05.25.13

Third Grade News     Week of Feb. 22nd

Until Feb. 22nd, we will continue working on Biographies.

These dates and topics of study by content areas apply to all third grade classrooms. For individual teachers' websites and newsletters go to the Contact Us link on the left.

Important Dates & Reminders

Feb. 26 Career Day

Mar. 12 In-Service Day

Mar. 17 Report Cards

Language Arts

Reading:   Lesson 21  story, Antarctic Ice

Sequencing - How do Readers determine the time-order events in nonfiction?

Language:   The Verb Be - Why does a writer use subject-verb agreement?

Writing - Explanation - What is the best way to write an explanation of a story?

Spelling Words:   Please click on the Spelling Link to the left for a list of spelling words. Vocabulary Words:   conserved, strict, absence, shelters, permanently, drifts, scarce, dim, harsh, bleak

Math

  Money: - How can I use different combinations of bills and coins to pay for something? -  How can I determine the amount of change I should receive?

Please continue to work on memorizing multiplication and division facts!

Science

Magnets: - What are magnets?  -How can we make and use magnets?

Social Studies

Productive Resources - What is a resource?  - What is a natural resource?  - What are human resources?  - What are capital resources?

Goods & Services - What is a service? - What are goods?  - Who are consumers? - What is a producer?

Supply & Demand -   What is a supply?  - What is scarcity?  - Who determines demand?  - What happens to the price of a product when it is scare?  - What happens to the price of a product when there is too much of it?

Week of February 22-26 

Lesson 21 

 threw, cool, foot, cook, bruise, hook, tool, brook, booth, school, choose, balloon, cartoon, afternoon, understood, loosely, cocoon, raccoon, cookbook, neighborhood 

  

Week of March 1-5

Lesson 22

ought, soft, yawn, walk, long, also, thaw, lost, cause, taught, pause, straw, false, author, almost, swallow, naughty, somersault, sprawling, faucet

 Week of March 8-11

Lesson 23

 input, preset, misuse, inside, preview, incorrect, pretest, mislead, preheat, indoors, misplace, preschool, misread, mismatch, misspell, mistaken, incomplete, misbehave, misprint, invisible 

Week of March 15-19 

No spelling words this week.  We are preparing for the upcoming CRCT test.

Week of March 22-26

No spelling words this week.  We are preparing for the upcoming CRCT test.

Week of March 29 - April 2

 

No spelling words this week.  We are preparing for the upcoming CRCT test.