3rd Grade Activities: Week 22

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings.

MATH: Singapore Math 2-digit addition including regrouping of tens, and subtraction; Developmental Math addition and subtraction review; solve real life math problems involving addition, subtraction, and multiplication; divide 3 hours of the day into minutes and budget the minutes for various tasks, then add them up to see how much free time is left.

PHONICS: Explode the Code 5 and 6 activities.

SPELLING/HANDWRITING: practice upper and lowercase letters; spelling and writing in comic books.

WRITING: write about Garfield and friends; write a prayer.

READING: reading in Klutz art project book;
read about Betta fish from A True Book: Siamese Fighting Fish, Elaine Landau;
Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep, Joyce Dunbar;
The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman, Darcy Pattison;
The Cookie-Store Cat, Cynthia Rylant;
Sunday funnies and Garfield comic books, including Garfield Weighs In, Jim Davis.

HISTORY: read about the meanings of ancient Egyptian symbols; watch Lost Treasures of the Ancient World: Hadrian's Wall, Edge of the Empire (DVD).

SCIENCE/NATURE: care of fish; observation of animals and plants; plant some seeds.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: attend Mandarin class: review counting and vocabulary; learn: Ego nauta sum (I am a sailor) from Getting Started with Latin, William Linney.

READ ALOUD: read 2 stories from A Treasury of Dragon Stories, Margaret Clark; read from Wizard of Oz series.

ART: draw Egyptian symbols on "mummy case"; do various art projects in Klutz: A Book of Artrageous Projects; illustrate books; draw and color characters; make creations from modeling clay; Acrylic painting class: finish painting a landscape on canvas.

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

P.E.: basketball practices and game.

3rd Grade Activities: Week 21

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings.

MATH: Developmental Math subtraction review; solve real life math problems involving addition, subtraction; Singapore Math: addition, subtraction, bar graphs, compare quantities, fill in missing numbers, group tens and calculate number of items, base ten concepts; multiplication, division demonstrations with counters; dot-to-dot-puzzle.

PHONICS: Explode the Code 5 activities; read 3-syllable words -- breaking words into syllables.

SPELLING/HANDWRITING: practice upper and lowercase letters; spelling and writing in comic books.

WRITING: Silly's Family; The Wright Brothers.

READING: Drat That Fat Cat, Pat Thomson;
Cat Skidoo, Bethany Roberts;
Ten, Nine, Eight, Molly Bang;
Contrary Mary, Anita Jeram;
Oh No, Toto!, Katrin Tchana;
If You Give a Pig a Party, Laura Numeroff;
Sunday funnies and Garfield comic books, including Garfield Bigger and Better,
Garfield Takes His Licks, Garfield Dishes It Out, Jim Davis.

HISTORY: read about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Dust Bowl from The Complete Book of United States History, McGraw-Hill.

SCIENCE/NATURE: care of fish; observation of nature; read, measure, and prepare simple recipe (hot cereal).

READ ALOUD: Wizard of Oz books, Frank Baum.

ART: draw Sily's family (the O'Funnies); draw bunny family, butterflies; make a valentine; illustrate math pages; attend Acrylic painting class; draw and color bugs from Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids cartoon.

MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; sing.

P.E.: basketball practices and game.

3rd Grade Activities: Week 20

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings.

MATH: Developmental Math addition and subtraction review; Singapore Math: perform calculations using picture graphs; solve real life math problems involving addition, subtraction; lots of subtraction, 2-digit addition, multiplication (various sources).

Time4Learning online activities: telling time to the minute; calculating elapsed time.

PHONICS: Explode the Code 5 activities.

SPELLING/HANDWRITING: practice upper and lowercase letters; spelling and writing in comic books.

READING: Snow White story online book; Sunday funnies and Garfield comic books, including The 9th Garfield Fat Cat 3 Pack, Jim Davis.

GEOGRAPHY: study U.S. states.

SCIENCE/NATURE: care of fish; weigh toys using gram weights, 1-gram blocks, scale; dog walking.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Chinese: review colors, look at characters in a story online.

READ ALOUD: Ozma of Oz, Frank Baum;

ART: build a house with 1-centimeter cubes; clay creations, drawings, comic books.

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

P.E.: basketball.

3rd Grade Activities: Week 19

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings.

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

PHONICS: Explode the Code 5 activities, including words with 3-letter consonant blends.

SPELLING/HANDWRITING: practice upper and lowercase letters; spelling and writing in comic books.

WRITING: write La Fashion book and comic books.

READING: read from ASPCA Complete Guide to Dogs, Sheldon Gerstenfeld;
and Tales from the Arabian Nights, Smithmark;
Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss;
Sunday funnies and Garfield comic books;
read covers and organize CDs by composer.

HISTORY: listen to readings from All Ye Lands: Vikings /Norsemen to Feudalism; and Story of the World, vol. 2, The Roman Empire, early days of Britain; Augustine of Canterbury to Nicholas, Asia Minor; the Golden Age of India and Muhhamed.

CURRENT EVENTS: watch videos from presidential election debates and discuss them some of the candidates and issues.

SCIENCE/NATURE: care of fish; observation of squirrels, dogs, birds, insects.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: listen to Latin at Sunday liturgies; attend Spanish story time.

READ ALOUD: Saint George and the Dragon, Margaret Hodges;
Ozma of Oz, Frank Baum.

ART: illustrate a book about fashions; make paper dolls: dragon, lamb, king, queen, princess, knight; make modeling clay characters.

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

P.E.: basketball practice; dog walking; play with dogs at dog park.

3rd Grade Activities: Week 18

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings.

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

PHONICS: Explode the Code 5 activities.

SPELLING/HANDWRITING: practice upper and lowercase letters; spelling and writing in comic books.

WRITING: summary writing exercise.

READING/LANGUAGE ARTS: read fairy tales;
Slide and Slurp, Scratch and Burp: More about Verbs, Brian P. Cleary;
A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime: More about Nouns, Brian P. Cleary;
Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky: More about Adjectives, Brian P. Cleary;
Sunday funnies and Garfield comic books.
Watch Akeelah and the Bee about a spelling bee on DVD.

SCIENCE/NATURE: care of fish; observation of dogs, squirrels, birds and insects.

HISTORY: listen to readings from All Ye Lands: World Cultures and Geography: from Islam to Charlemagne.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: attend Mandarin class: listen to CD for pronunciation; practice reading and speaking Chinese words and phrases; attend Spanish story time at the library.

ART: finish collage from discovery in art class; attend drawing class; make clay creations: teddy bear band, Pluto and friend; draw cartoon and comic book characters.

MUSIC: listen to classical, and contemporary, and Christmas music; listen to choir rehearsals and performances; sing Christmas carols.

P.E.: play with dogs at dog park; walk neighbor's dog.