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Weekly update for the week of Oct. 17th, 2016

Hello Parents,

Please see what happened during the week.

SUBJECT DESCRIPTION PARENT TIP
MATH -Assessment on Unit 1

-Measure to the nearest inch and half inch

-Estimate and measure customary units of length

 Pick some objects around the house and ask your child what unit of measurement(inch, feet, yard or mile) they will use to measure the length.
READING -More work on identifying fact and fiction.

-Comprehension strategies using questioning.

-Identifying the main idea and supporting details from a paragraph.

 After reading with your child get them to come with questions that they could ask about the passage. Use who, why what, where, how, and explain type questions.
GRAMMAR Review on Unit 1.

Assessment on Unit 1.

  
SCIENCE Explain the relationship between animals and plants through a food chain.

What is an Ecosystem.

Parts of an Ecosystem.

 Ask child explain the meaning of the terms:- producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, predator, prey, habitat, community and population.
SOCIAL STUDIES Students did oral presentations on their traditional Caymanian houses.  
BIBLE The role that John the Baptist played in the baptism of Jesus. Ask child to describe what John might have looked like, what he ate and what he said about Jesus.

What was unusual about Jesus’s baptism?
ART Missed due to Spelling Bee  

 

 

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Weekly update for the week of October 10th, 2016

Hello Parents,

Please see what we did this week.

SUBJECT DESCRIPTION PARENT TIP
MATH Spent quite a lot of time reviewing Unit 1 for an assessment on Tuesday 18th October. Students will take text book home to review. Review with child using pages 56-62. Do only two questions per section. Do a few questions from the test practice pages :64-65
READING Identifying fact and fiction in a text. Reading for fluency and the use of metacognition strategies for comprehension. (Metacognition involves getting the reader to actively think while reading. Questions to ask are What are you thinking…., What are you noticing… , wondering, seeing, and feeling.) After reading with your child ask them some questions like,

What are you thinking, noticing, wondering, seeing and feeling.
GRAMMAR Correcting run-on sentences (Wrong: Have you ridden on a train it is fun. Correct: Have you ridden on a train? It is fun.)

Writing good sentences by using a comma and using the word and (wrong: Gardening teaches science it is a great hobby too. Correct: Gardening teaches science, and it is a great hobby too.

 The worksheet would help with this. You can just look over.
SCIENCE Carried out an experiment using the scientific process: question, hypothesis, apparatus and materials, method, observation and conclusion.

Defining the terms producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore and giving example for each.

 Ask child to list the steps in the scientific process.

Help child generate questions about wat they would like to find out about and ask them to come up with a hypothesis.
SOCIAL STUDIES We worked on building a traditional Caymanian house. Students worked in groups of three or four. Ask what materials were a traditional Caymanian house made from. How many rooms were there?(3)
BIBLE Misses due to work on Social Studies project. Will make up next week.  
ART Missed due to Field Trip.  

 

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Grade 3: Updates for 2016

Hello Parents,

See what went on in class for the week of September 26th, 2016.

Grammar: Identify the subject of a sentence.
Reading: Looked at the features of a biography. Read a biography on Ellen Ochoa and analysed the text for comprehension. Practiced using comprehension skills.
Writing: Practiced the drafting and publishing stage of writing a descriptive paragraph. Students learnt how to use symbols to correct work, example: Inline image 1
Maths: Rounding to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand using the number ine strategy and the rhyme (4 or less let it rest, 5 or more let it soar). We will spend next week on this as well since it is one of those topics that students have difficulty learning.
Social Studies: Features of a traditional Cayman kitchen.
                          Compare traditional houses from around the world.
Science: Compare learnt and instinct behaviour. List characteristics that help a camel and polar adapt to its environment.
BIble: Catergorise books of the bible and reviewed for a simple test on Friday.
Art: work with water colour to create tints and shades.