5 Days Until March Break

• Thank you to all the parents for taking the time to come in and discuss your child's progress with me. I have to say that I am just as proud as you all are of how much the children are growing and improving over this school year.
• Anyone who did not pay the $35.00 School Supply Fee for next year's school supplies, can send it in anytime with your child.
• This week we will learn and focus on the 3 & 5 Times Strategies for Multiplication.
• Noah, please know that Everyone is thinking about you and we are counting the days until you are back at ACC. It's not the same without your smile brightening up the classroom.
• Have a Wonderful March Break Week with your Families! The students certainly are deserving of a break and hopefully they will come back on Monday, March 25th, recharged and ready to complete the final term of Grade 3!

Report Card Week

• This past week we started Our Research Reports. Students were able to pick any topic they wanted to learn more about. So far we have gathered resources, and started to take notes from those resources. From those notes the students will create a Non-fiction Report on their topic and finally create a Slide show presentation that they will present to the class before March Break. They will all be teaching each other and myself about lots of new things.
• We started Multiplying this week. The main focus for students to understand at this point is that we are working with equal groups. So with Multiplication with think:

                   3 groups of 4

                   Picture:    OOOO            OOOO              OOOO

                   Repeated Addition:  4 + 4 + 4 = 12

                   Multiplication Sentence:   the # of groups   x   the # in each group = Total #
                                                                      3 x 4 = 12   

• We have also learned the Multiplication Rules for:

                x0 - Answer is always zero
                   x1 - Answer is always the other number
                 x2 - Answer is always double the other number

• Next week we will do:

                  x4 - Answer is always double - double the other number
                            i.e. 4 x 5 =  Think: 5+5 = 10 and 10+10 = 20

• I know I skipped 3s we will do those after the 4s and then the 10s and 5s. They will learn the strategies for the 6, 7, 8, 9s in Grade 4. (Although we don't have to, most years I do cover the 8 & 9s because they are quick and easy.)
• Thank You for sending back the Parent Teacher Interviews Slips so quickly. I look forward to meeting with everyone next Thursday and Friday.
• Report Cards will be sent home Tuesday.
• There is No School Friday for students due to the interviews.
• A big Thank You to Claire and her Family for treating us all to cupcakes on Monday for National Cupcake Day in support of the Humane Society. They were a delicious treat supporting a great cause.

A Very Happy Birthday to Noah who turned 9 today! I hope you enjoyed your special day! We were extra spoiled this week because Noah's Family also sent in Cupcakes today to celebrate his Birthday.

 An awesome week for yummy treats!

Another Very Special Birthday tomorrow. Madison catches up to Noah and she turns 9 too! (And she is a very patient girl as she tells me she is waiting until this summer to celebrate with a pool party.)