News for Week of April 14 - 17, 2025

It's Holy Week - a time for prayer and quiet reflection. Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday and leads to Easter Sunday, the most important time in the Catholic church. On Palm Sunday, we learn how Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem and the people waved palm branches at Him shouting, "Hosanna!". On Holy Monday, Jesus and His disciples went into the temple and Jesus overturned tables since people were selling things rather than praying. Holy Tuesday - Jesus and His disciples returned to the temple and taught the people many things through parables and gave the people the New Commandment. On Holy Wednesday, Judas agreed to hand over Jesus for silver coins. On Holy Thursday, Jesus had the Last Supper, which is the institution of the Eucharist and also the first mass. He also washed the feet of His disciples. Jesus asked His disciples to pray in the garden with Him all night, and they fell asleep. On Good Friday, Jesus died on the cross. The stations of the cross happen on Good Friday. Holy Saturday is when we learn that Jesus is dead in the tomb. The evening of Holy Saturday is considered the "vigil" and Easter celebrations can begin then. On Easter, the Alleluia returns and life is renewed, as it was for Jesus through His resurrection. The children will be hearing the story of the Passion throughout the week in class. Ask your child to retell the story to you. 

Our Learning

Language:

In Writing, we continue to work on writing our first persuasive text. We are having fun exploring how to convince or persuade others that our opinion of a topic is correct. 

Last week, the Grade 3 students brought home a reading comprehension assignment, titled "Snowshoe Adventure", in their Assessment Folder. Your child was asked to take some time to show it to you and review my feedback. Before completing this task, we reviewed the criteria for answering comprehension questions. We are using APE to help us:

The Grade 3s also looked at scoring exemplars created by the Ministry of Education (based on past EQAO task). These criteria were used when your child's work was marked and feedback was provided. Please note that the EQAO "scoring guide" uses the levels 10, 20, 30, and 40. A level 10 corresponds to a level 1, which is equivalent to a "D". A level 20 corresponds to a level 2, which is equivalent to a "C". A level 30 corresponds to a level 3, which is equivalent to a "B" (which is the ministry standard). A level 40 corresponds to a level 4, which is equivalent to an "A". Click here to see the exemplars.  

Math:

In our Grade 3 time unit, we have been using analog and digital clocks to tell the time in hours and minutes, and we will soon learn how to include seconds to tell the time. Please review how to read and write the time to the hour (e.g., 2:00), half hour (e.g., 8:30), quarter hours (e.g., 3:15, 3:45), as well as to the 5 minutes (e.g., 6:05, 6:10, 6:25, etc.). We will have an assessment of our learning about time this week. 

Link to Grade 3 Parent Summary Letter About Time here

In Grade 2, we will review how to use non-standard units and standard units of time, including seconds, minutes, hours, to describe the duration of various events. We will have a short assessment early this week.

Link to Grade 2 Parent Summary Letter About Measuring Time in Seconds and Minutes here

Looking Ahead:

Tuesday, April 15th: Library books due

Thursday, April 17th: Grade 3 EQAO prep booklet #4 due

Friday, April 18th: Good Friday (No school)

Monday, April 21st: Easter Monday (No School)