Welcome to Mrs. Shelley’s third grade!
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Thank you in advance for your cooperation. I am confident that we will have a great year!
Third grade Week of January 27
*ELA
Unit 4 One of a Kind
Essential Question: What does it mean to be unique?
Story selection : Hottest, Coldest, highest, Deepest
Guided Question: What makes nature’s record holders unique ?
Students will understand that nature has
- unusual appearances
- extreme weather
- extreme events
Students will be able to have a group discussion, read and write about
natures record holders
Skill development
- R- controlled vowels
- graphic sources
- important ideas
- unknown words
Students will be able to
- Identify subject and object pronouns
- Read with appropriate phrasing
- Identify words with r controlled vowels
- identify vocabulary words and understand for meaning
- identify cause & effect when reading
- write an imaginative story
- find unknown words- dictionary/glossary skills
- Use context clues when reading sentences
- Create a concept map
Voc & spelling Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
- evergreen a plant that has green leaves throughout the year
- lumber wood that has been cut into boards or planks to use in building
- competitor someone who tries hard to win or get something wanted by others
- plunge to throw something or yourself into something with force
to fall or move downward suddenly
- valuable worth a great deal of money
- champ someone who wins first place in a contest
- sprinter an athlete who races over short distances
- acrobat a performer who can do stunts such as somersaults or handstands
- weaken make or become weaker in power
- ranger someone whose job is taking care of a national park or forest
Spelling words
- third 11. nerve
- early 12. worm
- world 13. thirsty
- certain 14. workout
- dirty 15. earn
- herself 16. determine
- earth 17. commercial
- word 18. whirlwind
- perfect 19. worthwhile
- verb 20. virtual
Math Topic 8
Topic 8 use strategies and properties to add and subtract
Essential question: How can sums and differences be estimated and found mentally?
Students will be able to:
- find addition properties
- find addition patterns
- round whole numbers
*Religion Chapter 10 The Church prays
Overview and chapter story
Students will understand that:
- Jesus teaches his followers how to pray
- we can pray with others or alone
- there are different kinds of prayers
- the Church prays at all times
*Social Studies Inventions shape communities
Objective: How have some inventions helped shape communities?
How have communities become a safer place to live?
Students will learn about:
- the Great Chicago fire
- a new city takes shape
- the changing face of cities
- improving city life
- discoveries in health
- community safety
Vocabulary
- skyscraper a very tall building
- invention a thing that has been made for the first time
- elevator a small room that can be raised or lowered to carry people
and things from one floor to another in a building
- pasteurization the use of heat to stop germs from growing in food
- preserve to store something so that it can be used later
- vaccine a liquid that contains the dead or weakened germs of a certain disease
Science Unit C Earth’s Land
Objective: What are minerals and rocks?
How do rocks form?
Students will understand:
- how people identify and use minerals and rocks
- how rocks form
Chapter 1 Minerals, rocks, and fossils
- minerals and rocks
- types of rocks
- how rocks form
- fossil layers
Vocabulary
- mineral an object that is solid, it is formed in nature, and has never been alive
- rock a solid made of minerals
- crust the solid outside layer of the earth
- mantle the middle layer of the earth
- core the center of the earth
- igneous rock a rock that was once melted rock but has cooled and hardened
- sedimentary rock a rock formed from material that has settled into layers and been
squeezed until it hardens into rock
- metamorphic rock a rock that has been changed by heat and pressure
- rock cycle the process in which one type of rock changes into another type of rock
- fossil something that has lasted from a living thing that died long ago
