WEEK OF MAY 4, 2009 3RD GRADE

REMINDERS: 1. Remember to bring all school supplies everyday, including the homework. 2. Please check your child’s purple assignment book every night for HW and notes. 3. We are in great need of tissue for the classroom. Please send in a box. 4. Your child should read a few chapters in their books every night and more on the weekend. The notes for the book will be started in the back of the Reading Notebook. Please make sure that your child reads the book because many of the children are lowering their Reading grade because of not doing well on the book tests. The test for this book will be May 21. 5. There will be a 2:30 dismissal on Friday, May 8. 6. Each child will be responsible for creating an advertisement for a product or service. This should not be a real name. It should be something they make-up. See Language Arts N.B. for details. This project will be due on Tues, May 12. It can be done on poster paper or plain white paper. The children will present their advertisements to the class. 7. The childen will need to write an essay on "Mother's Day Is A Special Day". It should be at least 2 paragraphs long (minimum of 12 sentences). The essay should be done on looseleaf and have a cover. It will be due on Friday, May 8. TESTS: SPELLING TEST on Friday 5/8 on the words from p. 47 in the spelling book. LANGUAGE ARTS TEST on Tues. 5/12. Review pp. 97-123 in the Language Handbook. VOCABULARY: THE TALENT SHOW gym, perform, prefer, roam, recite, enjoying, billions SPELLING WORDS: THE TALENT SHOW song, law, because, soft, dawn, crawl, lost, taught, long, pause, frost, lawn, hawk, laundry, author CHALLENGE WORDS: sausage, cafeteria, mustard, tablecloth, service READING MONDAY: May 4 AIM: To update portfolios LESSON: The children will update their Reading/ELA portfolios with current work. HW: see assignment book TUESDAY: May 5 NYSESLAT READING TEST WEDNESDAY: May 6 NYSESLAT LISTENING TEST HW: study for Spelling Test THURSDAY: May 7 AIM: To complete a Language Arts Test HW: study for Spelling Test FRIDAY: May 8 AIM: To take a Spelling Test LANGUAGE ARTS MONDAY, May 4 AIM: To decode and understand words with prefixes un- and re- LESSON: 1. The children will review the prefixes /un/ and /re/. 2. The children will use the context to determine the meaning of words that have more than one meaning (multiple meaning words). HW: see Assignment Book TUESDAY, May 5 NYSESLAT WRITING TEST WEDNESDAY, May 6 Continue NYSESLAT LISTENING TEST HW: study for Language Arts Test THURSDAY, May 7 N0 CLASS DUE TO COMPUTERS HW: review for Spelling Test FRIDAY, MAY 8 AIM: To complete a Reading Comprehension Activity HW:read book and take notes HAVE A GOOD WEEK!!!!!