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.