March 13th 3B/C update

March 13

Dear Families,

Teacher’s PET Rocks and Minerals was a success. 

The children had a lot of fun and learned so much 

about Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic rocks. 

Thank you to all of our parent volunteers that worked 

so hard that day! We appreciate you all!

Due to the cold weather, our winter sports events 

will be held on Tuesday March 17 at 1:15-2:30pm- 

outside.

Schools have received information from Calgary 

Board of Education Communications in regards to

 gatherings from now until Spring Break.

Please note:

• Events including the school and regular staff population of the school MAY continue. 
• This includes events such as after school clubs, practices etc. Schools with scheduled field trips
•  may still continue at this time.
• Events that expand to include populations from 
• other schools and/or parents or other community members should be postponed and further information will be provided after March break 
• if they will be rescheduled or cancelled. This includes events such as Parent Teachers

Interviews, school athletic competitions, drama/musical performances etc.

We have chosen to postpone the following:

• March 19th and 20th - Parent Teacher 

Conferences

Book fair is cancelled - Thank you to all parents who have offered to volunteer for the book fair. We will create a new 

signup sheet when we reschedule Scholastic Book Fair.

We will reschedule our Parent Teacher Conferences 

at a later date.  Dismissal for Thursday March 19th 

will continue to be  EARLY DISMISSAL at 1:30 for 

Grades 1-6 as well as SKILL. Kindergarten there 

will be NO SCHOOL. No school Friday March 20.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause 

and appreciate your support as we all share in 

these unique times.

We have sent some work home early for Spring 

break. Jump Math 3.1 - your child may work on 

finishing pages they have not completed, as well as 

units we did not need to cover for our curriculum. We also

sent a Spring Break bingo challenge and a home 

reading sheet for home reading. Students who have a Raz Kids accounts may use it at home as well as Tumble books and book flicks. Kiddle is a good search engine for 

reading information about Rocks and Minerals. 

Students may also complete any work in their 

Google Drive such as documents or slide shows.

  www.tumblebooklibrary.com

Username: calgarypl

Password: sd19

Math: prodigy, abcya, and jump math, and scratch.

Dates:

March 17- Winter Sports Day at 1:30pm

March 19- Last day of classes before Spring Break, 

early dismissal at 1:30pm

March 19- Parent Teacher Interviews Cancelled

March 20- Parent Teacher Interviews Cancelled/no school

March 30- Classes Resume

Please read the Covid-19 virus information on the CBE website at www.cbe.ab.ca

Keep posted on this public health crisis.

Thank you,

Brennan

March

March 6

Math- In Math this week we finished our multiplication unit !  Division starts next
week when we start 3.2 Jump Math.

 English- Our novel study this month is No Ordinary Day by Deborah Ellis. It is a story from India. That brings up the importance of education and literacy. 

We are also enjoying some Folktales from India.

Social- We are learning about India’s communities as well as global citizenship
and organizations such as: Rights of a Child, how the Red Cross began,
Free the children, Unicef, Doctors without borders, and 

World Wildlife Fund. 

Science- We have been exploring our new topic of Rocks and Minerals.
We are investigating where they are found around the world. We are excited
for our Rocks and minerals in school program by Teacher’s PET on March 10.
We also have a parent volunteer that is going to offer a session about
Rocks and Minerals in April.

Dates:

March 7- Spring forward one hour!

March 9- Scholastic orders due

March 10- Teacher’s PET Rocks and minerals

March 12 - Parent Council Night

March 13- Dress Like Your Teacher Day

March 19- Last day of classes before Spring Break, 

early dismissal at 1:30pm

March 19- Parent Teacher Interviews 2:30-4:30, and 5:30-8pm

March 20- Parent Teacher Interviews 9-12:30pm No classes

March 30- Classes Resume

February blog

Jan 31, 2020

Dear grade 3B and C Families,

Dear Parent / Guardian 

Mr. O’Reilly will be on a leave for the month of February 2020. 

To ensure continuity Ms. Latham will be redeployed from her

role as PE Specialist to work with Ms. Ley in the grade three

classroom.  Ms. Latham has experience both with the grade

three curriculum and well established relationships with all

of our students at SVS. PE will be taught by home room teachers

or a designated grade team member for the month of February 2020.

  Mr. O’Reilly will be returning on March 2, 2020. If you have any

questions or concerns please contact administration through

the front office at 403-777-6660. 

Respectfully: 

Christopher Snow 

Principal, SVS 

PLEASE CHECK IRIS LEY'S BLOGS FOR FEBRUARY TO STAY 

INFORMED ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR CLASS (3B/3C)

 AND CONTACT HER IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT 

THE BLOG OR OUR CLASS.

The next Parent Council meeting is next week on

Thursday, February 6th at 7 pm in our DLC. 

We are holding the meeting a week early to

accommodate the Teachers' Convention break.

 It’s our Grade 2 teaching teams' turn to present

what your kids have been working on in their classrooms. 

There will also be the usual updates from our

Admin team and other committees.

Babysitting will be available.

And in case you missed this on our school website,

you can review our January meeting minutes here:  http://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/simonsvalley/get-involved/school-council/pages/default.aspx

We are excited to go skating! We are going to the rink

between the two schools. We do need parents to help

us get ready to skate. Thanks volunteers!

Skating dates this year are Mon Feb 10-Wed Feb 12.

Our two classes will get two skating blocks. One on

Monday February 10 at 11am at the rink to tie skates

etc... and Wednesday February 12 at 11:35. We need

parents who are available to volunteer either of those

days to help tie up skates and put on helmets. Volunteers

will not be expected to go on the ice (unless they want to!). 

We will be creating Valentines hearts in class for every

child to decorate, have it signed by their peers, and take

home on February 12.

