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
