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Weekly Home Fun for the week of 11/27/2017

Reading Unit: Nonfiction Writing Unit: Informational Writing

Math: Place Value and Problem Solving with Units of Measure

Parent Corner:● Social Studies and Science homework this week is out of the Storyworks Magazine. Your child

should bring this home on Monday. It is not attached to the packet.● The reading students do for social studies and science homework can count for the 45 minutes

of reading homework time.Monday

Reading Read for 45 minutes. At least part of the time you should read a nonfiction text. Record in your reading log.

Choose from the Reading Menu (see attached) what type of jot you would like to do about your book.No matter what type of jot you choose, here’s your checklist for success:

- Don’t choose the same type of jot twice in one week.- Use text evidence to support your ideas.- Write the title, date, and H (for home) at the top of your notebook page.

Writing I have included both the grade 2 and grade 3 exemplar pieces of writing (“Bulldogs”) for informational writing. Study both pieces of writing.

What are some things you see in the grade 3 writing that makes it more advanced than the grade 2 writing?

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Math Problem

Solving

Complete the Monday Math Problem Solving Sheet. (Remember that about means to round first).

Practice your multiplication flashcards for 10 minutes. If you’re a fact master, practice your division facts for 10 minutes.

Social

Studies

In Storyworks Magazine turn to page 20, “The Empty Pot.” Read the information on pages 20 and 21, then read scene 1 on pages 22 and 23. You may need to re-read if you don’t understand the first time. (You can count the time it takes you to read the scene as part of your 45 reading minutes each day this week).

Emperor= the ruler of China; emperors usually rule an empire for their whole life and are replaced by their children or relatives when they die.

Why does the king get mad at his nieces and nephews in this scene? Use details from the play to support your answer.

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Tuesday

Reading Read for 45 minutes. At least part of the time you should read a nonfiction text. Record in your reading log.

Choose from the Reading Menu (see attached) what type of jot you would like to do about your book.No matter what type of jot you choose, here’s your checklist for success:

- Don’t choose the same type of jot twice in one week.- Use text evidence to support your ideas.- Write the title, date, and H (for home) at the top of your notebook page.

Writing Yesterday you studied the “Bulldogs” exemplar writing for grade 3. What’s one thing you saw in the exemplar that you want to try in your own writing today? (Continued on next page)

Tonight I will focus on __________________. (Write this focus on the top of your notebook page so when I look at your writing notebook I know what you were working on). Now write a nonfiction entry (must be at least a page) in which you try your focus.

Math Practice your multiplication flashcards for 10 minutes. If you’re a fact master, practice your division facts for 10 minutes.

Complete the lesson 11 homework sheet.Social

Studies

In Storyworks, read scene 2 of “The Empty Pot.” You may need to re-read scene 1 so you remember what problem the emperor was facing.

How does scene 2 connect to what happened in scene 1? (Hint: Think about the problem in scene 1 and how the emperor is trying to solve it in scene 2). Use one detail from scene 1 and one detail from scene 2 to support your answer.

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Wednesday

Reading Read for 45 minutes. At least part of the time you should read a nonfiction text. Record in your reading log.

Choose from the Reading Menu (see attached) what type of jot you would like to do about your book.No matter what type of jot you choose, here’s your checklist for success:

- Don’t choose the same type of jot twice in one week.- Use text evidence to support your ideas.- Write the title, date, and H (for home) at the top of your notebook page.

Writing Tonight, write an informational piece in your writer's notebook about another topic you know a lot about. You could also choose to add some chapters to the topic you wrote about last night.

Select one item from the Information Writing Checklist to focus on in your writing tonight. You might have the same focus as Monday if that’s your goal. Or if you think you did that well, you could choose something else from the checklist.

Tonight I will focus on __________________. (Write this focus on the top of your notebook page so when I look at your writing notebook I know what you were working on).

Math Practice your multiplication flashcards for 10 minutes. If you’re a fact master, practice your division facts for 10 minutes.

Complete the lesson 12 homework sheet.Social Studies

In Storyworks, read scene 3 of “The Empty Pot.” You may need to re-read scenes 1 and 2 so you remember what has happened so far.

How would you describe Lan’s relationship with his parents? Use two details from the text to support your idea.

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Thursday

Reading Read for 45 minutes. At least part of the time you should read a nonfiction text. Record in your reading log.

Choose from the Reading Menu (see attached) what type of jot you would like to do about your book.No matter what type of jot you choose, here’s your checklist for success:

- Don’t choose the same type of jot twice in one week.- Use text evidence to support your ideas.- Write the title, date, and H (for home) at the top of your notebook page.

Writing Select one item from the Information Writing Checklist to focus on in your writing tonight. You might have the same focus as something you’ve been working on or you could choose something new from the checklist.

Tonight I will focus on __________________. (Write this focus on the top of your notebook

page so when I look at your writing notebook I know what you were working on).

Write at least a page, using all that you know about information writing.

Math Practice your multiplication flashcards for 10 minutes. If you’re a fact master, practice your division facts for 10 minutes.

Complete the lesson 13 homework sheet.Social Studies

In Storyworks, read scene 4 of “The Empty Pot.” You may need to re-read the previous scene. Do you remember what problem the emperor was facing? Do you remember why Lan was trying to grow a plant? Do you remember what struggles Lan was facing?

What lesson does this folktale teach us? Use details from any scene in the play to support your answer.

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Friday

Reading Read for 45 minutes. At least part of the time you should read a nonfiction text. Record in your reading log.

Choose from the Reading Menu (see attached) what type of jot you would like to do about your book.No matter what type of jot you choose, here’s your checklist for success:

- Don’t choose the same type of jot twice in one week.- Use text evidence to support your ideas.- Write the title, date, and H (for home) at the top of your notebook page.

Writing Tonight you choose what you’d like to write about in your writer’s notebook. Here’s your checklist for what you write:

● It should be YOUR writing, not copied from something else.● It should be at least a page or a page and a half.● You should use paragraphs, periods, and capital letters.

● It should be WRITING, not DRAWINGS

Math Practice your multiplication flashcards for 10 minutes. If you’re a fact master, practice your division facts for 10 minutes.

Write rounding word problem that shows how rounding is used in real life. Remember when you are asking the question to ask “about” _____.

After you write the problem, solve it! If you realize you can’t solve it, go back and revise your problem to put in the necessary information.

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Solve your problem:

Science In Storyworks, read “Clean Start” on pages 14-19.

Max used science to build his robot, Walter. But technology has pros (good things) and cons (bad things).What were the pros of Max’s robot, Walter? Give one detail from the text to prove this.What were the cons of Max’s robot? Give one detail from the text to prove this.

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