2023-2024 Gr. Three Harris

This week, we have been focusing on our writing; specifically, we are beginning to address the difference between complete and fragmented sentences. We introduced the concept of nouns and adjectives and the importance of having a period, exclamation or question mark at the end of our sentence. We continue to review letter formation and apply our understanding that letters can be formed or present in the sky, grass or dirt (see attached photograph). Greater knowledge of upper and lowercase letters will be our goal to ensure our printing does not contain uppercase letters in the middle of a word and only present for now when we write "I" a person's name, and at the beginning of a sentence. As we become more proficient with these concepts, they will be added to the student's self-editing checklist to be cued to correct these errors independently. Our ten spelling words this week to continue to practice are: for with they about each I  have but you one This week, in math,...

          As our classroom culture continues to develop, we have spent much time laying the foundation for good teamwork this week. Many activities this week and additional challenges over the coming weeks will be created to support the students in developing leadership, decision-making, trust-building, communication, and conflict-management skills before our team-building challenges time has been spent establishing expectations and norms for working together. Upon completing each task, we have also reflected on our success. Teamwork will be an ongoing process, but with continued praise and positive feedback when the children interact with their peers positively, nice progress will be made.          This week, we have also started our weekly spelling and phonic lesson. Each week, your child will have ten words given to them. These words are from the new Grade Three English Language Arts Curriculum. As the week progresses, the goal will b...

  Dear Parents I am so pleased to be able to have the opportunity to create a blog every week and provide a small glimpse into our classroom. I am happy to be teaching your child this year and excited about all of the wonderful things we get to learn and explore together.  Peacemakers                                                                          Peace takers  To help establish our classroom as a safe and caring learning environment, it is important to take the time to establish what a peaceful classroom is. To do this we used the terminology of being a "Peacemaker" and a "Peacebreaker". We made an anchor chart about "Peacemakers" and "Peacebreakers" and we decided that we all are peacemakers. No one w...