Homework Week of May 1St, 2017

Homework week of May 1st, 2017

1. Your child is bringingFrench books to read at home each week.

Your child also needs to retell the story in French. Please fill in the passport sheet by including the title of the books your child has read and sign or initial on the line.The students are now working for an ice cream party. The two grade 3 FI classes together need to accumulate 40 stickers in order to partake in an ice cream party. (One filled passport sheet equals a big sticker.)

1. Practice multiplication tables 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 at home this week.

1. Please go over the oral presentation rubric, math tests and self-evaluation sheet with your child and sign the pages in his/her Show What You Know duo tang.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

- May 4th, grade 3 FI are walking to the Legislative Assembly. We will be leaving at 8:10 am. Please dress appropriately as we are walking there rain or shine.

May 5th NO SCHOOL (Council Day)

This week in language arts, we will our social studies unit about: Notre place. The students are learning new sentences and vocabulary pertaining to our city and province as well as spring. Nomme ta ville/province. Où se situe ta province? Qu’est-ce que tu peux voir ou faire à Fredericton/ au NB? Nomme les provinces de l’Atlantique/ des Maritimes. Qu’est-ce que tu peux visiter à Fredericton ou au Nouveau-Brunswick?Quelle est la fleur du Nouveau-Brunswick? La violette cucculée est la fleur du Nouveau-Brunswick. Quelle est la végétation au Nouveau-Brunswick? Il y des arbres, des pommes de terre, des pommes, de la fougère et des bleuets au Nouveau-Brunswick.Quels sont les emplois au Nouveau-Brunswick.The students are learning new sentences structures and vocabulary pertaining to this theme. Your child should be able to respond to basic routine questions and questions about the themes learned thus far. He /she needs to be able to recognize sounds and sight words. The sight words this week are:soudainement, ils/elles peuvent, enfin, une fois, autour,

longtemps, même (We will review the same words this week and the words learned thus far.)

The students need to put into practice reading strategies that we have been working on. The students should be able to write independently personal responses to a book they have read and at least 5-10 simple sentences related to our themes.

They need to use convention (proper use of punctuation and uppercase letters as well as write sight words correctly). We are reviewing the sounds learned thus far and going over how to write words with closer and correct spelling.

Math:

Your child continues to learn to add and subtract using various strategies. We will continue to work on our unit on multiplication up to 5x5.

For example: 3 groups of 4’s =3X4 as well as 4+4+4. An array for 3x4 is 3 rows of 4:

They will work on their division skills. We will also learn about perimeter.

In English class, we will be working on persuasive writing. The students will be writing a persuasive piece about protecting the planet Earth.

Social Studies: Locate their province in the Atlantic region, Canada, North America, and the world. The students worked hard on their Social Studies poster of a city in NB. They will present their poster to the class this week.