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Welcome to Grade 3 FI
The students will be using an agenda this year, where they can record their nightly homework. All homework written in the agenda is due the next day (unless otherwise indicated). Parents are asked to initial every day (including Friday) when homework is completed. Please initial the agenda after you have checked the work and it is completed. We encourage you to write your comments and notes to the teacher in this book. You can also place your notes in the plastic envelope at the beginning of the book. It will be the student's responsibility to give these notes to the teacher. Please ensure when you send money to send exact change and send it in a enveloppe/ ziplock with your child's name. Homework help web-site: http://www.fslhomeworktoolbox.ca/toolbox/toolbox.php Description of the Weekly Homework: - any incomplete class work in French or English including Social - research project or tests when assigned If your child cannot complete the task because he/she does not understand the subject matter, please let us know in the agenda. The problem will be taken up the next day. If the homework has not been completed for a specific reason, we would appreciate a note in the agenda. Homework Duo-tang Your child will receive every friday a homework duo-tang with his/her weekly homework. This work will consist of their dictee , 1 verb, 1 math problem and the occasional worksheets. Your child has the whole week to complete this and the spelling test will be on the following friday. Here are 2 important ways in which you can support your child's learning this year: 1. Encourage your child to read for enjoyment on a regular basis. Reading helps to improve fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. Reading will help your child to develop a love of books. I ask that your child try to read 15-20 minutes a day in French and/or in English. We will begin a home reading program by the end of the month. More information to come. 2. Do some math with your child each day. Sports, cooking, and games (dice, card, and board games) can provide meaningful opportunities to improve mathematical understanding. A primary goal should be to build confidence, skills, and an enjoyment of math, so that your child will want to keep doing mathematics throughout his or her life. We are learning how to add adjectives to our sentences to help us include more details. We are also reviewing how to identify nouns, adjectives and verbs to ensure they are gramatically correct. Features of Descriptive writing Does my description have a title? Does it describe the physical caracteristics of a person or the object's purpose? Does it use adjectives to make the descriptions better? (these could describe size, colour, texture etc.) Does it have capital letters at the start of each sentence and punctuation at the end? Does it use different openings to sentences? NOT; Il est, Il est, Il est Does my description include sentences of what I think of the person or object? Does it have a clear beginning, middle and end? descriptive_writing_checklist.pdf descriptive_writing_success_criteria_checklist.pdf Help with nouns: http://soutien67.free.fr/francais/activites/noms/noms.htm#2 help with verbs: http://soutien67.free.fr/francais/activites/conjugaison/conjugaison_01.htm help with adjectives: http://soutien67.free.fr/francais/activites/adjectifs/adjectifs.htm Social Studies: urban and rural communities We have been discussing the essentiel needs in life and the role communities play with regards to our needs. Throughout this unit we will be comparing and contrasting the elements that define these 2 types of communities. Please remember that as an eco-school, all lunch materials that are brought to school are to be taken home with you. This is a boomerang lunch. Try to pack your lunches so that there is as little waste as possible! |
