New Reading Strategy: Making Predictions

Good Readers make Predictions when they read. We use evidence from the text and illustrations for our predictions. And when we have finished the whole book we see what adjustments need to be made...

We practiced this skill together as our class and now over the next few weeks we have chosen a fictional book read and record predictions...

Happy Birthday Miriam Golda!

On Tuesday we had a birthday in our classroom!

We each gave a wish to Miriam Golda and Miriam Golda shared with us her 'Hachlata' - decision for the upcoming year.

Miriam Golda will be buying a book from the wishlist in honor of her birthday! We will let you know which one when we have chosen! Thank you!

Math - Unit 4 - Multiplication and Division

Your child has received a 'Family Letter' for this unit in their homework folder. It has all the information about this unit and can be kept as a guide for the homework.

Overview of Unit:

Unit 4 focuses on the most common uses of multiplication and division - those involving multiples of equal groups, equal sharing, and equal grouping. In 3rd grade the expectation is that children will use arrays, mental arithmetic, algorithms, and calculators to solve problems invloving the multiplication of 2- and 3- digit whole numbers by 1- digit whole numbers and describe the strategies used by the end of the school year. They are also expected to demonstrate automaticity with x0, x1, x2, x5, and x10 multiplication facts and use strategies to compute remaining facts up to 10x10. Unit 4 has has three main areas of focus:

• To model and solve multiplication number stories and practice multiplication facts,



• To model and solve division number stories and practice division facts, and



• To explore the links between multiplication and division.

Science Experiment

"What Can you learn from an imprint?"

Thanksgiving Food Drive

We have sent home a letter and this is what we discussed in school today...

Thanksgiving Food Drive:


Thanksgiving is a time to feel grateful to Hashem for everything we have and also to help out others who don't have everything that they need...

So next week, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, our class will be collecting, together with the whole school, Cans of food for needy people.

The cans will be donated to the Shorefront community Food Pantry.
Please read the letter for more details...

Mazel kids care about the community and we do 'Chessed'!

Writers Workshop - Editing

Have you noticed how busy we have been with our writing?

Our class loves writing and we are so enthusiastic about every step of the writing process! Students even take home their writing voluntarily to work on it at home! I'm so proud of their hard work and diligence and we're really excited for publishing our personal narrative next week before thanksgiving.

This week we have practiced Editing.


We used a special strategy called CUPS.


C for Capitalization.


U for word Usage.


P for Punctuation and


S for Spelling.


We learned how to edit for each of these and then checked off each letter as we did it.

Even famous authors need to edit their writing!
We feel so good that we have been able to independently proofread our own work!

Science -New Chapter 3

We have started building background for our new chapter: "Where plants and animals live" and "How Ecosystems are different from each other".

These are the Big Words for this chapter:

• Environment


• Ecosystem


• Population


• Community


• Grassland


• Desert


• Tundra


• Wetland

We used a Word Web - Graphic Organiser to sort these words: