1. Reading/Language/Spelling
3rd
Grade
ELA
News
Weeks of
March 21st – March 31st
Spelling Words:
*Test on Friday, March 24th.
Words with suffix – tion/-sion and academic vocabulary
1. Permission 9. combination
2. Confession 10. question
3. Vision 11. attention
4. Please 12. independence
5. Action 13. constitution
6. Quotation 14. majority
7. Hunting 15. exact
8. Nation 16. national
*Test on Friday, March 31st.
Words with suffix – ful/-fully and academic vocabulary
1. beautiful
2. cheerful
3. harmful
4. playful
5. useful
6. colorful
7. thankfully
8. joyfully
9. helpfully
10. painfully
11. carefully
12. feature
13. bountiful
14. temperature
15. difference
16. thermometer
Grammar: Compound Predicates, Alliteration, Adjectives, and Adverbs, Complex Sentences.
Writing: Over the next 4 to 6 weeks we will working on writing in response to passages.
Reading/Language/Spelling
Main Selections:
Various poems, paragraphs, and passages.
Comprehension:
Students will compare and contrast ideas in poems, passages, and paragraphs and make connections to their own personal experiences and points of view. They will also identify main idea, author’s purpose, mood, and theme of a poem. We are working hard to prepare for the practice test on March 24th, and the end of the year reading gate on April 19th.
*Comprehension checks will be made periodically during the week.
Fluency:
We will focus on Expression, Rate, Punctuation, & Accuracy this week.
*I will take a G1 fluency grade every Friday.
Target Vocabulary:
*Test on Friday, March 10th.
March 21– March 31st Vocabulary
Microphone – an instrument for converting sound waves into electrical energy variations, which may then be amplified, transmitted, or recorded
Geometry – the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogs.
Autograph - a signature, especially that of a celebrity written as a memento for an admirer
Democracy – a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives
Antonym – a word opposite in meaning to another
Goddess – a woman who is adored, especially for her beauty
Biology – the study of living organisms, divided into many specialized fields that cover their physiology, behavior, and other qualities
Telescope – an optical instrument used to make distant objects appear nearer
Reminders
*Check and sign your child’s homework folder each night.
*Practice fluency each night for 1 minute, three times.
*Poem will be recited before the class on or before March 31st. Please practice with your child. Extra time will not be given. If you have misplaced the poem, you can find a copy on our website under “poems.”