Reading Challenge: students should continue reading nightly for the reading challenge. Turn in the calendar on Wednesday to count your minutes toward the challenge.
Spelling: red, orange, yellow, and green group have their spelling packets due Friday. Blue group has definitions due Thursday, and spelling packets due Monday.
Floor plan: All students have to make a floor plan of David Howard's house (from Chapter 7) . They have graph paper to do this on.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Language Arts: Week of November 14th
Reading:
This week we will read Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 in Shiloh. The comprehension activity for Chapter 7 is a floor plan of David Howard's house, and for chapter 8, the kids will write a summary of the events of the chapter. Please do not read ahead
Vocabulary:
The blue spelling group will need to learn their spelling words for vocabulary. The other kids will have words from Chapter 8. The red vocab group will have: excuse, breeze, lift, and uncovered; the purple vocab group will choose their own words when they read the chapter.
Grammar:
We will be learning plural and singular nouns.
Writing:
The kids will start typing one of their journal writings to edit it for conventions and ideas.
Spelling:
red group (word families ick, uck, ack): tack, lick, kick, luck, sick, pick, tuck, back, pack, rack, shack, tick, stuck, quick, trick, truck, thick, snack, black, quack
orange group( long vowels: oo, u_e, ui, short u, oddball): cube, food, fruit, crust, bloom, smooth, suit, built, dude, skunk, broom, mood, bump, juice, trust, build, moon, prune, spoon, tooth
yellow group: (diphthong oo (soon) oo (good) ou (could)): soon, good, cool, crook, fool, wood, could, noon, groom, hood, root, stood, tool, hook, stood, tool, hook, troop, foot, hoop, should, brook, stool, proof, wool, would, soot, roost
green group(inflected endings ing, s, ed): crying, cries, cried, replying, copying, carrying, studying, stays, replied, enjoying, copied, studies, replies, carries, enjoys, stayed, staying, studied, copies, carried, enjoyed, hurrying, hurries, hurried
blue group (adding ion: base -de, drop de + sion, base -it, drop it + ission): explode, explosion, admit, admission, decide, invasion, omit, permission, submit, decision, conclusion, omission, protrude, invade, intrude, submission, protrusion, permit, intrusion, conclude, division, allude, divide, allusion
This week we will read Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 in Shiloh. The comprehension activity for Chapter 7 is a floor plan of David Howard's house, and for chapter 8, the kids will write a summary of the events of the chapter. Please do not read ahead
Vocabulary:
The blue spelling group will need to learn their spelling words for vocabulary. The other kids will have words from Chapter 8. The red vocab group will have: excuse, breeze, lift, and uncovered; the purple vocab group will choose their own words when they read the chapter.
Grammar:
We will be learning plural and singular nouns.
Writing:
The kids will start typing one of their journal writings to edit it for conventions and ideas.
Spelling:
red group (word families ick, uck, ack): tack, lick, kick, luck, sick, pick, tuck, back, pack, rack, shack, tick, stuck, quick, trick, truck, thick, snack, black, quack
orange group( long vowels: oo, u_e, ui, short u, oddball): cube, food, fruit, crust, bloom, smooth, suit, built, dude, skunk, broom, mood, bump, juice, trust, build, moon, prune, spoon, tooth
yellow group: (diphthong oo (soon) oo (good) ou (could)): soon, good, cool, crook, fool, wood, could, noon, groom, hood, root, stood, tool, hook, stood, tool, hook, troop, foot, hoop, should, brook, stool, proof, wool, would, soot, roost
green group(inflected endings ing, s, ed): crying, cries, cried, replying, copying, carrying, studying, stays, replied, enjoying, copied, studies, replies, carries, enjoys, stayed, staying, studied, copies, carried, enjoyed, hurrying, hurries, hurried
blue group (adding ion: base -de, drop de + sion, base -it, drop it + ission): explode, explosion, admit, admission, decide, invasion, omit, permission, submit, decision, conclusion, omission, protrude, invade, intrude, submission, protrusion, permit, intrusion, conclude, division, allude, divide, allusion
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Homework: Wednesday, November 2nd
Reading:
We kicked off our 25,000 hour reading challenge yesterday. The kids need to record their minutes on the reading calendar, and return it each Wednesday to be tallied.
Spelling:
Red, Orange, Yellow, and Green spelling groups have their spelling packets due Friday.
Blue group has their definitions due Thursday, and their spelling packet due Monday.
Portrait of Judd
Some kids need to finish coloring their portrait of Judd Travers
We kicked off our 25,000 hour reading challenge yesterday. The kids need to record their minutes on the reading calendar, and return it each Wednesday to be tallied.
Spelling:
Red, Orange, Yellow, and Green spelling groups have their spelling packets due Friday.
Blue group has their definitions due Thursday, and their spelling packet due Monday.
Portrait of Judd
Some kids need to finish coloring their portrait of Judd Travers
Language Arts: Week of October 31st
Reading:
This week we finished answering questions about chapter 4 in our class novel Shiloh. Wednesday we read Chapter 5. We will do vocabulary and a summary for this chapter.
Vocabulary:
red group: pickup, saucer, sloppy, evening
purple group: unfasten, meadow, jowls, aim, pounding
Grammar:
We are learning the difference between common and proper nouns.
