Weekly Update - June 1-5

Dear Parents,

I hope that you are enjoying your weekend. I cannot believe that tomorrow is the first of June.

I will be publishing this week's Hapara Workspace titled "Learning at Home - June 1st to 5th" tonight with work from Mme. Caminiti and I for this week.

A couple of changes:

• There will be no more weekly homework for the remainder of the school year. During this time, even if we were at school normally, I would ask the students to spend time with the families outside as the weather starts to get nicer. So enjoy :)

• As you know from Mrs. Campbell's notice - we are still expected to continue Learning at Home until the end of June. With that said, we as educators understand that it could be getting more challenging to keep the kids engaged. For the next couple weeks, we will be doing 2 language days (a writing and a reading day) and 2 math days, and then Fridays will be a fun STEM Challenge. Mme. Caminiti has some fun French activities planned for you too! As always, do what you can and please do not stress if it's not getting done.

Google Meet

This week’s Google Meet will be scheduled on:

Wednesday, June 3rd. at 2:00PM

I will send an invitation to the meeting through the child’s school email a few minutes before.

Mrs. Campbell is working closely with the board and the proper health authorities in order to solidify a plan for you to be able to pick up student's personal belongings. More information on this will be coming soon!

As always; any questions, comments or concerns - please don't hesitate to reach out! Have a great week!

Marina Summers

Weekly Update - May 25-29

Dear Parents,

What a gorgeous weekend we have had! I hope that everyone has had a chance to get out to enjoy the sunshine.

Google Meet

This week’s Google Meet will be scheduled on:

Wednesday, May 27th. at 2:00PM

I will send an invitation to the meeting through the child’s school email a few minutes before. We will be working on a little something for Mrs. Campbell's farewell from St. Anne - shhh! it's a surprise!

I will be publishing this week's Hapara Workspace titled "Learning at Home - May 25-29" tonight with work from Mme. Caminiti and I for this week. We are continuing to work on Money in Math and Procedural Writing in Language.

As always, any questions, comments or concerns - please don't hesitate to reach out! Have a great week!

Marina Summers

Weekly Update for May 11-15

Dear Parents,

I wanted to wish all the Mom's a wonderful Happy Mother's Day - sorry we didn't get to create you something handmade from the classroom this year. Gives a whole new meaning to how special those creations are.

Some notes from last week:

• A few of the children were asking about Scratch Coding - I've signed up for a class account and have linked it to the top of the Workspace if they would like to use it. This is a completely optional activity.

• If you child is completing the PRINTABLE work, the only way for me to see the work is for you to EMAIL a picture of it to me or send it through Class Dojo. Thank you!

Google Meet

I was sad to have missed this week's meet - thank you to Mme. Caminiti who was still able to run it!

This week’s Google Meet will be scheduled on:

Wednesday, May 13th. at 2:00PM

I will send an invitation to the meeting through the child’s school email a few minutes before.

I will be publishing this week's Hapara Workspace titled "Learning at Home Week of May 11-15" tonight with work from Mme. Caminiti and I for this week. This week includes a small project that students will start on Monday and have more time "scheduled" to work on it on Friday. The project will be due on Sunday (if you would like more time, don't hesitate to ask!) The students can work on it throughout the week as they would like. I think they are really going to like this project and I'm excited to see what they come up with!

As always, any questions, comments or concerns - please don't hesitate to reach out!

Marina Summers

Weekly Update for May 4-8th

Dear Grade 3 Families,

The warm weather has finally arrived! My family tried to spend as much time outdoors as possible this weekend.

Thank you for joining us for our Google Meet last week. This week’s meeting will be on Wednesday, May 6th at 2:00pm. I will send the invite to join to the student's emails a few minutes before the start of the meeting.

The Grade 3 team has put together the video of us going on our 1km walk. It looks like everyone had a lot of fun walking, biking, skateboarding and scootering! It took most of us about 12 minutes to walk 1km (or 1000 meters).

The video is linked to this weeks workspace at the top.

Please note: if we've forgotten any of your pictures, just send me a quick note and I can add it in! If this happens, I will send a new link to our video.

Our Workspace for next week will be posted this evening. The focus this week for language is using predictions when reading, and grammar. In math, we will continue with learning about area and introduce transformational geography (flips, turns, and slides).  If you have any questions or challenges when completing these tasks, please send me an email and I’m happy to help in any way that I can. Mme. Caminiti also worked very hard on an amazing video about le printemps - check it out!

Also, this upcoming week is Catholic Education Week. The theme for this week is Igniting Hope.  See the flyer for the week on the top of the workspace for details about how you can celebrate with your family at home. I have also linked each task separately on each day. New this week is also a SEL (social-emotional learning) monthly calendar of fun activities that the students can participate in if they wish.

One more note - I sent an email late last week about Kid Messenger. Feel free to add your child's code onto that doc if you would like them to be able to chat with their classmates. Again, this is entirely optional and not a board sanctioned site - simply something the kids were asking about.

Thank you for your continued support. Have a wonderful week!

Mrs. Summers