3rd Grade Activities: Week 11

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings; read brief bios of saints.

MATH: Developmental Math addition review; solve story problems with addition, multiplication and division; Flip Over Math story problems.

PHONICS: Explode the Code 5 activities; watch Between the Lions: The Popcorn Popper.

HANDWRITING: practice lowercase letters and words in Handwriting for Print.

SPELLING: spell and write sentences; write text in comic books.

READING: One Halloween Night, Mark Teague;
Luther's Halloween, Cari Meister;
Ginger and Pickles, Beatrix Potter;
The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, Beatrix Potter;
The Roly-Poly Pudding, Beatrix Potter;
My Love for You, Susan L. Roth;
from Highlights: Fun with a Purpose magazine;
Don't Tell the Whole World, Joanna Cole;
comics.

SCIENCE/NATURE: care of fish; watch Radical Rockets and Other Cool Cruising Machines, Popular Mechanics for Kids and Really Wild Animals: Swinging Safari DVDs; explain why zebras have stripes; ocean/beach trip.

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

READ ALOUD: A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle;
Pirate Girl, Cornelia Funke;
Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling.

ART: make and put up Halloween decorations; modeling clay figures: boy, Indian girl, Indian hut; attend discovery in art class: learn about balance and focus in artistic compositions; plan and execute a painting using these concepts; illustrate comic books.

MUSIC: listen to classical, and contemporary music; sing; attend choir rehearsals; listen to live Middle Eastern music: guitar and voice.

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