We have a busy week in front of us as we continue to collect cans for the needy. On Monday the primary grades assemble to celebrate the second Sunday of Advent. On Wednesday we will join three other grades to make sandwiches for the poor. On Thursday we go swimming for a second time and our school choir sings at 5pm. On Friday morning we will have an Advent mass followed by Reconciliation. Then St. Peter's band will perform for us. I hope our Super Three Fours will recognize some of the musical concepts from our lessons! 

Our Religion studies focus on Advent, it's meaning, and how it can be a part of our daily living. There are many sites on the internet to start discussions or activities!  In Math the Grade 3s will have their Test on figures and solids, and then they extend their sorting knowledge in our unit on Data Mangement to include three attributes! Draw three intersecting circles and have your child place objects in them as you guess how s/he is sorting them - then switch roles. You may want a second adult to check that your child's attributes allow for objects to be placed in all sections and that s/he does so correctly (otherwise this can be as frustrating as going out to pick something up only to learn that the store never had the item you needed in the first place!).  For Science the Grade 3s will take a walk around the school to find actual forces and sort them into types (gravity, buoyancy, muscular...) and finding the most common one. The Grade 4s will perform experiments/talks to discover the properties of light and sound - for example, they will use shadows and balls to see how light travels in straight lines and a tuning fork and salt to 'see' sound vibrations. Have your child continue to bring home Science notes to review with you on an evening that you are not too busy or ask what activity was done (see class schedule for when Science occurs). In our Magical Land of Staff Music audio story, the staff is introduced and students begin to model with instruments the notes and dynamics. The Grade 3s Healthy Living looks at bicycle safety while the Grade 4s extend this to the planning for possible problems around bicycle safety. We begin a unit on scooters in Physical Education which will involve balance and gross motor movements to manipulate objects while moving on a scooter. In Language we continue creating two voices (eg the dog's point of view and the dog bicuit's point of view) while studying different forms of poetry, such as haiku. Have your child speak from multiple points of view when talking about feelings (this is very beneficial when dealing with sibling conflicts!).