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              Language: Daily Oral Language will be used with two sentences each morning and a quiz weekly with four of the sentences covered for the week. Sponge is a daily homework activity covering a variety of language elements. Mountain Language is a weekly activity started each Monday and completed by Friday. It is mounted on the wall in the classroom.

              Spelling: A pretest is given each Monday, ABC order is the homework assignment Monday night, daily class assignments using the words in context, and a test each Friday.

       MATH

Concepts covered in 3rd grade are mastering basic facts in
addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. We also
cover customary and metric measurement, fractions, mixed
numbers, estimation, problem solving, and practice in a
format to prepare for TEKS/TAKS testing. Target Practice
will be completed over a period of time. This must be done in the classroom since this is mounted on the classroom wall. No grade will ever be taken on this activity. It is presented in a TEKS/TAKS format. Daily activities will include
Moose Math which is a variety of concepts in a short TEKS/TAKS format. Grades will be taken on this activity routinely.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Concepts covered will include map skills, U. S. government,
North American Indians, continents, countries, states,
capitals, and celebrations around the world. We will do a
research paper in this class.

SIX WEEKS INFORMATION

Each six weeks when report cards are sent home, the third grade team will notify the students and parents about
the theme for the Super Citizens Celebration.
Students are invited to attend the Super Citizens Celebration on the Friday afternoon that report cards go out from 2:30-3:15. Students are invited according to behavior during the six weeks.

COMPUTERS/LIBRARY/ART

All students go for library check out each week and go to the computer lab once each week for
language arts and math. Students are given 45
minutes in language arts and 30 minutes in math. All students go to art
four times each six weeks.

Possible Novels
Taste of Blackberries
Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Dinosaur Bones
Invisible in Third Grade
Charlotte's Web
Squanto
Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
How to Eat Fried Worms
Folk Tales/Tall Tales
A Gift for Mama
Helen Keller
Harry Houdini
Stone Fox

Reading Programs

Texas Readers
Books must be at least 40 pages to be counted and considered third grade level. Awards at the end of the year could include a certificate for 400 pages, a certificate with a silver star for 1000 pages, a certificate with a gold star for 2500 pages, and a certificate with a gold seal for 4000 pages.

Texas Bluebonnet Books
Most of the 20 books on this list, which is changed each year, will be read aloud in class to the third graders during homeroom. The students are allowed to vote on their favorite if they have read or heard five books on the list.

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