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Mrs. JJ's
Third Grade Class
 Reminders:
Week of November 16, 2009
Future Ready!
Academic Excellence!
Responsible Citizenship!
We have a field trip coming up on Thursday, December 16th. The students will be visiting a nursing home and delivering decorations they have crafted at school, along with goodies. We will need your help with the goodies, and will send more information soon. We are learning to give to our community! What an important value to emphasize during the holiday season!
Go to www.lexile.com to access information on selecting appropriate books for your child’s instructional reading level!!!!
Show and Tell on Friday afternoon
 Look what we are learning:
 Reading/Language Arts
Story Selection: The Legend of the Persian Carpet
Key Strategy: Determining cause and effect
Spelling: Words with j sound
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics: Verbs, and capitalizing titles
Writing: Improving the “Word Choice” writing trait
(Stowers School-Wide Goal #1 – Improving writing, using focus on essential traits)
 Math
Unit 4 – Data in graphs and tables, and Stowers School-Wide Goal #2: Improving problem-solving, focusing on higher-level thinking skills
(Continue with addition, subtraction, place value, expanded notation, word form, standard form, odd and even, patterns, and estimation.)
This week, we will begin daily math learning centers, working with our new math instructional support teacher, Mrs. Pope!
 Science
N/A
 Social Studies
Native American Communities
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 Third-Grade Spelling Words
Week of November 16, 2009
Unit 3, Lesson 3
Story Selection: The legend of the Persian Carpet
Words with j sound
1. just
2. large
3. stranger
4. ledge
5. hedge
6. badge
7. fudge
8. ridge
9. judge
10. jelly
11. jacks
12. junk
13. range
14. charge
15. gentle
16. page
17. rage
18. ginger
19. edge
20. plunge
Some students have been instructed to study the first ten words only. They may decrease Monday’s homework assignment to 5 sentences and Tuesday’s assignment to 10 words in alphabetical order.
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 Vocabulary Words
Week of November 16, 2009
Unit 3, Lesson 3
Story Selection: The Legend of the Persian Carpet
(Students will match vocabulary words to definitions on Friday’s test, November 20th.)
- apprentices: people who work with and learn from a more experienced person
- weavers: workers who make cloth or rugs on a loom by passing threads or yarn over and under in a crisscross pattern
- dyers: people who change the color of fabric using dye – a substance that alters the color of something
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spinning: making long, thin pieces of fiber into yarn or thread
- loom: a machine for weaving thread or yarn into cloth
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design: to arrange the parts, colors, or patterns of something
(These words may be studied as bonus spelling words.)
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 Homework Calendar
Week of November 16, 2009
Monday – Write 10 sentences with a spelling word in each. Use proper capitalization and punctuation. Read at least 20 minutes, and record on reading log.
Tuesday – Alphabetize spelling words. Read at least 20 minutes, and record on reading log.
Wednesday – Complete math worksheet. Read at least 20 minutes and record on reading log.
Thursday – Take practice vocabulary and spelling tests. Read at least 20 minutes and record on reading log.
Friday – no required homework – Homework folders due!
Weekend -PLEASE SHARE TOGETHER as a family reading time, in order to prepare your child for next week’s reading and language arts lessons, Stardom Hasn’t Spoiled Lassie, from reading textbook. This story has a lexile which is too difficult for most third-graders. Please feel free to read this to your child. It will make our skills focus (theme) for next week much easier for your child, and will be a positive influence on his or her reading growth.
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