Our September Focus

Thanks for checking us out, and please be sure to star/bookmark this site for easy access!  I will be periodically posting on here to let you know of our learning goals, posting videos, or tips on how you can continue your learning at home!  

Our focus in math is Place Value!  Here are our learning goals for this unit!

• I can count forward (by 1,2,5,10,25, 100) and backwards (by 2, 5, 10, 100) using a variety of tools

• I can represent, compare, and order numbers up to 1000

• I can read and write whole numbers

• I can identify and represent the value of a digit according to its position in the number (3 in 324 is 3 hundreds)

• I can compose and decompose 3-digit numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones using concrete materials

• I can round 2-digit to the nearest ten

• I can represent and explain the relationship among the numbers 1, 10, 100, 1000

Try to help your child consolidate this learning at home by having them skip count while waiting for the light to change in the car, while waiting for their sibling to get dressed, and while waiting for commercials to be over.  When shopping and looking at prices, ask your child to round the dollar amounts to the nearest 10. When a number comes up in a book, on the tv, or in an address, ask them to tell you which digit is in the 100's column, or 10's column, or 1's column and what it's value is.

Base Ten Fun

Comparing Number Values

Place Value Hockey

Rounding Numbers

Halloween Rounding Game

In Religion, we have been working on our unit on Samaritans on a Digital Road - teaching us all about being safe online.  

We are learning about Retelling in our Literacy block.  Grade 3's are working on writing a recount with interesting details and transition words.  Thursday our first recounts will be coming home to be reviewed and signed.  

In reading we can see how Fix-Up Strategies help us when are struggling to decode a word.  Watch for a bookmark to come home to help your child and you remember some of the strategies so they can use them while reading.

 As always, please feel free to contact me with a note in the agenda if you have any questions.  

Thank you!

WELCOME!

Welcome Parents and Students to our Grade 3 Blog!  This website will be a space for us to share some of the topics that we are exploring in class, news and information on the school, and websites that can help support our learning in class.  I will make sure to have the students write in their agenda when to "Check Blog" so that you do not feel the need to look back each and every day.  I am also going to continue using Twitter, so please bookmark the blog site, as well as following me on Twitter (@ferrarotto3).

I am excited to get to know each and every child in the class this year and I am sure they are going to be working hard to get comfortable with the rules and routines of the classroom right now.  Please remember to check and sign the agenda each and every night so we can ensure that our team is doing its best to meet your child's needs.

I have sent home 4 sheets of instructions today for a variety of websites that can be played at home.  RAZ-Kids is a levelled reading program, Prodigy and Zorbit's math cover all 5 strands of the math curriculum through games, and Xtramath works on speed and accuracy of addition skills (later this year we will change to subtraction, multiplication, and division).  If you have any problems with any of them, let me know.  These are for fun and to help practise and reinforce skills!  Check out the Learning Websites link on this blog to find the links to the websites mentioned above and more.

Also, there is a policy on volunteers working with students in the school that requires them to have a Vulnerable Sector Records Check, this will include field trips, reading programs, etc.  So, please follow the link to have yours completed and ready for when you need it.  Letters are available at the office to have the fees waived if needed.

Vulnerable Sector Check

Thanks so much,  looking forward to working with you!
Ms. Laura Ferrarotto

Patterning

In math we will be focusing on Number Patterns.  Here are the expectations:

• I can extend repeating, growing & shrinking number patterns.
• I can create a number pattern involving addition or subtraction, given a presented pattern on a number line or a written pattern rule.
• I can represent simple geometric patterns using a number sequence, number line, or a bar graph.

Here are some online games to try:

https://www.mathgames.com/skill/4.105-geometric-growth-patterns

http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/4765

https://www.abcya.com/games/number_patterns

Geometry week

We are beginning our Transformational Geometry Unit for the week.  The expectations are as follows:

1. I can identify reflections (flips), translations (slides), and rotations (turns).

2. I can complete and describe designs and pictures of images that have a line of symmetry.

3. I can describe movements from one location to another using a grid map.

Here are some games that you can play online to practise these skills:

Flips, Slides, Turns

Symmetry

Probability

This is our last few weeks before EQAO.  We will be exploring 3 more math units, so stay on top of links and games here on the blog.

Probability Expectations

• I can predict the frequency of an outcome in a simple probability experiment or game, then perform the experiment, and compare the results with the predictions, using mathematical language

• I can demonstrate an understanding of fairness in a game and relate this to the occurrence of equally likely outcomes 

Here are some links to some games that you can play to practise these skills!

http://mrnussbaum.com/probfair/

Probability Games

Mass and Capacity Expectations

Measurement Expectations:

• I can choose benchmarks for kg and litre
• I can estimate, measure, and record the mass of objects using a kg or parts of a kg (half, quarter)
• I can estimate, measure, and record the capacity of containers using a litre or parts of a litre
• I can compare and order a collection of objects using mass or capacity

 

Some games to try:

Measure the Mass of Letters

Baking with Aliens

Time Expectations

We have begun “time” in math. Students will be learning to do the following:

• Reading time using analogue clocks to the nearest five minutes
• Representing time in 12-hour notation (i.e. digital time 4:10)
• Solving problems involving the relationship between min and hrs, hrs and days, days and weeks, weeks and years (i.e. How many days in a week? How many minutes in 2 hours?)

Here are some websites for extra practice:

http://www.abcya.com/telling_time.htm

http://www.math-play.com/time-games.html

http://mrsnussbaum.com/bedtime-2/

https://www.lauracandler.com/teaching-time/

**Google “Stop the Clock” if last site doesn’t work.**