What a wonderful week we had in Grade 3 that was filled with learning and of course lots of excitement. Please take a moment to review some important dates in the weeks ahead.

Important Dates:

• November 8th Photo Retake Day
• November 8th Last day of classes for students before fall break
• November 8th Remembrance Day Assembly 10:45 a.m. (Gr. 3 and 6 students will be hosting it & parents are invited to join us)
• November 9th Professional Learning Day for Staff
• November 15th Students and staff return from fall break

Halloween:
Wow! Our costumes were spooktacular! Students enjoyed a school-wide parade and spending time with their Grade 1 buddies white participating in three different STEM challenges. Students were provided with the opportunity to build bone bridges, pumpkins out of Stem and Connector pieces and use clues to get out of a spooky Escape Room! What fun!

Science:

This week, students continued to engage in different learning tasks connected to our unit on Living Systems. During the month of November, students will continue to analyze and describe how plants and animals interact with each other and within environments. Please ask your child about the different experiments we have been conducting in the classroom and what ‘Two-Eyed Seeing’ means. Our first Two-Eyed Seeing activity had students looking at cattails from two perspectives.

Learning Outcomes:

Plants and animals use their senses to respond to sensory stimuli, including:

• water
• food
• temperature
• light

This week, students performed an experiment with celery to see how it would respond to water and last week we investigated how sunflowers react to light and how it impacts their growth. Please have a look at some student examples in the pictures posted below.

Learning Intention:

I can explain how plants use senses to respond to water, food and light.