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Posted: November 19, 2012

Blue and White Day

Just a reminder that Thursday is Blue and White Day (school colors) for the Food Bank.  Please bring in a $1 or a food item to add to our Christmas Food Bank Drive!  Thanks so much for all the goodies and money sent in last week during Crazy Hat/Hair Day.  It is all much appreciated! 

Posted: November 19, 2012

November 19-22

What?  Only 5 weeks until Christmas....how can that be?  It will be another fun, full week.  We have begun the Mango Challenge to eat a healthy breakfast!  Let's see if we can win this challenge!!  Tuesday is Library Day so please return your book so you can sign another one out.  If you want to order popcorn for Wednesday, please bring in your 50 cents on Tuesday as well.  Thursday will be an exciting day as we will go skating!  Please make sure you bring your skates and helmet and that you dress warm!  Report Cards go home Tuesday with Parent Teacher on Thursday from 4pm-6pm and Friday from 9am-12pm.  Please remember that there will not be school on Friday!  Enjoy your long weekend!This will be my last week teaching this fabulous class!!  Ms. Lawlor will be returning from her maternity leave on Monday, November 26.  I have certainly enjoyed my time and wish each and every student a successful year!  Remember to listen well and work hard :)  

Posted: November 12, 2012

November 13-16

It may be a 4 day week but we will certainly keep busy!Tuesday we will have Mrs. MacDonald in to do our post baby visit with the Roots of Empathy program.  Baby Tori will be visiting again soon!  We will continue working on our writing with Mrs. Bruce.  She is impressed with the work we have done so far, so let's keep up the great work!  In Math, we will continue with our Numbers to 1000 unit!  We have finished our Science unit on Plants so we will now move to a unit in Social Studies, learning about our province of New Brunswick!

Posted: November 4, 2012

November 5-9

Grade 3 will have a full, busy week!  We will be completing our unit on Plants in Science and having a unit test.  We will then be beginning a unit in Social Studies!  In math, we will continue working on our unit on Numbers to 1000 and will be skip counting using coins, counting by 5, 10, 25, 100 and 200.  Our November words will be introduced to our word wall and they will include the homophones their, there and they're!Thursday, November 8 at 9:30am our Remembrance Day ceremony will be held in the gym. It is a very important time for our students as they learn to remember and be thankful to all of our veterans! 

Posted: October 28, 2012

October 29-November 2

Wow, Halloween week already, where did the time go?  It will be a very busy week with lots of fun activities planned!!  We start the week off on Monday with a Family Visit with our Roots of Empathy baby!  We are so excited to meet Baby Tori and learn all about her!  Wednesday we will celebrate Halloween in the afternoon.  If you want to send treats in, please feel free but make sure they are peanut free.  There will not be any costumes on Wednesday at school.After Halloween we will begin activities directed at Remembrance Day.  Our school ceremony will be held on Thursday, November 8 at 9:30am.Happy Halloween!!

Posted: October 25, 2012

Home and School Halloween Party!!

Hallowe'en Party!Posted October 23, 2012Please note the change in the date of the Hallowe'en Party. It will be held this Friday night, October 26, from 6:00 to approximately 7:30. All students and siblings of Harkins Elementary School are invited to attend. Please note children must be accompanied during the evening by a parent. Admission is free. Special treats will be on sale for .50 - $1. Various stations will be set up, including our popular Haunted Room! We also have a special guest reader for the evening. Make sure you come in costume!

Posted: October 21, 2012

Oct. 22-26

The Harkins Home and School Halloween party has been changed to Friday, October 26 at 6pm.  It is going to be a fantastic evening and hopefully lots of ghost and goblins from our class will attend!It will be a very exciting week in our class as we begin the Roots of Empathy program.  Mrs. Hans will be visiting us on Monday, preparing us for the family with Baby Tori next week!If your child plans on buying the cafeteria Halloween dinner on Friday, please send in the money by Thursday.  If you could send in some empty toilet paper rolls it would be much appreciated!  They will be brought back home, but in the form of a Halloween art project!Another fabulous week awaits us in 3 Newman :)

Posted: October 12, 2012

Oct. 15-19

Here we are, the middle of October already!  We have a full and busy week ahead of us!  Please check your child's agenda in their homework binder each evening.  There will be a slight change in homework this week.  This is also where memos and other important information is sent home (bring back and keep home plastic sleeves).  It is very important that your child does their reading each evening and log it with your signature/initials.  It would also be very beneficial for you to ask your child questions about what they just read.  Comprehension remains an extremely important strategy!In Literacy we continue working very well during our Daily 5!  Ask your child what recent activities they did in Word Work from the "tic tac toe" choice board.  In Math, we will look at place value this week, concentrating on the numbers in the ones, tens and hundreds place.  Science will get exciting this week too.  Ask your child about it!Important Reminder: All fundraiser money and forms are due by Thursday!!  We certainly appreciate all the effort the students are putting into this :)  

