Lively’s Reading

First Half of  1^st NineWeeks

Theme:  Dollars and Sense

Week 1:  Boom Town/Genre: Historical Fiction

*Objectives: Context Clues; Realism/Fantasy; Activate/Use Prior Knowledge

*Vocabulary:  boom, business, coins, fetched, laundry, mending, pick, skillet, spell, bustle, nuggets, prospector

*Spelling:        happen             lettuce             basket              winter            sister   

                       Monster           supper             subject            lesson              spelling                                 napkin             collar              traffic              suggest           puppet  

Challenge:       skillet               picnic               planet              system           pumpkin

*Language:  Sentences

Week 2:  What About Me?/Genre: Fable

*Objectives:  Word Structure; Sequence; Summarize 

*Vocabulary:  carpenter, carpetmaker, knowledge, marketplace, merchant, plenty, straying, thread; stunned; wanderer

*Spelling:        pennies            inches              plants               families            bodies 

                        glasses             wishes             pockets            lists                  copies 

                        parties              bunches           crashes           supplies           pencils

Challenge:       accidents         libraries            mysteries       carpenters       merchants

*Language:  Subjects and Predicates

Week 3:  Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday/Genre: Realistic Fiction

*Objectives:  Glossary or Dictionary; Sequence; Visualize

*Vocabulary:  college, dimes, downtown, fined, nickels, quarters, rich, positively, token

*Spelling:        using                getting             easiest              swimming        heavier

                        greatest            pleased          emptied             leaving            worried

                        strangest          freezing         funniest             angrier           shopped

Challenge:       included          occurred          supplying           scarier            happiest

*Language:  Statements and Questions

Week 4:  If You Made a Million/Genre: Nonfiction

*Objectives:  Context Clues; Realism/ Fantasy; Monitor and Fix Up

*Vocabulary:  amount, check, earned, expensive, interest, million, thousand, value, worth, afford, feat

*Spelling:        clean                agree                teeth                dream              grain

                        coach               display             window           shadow            cheese 

                        peach               braid                Sunday            float               thrown

Challenge:       entertain          complain          bleachers           willow             wheat

*Language:  Commands and Exclamations

Week 5:  My Rows and Piles of Coins/Genre: Realistic Fiction

*Objectives:  Word Structure; Character and Setting; Story Structure

*Vocabulary:  arranged, bundles, dangerously, errands, excitedly, steady, unwrapped, wobbled, astonishment, confident, scoffed

*Spelling:        proud               shower             hour                 amount            voyage

                        choice              avoid               thousand          prowl              employ

                        bounce             poison             annoy               appoint            broil

Challenge:       however          mountain            coward            turmoil             chowder

*Language:  Compound Sentences

Math

     We start our class with a Decimal of the Day then we add a Daily Math Prompt to our math journals.  The math journals consist of problems that expose the class to one of the math standards that are required by the end of third grade.  There are 5 math standards, Numbers and Operations, Data and Probability, Algebra, Geometry, and Measurement.  The first half of the nine weeks we will be working with numbers to 10,000; measurement; and addition/subtraction with and without regrouping.

Science

     Our first AMSTI kit has arrived.  We will be observing how the human body works.  We will be doing activities and discussing the bones, and how our muscles.  We will also be investigating an owl pellet.