3rd Grade Homework (Sept. 29th - Oct 3rd)

Story: Penguin Chick

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
Reading / Read
for 20 minutes / Read
for 20 minutes / Read
for 20 minutes / Read
for 20 minutes / Reading
Test
Spelling / Complete a task from spelling activity list. / Complete a task from spelling activity list. / Complete a task from spelling activity list. / Complete a task from spelling activity list. / Spelling
Test
READING/LA: / MATH:
Spelling Words:
Pattern: Vowel/Consonant Vowel, Vowel Consonant/Vowel
  1. finish
  2. pilot
  3. even
  4. wagon
  5. music
  6. silent
  7. rapid
  8. female
  9. lemon
  10. pupil
  11. focus
  12. robot
  13. tulip
  14. camel
  15. salad
/ Language Arts – Common and Proper Nouns
A common noun names any person, place, or thing. A proper noun names a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns begin with capital letters. The names of days, months, places, and holidays are proper nouns. Historical periods and special events are also proper nouns.
Common Nouns: You can see penguins at some zoos.
Proper nouns: On Labor Day, a penguin from Africa was displayed at the New York State Fair. / Students will be able to round to the nearest 10 or 100, determining perimeter, and begin developing proficiency in adding and subtracting whole numbers.
When you round to the nearest ten, you look at the digit in the ones place to help you decide whether to round up or round down. 0-4, digit stays the same. 5-9, add one to the tens place. (52 rounds to 50; 57 rounds to 60)
Perimeter of a shape or figure by adding the lengths of all its sides. A square with 2-inch sides has a perimeter of 2 in. + 2 in. + 2 in. + 2 in. = 8 in.
Adding and Subtracting 3-digit whole numbers: 173 + 342 = 515
385 – 154 = 231
Sight Words:
hold, hot, hurt *(Sight words will be tested on the spelling test.) / SCIENCE:
Students will review and demonstrate their knowledge of how to measure, test, record, describe, and classify the physical properties of matter. Students will review and demonstrate their knowledge of how to explore and recognize mixtures.
Matter, property, texture, hardness, sink, float, solid, liquid, gas, mass, volume, density, combine, mixture, separate
Content Words:
Main Idea – the most important idea about the topic.
Supporting Ideas – small pieces of information about the main idea.
**FLUENCY RATE:
Parents, each week there will be a fluency passage for students to read on the back of this homework sheet. Each night, time your child for one minute and note how many words are read. Count how many words are missed or changed/substituted. Subtract that number from the number of words read. The final number is your child's word per minute (wpm) fluency rate. Write that number on you child's planner next to your signature. This week's passage is Bart's Problem.
Vocabulary Words:
cuddles – curls up comfortably
flippers – limbs used for swimming
frozen – turned into solid ice
hatch – to come out from an egg
pecks – taps at
preen – to make yourself clean and neat
snuggles – to lie closely and comfortably together / SOCIAL STUDIES:
Students will be able to use cardinal and intermediate directions, compass rose, grid system, and symbols to locate places on a map or globe.
Cardinal directions, compass rose, map grid, map scale