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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