Third Grade Announcements
Week of February 24-28, 2020 Last week of tutoring Tuesday & Thursday; 3:00-4:30 • Monday February 24: LANL Scientist Visit 9:30-11:00 and Cooking with Kids 12:45-2:45 • Tuesday February 25: NDI Dance, Please wear tennis shoes • Wednesday February 26: Tewa Language Class • Friday February 28: Tewa Language Class; Book Report Due Reading and Language Arts: The third graders are working on the theme “A Changing Nation”, Lesson 3, “The Overlanders.” Please read this story with your child at least 4 times at home to help him/her with fluency and comprehension. This story is a Historical Fiction, it contains facts about events that occurred in the history of America. Vocabulary for this story are: abandon, acres, ferry, territory, trade, and yoke. The spelling words for this week are: daughter, caught, better, less, talk, most, fought, yawn, bought, best, hawk, taught, chalk, least, auto, squawk, worst, launch . Mathematics: Topic 12; Understand Fractions as Numbers; Vocabulary: fraction, unit fraction, numerator, denominator, line plot, nearest half inch nearest fourth inch. Introducing Topic 13 Fraction Equivalence and Comparison. Monday: Read the decodable booklet and “The Overlanders”, Write the spelling words three times each. Tuesday: Compose descriptive sentences with the spelling words, Math 12.8 and Review Wednesday: Math Review prepare for the test on Topic 12 Thursday: Prepare for the spelling test, Read “The Overlanders” Friday: Historical Book Report Due