Practice at home: Try practicing your words at home this week by asking mom or dad for some shaving cream. Squirt some shaving cream onto a cookie sheet and write your words into the shaving cream.
When we take two words and smash them together into one word with an apostrophe in between we create contractions! This week we will be working on learning the spelling of commonly used contractions.
Practice at home: Try practicing your words at home this week by asking mom or dad for some shaving cream. Squirt some shaving cream onto a cookie sheet and write your words into the shaving cream.
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We are starting our geometry unit this week. In third grade geometry includes learning different characteristics of triangles and quadrilaterals (4-sided shapes) and finding the area and perimeter of polygons. First, we will be learning how to organize triangles and quadrilaterals. We will learn that all triangles have 3 sides and 3 angles. Some angles are obtuse (larger than 90 degrees), some are right (exactly 90 degrees), and some are acute (smaller than 90 degrees). Understanding what types of angles a triangle has helps us organize them into different categories. Then, we will look at all 4-sided shapes. We will learn that many shapes that we have known our whole lives (squares, rectangles, rhombi) are all quadrilaterals. We will learn what characteristics make a square a square and make a rectangle a rectangle. This video helps explain how quadrilaterals are classified: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXZcYHVwkqI#t=105 Another video that is helpful is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN8DCqeHFSk This is actually an activity that we will be doing in class and this teacher is teaching from our curriculum! This website with its embedded videos also help a lot. Take some time to have your child read and watch the information on this website, then have them teach you what they learned! http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/video-tutorials-what-are-quadrilaterals.html Finally, the attachment labeled “quadrilaterals” (created by Teacher Addict on TeacherPayTeachers) is a create resource that explains how quadrilaterals can be classified. We will be starting a new reading unit this week: Social Issues Book Clubs. This is a fun unit where students will get to read and reread favorite books of all genres and think about the social issue that is seen throughout. What exactly are social issues? Social issues refer to issues that affect a lot of people. For example, worrying to fit in, peer pressure, poverty, homelessness, bullying, etc are all social issues. During this first part of this unit we will learn how to identify these social issues and talk about them, even if we don’t agree with them.
This week we will be learning about the 3 types of rocks: sedimentary (when rocks settle from the water or when minerals and deposited by plants, animals, or other chemical processes), metamorphic (old rocks that have been squeezed but not melted), and igneous (molten rock flows on the land surface or is thrown into the air and cools). The students will be learning about all 3 through a Snickers Bar lab. We will be creating these rocks by breaking the rock, adding heat, pressure, and cooling the rock to represent each type of rock.
Unit 25: suffixes -less, -ful, -ly
Last week we studied prefixes. This week we will learn about suffixes. Suffixes are word parts added to the end of words. Just like prefixes, we will discover how we canchange the word's meaning by adding suffixes. Practice at home: Try practicing your words at home this week by pretending you are a cheerleader. Cheer each letter of every word. We had a wonderful time yesterday visiting Terry Berry! We had some great people taking us around on the tour and we were able to see the workers at Terry Berry in action. Some of them even had to opportunity to talk with us and explain the processes they take to create each piece of jewelry.
Hi Third Grade Parents,
Today your child will be bringing home a note that MUST be sent back tomorrow. This note is about the sack lunch that is needed for the Windmill Island Field Trip on May 2nd. This note must be sent back tomorrow (4/17/14) if you would like to order a sack lunch for your child! Thank you! Unit 5, Lessons 7-11
We have spent a lot of time solving word problem the past few weeks. Now we will be taking it a bit deeper by solving two-step problems. We worked on this a little bit during our multiplication and division unit, so it shouldn’t be brand new for the students. However, these problems do take some thinking and time to solve. It will be important that students don’t rush through the problems, rather they take the time to think through and solve each problem thoroughly. This week we will be studying some basic prefixes. Prefixes are word parts added to the beginning of a word. We will discover how we can change the meaning of words by adding the prefixes re-, un-, and dis-.
Practice at home: Try practicing your words at home this week by writing a song or rap that uses your spelling words! This week we will be learning about the difference between pitch (highs/lows) and volume (loud/soft). A sound review will be coming home on Tuesday to help your child to prepare for our unit test on Wednesday. Please remember to send in your sand and soil samples collected over Spring Break!
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