Mrs. Castro's 3rd Grade Class 2013-2014: Homework

Homework

Homework will be assigned each Monday and will be due the following Friday. This should allow you as a family the flexibility to manage your home time as you wish. Your student will bring home a weekly planner that will state what the weeks homework is. This planner needs to be signed by a parent and returned on Friday with homework. Our third grade team has a few different projects through out the year that will involve some at home work. These projects will be given in advance with ample time for your child to complete them. If homework is not returned on Friday, the child will miss their free time for that afternoon. If homework is missed more than three times, I will contact the parent. IMPORTANT: Homework is meant to practice concepts that have been taught in the classroom. I will not send homework for your child to complete that they have not worked on prior in the classroom. I will also post each week on this blog what the homework for the week is.

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Week of April 21 - 24th

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Unit 9 pages 3, 4, 5, & 7
Social Studies:
We are beginning our Mini Society Economics unit. As part of our mini society, each third grader will be responsible for creating a product at home to sell here at school. Your child will need to create multiples of the product. This week your child will be thinking of "what" they would like that product to be. They will be bringing home a packet that explain what they need to do. Please encourage your student be creative and unique in their product choice.

Week of April 7 - 11th

Writing: Your student is to think of a topic or issue that they know and care about, an issue around which they have strong feelings. They can find information from outside sources that they can use and bring to school. Our class will be writing a persuasive speech tomorrow on their chosen topic.

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Unit 2 pages 29, 32, 33, 35, & 36 (NO page 31)

Spelling words for this week: Silent Letters

knee whose catacomb High frequency words: pitcher, picture

knock plumber subtle important, answer, we'll

write tomb knowledge

written crumb knapsack

castle knotted campaign

listen knob benign

catch sign cologne

match wrestle champagne

climb wrapper playwrite

lamb column

Week of March 17 - 21st

Science: When you jump into the air, you are always pulled back to the Earth by gravity. You can feel the pull of gravity between yourself and the Earth. Explain why you CANNOT feel the pull of gravity between yourself and another person.

Writing: We are finishing up our informational writing and publishing. To publish your writing you need to :

Go to the GRE website

Student Information

Useful links

Art & Technology

DCSD Student google log in

(You can also google the word google and go into your mail that way)

Once into your email account you need to go to the square of dots at the top.

Go to Drive

Create

Document

Hit "share" in the blue box at the top

You will need to name your document first

then type my name in the "invite people" spot Lara Castro

Save

Done

You should be all set. Google Doc's will automatically save your document for you.

Week of March 10 - 14th
No Homework due to Tcap testing

Week of March 3 - 7th
No Homework due to Tcap testing

Week of February 24 - 28th

Reading: 20 minutes each night
Math: Unit 2 pages 3,4,5,6 & 11
There is also an additional math packet that went home with some students.

Spelling words for this week: We are working on singular possesive and plural words.
Your student will not have any specific words to study for this week.

Week of February 18 - 21st

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Practice MAP math website 20 minutes each night

http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/pages/studentlinks/map/

Week of February 10 - 13th
No Homework

Week of February 3 - 7th

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: (2) Math 4 today sheet (I have told the kids that if they are struggling on a problem to please circle it and we can go over it on Friday) Investigations Pages 21 & 27

Spelling words for this week: Irregular Plural Nouns

noise deploy turquoise High frequency words: hour, our, remember,

voice coil meteoroid because, didn't

joint point trapezoid

loyal hoist paranoid

moist appointment disappoint

enjoy coin foyer

choice employee corduroy

voyage alloy oyster

destroy boil poisonous

avoid ointment rejoice

Week of January 27 - 31

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Math 4 today sheet (I have told the kids that if they are struggling on a problem to please circle it and we can go over it on Friday) Multiplication practice sheet (x2)

Spelling words for this week: Irregular Plural Nouns

feet elves appendices High frequency words: which, witch, probably,

tooth calves cacti understand, enough

man loaves nuclei

women halves moose

person wolves geese

child knives hooves

mouse shelves analyses

sheep lives criteria

fish wives volcanoes

deer selves phenomena

Week of January 20 - 24
NO HOMEWORK

Week of January 13 - 16

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Unit 7 pages5, 7, 9, 10

Practice math facts for 15 minutes each night

(This can be done on math fact cafe which is a free web site/ Flash to pass, a free application, or just your plain old fashion flash cards)

NO SPELLING WORDS THIS WEEK

Week of November 11 - 15

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Unit 5 pages

Practice math facts for 15 minutes each night

(This can be done on math fact cafe which is a free web site/ Flash to pass, a free application, or just your plain old fashion flash cards)

Social Studies: Football Geography (Due on Wed 13th)

Spelling words for this week: Consonant Blends and Clusters

floor inspect Christmas High frequency words: their, they're, since, sentence,

print collect Thanksgiving ready

space protect atmosphere

planet place dispatcher

small please erosion

adult phrase hemisphere

scratch shrink paraphrase

insect graph abstract

pumpkin spectator bloodstream

spread stuffing chemistry

Week of November 4 - 8

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Practice math facts for 15 minutes each night

