Week of November 18 - 24, 2024

This week at the OCSB has been designated as Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week to help promote safe schools and a positive learning environment. At St. Gabriel, we are committed to raising awareness and learning more about what bullying looks like, sounds like, and feels like, and how we can prevent it.

Bullying is defined as a repeated, persistent, and aggressive behaviour directed at an individual or individuals that is intended to cause fear and/or harm to another person's body, feelings, self-esteem, or reputation. Bullying occurs in a context where there is a real or perceived imbalance of power.  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/safeschools/prevention.html

Bullying can take different forms including:

• Physical - hitting, shoving, pinching, poking, chasing, stealing, or damaging property
• Verbal - name calling, mocking, teasing, threatening, making negative references to a person 
• Social - excluding others from a group, spreading rumours about a person, humiliating others with public gestures to put others down 
• Electronic (commonly known as cyberbullying) - using the internet, cell phones, email, text messaging, or social media to spread rumours or hurtful comments, intimidate, put down, or make fun of someone.
• Students need to know that they are not powerless and that they all have a voice to stop bullying and bullying behaviour.

• You can get more information at Bullying Canada

Curriculum Updates

Language:

In reading, over the next couple of weeks, we will explore how making connections to our prior knowledge, experiences, and feelings helps us understand what we read. In writing, we have begun our study of descriptive writing.

Our next UFLI phonics lesson is about the digraph sound /wh/, at the beginning of a word, as in the words which, whim, whip, when, whiz, and the digraph sound /ph/, as in the words phone, graph, Phil, Steph.

New heart words: could, should, would

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, your, want, go, no, so, goes, says, they, their, were, talk, walk, *could, *should, *would.

Math:

We will continue our study of estimating and comparing numbers.  In Grade Two, we will continue to learn how to use place-value to order and compare 2-digit numbers. We will also learn how to compare and order numbers to 200. 

Link to Parent Letter Explaining Lessons About Comparing and Ordering Numbers Using Place Value

Link to Parent Letter Explaining Lessons About Comparing and Ordering Numbers to 200 

In Grade 3, our focus will be to learn how to use benchmarks, including multiples of 100, with and without number lines, to compare 3-digit numbers. We will also learn other ways to order numbers up to 1000.

Grade 3 Parent Summary Letter Using Benchmarks to Compare Three-Digit Numbers

Grade 3 Parent Summary Letter About Comparing and Ordering 3-Digit Numbers

Important Dates:

**November is OCSB Indigenous Education Month

November 18-22: Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week

Wed., Nov. 20 - Wear St. Gabriel colours: purple and grey

Thurs., Nov. 21 - St. Gabriel Parent-Teacher Interviews

Fri., Nov. 22 - Wear pink for bullying awareness

Friday, Dec. 2 - P.D. Day