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.