Mr. Gurevitch's Grade 3 Class

Hi Everyone, It's to think that we are more than a quarter of the way to reach 100 days of school (we have had 27 days)! It was another great week of school. Here are some other highlights from the week! In math, we wrapped up our skip-counting unit. As a class, we collectively skip-counted by 3s, 4s and 6s with everyone contributing by saying a number when their name was drawn, while referring to the hundreds chart. This will be something that we will come back to, so if you have time, continue practicing with your child by skip counting by 3 and 4 all the way until 90, and work towards knowing the numbers by heart. Once that skill is mastered, progress to counting by 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, and 9s. We then started our place value unit, where we looked at the difference visually between 1, 10, 100, 1000 and 10000. Within English Language Arts, students worked on writing down, and summarizing the key events from a video of a cartoon story with a man, bird and dog . Students went through ...

Hi Everyone, Congratulations to everyone in the class for their role in the Orange Shirt ay Assembly. Students really took it up a notch when performing for everyone, and should be proud after performing to the other 400-some students, as well as the teachers and other grade three parents. We did a lot of rehearsing in the past couple weeks and our practice paid off. Here are some other highlights from the week! In math, students focused on completing an assessment that tested their ability to skip count by 3 and 4. Next week, we will wrap-up our skip-counting unit and focus on place value and representing 4 and 5-digit numbers. If you have time, continue practicing with your child by skip counting by 3 and 4 all the way until 90, and work towards knowing the numbers by heart. Once that skill is mastered, progress to counting by 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, and 9s. If you search up ‘toy theatre interactive hundreds chart’ on Google, you will find a terrific visual resource that allows you to see ...