Literacy Groups - Small group reading activities 3 hours each week (Day 1,2,3)
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· Phonics Activities

Focus on "What Good Readers Do" (Strategies for reading independently)

Writing
- Continuous review of the writing process
- Writing Workshop (free choice writing) with a focus on pre-writing and description

Canada (January/February)

Comparing Canadian Communities (grade 3)

Students will:
- know that the natural environment helps shape the community
- know that the constructed environment is part of the community
- know that various reasons determine the differences and similarities between communities
- identify characteristics of various communities
- identify and explain some similarities and differences between communities

Focus on:
- Review of "What is a Community"
- Life in each province and territory (learning centres)
- Basic Canada facts
- Lyrics of " O Canada"
- Canadian Folk Songs
- Canadian Poetry

Dinosaurs (January/February)

Students will:
1. Describe some animals that lived on Earth a long time ago.
- Describe how the Earth might have been different a long time ago.
- Compare the skeletal structures of two or more different dinosaurs.
- Compare the skeletal structures of a dinosaur to a representation of that dinosaur as it might have appeared when it was alive.
- Compare the characteristics of meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs.

2. Recognize how information about dinosaurs is obtained.
- Explain how information regarding the bones, teeth, eggs, or footprints of dinosaurs has been left behind.
- Build a model to show how one type of fossil is formed.

Focus on:
- size
- protection
- life cycle
- food
- movement
- paleontology
- habitat
- extinction
- fossils
- timeline
- other prehistoric animals

Subtraction and Geometry

Subtraction
- Continue subtraction unit from December, focussing on regrouping.

Geometry
- Design classifications and sort 3-D objects according to various characteristics
- Identify and name examples from the environment of spheres, cubes, cones, cylinders, rectangular solids, and pyramids
- Identify the properties (faces, corners, and edges) and compare 3-D objects
- Construct 3-D objects
- Identify the shape of the faces of 3-D objects
- Make congruent 3-D objects
- Locate planes of symmetry of 3-D objects
- Recall objects no longer in view

- Design classifications and sort 2-D shapes according to various characteristics
- Name, illustrate, and identify examples from the environment of square, rectangle, circle, triangle, hexagon, octagon, and oval
- Trace and draw 2-D figures
- Combine 2-D geometric figures to make other figures
- Recognize, draw, and name point, line, and line segment
- Match congruent 2-D figures
- Make congruent 2-D figures
- Create symmetrical shapes and determine lines of symmetry
- Identify and name examples of symmetry in the environment
- Cover a surface by using one or more shapes
- Cover a surface by using one or more tessellating shapes

Safety

Grade 2
- Preventing injuries on the playground (garbage, needles)
- Avoiding dangerous situations (a safe, healthy environment)
- Finding sources of support (Block Parents)

Grade 3
- Preventing injuries at home (electricity, fire, poisons)
- Avoiding dangerous situations (saying no to someone - even someone you know)
- Finding sources of support (Fire-fighters, emergency services, 911)

Major activity - Group presentations:
- playground safety
- home safety (electricity and safe environment)
- fire safety
- food safety (poisons)
- safety from dangerous individuals
- bus safety
- water safety (We're swimming in January)
- car and pedestrian safety

Theme Related Activities

Creative Dance

Movement and Creative Dance

Basic Movement Patterns
· Body Awareness
- locomotions
- making shapes
- balancing

· Spatial Awareness
- directions
- levels
- pathways

· Effort
- speed
- force
- flow

· Relationships
- with people
- with objects


Swimming Lessons at the Lawson Aquatic Centre

On-Going

- Anecdotal Records
- Guided Reading
- Day to day assignments (checklists, notes, on-going development)
- Spelling Tests (weekly)
- End of the month reflection (self-assess.)
- Behaviour Checklists (self-assess.)
- Portfolio Selection (self-assess.)

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