3rd Grade Activities: Week 9

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings; read a brief bio. of St. Teresa of Avila, and St. Isaac Jogues, St. John de Brebeuf and Companions -- the North American Martyrs.

MATH: Developmental Math addition review; time4learning online activities; word problems: multiplication and pattern blocks.

PHONICS: Explode the Code 5 activities and watch Between the Lions DVDs: Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West, Shooting Stars, To the Ship! To the Ship!

HANDWRITING: practice lowercase letters.

LANGUAGE ARTS: time4learning online activities.

READING: Crickwing, Janell Cannon;
Darby, The Special-Order Pup, Alexandra Day and Cooper Edens;
How Kind!, Mary Murphy;
Three Stories You Can Read to Your Dog, Sara Swan Miller;
Three More Stories You Can Read to Your Dog, Sara Swan Miller;
comics.

SCIENCE/NATURE: care of fish and grasshopper; watch Big Dogs, Little Dogs, A&E: breeds, training, work, history; Nature: Waddlers & Paddlers: the World of Penguins and A Sea Otter Story (DVDs).

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: attend Spanish story time; Mandarin class: review flash cards; listen to CD for pronunciation; practice reading, writing, and speaking words and phrases.

READ ALOUD: A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle;
Hickory, Palmer Brown.

ART: modeling clay figures; drawing: paper and computer art; make a cardboard ghost; learn about different kinds of sculpture and create a bead and wire sculpture in Discovery in Art class.

MUSIC: listen to early, classical, and contemporary music; sing; attend choir rehearsals.

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