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.