November 27 - December 1, 2023
St. Gabriel Christmas Market - December 14th
Do you have treasures that you are not using or looking to re-gift? This is the perfect event to clear out some clutter before the holidays.
The Christmas Market is an opportunity for students to embrace the joy of giving and a platform for the school community to come together for a meaningful cause. By recycling gently used items, promoting sustainability, and contributing to charitable organizations, this event aligns with the values of eco-schools and reflects the spirit of the Christmas season.
How it works:
All students will have the opportunity to go shopping for a family member. It would be greatly appreciated if you could donate a twoonie ($2) or more for this initiative, as the monies collected will go to support families in need in the OCSB community. All the donated gifts will be put on display and the classes will take turns coming to “shop” for their family members. At the end of the day, your little shopper will bring home a pre-wrapped present ready to put under the tree. The monetary donations will be collected on SchoolCash online and will go live on December 1, 2023
Donation of Gifts:
● We have found in the past when families donate the same number of gifts as your child(ren) will be taking home, it makes the shopping experience easier. The more gifts you can donate, the more choices our students will have.
● Items should be new or very gently used. Send only gifts that you wouldn’t mind receiving. This includes toys, games, books, DVDs, kitchen items, candles, jewelry, small tools, golf items, and picture frames, etc. ***NO textbooks, stuffed animals, or used hats (for hygienic reasons) or worn out items.
● Please keep in mind gifts for dads and older brothers/sisters, so, if you have a few extras, they would be greatly appreciated!
● Donations of wrapping paper, gift bags, tissue paper, gift boxes, and tape are also needed.
● Drop off donations in the front foyer or send in with your child/children.
We will need parent volunteers to assist the children and wrap the presents on December 14th. A Google Form will be sent in the next week. If interested in volunteering, you are welcome to complete the Google Form.
We appreciate your generosity!
This week, we will complete our study of estimating and comparing numbers. Both grades will have an end of unit assessment task later this week.
This week in Grade Two, we will continue to order and compare numbers to 200 using place-value (e.g., base ten blocks), hundreds charts, and number lines. We will then practise estimating a given number of items (up to 200) using known referents (a referent is a known quantity you use to help you estimate another quantity).
Link to Parent Letter Explaining Lessons About Comparing and Ordering Numbers to 200
Link to Parent Letter Explaining Lessons About Estimating Quantities
In Grade 3, our focus will be to use a variety of strategies (e.g., base ten block representations, number lines, hundreds charts) to order and compare 3-digit numbers, and we will practise using the greater than and less than symbols. We will then review what we learned about rounding numbers to the nearest ten and the nearest hundred before our assessment task later this week. The Grade 3s will have Math homework this week, which will be due on Friday, December 1st.
Link to Parent Letter Explaining Lessons About Ordering and Comparing 3-Digit Numbers
Language:
In Writing, we will continue to practise different types of descriptive writing, using adjectives and interesting vocabulary to paint a picture when describing something or someone. In Reading, we will work on visualizing to help us comprehend what we read. In the next couple of weeks, we will also begin to look at the similarities and differences between fiction and non-fiction texts and identify the important features of non-fiction texts (e.g., provides information about a topic; often includes a table of contents, photographs, captions, diagrams, labels, maps, glossary, index, bold font, headings, etc.).
This week's heart words: look, book, are, was
Please have your child practise the heart words we have learned so far in class: the, I, a, said, to, do, of, see, he, be, me, from, you, what, have (& look, book, are, was).
Visual Arts:
We will continue our exploration of the element of colour in art works, with a focus on warm and cool colours and the feelings which can portrayed by the use of certain colours when creating works of art.
Learning About Land Acknowledgements
November is OCSB Indigenous Education month. As part of our learning this month, we have been discussing the importance of land acknowledgements and we will each be writing our own personal land acknowledgement. Land acknowledgements are a way for non-Indigenous Canadians to acknowledge that these lands are the traditional territories of Indigenous people in Canada. In order to help with this understanding, your child was encouraged to ask their parents about where their ancestors are from (grandparents, great-grandparents, great great-grandparents, etc.). For example, some of my own ancestors came to Canada from Poland, Scotland, and France. If possible, please help your child by telling or writing down where some of their ancestors were from. No need to specifically include which family members or names of family members, only where the ancestors came from). We will be working on this project throughout the week.
Important Dates:
Friday, Dec. 8 - P.D. Day
