| Week of October 6th 10th
3rd Grade Miss Robin
Reading Our reading story for this week is Prudys Problem and How She
Solved It. We will study this story in class throughout the week. We will
take a reading test over comprehension of this story and the vocabulary
words associated with it on Thursday. (The test format will normally
include a variety of testing mechanisms such as: matching, multiple choice,
fill in the blank from a word bank, true/false, or short answer.) Please
read this story at home with your child on Monday night. It is located on
pages 202-217.
Story skills associated with this story include:
Vocabulary
Story Elements (Setting and Character)
Context Clues
Realism/Fantasy
Character Traits
Comprehension/Story Elements
Reading Fluency
Main Idea and Details
Dictionary Skills
Vocabulary for this story is as follows:
1. collection a group of things gathered from many places that belong
together
2. enormous very large or huge
3. realize to understand something clearly
4. scattered separated and going in different directions
5. shiny bright or giving off bright light
6. strain to stretch too much
**Please review these words at home with your child during the week.**
Math In math this week, we will continue with our Saxon Math Lessons.
Math skills this week include:
Addition and Subtraction with Mental Computation
Measurement using centimeters
Add and Subtract 2 and 3 digit numbers with Regrouping
Counting Money
Greater than/ Less than
Intro. Basic concept of multiplication
½ of a set of objects
Please have your child practice the following counting patterns at home this
week.
5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24
Count by 10s from any given number such as:
3, 13, 23, 33, 43, etc. or 6, 16, 26, 36, 46, etc.
*** Start New Pattern 7s***
7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, 63, 70, 77, 84
Spelling Our words this week have ou and ow sounds in them. We will have
a test on Thursday of this week. Your child will have to write the word
correctly.
1.clown 9. crown
2.crowd 10. count
3.round 11. cloud
4.sound 12. mouth
5.bow 13. town
6.would 14. out
7.loud 15. bounce
8.ground 16. sprout
Bonus Words: powder, mountain, thousand
English - We will continue to discuss abbreviations in class this week.
We will also discuss compound words and combining sentences.
We will have a science test and a social studies test this week! Study
guides will be sent home for both of these tests.
PLEASE DONT FORGET THAT FALL BREAK IS OCTOBER 10TH AND 13TH!
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