February 17th - 20th

 What Did Students Do this Week?

Over the past two weeks, our Grade 3 students have been celebrating the Olympics through meaningful cross-curricular learning activities. It has been an exciting way to connect current events to students’ literacy and math skills!

In Language Arts, students practiced their reading comprehension skills by reading Olympic-themed texts and answering questions that focused on identifying key details, making connections, and understanding main ideas. They worked hard to support their answers using evidence from the text.

Students also completed small research projects on different countries and Olympic athletes. They practiced identifying important facts, pulling out key information, and recording their learning in an organized way. 

Our writing activities focused on using adjectives and adverbs to make descriptions more detailed and engaging. Students wrote about athletes and events, working to make their sentences exciting.

In Math, students tracked medal counts using tally marks and line plots. This gave them hands-on practice with organizing data and interpreting information. They enjoyed comparing results and discussing which countries had earned the most medals.

To celebrate as a school community, we watched parts of some events. It was a wonderful opportunity to come together, cheer respectfully, and experience the excitement of the Olympics as a group.

English Language Arts and Math Learning Outcomes:

• I can independently read and demonstrate comprehension of texts that vary in length or complexity.

• I can make connections between a text and personal feelings, experiences, or background knowledge.

• I can use research to create written text that is appropriate for an audience.

• I can represent first-hand data in a dot plot or bar graph with one-to-one correspondence.

Possible Questions to Ask Your Child:

• What was your favourite part of learning about the Olympics? Which task did you like best and why?

• What is something you learned about the athlete you researched?

• How did you use data to figure out where Canada is in the medal standing?

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