Mr. Wasil’s 3rd Grade Class

Reading/Language Arts

Students will take their final reading and language skills assessment test this week. We will work on the pretest on Monday. This will come home with your child to study with. The final test will be on Tuesday. We will also be reading a new story each day! The students will get an opportunity to write a poem about something they would never eat. This is a creative writing assignment and also a lot of fun to do! We will write thank you notes to Mrs. Kelly this week for the lessons she has taught us throughout the years. Our grammar lesson will be the verb be. There will be no more spelling words.

Math

Our focus continues to be long division, multiplication, and measurement.

Social Studies

We will start a small unit on Economics this week concentrating on Supply and Demand, Wants and Needs, opportunity cost, and factors of production.

Homework- Monday, June 1st – Math skills link 122 and Language Arts- look over pretest for last skill’s test of the year.

Important Dates:

Thursday June 4th- Last store of the year- 2:45-3:30

Monday- June 8th- half of the students’ materials will come home.

Tuesday- June 9th- End of the year assembly is around 10:00 in the gym. End of year Party will start around 11:45 and last for the rest of the day. All materials will come home.  NO BOOK BAGS THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL.

Wednesday- June 10th- Junior Olympics all morning. Kids should bring nothing to school. Nothing goes home on buses the last day of school. Early dismissal this day. 1:40 PM

Reading/Language Arts

Our story this week is If You Made a Million on pages 264-291 by David M. Schwartz. This is a lighthearted look at counting, earning, spending and saving money. Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician, with the help of his fantasy animal friends, introduces money in units from one cent up to a million dollars. Marvelisissimo shows how people earn money by providing goods (such as purple painted pots) and services (such as dusting a duck or mowing a meadow). He also explains how to earn money by saving money and letting it earn interest. Along the way, the program shows how to count money, how to use checks instead of money, and how to spend money, by paying cash or borrowing from a bank. The program also compares relative amounts by measuring and weighing money. (A million dollars in pennies would make a stack 95 miles high.) Marvelosissimo’s magic is a marvelous introduction, not just to money, but to our economic system.

In connection with this story, we will work on: main idea and details, elements of nonfiction, word chains, learning new vocabulary, using context to confirm meanings, and comprehension. Irregular verbs will be the focus of our grammar lessons this week. Our spelling words this week are words that end in –tion or-sion.

Math

We will focus on probability and long division this week. Students will learn how to do long division and relate it to a family make up. They will follow these steps: 1. DAD says to divide first 2. MOM says to multiply next 3. SISTER says to subtract 4. BROTHER says to bring down 5. ROVER says to repeat or remainder. Click here to view the Power Point for this demonstration.

Science and Social Studies

We will be finishing our Animals unit and testing on it Monday, June 1^st. We will also wrap up our Cleveland unit and start a new unit on Economics.

Homework For the Week of May 25^th-29^th

Will always be updated daily with a weekly overview on Monday.

Monday, May 25^th - Memorial Day – No School

Tuesday, May 26^th- Spelling-pages 90-92 due by Friday. Math-homelink 11.5

Wednesday, May 27^th - Reading- take home book and read If you Made a Million on pages 264-291. Math- page 48 division and Science page 205. 

Thursday, May 28^th- Vocabulary- study for quiz tomorrow, Spelling- study for test tomorrow. Science- start studying for Monday’s Chapter 5 science test. Use the study guide completed in class today.

Friday, May 29th- Science-Study for Monday’s Chapter 5 Science Test. Use the study guide completed Thursday.

Click on this link for the Power Point of long-division

Reading/Language Arts

This week, we will be continuing Theme 5: GoodNeighbors. In this theme, students discover that people in communities rely on one another for

goods and services as well as support. They take a closer look at the interactions that make communities survive and thrive.

The fourth story of our theme will be: Cocoa Ice on pages 225-252. This informational fiction story introduces us to a girl in nineteenth century Santo Domingo who tells how her family cuts cocoa, and a girl in nineteenth-century Maine who tells how her family cuts ice from the river. Both girls are delighted when their distant communities become neighbors by trading the goods each has to offer.

Our skills this week will include: learning new vocabulary, main

ideas and details, using context to confirm meaning, self-questioning,

classification, comparing and contrasting, multiple-meaning words, and

using references and resources.

Our grammar work for the week will be: past tense verbs. This week, students will be working on words with –ed and -ing.

Math

We will complete chapter 10 and test on Wednesday. Look for a review guide to come home on Monday to study with.

The activities in chapter 11 involve the exploration of chance and probability through the use of spinners, predictions based on samples, and random draw problems. Unit 11 has three main areas of focus:

· To organize, graph, and interpret data

· To represent the likelihood of outcomes with visual models

· To predict outcomes and estimate the make-up of a population using survey data and objects.

Science

This week we will learn about adaptation and instinct in animals. We will also discuss how changes in an organism’s habitat are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful. We will complete a review guide on Wednesday and have a test on Friday.

Social Studies

This week we will finish our citizenship unit and test over it on Friday. Look for a study guide to come home Wednesday night.

Extras

Tuesday-Field Trip to Progressive Field and Lolly the Trolley

Wednesday-Volunteer Brunch hosted by Highland Drive Staff

Wednesday-Math test on chapter 10

Friday-Social Studies test on chapter 7

Homework For the Week of May 18^th -22^nd

Will always be updated daily with a weekly overview on Monday.

Monday, May 18^th - Pack disposable lunch and drink for tomorrow’s Cleveland Trip.  Spelling- pages 87-89 due by Thursday. Math-look over study guide for Wednesday’s test. Social Studies – page 67-68-rights of citizens.

