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

  Looking Back: Literacy: Novel Study:   Ask your child what our main characters learned this week in our class novel, The Boy at the Back of the Class . Reading/Writing: Students continued working on their circle stories and began creating digital versions using a program called Book Creator. There is a link to Book Creator in Google Classroom, where you can view the progress your child has made on their book so far. Students have been very excited to personalize their stories and bring their ideas to life through illustrations and writing. This week, we also learned about dialogue and practised including character conversations in our stories. Next week, students will continue editing and revising their work, and we are hoping to print their finished books to share with classmates and buddy classes. Art: We began learning about a new artist this week, Georges Seurat . Students were introduced to the art technique of pointillism and started an artist appreciation assig...

  Thank you to our parent volunteers for joining us on our field trip to the Philharmonic. It was a wonderful and unique experience for the students as they were introduced to the orchestra and explored the many ways music can tell stories, express emotions, and bring people together.  Looking Back: Literacy: Novel Study:   Ask your child about what we learned in our novel this week! Students came home with a map to help them share the journey of our main character, Ahmet, and the long path he took to reach London. We had some wonderful discussions about the different places he travelled through and the challenges he faced along the way. One of the highlights this week was hearing about how some students (after trying pomegranates at school) had the opportunity to have some at home too.  Thank you for sharing this with them.   Reading/Writing: This week, we took our circle story templates and turned them into organizers to help us begin transforming ou...