Wordle & Grapheme Game

Dear Grade Threes & Parents, 


Sorry for posting the Agenda so late. I was at the dentist. 


Today we created a class Wordle from our key words about "What Makes a Great Leader?" Ask your child about Wordle and try it out at www.wordle.net Choose a subject or topic and work together to create your own Wordle. 


We also looked at photographs of different children's faces. In groups of three, we began to use Thesauruses to find great adjectives to describe what we saw. We will continue our work with this tomorrow. 


At the end of the day, we introduced the idea of drawing emotions correctly on faces. I am very interested in what you were able to come up with. I can't wait to see them tomorrow! 


Homework Items:
(1) Teach your parents how to play the Grapheme game I showed you in class. It is a great way to review or learn your graphemes at home. You were given the grapheme cards yesterday in your homework folder. You will need to cut apart the cards carefully before you can play. You will need the cards and dice to play.


Try your best to explain the rules and how it is played. Here is a basic explanation:
(a) Pass all of the cards out until the deck is equally shared amongst all players
(b) Player one rolls the dice
(c) Player one chooses the number of cards shown on the dice face from his/her own hand
(d) Player one can challenge anyone playing to complete one of the following tasks: 

• (i) come up with one word that uses the grapheme shown 
• (ii) come up with the number of words shown on the dice for one grapheme 
• (iii) to make the all possible sounds the grapheme can make

**If the challenged player can complete assigned task (i), (ii) or  (iii) then they take the grapheme card from player one.
**If the challenged player cannot complete the assigned task, player one can keep the card(s) in his/her hand for further play.


(e) Players two - four,  each get a turn to complete steps b-d. 
(f) The game can be played for as little or as much time as you want; using the full grapheme deck or part of the deck.
(h) The 'winner' of the game has the most cards at the end. However, we all win as you we will all know our graphemes better!


(2) Home Reading
(3) Library Book Exchange is tomorrow - please remember to pack your books in to your backpacks tonight, so you can sign out new ones tomorrow. 
(4) Remember to bring your homework folder and class notebooks back to school everyday.
(5) October's Newsletter is available on-line on our Panorama Hills School website. A paper copy will not be sent home. The newsletter includes a fundraising update as well as more information about the playground that will be built this month.


Thanks. See you tomorrow.


Ms. Toy