Tuesday, May 19^th - Reading- take home book and read Cocoa Ice on pages 225-252. Math- study for test

Wednesday, May 20^th -  Math- MB 11.1 and start studying for Social St. Test. Vocabulary- study for quiz tomorrow

Thursday, May 21^st – Spelling- study for test tomorrow.

Friday, May 22^nd –

Reading/Language Arts/Social Studies

No Spelling words or story this week due to field trips and Read-A-Thon Day. Students will have integrated lessons with these three subjects this week. We will start off the week by reading What’s So Big About Cleveland? By Sara Holbrook. Ten-year-old Amanda has been everywhere and done everything. Or so she thinks. Her parents have taken her to all the cities of the world: London, Paris, Marrakech, Hong Kong . . . you name it. So when Amanda comes to Cleveland on a family visit, her reaction is probably no surprise: B-o-o-o-ring. “What’s so big about Cleveland, Ohio?” she sneers to her host, ten-year-old Alan (whose mom is best friends with Amanda’s mom). What indeed. Nothing Alan can show her is as big, or as famous, or as fast, or as fun as something else she’s done somewhere else. Until, that is, Amanda discovers that there is something rather special about Cleveland, Ohio—something she didn’t expect at all. This is the first illustrated children’s storybook about Cleveland. It will be a delightful introduction to the city for kids of all ages and a warm reminder for Clevelanders who sometimes forget just what makes this a special place to live!

The class will also be putting together an information book based on Cleveland and its landmarks. Along with this unit, students will apply basic rights of citizens, understand purpose of Bill of Rights, and explain the voting process. This is in chapter 7 based on Citizenship.

Math

Chapter ten focuses on measurement and data. In this unit, children review and extend their previous work with measures of length, weight, and capacity. Measurements will be displayed in graphs and frequency tables. The emphasis on hands-on activities in this unit reflects the fact that anything that involves measures begins with the use of measuring tools.

Children will also extend previous informal work with the median and mode of a set of data and introduce the standard method of calculating the mean. These statistical measures are used to analyze and compare measurement data. Unit 10 has three main areas of focus:

· To review units, tools, and measures of weight, length, and capacity

· To introduce the mean of a set of data

· To gain experience with plotting points on a coordinate grid.

Extras

-Wednesday-Our class will be going to Central. Please pack a lunch.

-Thursday-Read-A-Thon Day! Pj’s, books, sleeping bags, snacks, etc.

-Friday-Severance Hall. Please Pack a lunch on this day.

-Next Tuesday, May 19^th is our Cleveland Field trip. Please return permission slip by Monday the 18^th.

Homework For the Week of May 11^th-15^th

Will always be updated daily with a weekly overview on Monday.

Monday, May 11^th - Math-skills link 116 and science page 199 reading review due by Wednesday.

Tuesday, May 12^th - PACK LUNCH FOR CENTRAL TRIP TOMORROW AND WEAR RED SHIRTS. Math-

Wednesday, May 13^th -  Read-A-Thon Day tomorrow- books, sleeping bags, pajamas are all permitted. Math-

Thursday, May 14^th – PACK LUNCH FOR FIELD TRIP TOMORROW TO SEVERANCE HALL AND DRESS NICELY!!!

Friday, May 15^th –Scholastic book orders due today if ordering.

Reading/Language Arts

The third story in our theme will be: Boom Town on pages 196-215. This historical fiction story looks at the life of young Amanda, whose gooseberry pies become famous in mining camps of the early frontier, and eventually helps transform a tiny community into a thriving boom town.

Our skills this week will include: learning new vocabulary, main ideas and details, using context to confirm meaning, self-questioning, classification, fact and opinion, and using references and resources.

Our grammar for the week will be: present tense. This week, students will be working on spelling words with VCV (Vowel Consonant Vowel).

Math

Chapter ten focuses on measurement and data. In this unit, children review and extend their previous work with measures of length, weight, and capacity. Measurements will be displayed in graphs and frequency tables. The emphasis on hands-on activities in this unit reflects the fact that anything that involves measures begins with the use of measuring tools.

Children will also extend previous informal work with the median and mode of a set of data and introduce the standard method of calculating the mean. These statistical measures are used to analyze and compare measurement data. Unit 10 has three main areas of focus:

· To review units, tools, and measures of weight, length, and capacity

· To introduce the mean of a set of data

· To gain experience with plotting points on a coordinate grid.

Science

This week we move on to chapter 5 in science titled Where Living Things Are Found. Students will be able to describe possible negative consequences for people and wildlife under conditions of crowding. We will also identify the components of a habitat; recognize how humans and other animals depend upon habitats. Our class will describe how changes in an organism’s habitat are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful.

Extra

Monday-Central School visit permission slips sent home today and due Friday.

Monday- Cleveland Field Trip Permission sent home- due back by May 18^th.

Friday-Third grade class picture. All students should wear their Highland Drive t-shirts on Friday.

Homework For the Week of May 4^th-8th

Will always be updated daily with a weekly overview on Monday.

Monday, May 4^th - Spelling- pages 84-86 due by Thursday. Math- Skills link page 111. Science- page 183 review due by Wednesday.

Tuesday, May 5^th - Reading- take home book and read Boom Town… on pages 196-215. Math- skills link 112

Wednesday, May 6^th -  Vocabulary- study for quiz tomorrow, Math- math boxes 10.5

Thursday, May 7^th – Wear Red Shirts for tomorrow’s 3rd grade picture. Spelling- study for test tomorrow.

Friday, May 8^th – Last Book reports of the year due Today.