3rd Grade Activities: Weeks 31-33

3rd Grade Activities: Weeks 31-33

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings; read about St. Ita from a biography.

MATH: Singapore Math: 2-digit addition and subtraction, simple multiplication and division with pictures of objects, count, add and subtract money; oral math: 2-digit addition, and addition of millions; complete dot-to-dot puzzle to 50; review borrowing for subtraction; take standardized tests; work mazes in Amazing Mazes, Kumon; Developmental Math: addition and subtraction review; count using tally system; ask and calculate lots of math questions; time4learning.com online activities; write large numbers.

PHONICS: Explode the Code 6 activities; time4learning online activities.

HANDWRITING: practice upper and lowercase letters; draw lowercase letters a-z in the air; spelling and writing for books, cards, posters, lists.

SPELLING: oral spelling: words with 4 or more letters and compound words; online spelling game on Tumblebooks; and time4learning.com online activities.

READING: Hurty Feelings, Helen Lester;
Giant Steps, Elizabeth Loredo;
Olvina Flies, Grace Lin;
The Alphabet Tree, Leo Lionni;
Matthew's Dream, Leo Lionni;
Triceratops, A True Book, Elaine Landau;
Dogs, Gail Gibbons;
StarWars: I Want to Be a Jedi, Simon Beecroft;
StarWars: Star Pilot, Laura Buller;
StarWars: What Is a Wookiee?, Laura Buller;
My Pal Al, Marcia Leonard;
Mr. Mc Mouse, Leo Lionni;
If I had a Dragon, Tom Ellery;
Freckleface Strawberry, Julianne Moore;

Read along with several online books at Tumblebooks; read Zoo Books, Ranger Rick's, Click, and Sesame Street magazines, Sunday funnies and Garfield comic books.

LANGUAGE ARTS: present artwork and creative writing to teacher; take standardized tests.

HISTORY: Read again from The Story of Money; read about the Renaissance: Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Gutenberg, Luther, Protestants, and the Council of Trent from All Ye Lands: World Cultures and Geography.

SCIENCE/NATURE: attend Basic Engineering and Construction classes: build a motorized car from parts using tools; race the cars, disassemble car; build an Erector Set glider according to oral directions; build and test a catapult; design and assemble a forklift.

Listen to animal sounds: Sounds of the Fascinating Animal World recording;
human body drawing: draw the brain, heart, lungs, stomach and related systems; time4learning.com online activities; read Ranger Rick's and Zoo Books magazine articles about nature and animals; read about magnetism from the Klutz Book of Magnetic Magic, Paul Doherty, and do magnetic experiments and tricks shown in the book.

Read Pumpkin Circle: The Story of A Garden, George Levenson;
The Human Body at Your Fingertips, Judy Nayer;
A True Book: Triceratops, Elaine Landau; and
I Am Your Pet: Dog, Matthew Rayner.

Watch The Jeff Corwin Experience: Turtles; Bears; Amphibians; and Popular Mechanics Kids: Slither and Slime (DVDs).

MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; listen to choir rehearsals and performances; read and play piano lessons from Progressive Keyboard Book 1, Andrew Scott; begin piano classes; piano practice; compose simple pieces; sing and dance; identify and draw instruments while listening to various pieces of music.

ART: attend art classes: Drawing and Painting Animals: study haunches, legs, neck, skeletons and muscles of animals and how they move and proportion; make sketches of dogs; paint a cat and background.

Create modeling clay figures: people, animals, cartoon characters, centaurs; sketch the motorized car, glider and catapult built in Engineering class; design and build model forklift with Erector set; drawing of piano keys on a keyboard with an animal representing each note for two octaves; add additional illustrations to the Peter and Wendy book.

Using the computer: modify a photo in Photoshop and draw a dragon, hat, knight's armor and dog; make an alphabet book of large letters and illustrate the printed copy.

Read fine art books: Art for Children: Animals Observed, and Looking at Nature.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mandarin class: translate, review vocabulary and pronunciation; attend bilingual Mandarin/English story time at the library: more vocabulary.

READ ALOUD: When Elephant Goes to a Party, Sonia Levitin;
Dinosaurs! Strange and Wonderful, Laurence Pringle;
Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl, Virginia Hamilton;
To Dinner, for Dinner, Tololwa M. Mollel;
Fable: The Monkey and the Crocodile;
Substitute Groundhog, Pat Miller;
and Wizard of Oz series.

