Reminders:
***Our 11th home challenge menu is due Friday. My email is aforino@reyn.org if you need to email me pictures or videos***
***PTO Turkey Feather Fundraiser is going on. Feather donations are $1/feather and the class with the most feathers wins a pizza party.***
***No School 11/25-1111/27
Reading: This week we introduced comparing and contrasting two fiction stories with the same author (like from a series). We did this together by going over the fiction parts (characters, setting, conflict, theme, main events, and solution) from two stories. We then used a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the parts of fiction. We will be taking an Engrade Quiz on nonfiction comprehension this week as the students read about the first Thanksgiving and answer questions about what they read.
Writing: This week we will be practicing editing a letter. The students will use proofreading marks to try and find all 12 mistakes in the letter. Finding mistakes and realizing it is okay to make mistakes as they are they are corrected is tough for third graders.
Language: We are introducing idioms and prefixes. Most of the students seem to know many of the well known idioms, but they did not realize their purpose or that they were called idioms. Most of the students also know basic prefixes.
Science/Social Studies: This week are taking a quick mini quiz on the layers of soil. In social studies we are continuing geography by leaning how to read a grid map.
***Practice Ideas at Home :
1. Idiom games online:
http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/vocabulary_games/idioms.html
2. Layers of Soil :
http://www.cleanair.pima.gov/more/FourLayersSoil.html
3. Using a grid map:
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g2_u1/
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