3rd Grade Activities: Week 6

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings; read a brief bio. of St. Vincent de Paul and other saints.

MATH: Developmental Math addition review; time4learning online activities: moving shapes, line of symmetry, mirror images.

PHONICS: Explode the Code 5 activities.

SPELLING: consonant blends: identify, sound out, read and write; spell short words.

LANGUAGE ARTS: time4learning online activities.

READING: (picture books):
Oops-a-Daisy! And Other Tales for Toddlers, Joyce Dunbar;
Amelia Bedelia's Masterpiece, Herman Parish;
See How They Grow: Rabbit, Angela Royston;
Wag a Tail, Lois Ehlert;
Wild Birds, Joanne Ryder;
Lucille, Arnold Lobel;
One Halloween Night, Mark Teague;
Could Be Worse, James Stevenson;
My Best Friend Bear, Tony Johnston;
The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon, Mini Grey;
comics.

SCIENCE/NATURE: trip to the zoo; observe and describe unique characteristics of several animals; time4learning online activities; watch Eyewitness: Planets DVD.

GEOGRAPHY: time4learning activities; booklet in Chinese class; study U.S. states: capitals, flowers, and birds.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mandarin class; listen to CD for pronunciation; make geography booklet with 6 countries, major cities and maps (names in Chinese).

READ ALOUD: Peter and Wendy.

ART: clay figures; drawing class: practice drawing 3-d shapes.

MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing.

P.E.: soccer; park time; play with dogs at dog park.

3rd Grade Activities: Week 5

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings; read brief bio. of St. Joseph of Cupertino and other saints.

MATH: Developmental Math addition review; time4learning online activities; names of numbers, place value, ordinal numbers; familiarity with abacus.

PHONICS/HANDWRITING: Explode the Code 5 exercises.

SPELLING: read and spell 3-syllable words.

LANGUAGE ARTS: time4learning online activities.

READING: (mostly picture books):
Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes, Beatrix Potter;
Animagicals Music, Carol Diggory Shields;
The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon, Mini Grey;
A Child Is a Child, Brigitte Weninger (very sweet -- a mother mouse with 5 little ones takes in 2 orphaned frogs);
Bird Talk, Ann Jonas;
Harley, Star Livingstone;
Hazel Saves the Day, SuAnn Kiser;
Cat and Dog, Else Holmelund Minarik;
Harvey and Rosie ... and Ralph, Margaret Park;
Emma's Yucky Brother, Jean Little;
The Clubhouse, Anastasia Suen;
Moonlight the Halloween Cat, Cynthia Rylant;
Leaf Man, Lois Ehlert.

READ ALOUD: Peter and Wendy.

HISTORY: Constitution Day activities: online: place states on U.S. Map, color United States Seal; read from The Complete Book of United States History, Grades 3-5 (McGraw Hill).

SCIENCE/NATURE: nature hike, beach trip, collect rocks and shells; care of pet fish.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mandarin class; Spanish story time.

ART: modeling clay frog and other figures, miniature bread, layer cake, pastries; make paper chicken puppet; crayon rubbings; Discovery in Art class: texture -- make a beach scene collage of items with different textures; finish illustrations for Peter and Wendy book, add spine and title page and place in view binder; present artwork to neighbor.

MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing.

P.E.: soccer; park time; play with dogs at dog park.

3rd Grade Activities: Week 4

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; read brief lives of the saints.

MATH: addition review in Developmental Math; time4learning online activities.

LANGUAGE ARTS: study Spell Well words; Explode the Code 5: -ild, -ind; time4learning consonant blends, rhyming; use of Table of Contents.

READING: Apples, Apples, Apples, by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace (includes apple varieties, parts of an apple, parts and growth of the tree, recipes and a song);
Curious George and the Puppies;
Monkey Soup, Louis Sachar;
El Cumpleanos del Oso, Agustina Oliden;
Bebe Caiman, Robert Munsch;
Big Dog ... Little Dog, P.D.Eastman;
Go, Dog. Go!, P.D. Eastman;
A Dog Named Sam, Janice Boland;
The Ear Book, Al Perkins.

