Newsletter Week of December 4th

Week of December 4-December 8th

We have been busy in grade 3. Students explored the different adaptations that plants have that help them survive. We discovered these through a plant dissection. We loved taking a look at all of the flower parts, especially the pollen under our digital microscopes!

Students have been working on science-related writing projects that allow kids to apply all of our informational reading and writing skills. You will see all of these at our parent share.

This week we will have lots of amazing activities happening.

Some of these include:

• Monday, December 4th: Christmas around the World and Red/Green dress up day
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• Friday, December 8th: Swim Carnival (for more information, see previous announcement)

Save the date for these upcoming events:

Tuesday/Wednesday, December 12/13th Field Trip to Klang Valley water treatment site. This field trip will be conditional depending on the water levels. Some classes will be going on the Tuesday and some on Wednesday. Your classroom teacher will be sending home a permission form that will have more information in the next week.

Thursday, December 14th will be our learning celebration. It will begin at 8:15 and last 45 minutes. All parents are invited.

Worm Holiday Care If you are going to be around over the holiday break and would be willing to take care of our compost worms, please let me know. We promise they take very little care and don’t smell (that bad)!

This week begins on a day 2.

Reading Students will be applying their informational reading skills to research different ecosystem topics to ask and answer their own questions. Students will use their new learning to teach others about the topic.

Writing Students are in the publishing stage of the writing process, they will be excited to share their final informational books with you!

Math Students will continue to work on multiplication problems and applying their prior knowledge and understanding of place value to help with multiplying groups of tens. Students are also developing an understanding of sharing and grouping as they represent division.

Science We will be finishing our Ecosystems unit with a focus on human impact. Students will explore different concerns related to the topic (water scarcity, loss of habitat, pollution, etc).

Dec. 4-8th 2017- Choose 2 activities to complete before Friday to share in class.

Math: Teach someone at home how to play circles and stars and PLAY!	Language arts: Ask your parents to read a story or a chapter to you. This can be done in your home language. What did you read? What did you like about having read aloud time?	Language arts: Write a creative story in your home learning journal. Have an animal be the main character.
Math: Practice your basic multiplication facts (1-10).	Science If you could choose, what animal adaptation(s)  would you like to have? Draw a diagram of what you would look like and how your adaptations would help you in life.	Other: Build a fort and play a game or read a book in your fort.

Remember: Reading is just what we do. It is expected each night.