Ms. Antido's

3rd Grade Classroom

April 7th -11th, 2008

Announcements:

Don’t forget Jumpstart is Monday and Friday Mornings at 7:45 am.

Reading Benchmark is on Tuesday April 8, 2008.

This week's story is "Mailing May”

Mailing May

Handle With Care!

May wants to visit her grandmother, but there is one problem- the train ticket is too expensive.  So, May’s parents come up with a brilliant idea to get her where she needs to go.  They mail her! Complete with stamps and a mailing label, May travels on the mail train to see her Grandma Mary.

 

Vowels in final syllables often sound alike even if they are spelled differently.

lemon - open              final  - travel

 

Story Vocabulary

bundled

station

conductor

carted

label

mailing

 

Spelling

found

one

sure

bundled

until

always

almost

conductor

alone

a lot

doing

mailing

hasn’t

couldn’t

hadn’t

station

angry

hungry

special

label

 

                 

Grammar: - Contractions and conjunctions; compound sentences

Reading Skills:  Reading Skill Lesson ~ Setting

The setting is the time and place of a story. An author may not always tell you when and where a story takes place. Look for details that point to the setting in a story. The setting can also have an effect on how the characters in a story act.

When May’s father tells her that he works all day to earn only $1.55, this is a clue about when the story takes place. We can tell that this story must take place tin the past.

Math: Continue working on Measurements as well as reading thermometers.  Take Chapter 24 test Thursday over Measurements.

Science: Finishing up Chapter 3 in Science and taking test over it on Friday.

Remember that each student must have 8 AR points before the end of the 5th six weeks period.  

April Spellbound

April 27,2008

pasture

sturdy

swift

chores

squirrel

designed

famous

nickel

another

special

conductor

bundled

label

pronounced

refrigerator

success

because

sauce

watched

hurled