Homework for Wednesday, April 12, 2012

Due Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Third graders begin second round of reading state assessments (OAKS) next week. Please encourage your child to do his or her best! I have placed a game on our Blog Site that may be used to practice math vocabulary words that may be on the OAKS math assessment. Please take the time to go over the words with your child. At the top right side of our classroom Blog page, you can subscribe to our Blog, and new postings will show up on your Google homepage. http://forestridgec4.blogspot.com/ Assignments: Family /Math/Activity/Computer: Choose a favorite family recipe. For math, student chooses the measuring tools and measures the ingredients carefully, making the recipe with parent guidance. For math practice, the student figures the amount of ingredients if he/she doubled the recipe (Students have learned how to add fractions with like denominators. E.g. 1/3 + 1/3 = 2/3). Next, student writes down the amounts he’d/she’d use to double the recipe. For computer practice, student types the original recipe. Student types his/her name under the recipe’s name (Type in: From the kitchen of (student’s name)). Be sure to include how many servings (Type: Makes ___Servings). Then type the recipe’s ingredients’ amounts and instructions. Next save the recipe on the computer. After that, change the ingredients’ amounts to double the recipe, and save that, too. Then e-mail the two recipes (original and double) to me. Here’s my e-mail: ryan_ginny@salkeiz.k12.or.us Reading: Language arts homework, “So Many Years” (3rd grade reading level) and “Mountain Magic” (2nd grade reading level) are 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. I tried to give your child the story at the reading level that will benefit him/her the most. Keep reading 30 minutes each day. Don’t forget to help your child remember to bring the RAH (Read at Home) folder back to school each day. If you don’t have time to read one evening, please still sign the card with 0 minutes written in. That’s ok once in awhile! Math: * No worksheets this week because of the recipe doubling activity. *Use Sumdog website. If you need your username and password, please ask me for it. * Go to: www.xtramath.org. Follow the directions on your XtraMath letter (in your packet last week). Practice 10-15 minutes each day! Only eleven students have participated in this. The feedback I’ve had from parents has been very positive! It’s such a great way to practice the math facts quickly!