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Mrs. JJ's
Third Grade Class
Reminders
**Read 20 minutes each night. Record Monday - Thursday on reading log.
**You are encouraged to bring a healthy snack and water each day. No sugar, please!
**Remember to go to lexile.com for great info on your child's reading level!
**Please save Labels for Education, Boxtops for Education, Tyson Project A+ labels, and poptops.
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Look what we're learning. . . January 5-9
Language Arts
Story Selection: Doctor De Soto
Key Skill: character
Grammar and Usage: possessive pronouns, apostrophes in possessives
Writing: humorous stories
Spelling: Unit III review words
· Math
What is Division?
Science
Interactions in Environments
Social Studies
Colonists, Map Skills
Homework
January 5--9
Tuesday – Write 10 sentences with a spelling word in each. Use proper capitalization and punctuation. Read Dr. Desoto. (Lexile is 560.) Record on reading log. Keep practicing the 1’s through the 5’s for multiplication.
Wednesday – Alphabetize spelling words. Read 20 minutes. Record on reading log.
Practice multiplication facts.
Thursday – Take practice spelling and vocabulary tests. Read 20 minutes. Record on reading log.
Practice multiplication facts.
Friday – no homework
Homework folders are to be returned each Friday.
Spelling Words
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- parade
- paste
- plain
- eighteen
- complained
- serve
- floor
- world
- thirsty
- worth
- strange
- large
- ginger
- edge
- just
- repainted
- framed
- refold
- unrolled
- recovered
- hound
- pain
- chance
- smoke
- bless
Some students have been assigned 10 words only. They may write 5 sentences on Monday and alphabetize 10 words on Tuesday.
Short-list guys: first 10 words only
Vocabulary Words
Unit III Plan 6
(Students will need to match the vocabulary words to their proper definitions on their reading test Friday, January 9th.)
bicuspid: a tooth with two points on its top
yank: to give a sudden, strong pull
extractor: a machine that pulls something out with great force
gauze: a light, thin cloth that is often used for bandages
toothaches: pains in or near teeth
dentine: the hard, thick material that makes up most of a tooth
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