Monday, April 22, 2013

Classroom Activities 22nd-26th


Week of April 21st
 
-Early Out Wednesday the 24th
 
Spelling Words
coming       dropping    tapping      taping         invited        swimming
saving         stared         planned      joking         loved           changing
gripped      tasted         making       stopped      scared         freezing
 
Reading
My third graders will be reading Two Bad Ants. We will also be covering prefixes and suffixes.
 
Math
We will be testing on our time unit on Wednesday.  Thursday we will begin measurement!
 
Social Studies
-Placing Coordinates/Latitude and longitude
-Map Keys and Map Scales
 
Specials this week:
Monday – Health
Tuesday – Music
Wednesday – Computer Lab
Thursday – P. E
Friday – Music

Have a great week.  Visit this site weekly for new updates. 
Mr. Leintz

 

Monday, April 15, 2013

Classroom Activities April15-19th


Week of April 14th
 
 -School Carnival Friday April 19th
 
Spelling Words
mood          wooden      drew           smooth       blue            crooked
true            hooves        chew           tooth          cool            pooch
blew            foot             loose           jewel           food            balloon
 
Reading
My third graders will be reading Dogzilla. We will also be finishing out bat research paper.
 
Math
We started our time unit.  We are working on elapsed time as well as understanding terms, quarter to, quarter past, and half past.  Please have your child continue to study their flashcards.
 
Social Studies
1st day with new social studies unit/teacher.  In my class we focus on mapskills and landforms.  Students will learn cardinal directions, intermediate directions, latitude, longitude, map keys, map scales, among other things to be more familiar with maps.
 
Specials this week:
Monday – Music
Tuesday – Computer Lab
Wednesday – P.E
Thursday – Music
Friday – Ms. Nelson

Have a great week.  Visit this site weekly for new updates. 
Mr. Leintz

Monday, April 8, 2013

Cloassroom Activities April 8th-12th


Week of April 7th
 
-Early out Wednesday, April 10th
 
Spelling Words
shark           check          queen         circus         flake           squeeze
crack          second        quart          squeak        quick          coldest
Africa         Mexico       black          thank          correct       question
 
Reading
We will be reading the story A Tree is Growing.  We will also be doing a research paper on bats.
 
Math
My class is continuing to work on equivalent fractions. Their test will be later this week. Next week we will start our time unit.
 
Social Studies
My students are building their neighborhood maps. We will start landforms on Wednesday.
 
Specials this week:
Monday – Computer Lab
Tuesday – P.E
Wednesday – Music
Thursday – Open
Friday –  Health

Have a great week.  Visit this site weekly for new updates. 
Mr. Leintz

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Classroom Activities April 2-5


Week of March 31st
 
 
Spelling Words
she’s           they’ll         I’ve             you’ll          we’ve          you’ve
I’ll               it’s              I’m              you’d          we’ll            they’d
she’ll           they’ve        he’s             would’ve     could’ve      should’ve
                  
Reading
We will continue reading our Chapter book, The Truth about Bats.  We plan on finishing the book Friday.
 
Math
My class is working on their comparing/equivalent fractions packet.
 
 
Social Studies
Map test on Wednesday this week.  We will start our Map city project this week and finish up with landforms for next week.
 
Specials this week:
Monday – No school
Tuesday – Music
Wednesday – Ms. Nelson
Thursday – Health
Friday –  Music

Have a great week.  Visit this site weekly for new updates. 
Mr. Leintz