Due Date: By Wednesday, December 3, 2009
Assignments:
Family Writing: Write about 1-3 rooms in your home. Each one you write about should be a complete paragraph with topic sentence, at least 3 details and a concluding sentence or a transition (so the story flows from one idea to the next smoothly) into the next paragraph. Writing together encourages your child to see you having fun with writing, and allows you an opportunity to spend time with your child while he/she learns.
Literacy:
Language arts homework, “Peppers”, 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.
Math:
*We will continue to review adding and subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers. Ask your child to give you a number story, using subtraction or addition. (Ex. There were 234 students at the school. 145 had school lunch. How many brought lunches from home? 234-145=___) Student should be able to solve the problem using trading as well as finding the missing addend—while using a 300 chart if needed (145+ ____ = 234) (Ex. of thinking: 145+ 90= 235 and 235-1= 234, so 90-1=89) or counting backwards on the 300 chart. 234-100 or 10 tens=134, 134-40 or 4 tens=94, and 94-5 ones = 89.
* Complete the math word problem sheet, showing 2 different ways to solve the math problem.
*Continue practicing counting by 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s at home.
*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.
