Curriculum Update November 26-30

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On Friday, the third grade will have Tourism Day from 9:30-10:30. Your child has become an expert on a state and will become a tourism director, sharing the information with other grade levels. You are welcome to attend.

Reading
We will begin Theme 7, "On Moving Ground". The comprehension strategy is fix-up strategies. The vocabulary words are anticipate, realize, favorite, surface, and volcano.

Spelling
The spelling lists for this week is synonyms and antonyms.

list 1:  aim, loss, empty, male, female, profit, heavy, light, scare, full
list 2: vacant, purpose, provide, furnish, attack, clutch, grasp, guard, frighten, startle
list 3: (uper, sur (over, above, beyond) superb, superimpose, superintendent, superior, supervisor, surcharge, surplus, surprise, surreal, surtax

Writing

We will continue working on personal narratives with quotations.

Math
We will begin Topic 6, Multiplication Facts: Use Known Facts in math. This week we will cover the distributive property, 3 as a factor, 4 as a factor, 6 and 7 as a factor, 8 as a factor, and multiplying with 3 factors.
 

SS
We will continue our geography unit. The students each have a state they have been conducting research on. They also have been learning about different types of maps, continents, oceans, lines on a map, how to create a map, features, map keys and symbols. On Friday, November 30, they will have a tourism day culminating everything they have learned. They will also have a geography test on all the continents, oceans, compass rose and intermediate directions.

Have a fantastic week!