STUDY GUIDE

3rd Grade November-December 2012

Room Teachers: Miss Grisel Quintero and Mr. Joel Arguello

Language Arts: Friday, December 7th, 2012.

TOPIC THEME PURPOSES RESOURCES

Speaking Apply the new vocabulary (Lesson 7 to 12; according to the story.)

Grammatical structures. Comprehensibility and fluency. Explain in their own words.

Choose a story from your story town:Lesson 7: Aero and officer MikeLesson 8: How animals talkLesson 9: Stone soupLesson 11: Loved bestLesson 12: A pen pal for Max

My story is: _______________________________________

Oral exam.

Students will make a drawing at home about one of the stories and they will explain in their own words the story.

According to the story they will study the vocabulary.

Listening Infer information from the reading.Give information about reading.

Students will listen to a story and then they will answer some questions.To practice at home: read to the students short stories and then ask questions.

Language Arts: Monday, December 10th, 2012

TOPIC THEME PURPOSESRESOURCES

Reading Identify the differences between fact and opinion. Find the main ideas, details and make a graphic organizer. How to make a summary. Identify Author´s purpose.

Language arts notebook (Orange n.b)Story Town Book pages 196 and 197Story Town Book page 279Practice Book page 65

Writing Apply these new words in sentences.

Lesson 7: obey, patrol, scent.Lesson 8: signal, alert ferocious.Lesson 9: reaction, curiosity, generous.Lesson 11: brief, swooned, praised.Lesson 12: mistaken, heaving.

Understand how to paragraph. Understand and make a description. Identify common and proper nouns. Identify and make abbreviations. Identify singular and plural nouns.

Language arts notebook (Orange n.b)

Practice Book page 60Practice Book page 68Practice Book page 76

Ciencias Sociales: martes 11 de diciembre del 2012.

TOPICO PROPÒSITOS DEL TEMA RECURSOS

La entidad en donde vivo Describir cómo era el estado de Nuevo León antes de la llegada

de los primeros pobladores…………………………………….. Identificar de donde llegaron los primeros habitantes del estado.

Reconocer cómo vivieron los primeros habitantes considerando las características de los siguientes aspectos.

1. caza………………………………………………2. recolección………………………………………3. pesca…………………………………………….4. vida nómada……………………………………5. organización

social…………………………………………….6. costumbres………………………………………7. festividades………………………………………

Reconocerá las aportaciones que aún se conservan de los primeros pobladores (arte rupestre)………………………

Libro de Texto yLibreta

pp. 38 y 39

Libreta y p. 39

Libreta y pp. 48 y 54

Libreta y p. 68

Math: Tuesday, December 11th, 2012.

TOPIC THEME PURPOSES RESOURCES

Solve word problems. (addition, subtraction, and multiplication)…. Identify fractions…………………………………………………… Addition and subtraction relationship. (11+4=15 , 15-4=15)………. Identify and write the missing number in the equation

( ___x 6=36 )……………………………………………………….. Solve additions and subtractions of 2 digit numbers, using mental

strategies. (35 +15)…………………………………………………. Use estimation to solve addition and subtraction…………………... Identify the proprieties of zero and one in multiplication…………. Associative property of addition. (2+3) +4 = 2 + (3+4)……………. Solve multiplication and division sentences………………………..

Math notebook39, 40, 51, 52, 79, 81.Notebook

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Español: miércoles 12 de diciembre del 2012.

TÓPICO PROPÓSITOS DEL TEMA RECURSOS

Conocer la función y características de un folleto…………………... Completar un folleto………………………………………………… Identificar las características de los poemas (versos y estrofas)……. Comprender el significado literal y literario de un poema………….

Reconocer palabras que riman………………………………………. Identificar que son las onomatopeyas y discriminarlas en un poema.. Empleará signos de puntuación al escribir: coma, punto y coma,

punto y seguido y punto y aparte……………………………………..

Libro de texto y Libreta

Libreta y p.41LibretaLibreta y p. 48Libreta y pp. 51, 52 y 53LibretaLibreta y pp. 55 y 56

Libreta y p. 68

Health: Wednesday, December 12th, 2012.

TOPIC THEME PURPOSES RESOURCES

Identify differences between boys and girls. Children rights. Recognize sources and effects of negative stress and identify

strategies for reducing stress. Identify situations that might be dangerous (medicines, caffeine,

nicotine etc.) Identify support sources: family, teachers and friends. Recognize some friend´s, sibling´s, behaviors or TV programs that

can influence unhealthy behaviors.

Health notebook.