SCIENCE/NATURE: read Zoobooks magazine all about Koalas, Scholastic bilingual magazines about animals in Summer and Autumn and the migration of Monarch butterflies; watch Really Wild Animals: Deep Sea Dive and Going Wild! Rain Forest: Thailand videos; identify characteristics of various dog breeds; watch police dog training demonstration.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: attend Spanish story time; Mandarin class: character recognition, writing, pronunciation, vocabulary, phrases.

READ ALOUD: Babar's ittle Circus Star, Laurent de Brunhoff;
Frederick's Fables, Leo Lionni;
Peter and Wendy.

ART: modeling clay figures: 4 animals from Rainforest video, Chicken Run and Veggie Tales characters, a scene with fruit trees and bushes, water, plants, animals and loaves of bread in an oven; paper cat stick puppet. Drawing class: draw 3-D table, TV, reeds in water.

MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing; watch Ballet Folklorico performance.

P.E.: soccer practice and game; park time; play with dogs at dog park.

3rd Grade Activities: Week 3

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; readings from the Bible; read about Gregory the Great, and Blessed Bertrand.

MATH: count to 100; count backwards from 20; addition review in Developmental Math; use cubes to measure lines and perimeters; 2-digit addition problems; word problems.

SPELLING: learn 11 words: bug, cut, frog, hop, job, nuts, run spot, snake, whale; spell words from list with single letter and blend blocks.

LANGUAGE ARTS: homeschool meeting: read a book and present work to teacher.

READING: A Flea Story, Leo Lionni;
Baby Bird, Joyce Dunbar;
Pezzettino, Leo Lionni;
Wag a Tail, Lois Ehlert;
Six Crows, Leo Lionni;
An Extraordinary Egg, Leo Lionni;
Mr. McMouse, Leo Lionni;
It's Mine!, Leo Lionni;
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, Leo Lionni;
The Greentail Mouse, Leo Lionni;
Rosa Moves to Town, Barbro Lindgren.
Read from Zoobooks magazines

HANDWRITING: some work in Handwriting Program for Print.

SCIENCE/NATURE: compare weights of items with scale; time4learning online activities.

HISTORY: watch A Bear Named Winnie, the true story of the bear Winnie the Pooh was named after (video).

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Chinese class: learn words and phrases, and some cultural study of China.

ART: Discovery in Art class: study the concept of a pattern, then make a stuffed paper fish with stamped patterns; clay figures: dog, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, three fish, a sea otter, Stuart Little, a family of dress-up terriers, picture of a dog with a spot, picture of a spot, pizza; "Ballet with Animals" collage; illustrate chapters 9-13 of Peter and Wendy; build animals and objects with snap-together cubes.

MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing.

P.E.: soccer practice; park time; swim; play at the park with dogs.

3rd Grade Activities: Week 2

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; read about St. Monica, St. Augustine, St. John the Baptist, St. Pammachius, and St. Aidan.

MATH: addition review in Developmental Math, various time4learning activities.

SPELLING: Spell Well learn 11 words.

LANGUAGE ARTS: various time4learning on-line activities.

READING: Partial book: passages from Peter and Wendy, J.M. Barrie.
Whole books (picture books, emergent- and early-reader books): Grandmas at Bat, Emily Arnold McCully;
Old Turtle's Soccer Team, Leonard Kessler;
Fox Be Nimble, James Marshall;
The Show-and-Tell Frog, Joanne Oppenheim;
Super Cluck, Jane and Robert O'Connor;
Catch Me If You Can!, Bernard Most;
Stan the Hot Dog Man, Ethel and Leonard Kessler.

READ ALOUD: Peter and Wendy, J.M. Barrie;
Animal Ark: Puppies in the Pantry, Ben M. Baglio.

SCIENCE/NATURE: care of fish and small pets, observe and help identify a small black bug, "Clumsy", who is the size of a flea, but doesn't look like a flea. It appears to be a black carpet beetle.

Find, observe and house and care for another beetle which looks most like this one (except the shape of its body): a Hermit flower beetle. The body shape looks more like a false bombardier beetle (about 1/2 way down this page).

Observe spider in a web, and a full solar eclipse; various time4learning on-line activities.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: attend Spanish story time; practice greetings in Mandarin with a native speaker.

