Third Grade Reading and Language Arts/Lesson Plans March 16th - 20th, 2015 REMINDERS March 16-20 Benchmark Tests will be given March 18th – Report Cards go home March 20th – Spring Pictures March 30th – April 3rd – Spring Break – No School!!! SPELLING WORDS Reading Week At A Glance Monday: The teacher will introduce the essential question: “How can we reuse what we already have?” Students will participate in an interactive read aloud “The School Garden”. The teacher will introduce the weekly vocabulary words and words to know. Students will participate in a Close Read using The New Hoop on pages 348-351. The teacher will model summarizing the text and identifying the point of view. Tuesday: The teacher will review the words to know, weekly vocabulary words and vocabulary skill: homographs. Students will reread The New Hoop. Students will practice summarizing using a short expository text. The teacher will also discuss strategies for understanding the point of view. The teacher will introduce the weekly language skill: adjectives. Wednesday: We will read Bravo, Tavo! and practice summarizing the text. Students will practice identifying the point of view. We will review the words to know, weekly vocabulary words and the vocabulary skill: homographs. The students will work with the teacher to write sentences using adjectives. Thursday: The teacher and students will participate in a close read of Bravo, Tavo! Students will complete a scavenger hunt to practice going back to find answers in the text. The teacher and students will identify adjectives in the text. Students will complete an adjective activity. Friday - ASSESSMENT: 1. Students will complete a weekly spelling test. 2. Students will complete an assessment on adjectives. 3. The students will complete the weekly reading assessment and Vocabulary / Words to know assessment. Students will participate in small group activities throughout the week to reinforce skills and build fluency and comprehension. 1. names 2. named 3. naming 4. hopes 5. hoped 6. hoping 7. dances 8. danced 9. dancing 10. drops 11. dropped 12. dropping 13. wraps 14. wrapped 15. wrapping Words to Know: Beat waste Performance swallow Heap figure Material form Vocabulary Words: Gaze Discouraged Jubilant Remaining conservation frustration recycling tinkered Reading & Language Standards: I CAN summarize a text to gain understanding. I CAN distinguish my own point of view from that the narrator or characters. I CAN write a narrative (CCR#: RI.3.2; RL.3.6; RL.3.10; RF.3.3a; L.3.4a; W.3.3b) Math and Social Sciences Newsletter/Lesson Plans March 16th- 20th, 2015 REMINDERS!!!! *Study Multiplication Facts *Report Cards March 18 *Spring Pictures March 20 Math Standards: Math Standards (CCRS:) 3.G.1 & 2, 3.MD.4 & 8 & 4.G.1 I CAN identify 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9 sided shapes from the attributes of the shape I CAN measure and correctly notate inches, centimeters, feet, yards and meters using a 12 inch ruler, yard & meter stick and a measuring tape I CAN identify a point, ray, parallel lines, intersecting lines, perpendicular lines, obtuse, acute & right angles. Week at a Glance: Science Rocks & Minerals I CAN identify the 3 types of rocks (igneous, sedimentary & metamorphic) I UNDERSTAND the difference and causes of fast and slow changes to Earth’s crust Science Book-- pages C16-C27 Science Standard 3.11 Quiz on Friday Week at a Glance: Math Monday – Thursday  This week we will create & name shapes with 3-9 sides using various manipulatives.  We will discover the attributes of quadrilaterals and compare and contrast different shapes.  We will review elapsed time, measurement to an inch, half inch and quarter inch & relate inches to feet and yards. 12 in.. = 1ft, 3 ft. = 1 yard., 36 in. =1 yard  On Thursday, students will take a weekly skills test and a multiplication fact drill. 20 facts in 90 seconds USEFUL PHRASES *more than half *less than half *about half * almost all *very few