Grade 3 Mona Lisa Art
Click here to see the Grade 3 art work on Ms Shaw’s blog.
Hope you enjoy this Grade 3 art inspired by the Mona Lisa.
Crazy Day – Friday,17 May
Crazy Day
What: Crazy Day is a day when students can come to school with crazy hair, crazy clothes, colorful clothes, crazy socks etc. We will have a competition and the winners will win ice creams!!!
When: Friday the 25th of May
Who: Anybody is allowed to join in the competition.
Where: We will be holding the competition in the Cafeteria.
So everyone please join in the competition and be CRAZY!
Literacy
Mrs Wretham’s Reading Group: The children are really enjoying working their way through the novel study of “Charlotte’s Web” and discussing various aspects of what is happening to the respective characters as the setting and plot changes. Equally important they are always keen to predict what will happen next before we even read on!!!
Reading: Each day it is such a pleasure to listen to the children read aloud and with appropriate expression as they gain more confidence themselves as well as from listening to others read aloud.
Writing: As April is officially “Poetry Month” the children have been reading various poems as well as writing some of their own. They particularly enjoyed writing and then illustrating some “Shape Poems”.
Mathematics
Maths:
This week we have been continuing to work on our NUMBER topic. In school and at home the students will continue to practice and improve their multiplication and division skills – both in terms of accuracy and speed as well as solving word problems. Please reinforce this at home and periodically “test” their skills.
As we continue to practice number facts and skills we will be working on solving multi-step word problems. This week the children’s homework will sometimes be focused on this aspect.
*Please offer help and reinforcement at home if needed!
Earth Day Logo Certificate Runners-up
As was posted earlier, here are our Grade 3 runners up with their certificates from our Earth Day Logo Competition.
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Gr 3 Field Trip
Today all Grade 3 children will bring home very important information regarding a field trip that we are taking the children on next week to visit some caves as part of our Unit of Inquiry on Earth Systems.
Please look for this information in your child’s book bag. We have a few places left on the bus if there are any parents who would like to join us on this trip.
Regards,
Rosemary Wretham
EARTH DAY WALK-A-THON
Dear Grade 3 Parents,
This morning more sponsorship money came in from some Gr 3 children which now takes the grand total raised by Grade 3 up to 3,925 RMB. How amazing is that? I am very proud of the tremendous effort everyone has made. Thank you very much!
Earth Day Logo Competition
Another Earth Day activity that all Grades 2, 3, 4 and 5 children participated in was designing an Earth Day logo. The winning logos will be imprinted onto the side of an eco-friendly cloth bag that will be on sale at the Farmers’ Market which is held at IST in June. The children worked hard on this and came up with some fabulous designs. Judging the winners at each grade level was very hard indeed!
3W winners are Lukas Adly and Yoon Choi so their logos, along with the winners in Grades 2, 4 and 5 will be imprinted on the eco-bags. So many of the designs were very creative, colorful and portraying an important message that certificates have also been awarded to some children for their super effort too.
The children in Grade 3 that received certificates are Maira Pavanetti, Jeong Yun Byun,
Yu Jin Do, Jae Jun Kim and Felicia Sang.
Earth Day Walk-a-thon
Dear Grade 3 Parents,
Thank you so much for participating in our recent Earth Day activities. Many of you seem to have enjoyed the walk-a-thon as much as the children did. I am very happy to say that in total the Grade 3 children have managed to raise the amazing amount of 3,175 RMB which is absolutely fantastic!
It was a shame about the weather on the day, however everyone just seemed to take it in their stride! The children seemed to enjoy the indoor picnics in the playroom which was great to see.