P.E.: participate in volleyball clinic, practices and games; play at the dog park; jump on trampoline; park time with friends.

3rd Grade Activities: Weeks 27-30

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass and Easter and Holy Week services; Bible readings; read about Saints Dominic, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, and Joseph; discuss the feast of the Annunciation.

MATH: Singapore Math: addition and subtraction review with sums over ten; 2-digit addition and subtraction with regrouping; base ten concepts; multiplication, division, complete patterns, tell time to the half hour; calculate a sum with abacus; identify and write numbers larger than 1,000,000; review addition facts to 12 with flash cards; Time4Learning online activities.

PHONICS: Explode the Code 6 activities, including reading and answering questions about complex sentences, filling in missing words; Time4Learning online activities.

HANDWRITING: practice upper and lowercase letters, words and sentences; spelling and writing in comic books, greeting cards, posters.

SPELLING: spell four-letter and multi-syllable words, compound words and words ending in -ing orally and with tactile letters and vowel and consonant blend blocks; review number words; practice spelling in Building Spelling Skills, Grade 3 (oral practice) and exercises unscrambling words and correcting misspelled words; spell words in dictated sentences.

GRAMMAR: review nouns, subjects, verbs, articles, capitalization rules and use of comma.

WRITING: write a summary of an article about Komodo dragons;
write about Garfield and friends.

READING: Pablo the Pig, Bruno Hachler;
The Rat, the Ox and the Zodiac, Dorothy Van Woerkom;
What the Class Pet Saw, Bruce McMillan;
Library Mouse, Daniel Kirk;
Zoo Animals board book;
Baa Baa Black Sheep, Iza Trapani;
My Pal Al, Marcia Leonard;
To Dinner, For Dinner, Tolowa M. Mollel;
Clifford's Opposites/Clifford y los Opuestos, Norman Bridwell;
Zoo Books, Ranger Rick's, Click, and Sesame Street magazines,
Sunday funnies and Garfield comic books: Garfield Thinks Big, Garfield Hogs the Spotlight, Garfield in the Rough, Garfield World-Wide, Garfield by the Pound, Garfield: Tons of Fun, Garfield Hangs Out, Garfield Throws His Weight Around, by Jim Davis.

HISTORY:
Read from All Ye Lands: World Cultures and Geography, including the historical figures: St. Dominic, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Thomas Aquinas; education in the Middle Ages: the trivium, quadrivium, and universities; the bubonic plague; and the rise of nations.

Read from Story of the World, vol. 2: The Middle Ages: The City of Baghdad, Sinbad the Sailor; China: The Sui Dynasty, and the Grand Canal.

Watch and discuss Greek tales: The Odyssey, and Daedalus and Icarus (DVDs); sketch Athena and the Trojan horse from the Odyssey.

GEOGRAPHY: locate the Yellow and Yangtze rivers and the Grand Canal in China; draw a map to show where the car is parked.

SCIENCE/NATURE: read Ranger Rick's and Zoo Books magazine articles about bats, bears, rhinos; Click magazine: backyard olympics, kite flying, desert life; Time4Learning activities; read the thermometer.

Read from ASPCA Complete Guide to Dogs and identify individual dogs at the Dog Park from the book, finding breeds by alphabetical order, index or chapters divided by type of dogs.

Watch Popular Mechanics for kids: Rip-Roaring Roller Coasters, Gators and Dragons and Other Wild Beasts, X-treme Sports & Other Action Adventures, and Super Sea Creatures and Awesome Ocean Adventures; The Jeff Corwin Experience: Amphibians; and Popular Mechanics Kids: Super Sea Creatures (DVDs); write about Komodo dragons.

MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; listen to choir rehearsals and performances, including Lasso, Missa Osculetur me for double choir.

ART: modeling clay figures: people, animals, cartoon characters, scooba diver, red-eyed tree frog (draw habitats for them); draw cartoon and comic book characters, angels, animals, objects, and scenes, dancing hippo from Fantasia; Make a paper guitar prop.

Using the computer: make a font book displaying all the characters in a funny font, Illustrate the book; recipe layout/design, illustrate the recipe: draw and label the cartons and packages of ingredients.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Mandarin class: translate, review words for school subjects and numbers; attend bilingual Mandarin/English story time at the library and Spanish story time.

