3rd Grade Happenings:
Week of January 14th
Religion
recall the First Christmas; identify Mary's role in the Incarnation; identify ways to be a light to others; identify, understand, and list ways to live the Fourth Commandment; practiced mass parts throughout the week for our upcoming mass;
Lesson 14 - story - "The Extra-good Sunday" (humorous fiction);
Comprehension skills and strategies: understanding characters; infer/predict
Phonics: er, ir, ur, or
Fluency: expression
Vocabulary Strategies: using a thesaurus
Grammar: verb tenses
Writing: Being a writer - opinion - begin listing writing ideas; used the strategy think, pair, share to discuss writing ideas with our writing partner; continue to build writing stamina by writing about something from our writing ideas list; continued previous writings; write opinion ideas;
Typed recipes to go along with our reading story;
Focus Traits: ideas
Spelling
vowel + "r" sound in nurse
Math
took timed tests; practiced math facts online; used related multiplication facts to divide; divided a 1-digit or 2-digit number by a 1-digit number with and without regrouping; divided numbers with remainders;
Social Studies
identified how people changed their communities throughout history by inventing new things or having new ideas;
Science
identified how living things get energy; identified how energy moves through an ecosystem; made a model food chain; identified how living things interact in food webs; made a food web diagram; used concepts learned from the chapter to complete science review; TEST: Tuesday, January 22nd
Handwriting
Cursive letters: practiced all the lower case cursive letters by writing words; practiced all the upper case cursive letters by writing words that begin with capital letters;