Posted: October 10, 2012

Oct 10- 12

I hope that everyone had a wonderful long weekend!  This will be a short, but busy week!  Thursday we will be attending an assembly put on by the Fire Department as this is Fire Prevention Week.  It is important to listen well and learn what we can do to help prevent fires and what to do if we are ever in a fire.Thanks to those who ordered books from the recent book order.  I received some of the books today and should receive the others on Friday or Monday.The students are doing great during our Daily 5 time.  It is fast becoming a regular routine and we are becoming very good workers!  In Math, we will be starting the next unit which is on Numbers to 1000.An interim report card will be sent home on Thursday.  Please sign the bottom portion and return as soon as possible  There will not be Parent Teacher interviews until after the first term report card, on November 22 and 23.

Posted: September 30, 2012

October 1-5

It is hard to believe that it is the first week of October already! Time is flying by! This week we will be celebrating Thanksgiving, doing lots of fun activities to help us learn how to give thanks for all of our blessings! It will be a four day weekend for our students as Tuesday, October 9 is a Professional Learning Day for teachers. Look for the Grade Three newsletter which will come home this week for lots of information. Thanks to all of you who donated to the Terry Fox Walk and who came with us and participated. It was a wonderful day, remembering a man who changed the future of cancer research!Book orders are due Tuesday. Popcorn order is Tuesday with delivery Wednesday.

Posted: September 15, 2012

Welcome!

Welcome everyone to grade 3!  It is an exciting year, with lots of changes for the students!  We are already back into the swing of things and the students are eager to learn!  In Literacy we have jumped right back into the Daily 5!  Reading, writing, word work, spelling activities.....we have been busy!  We were lucky to have Mrs. Bruce come in and help us get started with our Writers Workshop.  She taught us some great ways to brainstorm ideas to write about!In Math we have started the year with a unit on Patterns!  We are also always working on our addition and subtraction facts! You received the school picture proofs Friday so if you want to order a package please send them back as soon as possible.  Also, remember to check your childs agenda in their homework binder each evening.Also sent home Friday was the pledge sheet for the Terry Fox walk which will be held September 27 (raindate September 28).  We will also have a jar in our classroom for any loose change you would like to send in.  Thanks!

Posted: June 26, 2012

Happy Holidays!!

I want to wish all my students and their families a wonerful and safe summer vacation!!  You have all worked very hard this year and I was so pleased to be your teacher!!  Have fun :)

Posted: June 15, 2012

Memo

Students have been working on Project Based Learning linked to the Social Studies curriculum.  A showcase of their projects will be held on Monday, June 18.  Parents can come to view the projects between 10:30am and 11:30am.  The grade one students have been learning about toys from the past and have a wonderful display to show.  They also have learned two songs that they will be presenting during this time. Another reminder that if you haven't yet sent in $30 for school supplies and $7 for an agenda (all for grade two, Sept. 2012) please do so as soon as possible!  A receipt will be sent home with your child's report card. 

Posted: May 29, 2012

May 28-June 1

 Wow, June already.......and what a busy month it will be!!This week in spelling we are focusing on the "oa" words.  Please review these words each night with your child.  This will be our last week for spelling and for worksheets in the homework duotang.  We will, however, continue to send books home with your child each week.  I can't stress enough how important it is for your child to read books at their level each evening!In math we will be completing our Addition and Subtraction to 20 unit.  The month of June will see us work both in the Geometry and Measurement units.  A permission slip went home today with your child for our field trip to Metepenagiag.  Please sign and return it with $3 ASAP!!  We are looking forward to a fantastic day!!  Cross your fingers the weather cooperates! 

Posted: May 12, 2012

May 14-18

Wow, the middle of May, how time flies!!  I hope all the mother's had a very special day on Sunday!  Your children were all very excited to give you the cards that they made.  They took great care in creating them and the ideas they came up with were priceless!  I know that these will become cherished momentos as the years go on! This week in spelling and word work we will be focusing on the "magic/bossy e" sound.  We want the children to use this strategy automatically when reading.  In writing we will continue working on procedural writing pieces and the proper use of conventions.  They need to always begin sentences with a capital letter, space the words appropriately and end with the proper punctuation.  In math, we will continue working with numbers to 100 and addition and subtraction facts to 20.  It is very important that your children continue to review the doubles facts and making ten facts that are in their homework duotangs and the activities that go along with the hundred chart! 

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