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Assignments:
Family Writing and Speech:
Write notes on cards to tell about what character you are planning on dressing up as for Friday, October 30. Include (one card for each topic): Who Is My Character (book and author), What I Like Best About My Character, Why I Chose this Character, Anything Else I Want to Share About My Character. Be prepared to present to the class on Friday. This will count as your first speech for the year. I will be scoring on:
*Students will be scored on:
1. Having a beginning (Grab our interest!!), middle, and an ending …the more interesting the better!
2. Using appropriate language (grammar).
3. Giving the audience eye contact and appropriate body gestures.
4. Speaking loud enough for the audience to hear.
5. Keeping the body from fidgeting.
Writing and working on speeches together encourages your child to see you having fun, and allows you an opportunity to spend time with your child while he/she learns.
Literacy:
Language arts homework, “Thunder and Lightning ”, is similar in format and skills to the Oregon third grade reading assessment. It will benefit your child greatly to complete it each week. PLEASE feel free to help your child with it, even on some of the reading, if necessary.
Read 30 minutes at home each day. The bookmark needs to be filled out and returned.
Extra Things with Different Due Dates:
Math:
Your child needs to continue working on memorizing the addition facts and work on subtraction facts.
*A few students are still weak in counting money. Help at home with real money would be helpful.
*Try having your child divide a pocketful of change equally into two piles.
*Continue playing “Close to 100”. Please play this often at home. It will take a lot of practice! Using a 100 chart could be helpful in adding.
*Continue playing the math game I sent home. “Plus-Minus-Stay the Same” at least once a week.
