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.