Week 1 Overview

Each week, we will provide a glimpse of what we have studied, learned, practiced, or maybe just what's been introduced in 3rd grade. We will be together for 36 weeks, so we will be learning a great deal.

Here's an idea of what we studied or were introduced to during week 1:

Independent reading- We are working on increasing our personal, silent reading time from 15 minutes to 30 minutes between now and the end of September. Everyone is enjoyed choosing their own books this week.

Bible & Fluency- Psalm 90:1-2 (We are also trying to memorize these verses)

Grammar- Diagramming short sentences that include only a subject and a verb

Spelling- Review of sounds and words with "in" and adding inflected endings (-s, -ed, -ing)

Vocabulary- We seek to increase our vocabulary with 15 words a week. Here are 6 that were completely unknown to our 3rd grade students before this week: accustom, burly, compatible, concept, jostle, pedestrian

Writing- About ourselves and about our summer (we are just getting a baseline, so we will know what level we are starting at and have something to compare to our writing at the end of the year)

Science- Biology & taxonomy: classification of living things

Math Fluency- adding 0 or 1 to a number and recognizing multiples of 2

Math- Place value into the ten thousands and number patterns

History & Geography- Since we are studying World History for the next two years, we started learning about Ancient Egypt and how historians and archeologists gather information to learn about ancient civilizations. We are also learning about nomads and the first farmers.

We've also had read-alouds (pictures above), poetry, coloring, playtime, and getting to know each other during recess and lunch. We even tried dates (one of the foods grown by Egyptians). It's been a great week!

THIS WEEK'S Usborne Quicklinks (access under classroom links):

Book: 12,000 Years of World History
Pages: 10-11, 12-13, 14-15, and 20-21
Suggestion: Go to pages 20-21, choose website 5 to take an audio tour of the ancient Nile Valley

Happy reading!