Welcome Grade 3's to the beginning of a new school year! My name is Ms. Infusino and I will be
your Grade 3 teacher. This year we will be learning and exploring many different things. My hope for this year is to have you learn, be productive , get you ready for Grade 4, and most of all have FUN!!
Trip to Black Creek Pioneer Village
As an important part of the Early Settlers in Upper Canada unit, we will be visiting Black Creek Pioneer Village in order to experience life as early settlers did. The trip is scheduled to be on October 8th, 2008. A letter and permission form will be sent home shortly with you.
Parents: Black Creek Pioneer Village use the Ontario Curriculum: Social Studies expectations when classes visit the village. This facility provides that students with a hands on experiences as they travel through the village and see how life was during that time.
Most Canadians have ancestors who decided to make Canada their home. Some Canadians have ancestors from early settler times. Some Canadians have grandparents or parents who moved to Canada. Some Canadians are newly arrived to Canada.
Brainwork: Create a family tree to show where your family originally comes from. Click here to create a family tree using the computer. Conduct a survey of your classmates and complete a graph to show where their families come from.Click here to create your graph using the computer.
Dear Early Settler Explorers,
Did you know Early Settler had many chores in order to get ready for winter? October and November were usually very busy months for early settlers. Fruits and vegetables needed to be preserved and stored. Candles for lighting needed to be made. Sometimes jobs were too big for one family, so a neighbourhood bee was held. Corn husking, apple paring and quilting bees were just a few chores that had to be done. After the work was done, the early settlers had a celebration.
Brainwork: Make a list of things you need to be ready for winter.
Dear Early Settler Explorers, Did you know that most early settlers had to measure things by using different body parts such as hands, or the length of their foot? This was because rulers and other measuring devices were hard to come by. For example, when buying fabric you would ask for a cloth yard. A cloth yard was the length of the merchant’s outstretched arm, from his nose to his thumb tip.
Brainwork: Measure things around the classroom or your home using your feet or hands.