Latin: Getting Started with Latin: review Ego nauta sum (I am a sailor); learn agricola (farmer) and et (and) and use in sentences.

READ ALOUD: Just Like Me, Miriam Schlein;
Little Humpty, Margaret Wild;
Kite Flying, Grace Lin;
Moose Tracks, Karma Wilson;
Whatever Wands Wanted, Jude Wisdom;
Bear Wants More, Karma Wilson;
My Father's Dragon, Ruth Stiles Gannett
Wizard of Oz series.

P.E.: basketball practices and games; received Most Improved Player trophy for diligence, putting in extra practice time, attending practices regularly and showing up on time or early for games and practices; play at the dog park; j

3rd Grade Activities: Weeks 23-26

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings; read about Saints Genevieve, Joan of Arc, and Catherine of Siena.

MATH: Singapore Math: multiplication, mental addition, addition of up to 3-digit numbers, regrouping, borrowing and carrying, graphing, and fact families; Time4Learning online activities: shapes, fractions, time and money. Read The Great Graph Contest and create graphs of butterflies, flowers, and other creatures.

PHONICS: Explode the Code 6 activities, including vowel blends and multi-syllable words; Time4Learning online activities including verb tense agreement, rhyming, word endings ing and ed.

HANDWRITING: practice upper and lowercase letters and words; spelling and writing in comic books, greeting cards, posters.

SPELLING: spell four-letter and multi-syllable words orally and with tactile letters.

WRITING: write about Garfield and friends; write silly songs; watch a video on the Wright Brothers and write a summary.

READING: Cornelius, Leo Lionni;
Frederick, Leo Lionni;
Library Mouse, Daniel Kirk;
Mouse Views: What the Class Pet Saw, Bruce McMillan;
Cranberry Valentine, Wende and Harry Devlin;
The Great Graph Contest, Loreen Leedy;
Silly Tilly's Valentine, Lillian Hoban;
The Hunt for Rabbit's Galosh, Ann Schweninger;
Freckles and Willie, Margery Cuyler;
Valentine Foxes, Clyde Watson;
time4learning online books;
Zoo Books magazines, Sunday funnies and Garfield comic books.

HISTORY: read about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln for Presidents' Day from The Complete Book of U.S. History, Grades 3-5, and also chapters about the Revolutionary War, heroines of the Revolutionary War, the three branches of government, and the election and duties of a president.

Read about Joan of Arc and Catherine of Siena; attend a live performance on the life of Catherine of Siena; Time4learning activities: Native Americans.

Read from All Ye Lands: World Cultures and Geography, including The Middle Ages: the Crusades, the rise of towns, guilds, merchants, cathedrals; England in the Middle Ages: kings beginning with William the Conqueror, the Magna Carta, and the Legend of Robin Hood.

SCIENCE/NATURE: read Zoo Books and other nature magazine articles on predators and prey, pandas, sharks, prairie dogs, insects, and snakes.

Read about and draw a skeleton from The Skeletal System, Alvin Silverstein, including bone structure, composition, strength, and joints.

Time4Learning activity about the Arctic; identify constellations in the sky.

Watch Really Wild Animals: Totally Tropical Rain Forests, and Fantastic Families DVDs; also shows about a swamp ecosystem and evolution of animals in the Galapagos Islands.

MUSIC: listen to classical and contemporary music; attend choir rehearsals.

ART: plan and execute a mosaic design with ceramic tiles; modeling clay creations: people, animals and cartoon characters; draw cartoon and comic book characters, animals, objects, and scenes; make a wizard costume and a bat model.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: attend Mandarin class: identify, write, and pronounce subjects of study, days of the week, numbers, time; make and illustrate a book about the family; make a Chinese valentine and flashcards; translate passages; practice writing Chinese characters. Participate in Mandarin story time at the library and answer questions about dates, animals, counting, and the Lunar New Year.

READ ALOUD: Dinosaur, Dinosaur, Kevin Lewis;
The Mouse Bride: A Chinese Folktale, Monica Chang;
Pleasant Fieldmouse's Valentine Trick, Jan Wahl;
One Zillion Valentines, Frank Modell;
read from Fundamental Basketball, Jim Klinzing,
and books in the Wizard of Oz series.

P.E.: basketball practices and games; read about the history and rules of basketball; watch and discuss basketball games on television; run and play with dogs at the dog park.