Mrs. Coleman's Grade 3's 2025-2026

 

 We would like to extend our sincere thanks to our student teacher, Ms. Tran, for the dedication, care, and support she has shown our class over the past 10 weeks. She has made a meaningful impact on student learning and the classroom community. We wish her every success as she begins the exciting journey into her own classroom. ** Please make sure that all field trip forms are returned to me by April 28, please.  Mr. V needs to have swimming ability forms by then to take to the pool by May 1.** Looking Back: This week was filled with meaningful learning opportunities as we wrapped up our final week with Ms. Tran. We are so grateful for the time, energy, and creativity she brought to our classroom over the past several weeks. In literacy, students proudly completed the good copies of the paragraphs they began last week, focusing on applying editing skills and creating polished final pieces. We also launched an exciting new writing focus: circle stories . To build our understa...

  Looking Back: Literacy: Phonics:  In phonics, students continued building their word skills through our daily vocabulary practice. During warm-ups, they practiced breaking words into individual sounds and blending sounds together. Students also explored how changing or adding sounds can create new words, helping them become more confident readers and spellers. Reading:  During reading, students worked in their reading groups to read together and build fluency. They also practiced using the 5-finger summary strategy (somebody, wanted, but, so, then) to check their understanding and strengthen their comprehension skills. Text Features: Students also learned about non-fiction text features, such as images, captions, diagrams, labels, charts, and maps. To apply their learning, students created collages using catalogues and magazines by finding and labelling different text features. This hands-on activity helped students better understand how these features support meaning i...