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Third Grade Updates
Math: Third grade started flexible
scheduling in math on Monday. This means your child may have a different math
teacher from his/her homeroom teacher. You will continue to receive your
child's graded math papers from your child's homeroom teacher in the regular
graded work folder.
Data Notebooks: Each student in 3rd, 4th,
and 5th grade will have a data notebook. The notebooks in 3rd grade will
contain your child's goal in each subject for each nine week period. We will
also track test grades on a graph so your child can easily see his/her
progress. All this data will be kept in a separate 1 inch black or white
binder with tabs in your child's classroom.
Please send a 1 inch black or white binder and
5-tab insertable dividers by next Monday so we can get your child's binder set
up. If you need help with this, please let me know. Thanks so much for all
of your help!
This week:
Reading: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Comprehension Skill: Drawing Conclusions
Vocabulary Words:
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breakfast--the
first meal of the day
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comfortable--having
comfort
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cozy--warm and
comfortable; snug
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forest--thick
woods
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gobbled--ate
fast and greedily
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hungry--feeling a desire or need for food
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promise--to give one's word
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explanation--clear
reasons
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naughty--bad;
not behaving well
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porridge--food
made of grain boiled in water or milk until it thickens
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smithereens--bits;
small pieces
Spelling Words: next,
left, help, please, believe, many, very, been, seen, she, between, three,
easy, sea, leave
English: Sentences
Math: 2 digit addition and subtraction
Science: Plant Parts
Reminders:
Friday, August 29 - No school (inservice)
Below is a list of skills that we are learning.
Please continue checking your child's planner each night for further
assignments and announcements. Thanks for all you do!
Reading/Vocabulary skills:
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Setting
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Predicting
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Compare and Contrast
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Theme
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Author's purpose
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Character
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Draw conclusions
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Cause and effect
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Sequence
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Context clues
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Graphic sources
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Fact & opinion
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Main idea & supporting details
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Steps in a process
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Summarizing
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Text structure
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Reading Genre (fiction, non-fiction, fantasy,
folktale, play, biography)
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Phonics
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Compound words
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Vocabulary words
English skills:
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Pronouns
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Quotation Marks
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Adjectives, Articles, Adverbs, & To, Two, Too
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Verbs (present, past, & future time, verb be (am,
is, are, was were), helping verbs, irregular verbs, & contractions)
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Types of sentences (statement, command, question &
exclamation)
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Subjects and predicates
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Nouns (common, proper, singular and plural, &
possessives)
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Complete sentences
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Run on sentences
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Proofreading
Math skills:
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Word problems
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Addition and subtraction (2 and 3 digits;
subtraction across zeros)
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Counting money
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Patterns
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Graphs
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Expanded form
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Fact families
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Number sentences
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Place value (ones, tens, and hundreds)
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Addition and subtraction (with & without
regrouping)
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Even and odd numbers
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Greater than, less than, equals
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Rounding to the nearest ten and the nearest hundred
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Money (counting and making change)
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Time (quarter hour, half hour, am/pm, elapsed time)
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Bar Graphs, Pictographs, & Ordered Pairs
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Measurement (inches & centimeters, estimating,
inch/foot/yard/miles)
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Geometry (2-D/3-shapes, symmetrical & congruent
shapes, perimeter, area)
Reader's Theater Links: http://www.timelessteacherstuff.com/
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