Influences from the Past

It was wonderful to see all the grade 3s and 4s this morning. We welcomed Zain and Ms. Bannon to our class today. The children wasted no time in getting right back to work. We began our day working on our Medieval unit. We have begun reading a new book called The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop. The children were introduced to one of their final projects for our Medieval unit. We are considering how the Middle Ages has influenced modern societies. The children are choosing a medieval artifact or person to research. They will compare that tool or person to their modern-day equivalent and then say how the person or artifact has influenced our lives today. The children have all chosen their research topics and are ready to start researching when they get to class tomorrow morning.
The children enjoyed gym time with Mr. Browning and changed for gym and back for class in great time. Well done everyone! We worked on list 17 spelling words and agendas.Remaining class time was used for reading or medieval research. The class then had music class with Ms. L.
After French, the grade 3s and 4s began their 5th MMS unit on Data Management. Grade 3s reviewed what they had learned about data management in grade 2 and were introduced to the expectations for grade 3. Today's lesson focused on sorting data using 2 attributes  Ask your child to explain what an attribute is and which graphic organizer they could use to sort by two attributes. The grade 4s reviewed what they learned about data management in grade 3 and were introduced to the grade 4 expectations. Today's lesson focused on interpreting data presented in tables. We ended our day with an arithmetic lesson, where the children used quarts, pecks and bushels as capacity measures. To help our children to be internationally minded, we learn both imperial and metric measures at SJA.

Homework & Reminders:

• Study list 17 words for Friday's spelling test
• MMS 3 p. 96 & 97
• MMS 4 p. 76 & 77
• Arithmetic p. 109, 110