Spelling:
red group (-nt, -nd, -nk ending digraphs): went, sand, pink, send, wink, hunt, bunk, land, bank, pant, junk, wind, print, stink, plant, blank, spent, blend, stand, drink, thank, trunk, want, think
orange group (short a CVC, long a CVCe, long a CVVC, oddball): space, rain, Jack, black, pain, brain, paint, place, rash, blame, train, main, faint, want, chain, camp, tail, said, frame, flash
yellow group (sounds ar, or, er): jar, earn, torn, search, snort, hoarse, hard, pearl, horse, worth, core, serve, worst, chore, bore, yard, spur, score, lurk, march, snore, sir
green group (plural nouns "es" and "s"): benches, gloves, foxes, guesses, brushes, speeches, splashes, scratches, horses, mixes, churches, crashes, voices, peaches, eyelashes, kisses, sketches, ditches, leashes, changes, branches, watches, places, ashes
blue group: (base word ends in -t +ion, base word ends in -ic +ian): assert, assertion, magic, magician, invention, digest, music, suggestion, optic, optician, digestion, invent, clinic, adoption, musician, diagnostic, logician, suggest, adopt, insertion, logic, insert, diagnostician, clinician
Monday, October 10, 2011
Language Arts: Week of October 10th
This week the third graders will all be taking the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. This series of tests will assess Math, Language, Reading, Social Studies, and Science. We will recieve the results in the spring and will be able to compare how each child ranks nationally. Please make sure your child is HERE and ON TIME everyday this week so that we are able to administer these tests.
Reading:
We will continue reading Shiloh as a class. The class just read chapter 2, so they will be working with vocabulary and learning summarizing skills this week. If we have time, we will read chapter 3 at the end of the week.
Vocabulary:
The blue group will be learning their spelling words.
The purple group chose words they did not know and is learning them: (Larson) cornmeal, stoop, flustered, howdys, gristmill, bog (Ramirez) loping, suggest, flustered, bog, slabs, gristmill
The red groups is learning: dusk, abandoned, folks, reported, peered
Comprehension:
All groups will have to write a summary of all the IMPORTANT events that happened in chapter 2.
Spelling:
To be practiced in class and at home throughout the week. Spelling packet is due Friday. (Blue group has an additional page due Thursday).
Yellow: (bossy "R": ir, ire, ier): bird, fire, drier, third, girl, birth, tire, flier, shirt, fir, whirl, hire, pliers, swirl, thirst, chirp, crier, skirt, stir, twirl, wire, dirt, fur, first
Blue: (comparative and superlative adjectives: -er, -est, -ier, -iest): kinder, kindest, emptier, emptiest, stranger, cleaner, earlier, quiestest, trickier, fanciest, crummier, strangest, cleanest, quieter, earliest, trickiest, murkiest, harsher, crummiest, harshest, shinier, fancier, shiniest, murkier
Red ("r blends" and "l blends"): trot, club, sled, fret, plot, drop, glum, bled, flop, gruff, slug, plum, dress, cross, drum, plug, frog, drug, fluff, slop, truck, from, gloss, slot
Green (review of rules when adding ing: double, e-drop, nothing, oddball): setting, hiking, reading, floating, cutting, moving, stopping, living, spelling, coming, begging, adding, grinning, having, feeling, jogging, taking, talking, pushing, humming, working, fixing, chewing, snowing
Orange (short o CVC, long o VCe, oddball): rock, cone, rode, job, hope, those, hot, hose, joke, home, come, clock, pot, rope, hole, some, spot, chop, stove, rose, broke
Reading:
We will continue reading Shiloh as a class. The class just read chapter 2, so they will be working with vocabulary and learning summarizing skills this week. If we have time, we will read chapter 3 at the end of the week.
Vocabulary:
The blue group will be learning their spelling words.
The purple group chose words they did not know and is learning them: (Larson) cornmeal, stoop, flustered, howdys, gristmill, bog (Ramirez) loping, suggest, flustered, bog, slabs, gristmill
The red groups is learning: dusk, abandoned, folks, reported, peered
Comprehension:
All groups will have to write a summary of all the IMPORTANT events that happened in chapter 2.
Spelling:
To be practiced in class and at home throughout the week. Spelling packet is due Friday. (Blue group has an additional page due Thursday).
Yellow: (bossy "R": ir, ire, ier): bird, fire, drier, third, girl, birth, tire, flier, shirt, fir, whirl, hire, pliers, swirl, thirst, chirp, crier, skirt, stir, twirl, wire, dirt, fur, first
Blue: (comparative and superlative adjectives: -er, -est, -ier, -iest): kinder, kindest, emptier, emptiest, stranger, cleaner, earlier, quiestest, trickier, fanciest, crummier, strangest, cleanest, quieter, earliest, trickiest, murkiest, harsher, crummiest, harshest, shinier, fancier, shiniest, murkier
Red ("r blends" and "l blends"): trot, club, sled, fret, plot, drop, glum, bled, flop, gruff, slug, plum, dress, cross, drum, plug, frog, drug, fluff, slop, truck, from, gloss, slot
Green (review of rules when adding ing: double, e-drop, nothing, oddball): setting, hiking, reading, floating, cutting, moving, stopping, living, spelling, coming, begging, adding, grinning, having, feeling, jogging, taking, talking, pushing, humming, working, fixing, chewing, snowing
Orange (short o CVC, long o VCe, oddball): rock, cone, rode, job, hope, those, hot, hose, joke, home, come, clock, pot, rope, hole, some, spot, chop, stove, rose, broke
Monday, September 12, 2011
Spelling: Week of September 12th
For spelling this week, the kids are working on short a and long a words. The spelling test will be on Friday, and the kids will be tested on if they know the spelling pattern.
The words are: mad, make, fast, hand, what, snap, last, page, came, grass, face, base, rake, ask, same, made, sack
The words are: mad, make, fast, hand, what, snap, last, page, came, grass, face, base, rake, ask, same, made, sack
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