Essential Questions and Standards for February 25-29, 2008

Reading- How can your opinion help you with comprehension?
{LA.3.ELA3R3.f} Makes judgments and inferences about setting, characters, and events and supports them with evidence from the text.

Writing- How can a thesaurus help you become a word wizard with your writing?
{LA.3.ELA3C1.k} Uses the dictionary and thesaurus to support word choices.

Grammar- What is the difference between synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms?
{LA.3.ELA3R2.c} Recognizes and applies the appropriate usage of homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms.

Spelling- Why do we double consonants on words before adding a suffix?
{LA.3.ELA3C1.l} Uses common rules of spelling and corrects words using dictionaries and other resources.

Vocabulary- What words do you know and love from units 9-12?
{LA.3.ELA3R3.r} Applies dictionary, thesaurus, and glossary skills to determine word meanings.

Cursive- Why are the curves so imporant in cursive?
{LA.3.ELA3C1.n} Writes legibly in cursive, leaving space between letters in a word and between words in a sentence.

Math- Why do we have to measure?
{MA.3.M3M2.b} Measure to the nearest 1/4 inch, 1/2 inch and millimeter (mm) in addition to the previously learned inch, foot, yard, centimeter, and meter.

Social Studies- Who is in charge?
{SOC.3.SS3CG1.b} Name the three levels of government (national, state, local) and the three branches in each (executive, legislative, judicial), including the names of the legislative branch (Congress, General Assembly, city commission or city council).

Health- What road will you travel?

Character Education- Why is sportsmanship important?
Cooperation/Sportsmanship- working together for a common purpose, the ability to take winning and losing without gloating or complaining