence. Our ability to write a focused paragraph is definitely improving in 3FM!

Today we started reading a new novel, The Trouble With Chickens. Students are enjoying the story as told by the main character JJ, who is a retired search and rescue dog. His voice is sarcastic, witty and comical! We are discussing voice and how it impacts the reader while we are reading the book and will soon meet another voice that is eager to tell his side of the story. 

Math

This week we are finishing up our Patterning unit. We are expanding our skills into more complex questions involving some problem solving. Students are able to use a hundreds chart to help them navigate the number patterns but are also encouraged to use some mental math to extend the patterns. 

Next up for us in math is Place Value!

Christmas Concert

Our concert is on December 2nd. Please let me know ASAP if your child is unable to attend. 

A couple of shout outs:

The students are enjoying their week of Mission Impossible in gym!

I'm very happy with the progress that I am witnessing during reading conferences!

We all enjoyed Miss V's presentation about her trip to Mexico!

As always, if you ever have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at your earliest convenience.

Take care, 

Jolene Milson