ART: coloring pages; illustrate 8 chapters of Peter and Wendy, by J.M. Barrie; clay creations; attend drawing basics class -- draw 3-D objects: cylinder, cube, cone, etc.




MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; make up a song to remember the names of some shops; attend performances including Chinese lion dancers, Taiko drummers, Chinese folk dancers, hula hoop performer and a local teenage band.

P.E.: swimming; soccer practice; park time; play with dogs at dog park.

3rd Grade Activities: Week 1

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; read about St. Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Rose of Lima, and other saints; draw Rose of Lima with associated symbols.

MATH: solve 2-digit addition and subtraction word problems; fractions, perimeter, measurement, use of grid; time4learning online activities.

LANGUAGE ARTS: time4learning online activities.

READING: picture books, emergent- and early-reader books:
Sidekicks, Carol Nicklaus;
The Golly Sisters Ride Again, Betsy Byars;
Fox Outfoxed, James Marshall;
Dear Tooth Fairy, Jane O'Connor;
Captain Zap and the Evil Baron von Fishhead, Jon Buller and Susan Schade;
Follow That Fish, Joanne Oppenheim;
Come Dance With Me, Carol Nicklaus;
The Go Club, Carol Nicklaus.

HANDWRITING: practice some letters in Handwriting Program for Print.

SCIENCE/NATURE: magnetism: experiment with different metallic objects. Notice pull and resistance betweeen magnets; time4learning online activities.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: attend Spanish story time.

ART: coloring pages; clay figures, including monkeys, a girl holding a cat and a basket full of school supplies, Danger Mouse and a girl mouse, an Irish girl in green and orange.

MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing several rounds, clapping songs, and made-up songs.

P.E.: soccer practice; park time; play with dogs at dog park.

Learning Plan: 3rd Grade

LANGUAGE ARTS: Independent reading: all subjects. Read alouds: history, science, fiction and other subjects of interest. Study phonics, grammar, spelling, Greek and Latin roots. Handwriting practice: lowercase letters, numbers, sentences and short essays, stories. Creative writing: stories, poems, booklets, songs, dramas, website.

MATH: Cover areas and skills recommended by the State standards. Use oral, manipulative, written, and computer-based approaches. Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Fractions, Geometry. Weights and measures. Telling time. Calendar. Money. Estimation.

SCIENCE: Observation of nature: living and non-living things. Experiment and record/analyze results. Seasons and weather. Earth: oceans, mountains, rivers, ecosystems, North and South Poles. Solar System and space exploration. Human and animal anatomy. Micro organisms and cells. Botany, gardening. Build simple gadgets and machines. Study electricity, energy, magnetism, gravity, molecules. Use local environment, library and reference books, on-line learning activities, field trips, internet research, nature videos, microscope, science experiment kits.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Family and community. Our town, state, country, continent, world. Cultural diversity and history. Government, including age-appropriate news, political discussions, reading, and research.

HISTORY: Local and state history. U.S. and world history. History as it comes up in music, art, science, and other subjects. Library books, text books, museums, internet research, history for children including some historical fiction. Use of a time line, history binder, or computer file for review, adding to it as various people and events come up in the study of other subjects.

GEOGRAPHY: Map work, globe and atlas. Incorporate with other subjects. Use library books, internet sites, and videos about various places of interest. Local geography. Learn while traveling.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Exposure to Spanish and Latin. Spanish story time at the library. Use simple bilingual Spanish/English books and magazines, and Spanish and Latin books and A/V materials for further study. Some sign language and Braille. Mandarin class.

ART: Crafts, drawing, painting, sewing, sculpting, computer art, fine art study. Books, prints, museums, internet, hands-on classes.

MUSIC: Listen to music of various styles, periods, and cultures. Listen to children's songs, sing. Make up songs. Introduction to musical instruments: rhythm instruments, Melody harp, keyboard, recorder. Beginning music theory.

RELIGION: Prayer, Bible study, lives of the saints, catechism, liturgy, music, Church attendance. Exposure to other religions: holidays, beliefs, customs, cultures, and stories.

P.E.: Soccer, swimming, hiking, dance, park time, softball, tennis.