This last week of 2019 in Division 3

Div 3 families and students, here is your weekly update.

Dates to note:

December 17th Jingle Way Sing-a-long in the Gym from 10:50 to 11:30 (Families welcome)
December 20th Mug Exchange (Students exchange mugs and share in hot-chocolate holiday cheer)
WINTER BREAK December 21st to January 5th (Back to school on Monday, January 6th)

Funwork:

Science 
Students have investigated and will present individual and group experiments around the topic of solutions and solubility. This will happen Tuesday morning and Wednesday; the work will reinforce scientific inquiry skills that the students are developing.

Language Arts 
Reading: Students will finish "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" this week. They will be comparing the novel with the 1971 musical screenplay on Thursday and Friday. Students are also using CAFE strategies to read "The Breadwinner" which they will continue reading after the break.
Writing: Students are working on using adverbs in sentences to describe actions. This practice will include rearranging sentences so that they start with an adverb (eg. Suddenly, the students understood why they could start a sentence with suddenly).

Math
The hour of code is over, but our experiences with code will continue in the new year and extend to robotics. For those of you who have asked, the link to coding activities can be found here.
This week we will be doing consumer math using addition and subtraction of dollar amounts with cents (decimal fractions) as well as some festive figuring.

And so much more fun is happening this last week of 2019 because that is what learning is.

Yours

Ms Bridal and Ms Powers