Mr. Skinner's 3rd Grade Assignments

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Last updated: Feb. 3, 2012
                                                This week was spent working to master changing fractions to decimals and visa versa. Also, we concentrated on improving writing. All students were given until next Thursday to use their home computer to type their final draft story and print it out. Next week, we will continue to work on cursive writing and revisit geometry. Also, an on going discussion will take place concerning what will be required for the students' Science Fair project.

                                                 MONITOR HOMEWORK, PLEASE!
Looking Ahead:
                            Feb. 7 - Multicultural Night ( Parent meeting in multipurpose room at 7 p.m.)
Feb. 10th - Under the Tuscan Moon Fundraiser dinner/auction at The Ranch at 6:30 p.m.

                                                      Spelling Lists

Red         Blue
reduction equaling
avenue    proposal
eligible receptive
applause    passionate
uncertainty annual
coverage    universal
opinion    proceeded
available contribution
poverty    reminded
damaging    lettuce
achieve    perfection
employees definitely
intelligent    awesome
wreckage destroyer
compassion    abandon



Note: I've supplied my students with many interesting links to serve as a tool to assist parents at home. Please stroll down to get familiar with what the different subject areas have to offer.

Math
Onlineintervention.com - Homework Workbook pages, online lessons, quizzes, and more.

Teaching Clock - An Online clock for teaching telling time and elapsed time.

Stop the Clock - Time telling game.

Multiplication.com multiplication site

A Plus Math multiplication site

Education for Kids multiplication site

Printable Multiplication Chart multiplication site

PBS Play Money A source for printable play money NEW

Making Change - Figure out how many of each bill or coin that you expect to get back when you pay for something. NEW

Exploring whole numbers with place value blocks - This site lets you play with base 10 blocks. Good for practice with renaming (carrying in addition and borrowing in subtraction) as it lets you break apart and recombine flats of 100, strips of 10 and single 1s. NEW

Money Experience for Children - Some online games for counting money NEW

Reading

Houghton Mifflin Eduplace - Activities relating to Houghton Mifflin reading series that we have adopted for the 2003-2004 school year.

Book Adventure - Internet reading incentive program provides thousands of titles for students to read. Students will need to register a user name and password. Students may search for titles in areas of interest and at specific reading levels. Students may take online quizzes on books they have read to earn incentive prizes. In order to receive incentive prizes, a parent's Email address must be provided during registration so that Book Adventure can obtain your permission to send prizes to students. Students may use this site from home. Check out the Parents Place!

California Reading List Web site - State recommendedhttp://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/ca/ reading lists based on your child's standardized test results.

JFS's Accelerated Book List - Provides a list of books for which we have reading quizzes on our school server. Students are tested and given a reading range. Example 3.5-4.2 means that the student will probably make the most growth in reading by choosing books that are between third grade fifth month and fourth grade second month. When students complete an Accelerated Reader book, they are encouraged to take a test on the book on a school computer.

Social Studies

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies - A great place to learn more about what we're studying in class.

Other

ScienceBob.com

All About Puffins

Kid space and the Internet Public Library

Discovery School's Science Fair Central

All Science Fair Projects

Time for Kids

Brain Pop

PBS Kids

Kids Click

Fun Brain

Evergreen School District Parent Information

Evergreen School District Library Media Centers

Great Web Sites For Kids - American Library Association

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Mr. Skinner's email address -jskinner@eesd.org

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