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3rd Grade Activities: Weeks 34-37

RELIGION: daily prayer; attend Mass; Bible readings; read life of St. Ita.

MATH: Singapore Math: addition and subtraction to 3-digits, simple multiplication and division with pictures of objects; count, add and subtract money; oral math; review place value to 4 digits; greater than and less than signs: assign correct sign to pairs of 2-digit numbers; add, identify, and write numbers to hundreds; review money: bills to $1000; demonstrate large numbers with Montessori place value cards and write them; real-life math: calculate passage of time in minutes; time4learning online activities.

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

HANDWRITING: practice upper and lowercase letters; spelling and writing for books, cards, posters, lists; write greater and less than signs and 3-digit number answers for Singapore math.

SPELLING: spell number words (2-digits); work on plurals: baby/babies, fairy/fairies, candy/candies, sky/skies, fly/flies; spelling for notes, lists, books, posters and cards.

WRITING/GRAMMAR: practice writing lower case letters and words; write sentences and discuss proper punctuation: capitalization, commas, periods, colons, semi-colons, exclamation points.

READING: Where Does This Come From? Ice Cream, H. I. Peeples;
Safe, Warm, and Snug, Stephen R. Swinburne;
Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip, Joanna Cole;
I'd Rather Have an Iguana, Heidi Mario;
Moo Who?, Margie Palatin;
Eric Carle's Dragons and Other Creatures That Never Were;
Nellie and the Bandit, Eileen Ross;
I'm Dirty!, Kate McMullan;
Silly Mummy, Silly Daddy, Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick;
While You Are Sleeping, Alexis Deacon;
Substitute Groundhog, Pat Miller;
If I had a Dragon, Tom Ellery;
Freckleface Strawberry, Julianne Moore;
A House for Hermit Crab, Carle, Eric;
Green Wilma, Arnold, Tedd;
Rover, Rosen, Michael;
Have You Seen My Duckling?, Tafuri, Nancy;
A Cake for Herbie, Mathers, Petra;
Baby Bird, Dunbar, Joyce;
Strange Stories for Strange Kids;
Beautiful blackbird, Bryan, Ashley;
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon, Patty Lovell;
The Family Book, Todd Parr;
Martha Walks the Dog, Susan Meddaugh;
Seven for a Secret, Laurence Anholt;
Mama's Wild Child/Papa's Wild Child, Dianna Hutts Aston;
Jamaica and Brianna, Juanita Havill;
Stop, Thief!, Robert Kalan;
Mom Pie, Lynne Jonell;
Mommy Go Away!, Lynne Jonell;
Big Time Olie, William Joyce;
Tiny's Big Adventure, Martin Wadell;
When Mommy Was Mad, Lynne Jonell;
Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Baloon Ride, Marjorie Priceman;
Time Flies, Eric Rohmann;
Do Not Disturb, Nancy Tafuri;
What Kind of Baby-sitter Is This?, Dolores Johnson;
The Best Class Picture Ever!, Denis Roche;
A True Book(s): Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus, Pterodactyls, Elaine Landau;
A True Book(s): Chickens, Pigs, Sara Swan Miller;
You're Too Big!, Simon Puttock;
Snow Day!, Barbara M. Joosse.

Read Zoo Books, Ranger Rick's, Click, and Sesame Street magazines,
Sunday funnies and Garfield comic books.

HISTORY: Learn about, play, and sing African American Spirituals; attend a pioneer day at historical country store: learn to make a rag doll, rope, and operate a 2-man saw.

SCIENCE/NATURE: attend Basic Engineering and Construction classes: build a bridge, motorcycle and bulldozer from oral directions and demonstrations; knock down lego wall with bulldozer; drive motorized cars across the bridge.

Do and narrate baking soda experiment; measure and calculate using a measuring tape; read Magic School Bus, and the Electric Field Trip, Moving Heavy Things (Jan Adkins), How Do They Grow?: From Piglet to Pig (Jillian Powell) and From Tadpole to Frog (David Stewart); work in Electricity workbook (The Energenius Safety Program, PG&E); time4learning.com online activities.

Read Ranger Rick's and Zoo Books magazine articles; care of pet fish.

Watch Billy Nye the Science Guy: marine Mammals, and Jeff Corwin: Bats, Marsupials, and Elephants (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; song writing; theory: learn note names/values; draw a piano keyboard; practice scales.

Listen to songs on There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly ... and more Stories That Sing, Scholastic DVD.

ART: attend art classes: Drawing and Painting Animals, and Mosaic Treasure Box; make clay creations, including fairies and mermaids; illustrate a song; make a chart showing ages and stages of children; illustrate and write Thank You note.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: attend bilingual Mandarin/English story time at the library: vocabulary: farm animals,

READ ALOUD: Swan Lake, Mark Helprin;
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling;
The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien;
LaRue for Mayor, Mark Teague;
The Sheep Fairy, Ruth Symes.

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

FIELD TRIPS: tea in a Japanese tea garden, walk across the Bridge, visit a mission, explore some tidepools, visit historic lighthouse and fort.

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.

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.