We will be finished with the Language Arts portion of the CST this week - yippee!! Next week we will be testing on Math.
 
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Updated May 15, 2013

We will focus on these Essential California Standards for third grade:

1. Distinguish the main idea and supporting details in expository text.

2. Distinguish common forms of literature (poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction).

3. Determine what characters are like by what they say or do and by how the author or illustrator portrays them.

4. Use knowledge of antonyms, synonyms, homophones, and homographs to determine the meaning of words.

5. Use sentence and word context to find the meaning of unknown words.

6. Use knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to determine the meaning of words.

Following are the homophones students should know: there-their-they're, to-two-too, for-four, ate-eight, one-won, by-buy-bye, right-write, blue-blew, dear-deer, eye-I, hole-whole, hour-our, know-no, knot-not, clothes-close,knew-new, tale-tail, hare-hair, knight-night, waist-waste, see-sea, peace-piece, plain-plane, read-red, threw-through, which-witch, board-bored, ant-aunt, brake-break, we"ll-wheel, knows-nose, son-sun, sail-sale,some-sum, stare-stair, way-weigh,rode-road, be-bee-where-wear, wood-would, four-flower, mail-male, here-hear, horse-hoarse, wear-ware-where, bear-bare, sore-soar, pail-pale, pour-poor, do-dew-due.

Prefixes to understand this year: re- (again), un- (not), pre- (before), dis- (not), mis- (wrong), bi- (two)

Suffixes to understand this year: -ful (full of), -less (without), -ly (in a __ way), -ness (state of being __), -ward (in the direction of), -er (one who __ or comparing 2 things)

Read your library book every night, & take a test when done. Find the answers in your book. Click here: AR

Read an article from KidBiz and complete the activity & thought question. Be sure to refer back to the article for the answers. Click here to get started: KidBiz

SEQUENCING:

Brushing Your Teeth

Going Trick or Treating

Making Homemade Pizza

Harcourt Passages

COMPREHENSION:

Professor Garfield NEW

Supporting Details

Making Predictions 

Match Cause and Effect

Parts of a Book

Matching Book Parts

References

GENRES:

Fiction-Nonfiction NEW

Fairy Tale-Cinderella

*Review the Elements of the Story (Setting, Characters,etc.) located on tabs above picture

Fairy Tale-Rapunzel

Fairy Tale-Collection

Folktale-Why the Sky Is High

Biography-Famous People

HOMONYMS:

Homophones

Homograph Jeopardy

Matching Cards Game

Picture Match

SPELLING:

Spelling City

Toone Town Alphabetize

SYNONYMS-ANTONYMS:

Antonyms Matching Squares

Antonym Concentration

Land of the Rocket

SUBJECTS-PREDICATES:

Nouns Basketball

Verbs Game Verb Viper - challenge!

Nouns-Verbs Ice Cream - good practice!

Nouns-Verbs Clean Up Grammar

Toone University Parts of Speech

Prefixes - Suffixes Practice:

Rabbit Learns a Lesson

Jeopardy

Prefix-Suffix Matching Game

Suffixes

WRITING SENTENCES PRACTICE:

Sentence Punctuation 

Build a Sentence

Sentence Patchworker Game

Power Proofreading - great practice!

SYLLABLES:

Syllables Space Station

Syllables Roller Coaster

CONTRACTIONS:

Fly By

Type the Contraction

Contractions Match

We Are Here

WRITING:

Create a Character - describe the character you make

Story Plant Comic Creator

Letter Generator

Students reading UNDER AR LEVEL 2.5:

These skills games for decoding & sound recognition are good:

Word Family Sorts - NEW

Construct a Word - NEW

Consonant Blender

Rhyming Rap

Rhyme Little Animals

Rhyme with Reggie

Vowel Wizards

Vowels with Poems - use "read it" & "sound search"

KEYBOARDING:

Dance Mat Typing

One of the most important Math Standards students must master in third grade is memorizing the multiplication facts up to 10. Practice daily by selecting Multiplication.Com below. Then select a game that allows you to choose the multiplication fact you are currently working on. Also, remember to practice making your multiplication chart every night.

Within the California Standards we are learning, the following are Essential California Standards we are focusing on for Math:

1. Identify the place value for each digit in numbers to 10,000.

2. Use expanded notation to represent numbers.

3. Solve simple problems involving multiplication of multi-digit numbers by one digit numbers.

4. Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of money amounts in decimal notation by using whole number multipliers and divisors.

5. Represent relationships of quantities in the form of mathematical expressions, equations, or inequalities.

6. Estimate or determine the area and volume of solid figures by covering them with the s quares or by counting the number of cubes that would fill them.

7. Find the perimeter of a polygon with integer sides.

 

You can review today's lesson by clicking here for Math, and then choose the same number of the lesson as your homework number in the upper right corner. Below are games to practice various skills:

Third Grade Skills Practice IXL

 

PLACE VALUE:

Tank Game - challenge to play! Read instructions!

Pirates Place Value

ELab Place Value

Football Place Value - better be sports fan!

Which One Rounds

Walk the Plank

Place Value Manipulatives - great practice!

Comparing Numbers

Toone University Place Value Golf

Place the Penguin Cyberchase 

ROUNDING NUMBERS:

Rounding Spaceships

Rounding Sharks

Glowla Estimation Contraption

ADDITION:

Addition Add Challenge Game

Robot Game

Popper Game

Spacey Facts - add, subtract, multiply, divide

SUBTRACTION:

Subtraction Island Chase

Minus Mission

MULTIPLICATION:

Multiplication.Com - assortment of games to practice from

Grand Prix - fun! You can race other people online.

Multiplication Table - choose DRILL option

Toone University Multiply 4,5,6

Multiplication Camel

Skip Count 5

Skip Count 10

DIVISION:

Division Mine Game

Division as Opposite

ALL MATH FACTS (add, subtract, multiply, divide)

Monkey Drives - challenge to play! Choose any game you want.

Fact Dash

GEOMETRY


Match Geometric Shapes

Triangle Sort Shapes Drag

Birds Eye View

3D Shapes

ALGEBRA:

Write Equations

Fling the Teacher - Add & Subtract

Quick Operations - Challenge!

Stop That Creature - Challenge!

Which Number

FRACTIONS:

Fraction Naming - great practice!

Pizza Party Fraction - Cross the River

Melvin Make a Match

Fraction Circles

Fractions Pizza

Fractions Visualizing - great practice!

Fishy Fractions

MEASUREMENT:

Toone University Size Estimation

You Fix It - Challenge!

Sleuths On the Loose

Send In the Trolls - just for fun

DATA ANALYSIS


Bugs In the System - make a chart

Cyber Olympics - just for fun

Probability Spinner

Science will be taught during the third trimester.

Planets Video

Astronomy for Kids

Toon University Planets

Earth, Sun, Moon Quiz

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