Math Skills for November 5-9

This week in Math, third grade will be starting multiplication. We will be focusing on equal groups, drawing pictures, and using repeated addition to solve problems.

Important math vocabulary that will be addressed include:

  • Factor – the numbers multiplied together 4X5=20

  • Product – the answer to a multiplication problem 4X5=20

  • Array– an arrangement of pictures/objects in rows and columns

We will also review subtraction with regrouping, money, and estimation.

Spelling Test Friday, Nov. 9th

Unit 9 Spelling Words

Test will be on November 9th

 

often ~ We often walk in the park on warm days.

use ~ Will we use the paper on the project?

kind ~ Which kind of spider is poisonous?

head ~ The child cried after he hit his head on the pole.

also ~ We will also go to the grocery store.

four ~ There are four kinds of apples on the table.

show ~ The teacher will show us how to work the problem.

been ~ Have you been to the office yet?

around ~ We will work our way around the neighborhood.

began ~ The librarian began to read the story to the children.

above ~ The birds fly above the building.

long ~ We made it to the finish line long before the other runners.

took ~ It took over two hours to drive down to the coast.

air ~ The air is crisp and cool during fall.

there ~ Please set the bags of food over there on the table.

were ~ We were going to the mall when her mother called.

large ~ There were two very large bear cubs near the trees.

might ~ She might take us to the game tonight.

Poetry Vocabulary Test

Poetry Vocabulary

Your child received the first page of poetry vocabulary words.  Review these six words and their meanings with your child. They will be tested on these vocabulary words on Friday, November 9th.

TEST ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9

1. stanza – one of the divisions of a poem (used like paragraphs in a story), composed of two or more lines, usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines

Example:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,


And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

2. simile – a comparison between 2 unlike things using “like” or “as”

Example: She was as clever as a fox.

3. metaphor– a directly stated comparison without using “like” or “as”

Example: Our defensive line was a rock wall last night.

4. onomatopoeia – the sound suggest the meaning (the attempt to spell out a sound)

Examples: boom, bang, growl, buzz, meow
**We heard the hiss of the snake.

5. personification – giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

Examples:  The teeth of the comb
**The wind softly whispered in our ears.

6. alliteration – The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

Example:  Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.