(This can be done on math fact cafe which is a free web site/ Flash to pass, a free application, or just your plain old fashion flash cards)

Social Studies: Football Geography (Due on Wed 6th)

Week of October 28 - November 1

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Practice math facts for 15 minutes each night

(This can be done on math fact cafe which is a free web site/ Flash to pass, a free application, or just your plain old fashion flash cards)

Social Studies: Football Geography (Due on Wed 30th)

Week of October 20 - 25

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Practice math facts for 15 minutes each night

(This can be done on math fact cafe which is a free web site/ Flash to pass, a free application, or just your plain old fashion flash cards)

Social Studies: Football Geography (Due on Wed 22nd)

Week of October 13 - 17

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Practice math facts for 15 minutes each night

(This can be done on math fact cafe which is a free web site/ Flash to pass, a free application, or just your plain old fashion flash cards)

Social Studies: Football Geography (Due on Wed 15th)

Spelling words for this week: long /u/ Silent e / Open Syllables

tube High frequency words: were, where, important,

huge friend, didn't

true

glue

refuse

super

usual

music

used

uniform

Week of October 7 - 10

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Practice math facts for 15 minutes each night

(This can be done on math fact cafe which is a free web site/ Flash to pass, a free application, or just your plain old fashion flash cards)

Social Studies: Football Geography (Due on Wed 9th)

No Spelling

Week of Sept 30 - Oct 4

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Unit 5 pages 7,8, & 9 Plus Family Letter

Social Studies: Football Geography (Due on Wed 2nd)

Now & Then Project

Word Work Sheet for /ow/

Spelling words for this week: long /o/ ow / Open syllables

grow owl rowing High frequency words: there, their, those, also,

follow frown bungalow almost

shown flower slowly

own growl gallows

window sow mellow

over howl scarecrow

open gown overgrown

robot crown disown

total drown stow

motor

Week of September 23 - 26

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Cut out array cards and place in a Ziplock bag

Social Studies: Football Geography (Due on Wed 25th)

Now & Then Project

NO SPELLING THIS WEEK!

Week of September 16 - 20

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Unit 1 pages 49, 50, 51, & 52

Social Studies: Football Geography (Due on Wed 18th)

Now & Then Project

Spelling words for this week: long i - CVCe, ugh, i-e, i.e.

nine wise describe High frequency words: too, two, might, again,

line arise valentine least

while beside tighten

write quiet delight

life excite frighten

high strike supplies

sigh provide satisfied

fight tight purified

night flight vampire

bright

Week of September 9 - 13

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Counting money pages (nickels, quarters, and money up to $5)

Sunshine math (optional program)

Social Studies: Football Geography (Due on Wed 11th)

Spelling words for this week:

meet teacher breathe High frequency words: here, hear, keep, because,

week knead feature remember

asleep theme agreement

dream sneak intervene

freedom seize persevere

sneeze grease Chinese

easy least incomplete

between

please

Week of September 3 - 6

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Unit 1 pages 24, and 25

Football Geography

Week of August 26 - 30

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Unit 1 pages 11, 12, 17, and 18

Sunshine math (optional program)

Social Studies: Geography, your student needs to pick their three favorite NFL football teams for out classroom draft. The draft will take place either Friday or Tuesday.

Week of August 19 - 23

Reading: 20 minutes each night

Math: Unit 1 pages 5, 6, & 7

Sunshine math (Please read the parent letter, this is an optional program)

Social Studies: Tagxedo project

Week of August 14 - 16

This weeks home work is a little different in that I have sent it home on Wednesday and would like it returned no later than Monday of the following week.

August 14, 2013

Dear Parents,

We had a wonderful first day together and are very excited about the school year. For our first read aloud, we are reading the book Judy Moody was in a Mood. Not a Good Mood. A Bad Mood. It is about a young girl who is just starting Third Grade. In the book her teacher, Mr. Todd, asks the students to create a “Me Collage.” So we too, are going to create “Me Collages” to support building our classroom community. Your child will draw, cut out pictures, or paste things to their collage that tells the class what makes them, them. This is where we need your help – yep, homework already! Please assist your child in finding photographs, magazine clippings, words, etc. that represent the items listed below and send them to school with this letter in the attached Ziploc bag marked with your child’s name by Monday, August 19, 2013. Try to find the first ten items listed below to be included on their collage. Then they can fill in any other items to make their collage unique. I will provide the poster board and we will create the collages here in the classroom.

Students will also have the opportunity to present their collage to the class and they will be displayed in the classroom.

Concepts that could be represented on your Me Collage:

Your family.

Your favorite pet or if you don’t have a favorite pet, think of a pet you would love to have.

Your favorite foods.

Your best friends.

Clubs you belong to or clubs you would like to belong to.

Sports you are involved in.

Hobbies.

The worst thing that ever happened to you.

The funniest thing that ever happened to you.

The best place you have ever visited.

Anything that makes you, YOU!

Thank You,

Mrs. Castro