Hello! This week we are back to a five day week. Here are a coupe of great websites that you can use to practice vocabulary or grammar skills. This site can be used to review subject and predicate. All you have to do is click on subject and predicates on the list. This should be found towards the bottom of the page in the middle column. http://languagearts.pppst.com/
The next site provides picture cards that can help with studying vocabulary words. Just find third grade and the story that we are reading and click on that and you will see the vocabulary words. http://www.smbsd.org/page.cfm?p=1445
Reading - This week we are reading The Ballad of Mulan. This is another story in our adventure theme. Students also took their first oral comprehension quiz on Monday. I read them a passage and then they had to answer 4 questions about that story.
A blue paper was sent home with the spelling list and a reading list. The first list 1-22 are the spelling words. The assignments for this week are write words 3 times each and do the word search. The second list is a reading list with challenging vocabulary words that will be found in our story. Students should just practice READING this list. They do now have to know how to spell them or know the definition. All they need to do is read through the list. I will assess them on Thursday by having them read the words to me. Students should also study the 7 vocabulary words at home. This quiz will be Friday.
Language Arts - We are continuing our lessons on Subjects and Predicates. In the graded folder I sent home Monday, there was a quiz dealing with this concept. Many if the students did a great job with this concept. However we are going to continue reviewing this concept this week and students will be assessed again by two separate quizzes, one dealing with complete subjects and predicates. The other quiz will be about simple subjects and predicates. The students that got an A on the quiz will have the option of whether or not they will retake the quiz. This is something you may want to discuss with your child. If they choose not to take it, they will be given a "challenge" activity to complete.
Math - We are working on ordering numbers from least to greatest or greatest to least. We are also going to be starting to work on rounding numbers.
Science / Social Studies - We are still waiting for some material that is needed to plant our Brassica plants. However we have started our science notebooks and will be observing wet and dry beans. In social studies, we are learning about communities in Chapter 1. Continue to study your 22 vocabulary list that was sent home last week. This test will hopefully be some time next week. I will send home more information next week.
I am sending information for the community project. Each student will be creating a poster about their community. All of the information will be in the packet that is sent home. If you are going to need a poster, please let me know and I will send it home with your child.
cyber-pet
