Homework for November 12
Due Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2009
Assignments:
Family Writing: Write something about your family or the world around you that you are thankful for. You can add your own voice to it, by including your feelings into the paragraph. Be sure you have a beginning, middle, and ending. 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, “Dreaming of the Harvest”, 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.
Spelling:
Your child will be bringing words to practice home on Thursday this week. Spelling preview words will be sent home on Friday.
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.
*We’ve begun our unit on multiple groupings. Counting by 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s at home, will help us get started!
*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.
