3G April Newsletter - Black Gold Regional Division No. 18eles.blackgold.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/3G-April-Newsletter... · 3G April Newsletter ... chief fault sign physician

3G April Newsletter

Important Dates to Remember

April 5th – Book Character Dress up Day /Early Dismissal 2:20 p.m.

April 12th- Bake Sale $0.50

April 13th- Class Pictures/ ELESPA Family Dance

April 14th- No School- Good Friday

April 15th –deadline to order May hot lunch

April 17th & 18th- No School- Easter Monday &

Professional Development Day

April 19th- Popcorn Sale

THANK YOU!!!

I would like to thank all the parents who attended a

student- led conference with their son or daughter. I hope

you enjoyed participating in a few activities with your child.

Don’t forget to add their seesaw journals to your device.

INFORMATION

Extra Clothes

As the snow has begun to melt we have been experiencing

a lot of students coming in wet/muddy from the water

after recess. It would be helpful if you could send in an

extra pair of socks and pants for your child that they can

keep in their locker for such incidents.

School supplies/headphones/shoes

Many students have run out of school supplies. Please check

with your child to see what they may need. Please check with

them if they require new laces or new shoes as many have

grown out of them and/ or are starting to get holes in them.

Please make sure their headphones are still at school/working as we

use them on a regular basis.

The following is an overview of the main areas we will focus on

throughout April.

Language Arts:

We will be working on the daily 5 program and continuing to

add more CAFÉ strategies to our board this month to

improve our comprehension, accuracy, fluency and expanding

our vocabulary. In our phonics books we will be working on

contractions, synonyms, antonyms and homonyms.

Reading:

We will be doing a novel study on Charlotte’s Web. We will be

working on several activities based on this book while

working on our comprehension, word study and reading skills.

Writing Students will continue working on the six traits of writing and this

month we will be working on word choice. We will be working on

changing boring words, adding powerful verbs, using clues to figure

out the meaning of words based on the context and adding sensory

details.

Spelling Lists for April

Spotted Owls

Unit 21 Unit 22 Unit 23 Unit 24

April 3-7 April 10-13 April 24-28 May 1-5

you boy this why

your toy then try

yes oil thing trying

yell soil thank eat

drop other bank mean

line mother with read

side sister wish sunny

dress boil think fly

saw brother sing treat

draw father these each

awful coins white windy

autumn soil shade early

pause noise fresh daisy

crawls point choose cry

laundry enjoy chose sly

barn owls

Unit 21

April 3-7

Unit 22

April 10-13

Unit 23

April 24-28

Unit 24

May 1-5

word aren`t threw color

work partner through odor

world hard thoughtless farmer

were chart caught calendar

first farm fault dollar

girl start taught party

turned large because liar

learn more one after

bird before once number

fire horse water better

here north watch doctor

nurse morning wanted weather

jury care wonder every

stirred stare wonderful forty

wear warning walk sugar

graphs harbor wheat thunder

laughs bother perfume chimney

enough farther cough roughly

Snowy owls

Unit 21 Unit 22 Unit 23 Unit 24

enough frighten calf action

tougher flight walked fiction

fifty brighter ghost mission

pharmacy flashlight gnawed divide

alphabet mighty climber division

nephew delight wreath attend

trophy Tighten

listen attention

paragraph nightly island pollute

telephone sight scent pollution

photograph brought wrench express

giraffe ought judge expression

forest thought fasten educate

figure fought wrist education

refrigerator caught doubt music

draft daughter knock musician

phrase taught answer magic

traffic naughty knelt magician

chief fault sign physician

Math

Our next unit is Geometry. Students will be describing the

characteristics of 2-D and 3- D shapes and analyze the relationships

among them. They will be describing, comparing, sorting and

constructing 2-D and 3-D shapes. They will be sorting polygons by

the number of sides, describing objects by the shapes and number

of the faces, edges and vertices. We will also be working on

learning the multiplication facts up to 5 x 5.

Science

Our new unit is Rocks and Minerals. Students will learn about materials

found on Earth’s surface—rocks, minerals and

soil. By closely examining sample rocks,

students discover similarities and differences

and explore these, using simple tests and tools.

Students learn that each kind of rock has a set

of characteristics and that these

characteristics can be used in classifying and identifying rocks. In

studies of soil, students discover that the component materials include

rock fragments and remains of living things, and that different soils

have different compositions. Students learn that the characteristics

of rock and soil are important to their use within the community.

Social Studies

We are on to our next country of study…. Tunisia! This month we

will look at where is Tunisia located, the quality of life in Tunisia,

their customs, traditions and celebrations, the services they have

and the how people work together in Tunisia.

WEBSITES to use for extra practice

Spelling City- a great website to practice spelling words

http://www.spellingcity.com/galenza

The Black Gold Engaging Students website

http://engagingstudents.blackgold.ca/

Students can then click on ECS/Div 1 and then choose from Science

3, Social 3, Math 3 or Language Arts 3.

www.storybird.com Writing stories, poems and math problems

https://xtramath.org/#/home/index-Practicing basic facts

The students are familiar with each of these. There are excellent

math games; science activities, social projects, as well as great listen

to reading websites, spelling and writing activities.

Students are reminded to READ, READ, READ!

(Be sure to record the minutes read in their agendas ☺)

Ms. Galenza

Jersey Day!

Instrument sharing! Thanks for all your help at home!