Social Studies Study Guide Test on Friday

Social Studies Study Guide for 10/22/2010

·       Students will be given a blank map of the State of Michigan and will be expected to label the following:

·       The upper and lower peninsulas

·       The five great lakes

·       The four bordering states

·       The bordering country

·       The capital

·        Students will be expected to know the difference between a natural characteristic and a human characteristic.

·        A natural characteristic is something that is found in nature that is useful to people. All natural characteristics were created by Allah (SWT).

·        A human characteristic is something that is made by human beings.

·        Examples of natural characteristics: Soil, minerals such as iron, and lakes.

·        Examples of human characteristics: railroads, buildings, bridges, cars.

·        How were the great lakes formed?

·        Huge sheets of ice called glaciers moved across the land and formed huge valleys. When the glaciers melted the valleys got filled with water and that was the creation of the great lakes.

·        The following vocabulary words are located in every students Michigan Studies notebook: Geography, Geographer, Natural Characteristics, Human Characteristics, County, State, Border, government

·        Students must know that we live in Wayne County and that the state of Michigan is made up of many counties.

·        Students must know that Michigan is one of 50 states.

Meap Test Tomorrow

Asalamu Alaikum,
I would like to remind you that 3rd grade students will be going to Star Academy tomorrow to take the Math portion of the Meap test. I will not be assigning any homework today, however spelling words will be introduced tomorrow morning and students will have a spelling test this Friday. This week's schedule will resume as usual. Students will be tested on the first chapter of Social Studies (The Geography of Michigan). A study guide will go home tomorrow and will also be posted here on my blog. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at any time. As always I thank you for your ongoing support and encouragment.

Sister Maha

Trip to the Apple Orchard

Announcement Please Read

Parents,
Due to the Meap testing that will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, I will not be assigning any homework. Please disregard the previous postings.

Sister Maha

Math Homework

In math today we started comparing amounts of money. However, students have some multiplication practice for homework. Please make sure that students are studying the one's, two's and three's at home.

Chapter 1 Math test study guide

Remember:

When you are rounding a number you should:

·       Underline the digit that is in the place that you are rounding to.

·       Look at the digit to the right of the digit that you are rounding to.

·       If the digit to the right is 5 or above you have to add one to the underlined digit.

·       If the digit to the right is below 5 then you leave the underlined digit alone.

·       After you do that you turn all the digits to the right of the underlined digit to zero’s.

Example:

Round 865 to the nearest hundred

The 8 is in the hundreds place so you would underline the 8. 865

The 6 is the digit to the right and it is five and above so the 8 becomes a nine. Then all the digits to the right of the 8 have to turn to zeroes. 865 rounded to the nearest hundred is 900.

Remember:

Expanded form means to stretch it out, for example:

4,362 in expanded form is 4,000+300+60+2

Word form means to write it in words, for example:

Four thousand, three hundred, sixty two

And standard form is the regular number: 4,362

To order numbers means to put them in order from least to greatest or greatest to least. You will be given groups of numbers to put in order from least to greatest or greatest to least on the test. If you get confused remember to look at the place value of each number.

Example: ( 235, 234, 232 240, 300)

Least to greatest: 232, 234, 235, 240, 300

Greatest to Least: 300, 240, 235, 234, 232

To compare numbers is to know which number is larger or smaller than the other. We use (< or >) to tell which number is larger or smaller than the other.

Example: 456 > 379

We will review all of this in class however, you also need to do these practice sheets at home in preparation for the test.

spelling lists for 10/4/2010

Group 1 spelling (words with the long "A" sound:

Cage
gray
stray
game
neigh
wait
gate
place
staighten
weight
lay
gain
trailer
statement
fate
tape

Group 2 ( vowel-consonant-e pattern)
smoke
huge
save
life
wide
come
mine
grade
smile
note
cube
love
escape
slope

For the week of 10/4/2010

Asalamu Alaikum,

Inshallah this letter gets to all of you while you and your families are in good health and happiness from Allah (SWT).  Guided reading groups will continue as usual this week. We will be practicing sequence of events, subject and predicate and the writing trait, voice. In Math we will have our first test on Friday and it will cover Chapter 1. Chapter 1 includes, writing numbers in expanded, word and standard form, comparing and ordering numbers, place value and rounding. We will also start counting money and writing amounts using dollar signs and decimal points. A study guide will come home today for practice. In Science this week we will be learning about the life cycles of different animals and we will compare learned traits with inherited traits. In Social Studies, we will learn about how the glaciers helped form landforms and bodies of water in Michigan and about the first people of Michigan. We are still practicing our multiplication tables of 3. Students need to practice those at home as well as at school. If you have any questions regarding third grade activities, please contact me at any time. Remember, this Thursday we will be going on a field trip to Wiard's apple orchard in Ypsilanti. Thank you very much for all of your support and cooperation.

Maha Mustafa