3rd Grade Activities: Week 13

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings; read a brief bio. of St. Ida, St. Alice, St. Sylvia, and St. Gladys from 60 Saints for Girls.

MATH: Developmental Math addition review;
math games at BBC Number Time;
read about how to use an abacus
and its history.

PHONICS: Explode the Code 5 activities.

SPELLING/HANDWRITING: practice lowercase letters; spelling and writing in comic books; spell and write sentences in Dog Park Diary.

WRITING: write a one-page story (dream).

LANGUAGE ARTS: BBC Bitesize Literacy Punctuation games.

READING: Zella, Zack, and Zodiac, Bill Peet;
Fried feathers for Thanksgiving, James Stevenson;
Terrific, Jon Agee;
That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown, Cressida Cowell;
Fishes; a Guide to Fresh and Salt-Water Species, Herbert S. Zim and Hurst H. Shoemaker (Betta Fish article only);
Kittens, Kelly Doudna;
This Little Chick, John Lawrence;
Wag a Tail, Lois Ehlert;
Sunday funnies; and Garfield comic books.

SCIENCE/NATURE: care of fish. Watch Eyewitness: Bird, and Eyewitness Skeleton DVDs: study skeleton diagram, make small skeleton from modeling clay. Observe various dog breeds; visit dog training school: talk with instructors and meet the dogs.

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

READ ALOUD: Minnie & Moo and the Seven Wonders of the World, Denys Cazet; Sixty Saints for Girls, Joan Windham.

ART: illustrations of dogs in Dog Park Diary; illustrations of park and fish dreams; create modeling clay characters; fall collage; discovery in art class: story painting.

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

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