Health book pages 36,37, 40, 49

Ciencias Sociales: jueves 13 de diciembre del 2012.

TOPICO PROPÓSITOS DEL TEMA RECURSOSCívica y Ética

Distinguirá las diversas formas de expresar los sentimientos y las emociones……………………………………………………………..

Reconocerá que todas las personas somos diferentes, cómo podemos conciliar diferencias y llegar a acuerdos justos……………………….

Comprenderá el valor de la libertad y de la justicia…………………..

Determinará sus metas personales…………………………………….

Libro texto y Libreta

Libreta y pp. 30, 31, 42, 43 y 44.

Libreta y pp. 33 y 34

Libreta y pp. 34 y 35

Libreta y pp. 31, 32 y 45

Science: Thursday, December 13th, 2012

TOPIC THEME PURPOSES RESOURCES Identify why plants need energy from the sun. Identify living things that cannot absorb energy from the sun

and how obtain energy Understand how plants and animals depend on each other. Recognize different ways in which plants are grown: farms,

orchards, greenhouses and home gardens. Identify locally grown food and organically produced food. Identify positive and negative impacts that humans have on

plants. Identify types of soil. Characteristics of each type of soil. Components of soil, conditions (wet, dry) and additives that

might be in soil, (pesticides, salt, fertilizers.)

Science notebook

Social Studies: Friday, December 14th, 2012.

TOPIC THEME PURPOSES RESOURCES

Aquilles and Perseus, who were they? Compare and contrast characters deeds with real people. Identify the rights according the Constitution of Mexico. Understand the concept of an economic system:

Scarcity Free Market Production and distribution

Give examples of how a simple business operates. Understand the purpose of spending and saving money. Identify variations in the physical environment,

including: climate, landforms, natural resources and natural hazards.

Compare how people in different communities adapt or modify the physical environment according to their needs.

Social Studies notebook

Technology and applications: Friday, December 14th, 2012.

Computers 3 GuideIntro to Computers Using Office 2007 and Windows Vista

Word provides two methods for moving a block of text from one location in a

document toanother.

Cut / Paste Buttons

Using techniques similar to those for moving text, you can also copy a block

of text. Copy Button

Open a New document by choosing the New button on the Quick Access

Toolbar.New document

A document is normally displayed at the default zoom level (screen size) of

100%. You can, however, increase or decrease the screen size, as necessary,

Zoom Percentage / Zoom Handle

Hardware is defined as the physical components of a computer system the equipment that you can see and touch.

Hardware The CPU is the "brain" of a computer. It is contained on a single semiconductor

chip, called a microprocessor.

Central Processing Unit

RAM is the computer's temporary memory. It consists of a series of

semiconductor chips that store information that is needed by the

computer for what you are doing at any given time.

Random-Access Memory (RAM)

Computer memory or storage capacity is measured in bytes. One byte is the

amount of space needed to store one character.

KB = kilobyte = 1000 (one thousand) bytes

MB = megabyte = 1,000,000 (one million) bytes

GB= gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 (one billion) bytes

A monitor, sometimes called the screen or Video Display Unit, looks

like a television set.Monitor

Pixel is a small dot on the screen.

A keyboard is called an input device since it is used to enter information.

Keyboard

Compact Disks (CD) are a portable storage device that typically can hold

around 750MB of data.Compact

Disks (CD)Resume Add your name, phone number

and address. Summarize your skills. List your employment history. Fill in your education and

degrees.

Cover Letter

Add your name, phone number and address to the top of the document.

Right align your personal data. Insert the date. Address the letter to a

potential employer.

Mini Book

Write pages for a small book. At most, each page should have no more than one short paragraph.

Staying within the size for each page, write your story. The text will match the direction of the page number at the bottom of the page.

Insert a graphic on one page. Resize it to fit on the page.

WORDMARGIN

S If you encounter a problem or just need additional information while using Word, there are a number of ways in which you

can obtain help.

By pressing the [F1] key on your keyboard.

Word Help Window

Deutsch: Friday, December 14th, 2012.

TOPIC THEME PURPOSES RESOURCESW-questions Be able to present a person and answer to W-

questions. wer, was, wo, woher

Planetino kursbuch pg.14-23Planetino ArbeitsbuchPg. 17-29

notebookSentence structure

Be able to write declarative and interrogative sentences.

Planetino kursbuch pg.14-23Planetino ArbeitsbuchPg. 17-29notebook

Verb Be able to conjunct the verb sein and use it correctly in a sentence

Planetino KursbuchPg. 20notebook