WEEK OF FEB. 2-6, 2009 3RD GRADE

REMINDERS: 1. 11:30 dismissal Weds. 2/4 due to a Faculty Meeting 2. Dismissal on Friday will be 4:00 3. Picture Money due to Mrs. Resto in the Tuition Office by Friday 2/6 4. There will be a Book Fair all of next week 5. Please read your book each night (Ramona- girls/ Charlie &the Chocolate Factory-boys). You should be reading a chapter every day. Remember to write notes in the Reading NB. that is already set up. The test for your book will be on Thurs. Feb. 26 TESTS: Spelling Test- Friday, 2/6 Words on p. 30 (Balto) READING: VOCABULARY WORDS: Turtle Bay message, litter, trained, patiently, wise, eager Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome splinters, telegraph, trail, guided, drifts, temperature SPELLING WORDS: Turtle Bay known, written, laugh, sphere, wreck, writer, wrong, wrap, wrench, knocked, knot, wring, enough, rough, wrinkle

CHALLENGE WORDS:tortoise, dolphin, sea horse, whale, coral

Spelling Words: Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome shot, chance, match, watch, showed, shock, pushed, such, crash, chew, batch, hitched, sharp, mush, speech CHALLENGE WORDS: medicine, equipment, crutch, nurse, hospital Mon. 2/2 Aim: to review author's purpose and words to which the ending -ed has been added Lesson: 1. discuss the selection and determine the author's purpose for writing it 2. to review root words with the ending /ed/ to show the action of the verb happened in the past. HW: see purple assignment book Tues. 2/3 No reading class due to the correcting of the NYS 6th grade ELA test Weds. 2/4 Aim: to review all vocabulary words and to discuss making predictions (comprehension) Lesson: 1.review the meanings of all word wall vocabulary for Theme 2 2. discuss the three things that readers can do to make predictions in narrative nonfiction. HW: see purple assignment book Thurs. 2/5 No reading class due to the correcting of the 8th grade NYS ELA exam Friday, 2/6 Aim: to take a spelling test and to review word relationships Lesson: 1. Spelling Test on the words on p. 30 in the Spelling Book 2. Review word relationships: synonyms, antonyms, homophones LANGUAGE ARTS: Monday, 2/2 Aim: to review irregular plural nouns (see pp. 100-105) Lesson: to review plural nouns where the spelling of the word changes completely. HW: see assignment book Tues., 2/3 No Language Arts Class Weds., 2/4 Aim: to review singular possessive nouns Lesson: 1.Write the definition of a possessive noun and singular possessive noun in Lang. Arts NB 2. do some practice exercises to review the concept HW: see assignment book Thurs., 2/5 No Lang. Arts Class Friday 2/6 Aim: to review the rules for writing a Personal Narrative Lesson: to write a personal narrative about an experience you have had in your life.