Due Date: By Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Assignments:
Family Writing: Work with your child to write a goal. Make a list of why the goal will be helpful and 3 things that will need to be done to achieve the goal. Then write the topic sentence stating the goal and why it’s a good goal. Next write three detail sentences stating the three things that will need to be done to achieve this goal. Concluding sentence states how your child will feel after goal is achieved. 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, “The Pie Man”, 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:
This week we began new activities during Number Corner. Temperature, number patterns on a 101-200 board, reading and interpreting bar, line, and pictographs, arrays (rectangles) to figure multiplication and fractions, and elapsed time. We will continue to work on subtraction, learning different strategies to add and subtract 2- or 3-digit numbers. This is a good time for your child to be practicing multiplication facts at home. Twos, threes, fives and tens should be memorized.
*A new math game, “Cover 50” is in this packet. The directions are attached, along with the 50 pieces that will need to be cut out and saved in an envelope or baggie. We played this game at school for the first time today.
* This week I’ll begin sending home math problems, similar to OAKS (state assessment) to help students practice for their first math assessment in late January.
*Your child needs to continue working on memorizing the addition facts and memorizing the subtraction facts.
*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.
*Book orders are due by Friday. This is the last chance before vacation to order books!
