3rd Grade Activities: Week 16

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings.

MATH: Developmental Math addition review; solve real life math problems involving addition, subtraction, and multiplication; read: Me and the Measure of Things, explaining various units of measurement.

Time4Learning online activities: make and predict patterns, add 3 numbers; add and subtract 2-digit numbers; balance equations; measurement in inches and 1/2 inches; calculate fractions and learn about probability.

PHONICS: Explode the Code 5 activities; time4learning phonics activities.

SPELLING/HANDWRITING: practice upper and lowercase letters; spelling and writing in comic books, dog park diary, write out jokes from cartoon videos; write about nature shows.

WRITING: summary writing of article: Betta Fish.

READING: Me and the Measure of Things, Joan Sweeney;
Sunday funnies and Garfield comic books.

SCIENCE/NATURE: care of fish; collect leaves; observation of squirrels, birds, cats, dogs; watch Ocean Habitats: Shoreline and Reef, School Media DVD.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: attend Mandarin class: listen to CD for pronunciation; practice reading and speaking Chinese words and phrases.

READ ALOUD: Slugs in Love, Susan Pearson.
The Boxcar Children: The Mystery at the Dog Show, Gertrude Chandler Warner.

ART: attend discovery in art class; concept: bright colors vs. dark colors: make a painting; make clay creations: cartoon characters.

MUSIC: listen to classical, and contemporary music; sing; listen to choir rehearsals and performance of Mass for Three Voices, William Byrd.

P.E.: swim; play with dogs at dog park.





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3rd Grade Activities: Week 15

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings; read brief bios of saints in 60 Saints for Girls.

MATH: Developmental Math addition review; solve real life math problems involving addition, subtraction, and multiplication.

PHONICS: Explode the Code 5 activities.

SPELLING/HANDWRITING: practice lowercase letters; spelling and writing in comic books, dog park diary, write out jokes from cartoon videos; write about nature shows.

WRITING: complete summary writing assignment: Elements.

READING: read board books to a baby;
What Was I Scared of?, Dr. Seuss;
Once Upon a Banana, Jennifer Armstrong;
Move Over, Rover!, Karen Beaumont (nice illustrations);
Sunday funnies and Garfield comic books.

SCIENCE/NATURE: care of fish; collect leaves; observation of squirrels, birds, ants; watch Nature: Echo of the Elephants DVD.

Read about elements, atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, quarks and gluons at the website of Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility - Office of Science Education: http://education.jlab.org/atomtour/listofparticles.html
Read about the elements iron, aluminum, hydrogen: http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele026.html

More resources on Elements:
Periodic Table with student models of elements: http://www.pittsford.monroe.edu/pittsfordmiddle/rountree/periodic.htm
Clickable Periodic Table with info. about each element:
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/index.html
Coloring book: http://education.jlab.org/coloringbook/index.html

HISTORY: do word search about Christopher Columbus.

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

READ ALOUD: Toot and Puddle: I'll Be Home for Christmas, Holly Hobbie;
Little Lost Bat, Sandra Markle;
Hero Cat, Eileen Spinelli;
Fairy tales from: A Child's Book of Stories: Best-Known and Best-Loved Tales from Around the World.

ART: drawing class: 3-D drawing and shading; make a stamp and stamp wrapping paper; make and paint a ceramic Christmas ornament; draw and make clay creations.

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

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