Week 18
“It’s okay to not know but it’s not okay to not try.” – Anonymous
It is our first full week, and we will be busy!
Math
We are working on division. We will have our chapter 6 test on Thursday. We have fluency homework every day in addition to our regular Practice Book homework. In class, we are continuing with XtraMath. Taking the time to memorize multiplication facts in 3rd grade is so important to your child’s success in Math in future grades. Please review them nightly.
ELA
We are having spelling test on Friday. There will be no other ELA tests this week.
Anchor Text: Technology Wins the Game. The genre is Informational Text
Comprehension Skills and Strategies
- Target Skills
- Sequence of Events
- Text and Graphic Features
- Target Strategy
- Question
Target Vocabulary
- contribute
- athletes
- improve
- power
- process
- flexible
- fraction
- compete
Vocabulary Strategy
- Suffixes –less, – ful, -ous
Grammar
- plural nouns – s, -es, consonant -y means to change the -y to -i and add -es, special spellings tooth/teeth, woman/women, child/children, mouse/mice, and the same spelling deer/deer, sheep/sheep.
Spelling: joy, point, voice, join, oil, coin, noise, spoil, toy, joint, boy, soil, choice, boil, come, are, poison, and destroy.
Social Studies
We are beginning our unit on Canada. This week we will be focusing on the St. Lawrence Lowlands and the Canadian Shield. We will be having a Social Studies test on the geography of Canada on Thursday, January 17th
Religion
We are studying why Jesus needs to be the true God. I have also included the link here for Third Grade Memory Work and due dates. Our Wednesday test is on The Fourth Commandment.
The Fourth Commandment
Honor your father and your mother.
What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not despise or anger our parents and other authorities, but honor them, serve and obey them, love and cherish them.
TEST and QUIZZES
Wednesday 1/9 Religion Memory Test
Thursday 1/10 Math Chapter 6 test
Friday 11/11 Spelling Test
If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected]
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8