Week 8 Overview

Well, we are moving right along and getting closer to the end of the first 9 weeks. What? The end of the first 9 weeks already? That's right. We just finished week 8. All of our students have grown so much in just 8 weeks. Here are some things we are studying this week:

Language Arts, Bible, & History:

• We are finishing up our second Ramona chapter book titles Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
• We have finished reading enough different books that we punched all the holes in our reading challenge bookmark! We will celebrate with a special showing of Charlie Brown Halloween next Friday.
• We are up to verse 14 in Psalm 139 for fluency and memorization.
• Finally moving out of the ancient world and into the classical world by jumping into Greek life. Our timeline covers 500 BC to AD 500 for the next several weeks.
• Course is our word winner for vocabulary lesson 4.
• We learned more about the Ten Commandments and the Holy Tent (Exodus & Leviticus)

Math:

• We have moved on from addition fact fluency to multiplication fluency. We are busy memorizing how to skip count by 6s and 9s this week.
• Single digit multiplication and the division facts that go with these expressions.

Science:

• Reptiles and Amphibians: how they move, defend themselves, sound, eat, work together with other animals, and all about their poison

Co-op:

• How to play 9-square in the air in PE
• Our 3rd graders finished their last "backyard ballistics" class by making double barrel rubber band guns from a handful of office supplies
• We had our 2nd week with the baby chicks...they grew so fast!
• It was our last week to study the artist Winslow Homer in ACP and we continued our study of Emily Dickinson

It's the weekend, so everyone enjoy yours! Mrs. Coleman will be celebrating her 43rd birthday! It's going to be a great weekend. :)

Usborne Quicklinks ~ Week 7

Enjoy using the Usborne Quicklinks site by finding the book listed below on their site and looking at the cool videos they have for each of the pages we are studying.

For 3rd Grade~ Science

Book: Mysteries and Marvels of Nature

Pages 82-83 See:

• baby pythons slitting their eggs open to hatch
• cobra lays eggs, then they hatch
• Surinam toads hatch from their mother's back
• baby crocodiles and their parents

Pages 94-95 See:

• video clip of amphibians
• difference between an amphibian and a reptile
• a hellbender salamander move along the bottom of a river
• a sea snake swimming under water

For All Grades~ History

Book: 12,000 Years of World History

Pages 34-35 Palaces and Tombs
Pages 36-37 Warriors and Traders
Pages 58-59 The Power of Persia

Happy Learning!