During the Dog Buddies presentation, students will:

• Learn how to safely approach dogs and practice bite-prevention strategies through role-playing.

• Explore the importance of showing respect and empathy for animals, including service animals and pets.

• Participate in a live Q&A session with an OHS educator to build on their understanding.

• Enjoy a virtual animal meet-and-greet with some of the Humane Society’s animal residents!

Connection to the Ontario Curriculum

This presentation directly supports the Grade 3 Health Curriculum, specifically the Personal Safety and Injury Prevention unit. In this unit, students are expected to:

• Identify and apply safety practices in a variety of environments (home, school, community, and online).

• Demonstrate appropriate behaviour around animals, including guide dogs and service animals.

By learning how to act safely and respectfully around dogs, students will build essential life skills that contribute to their overall safety and well-being.

Why This Learning Matters

Animal safety is an important part of children’s personal safety education. Understanding how to approach dogs calmly and respectfully helps prevent accidents, such as bites, and fosters positive relationships between people and animals. Beyond safety, humane education promotes key life skills such as:

• Empathy and sensitivity toward others.

• Responsibility and respect for living beings.

• Compassion and kindness which extend into community life.

Through programs like Dog Buddies, students gain not only practical safety strategies but also a deeper appreciation for animals and the important roles they play in our lives.

We are looking forward to this exciting and meaningful learning opportunity for our class!

This is a reminder that Scholastic Book Orders for September/October should be made online by this Friday (if you and your child are interested in ordering new books to read).  The books should arrive in my classroom by the end of next week (hopefully!). I have already received 5 orders.

Each month, your child will receive flyers from the Scholastic Book Club. The book orders are coming home today. This will provide you with the opportunity to purchase high-quality books, activities, and computer software at very competitive prices. Our classroom will also benefit from your purchases, as we will receive free books and educational resources when orders are placed! For students thinking about going into Middle French Immersion next year, there are excellent French books also available for purchase.

Scholastic Book Club offers a variety of books that are appropriate for your child’s reading level and interests. There are often many books on the topics of the units we study in science, social studies and other subjects. Books are great gifts for children and for other members in the family.

When ordering, please order ONLINE ONLY using class code : RC199370

If you find receiving the orders a nuisance or you never have intentions of buying from Scholastic please feel free to reply to this post or shoot me a private email indicating you do not want the flyers coming home.

Many thanks,

Ms. Lewis

By staying connected, we can share your child’s achievements and progress with you so you can stay informed and support your child. (Today, the students practiced logging in to Knowledgehook on the class Chromebooks using their Google account information.

Students:
1. Students can access Knowledgehook from home. In our Google Classroom, under Classwork and Important Information, click the link (joinkh.com) to access the Knowledgehook website and complete assigned missions. Log in with Google.
2. The Class Code is 162 0951, but you do not need it when you log in with Google.
3. At school, your Google login information should be kept in your desk if you need to refer to it to log into the Chromebooks.

Over the next few weeks in Math, your child will be learning how to design surveys to collect data; sort and organize data using Venn and Carroll diagrams and tally charts; represent data by creating pictographs and bar graphs with scales of 2, 5, and 10; and describe, interpret, and analyze bar graphs, pictographs, and circle graphs. Your child will explore what makes a survey question good, how best to organize and display a given data set, and what sorts of things a graph can tell us.

Throughout this time, you and your child can practice some activities such as the following:

• Your child can count some items that come in large quantities (e.g., straws) and create a pictograph with a scale of 10 to represent the items.
• Your child can design a question, conduct a survey, tally the results, and display the data in a bar graph. For example, they could ask, “How many of my books do I want to read or read again: soon, someday, or never?” and then interpret the results.
• Your child could look in the media for examples of bar graphs with scales and tell you 3 or 4 things the graph shows. The scale might be larger than 10; they could discuss why the scale used is appropriate.
• When sharing a circular item, such as a pie, encourage your child to compare the sizes of slices (cut from the centre), similar to a circle graph.

I will assign math review questions in Google Slides on sorting and surveys in Google Classroom soon. (Students will be sharing our class set of Chromebooks, which we just received.) Please remind your child to check Google Classroom for important updates and any assigned work. (Students will be joining my Google Classroom over the coming days.) I will also post missions in Knowledgehook online related to our math unit on data analysis for students to complete (at school and at home). (Knowledgehook login information coming soon!)

Students got their passwords to learn how to log into Google Classroom at home and school today!