On Wednesday February 5th, we say so long to our

wonderful student teacher Mrs. Maya H. She has

been a kind and caring addition to our class and we

wish her success.

We will be partaking in Yoga once a month for a half

hour per class as a school wide wellness activity. If

you have any questions please contact the admin at

the school.

                                                                                                Student Fundraiser:

Hello grade 3 Families,

    Your kid is probably asking for some money ($1.00 or $0.50). 

We are raising money for the animals in Australia because there's

a big wildfire you might know about this, so we are trying to raise

money to stop this wildfire by doing a jelly bean contest. Kids can

take one guess for $0.50 or two guesses for $1.00 maximum.

The winner will get the jelly beans and the money will go to the

replanting of trees and helping koala and all the other animals.

We will send a cheque to WWF ( world wildlife fund) to support

Australia.

Thank you for supporting this fundraiser!

By James and Rei grade 3 organizers

Dates:

Jan 31st - Non Instructional Day

Feb 3 - Scholastic orders due

Feb 5 - Hot Lunch orders due/ Mrs. H last day

Feb 6- Parent council meeting

Feb 10 - Crime Not to Read Pizza Party forms due

Feb 12 - Making Valentines in class to take home

Feb 19 - Pizza party at Vivo for Crime not to Read

Feb 28 - Grade 3 Assembly in the gym. Please come and 

celebrate our learning through song and dance. The assembly 

starts at 12:30pm sharp.

Thank you,

Brennan O'Reilly

jan 24

Jan 24, 2020

Dear 3C Families,

We had another great week in 3B/C...We finished our unit on mental 

math with a test yesterday. We started our unit on multiplication today!! 

In Science we continued on with hearing and sound and continued on
with editing in Daily 5.  We started our google slides for Ukraine and
made a plan for our instruments that we’ll be building.  Please ask your
child if the need any supplies for their instrument and send them in, if
you haven’t already done so.  We looked at the buffalo teachings and
respecting differences in Health and had our first CAD today!!

Message: Sandstone MacEwan Community Association has been
collecting used skates for kids in the community who cannot afford
to skate. If you are a family who would like to receive or who would
like to donate skates, please contact info@sandstomemacewan.com.
  As well, if you are interested, there is a family willing to do some
sharpening and some intro lessons! What a great opportunity!

Dates:

Jan 31st- Non Instructional Day

Feb 28- Grade 3 Assembly in the gym. Please come and 

celebrate our learning through song and dance. The assembly 

starts at 12:30pm sharp.

Have a great weekend

Mr. O’Reilly

weekly update

Jan 17, 2020

Dear Grade 3C Families,

We had a great week finishing geometry with our unit test and starting mental math in Jump Math. We looked further into hearing and sound in Science and looked at editing our work in English. We started looking at the Ukraine in Social and talked about friendship in Health.  Our Peruvian masks and sound wave art look great on our display boards.

Scholastic orders were sent home, please order online if you wish to 

order books by January 21st.

Dates:

January 21st Scholastic orders due

Jan 24- CAD day

Jan 31st- Non Instructional Day

Feb 28- Grade 3 Assembly in the gym. Please come and 

celebrate our learning through song and dance. The assembly 

starts at 12:30pm sharp.

Have a great weekend

Mr. O’Reilly and Mrs. Ley

2020

Jan 10

Dear Grade 3C Families,

Happy New Year ! 

Hope you all had a wonderful winter break!

We would like to introduce our student teacher Mrs. Maya H. 

from Ambrose University. Maya will be with us for 5 weeks to learn,

 plan, and teach. 

We will be busy creating instruments from Peru and the Ukraine.

 Please continue to send in materials such as raw rice, wooden 

spoons or sticks, paper towel rolls, etc…

Our Peruvian masks are lovely. Some depict the different regions of 

Peru along with the flora and fauna. Mrs. Maya H, our student

 teacher, is leading this project with the class.

Our  grade 6 buddies helped us create sound wave art on the 

computers. We are learning about how sound is made, so we 

had fun recording our names!

Here are some pictures:

We are beginning to read the novel Frindle, by Andrew Clements. 

Scholastic orders were sent home, please order online if you wish to 

order books by January 21st.

A note from SVS:
We are excited to bring back two programs, Simons Valley 

Reads and Simons Valley Mathletes. Both programs were a HUGE 

success because of volunteers such as you! We are hoping to 

run an 8 week program of both SVS Reads and Mathletes starting 

January 28th for 1 hour a week.

Here is a brief description of the two programs 

(little different from last year) but just as impactful!

SVS Reads to support our Grade One/ Two/ Three students, 

we are looking for parent volunteers who would be able to come 

once a week for an hour and work with two students. Volunteers 

would work with a student for 20 minutes each practicing high 

frequency words, sentence work and of course, reading a short story. 

All of the materials will be provided for you!SVS Mathletes

The second program, Simons Valley Mathletes is a program 

designed to help our grade 3 to 6 students develop proficiency

in mathematics. The focus this year will be to strengthen

basic math facts. With this program, as SVS Reads, we are looking

for parent volunteers who would be able to come once a

week for an hour and work with two students.

Volunteers would work with each student for 20 minutes 

making numbers, practicing basic math facts and then playing a 

math game. All of the materials will be provided for you.

If you are interested in volunteering with either program, please 

contact us at ggdavidoff@cbe.ab.ca

or bghordern@cbe.ab.ca before January 14th.

Dates:

Jan 15- Crime not to Read at 9:30am

Jan 16- Hot Lunch Little Caesars

January 21st Scholastic orders due

Jan 24- CAD day

Jan 31st- Non Instructional Day

Feb 28- Grade 3 Assembly in the gym. Please come and 

celebrate our learning through song and dance. The assembly 

starts at 12:30pm sharp.

Have a great weekend

Brennan