Skills for September 26-30:

ELA: The Sea
Students gain basic information about the dangers of sharks and learn to identify a main idea and supporting details in a chapter, using the text and important features such as photographs, illustrations, a map, and captions to gain information about a topic.

Central Text: Shark Attack! By Cathy East Dubowski/Giant Squid: Searching for a Sea Monster by Mary Cerullo

Skills:

• Use text features including photographs, to locate and use information efficiently.
• Take brief notes and sort evidence into categories.
• Identify real-life connections between words about ocean food chains and their use.
• Identify the main idea in a passage of Shark Attack.
• Identify real-life connections between words and their use.

Math: Area
Skills:

• Area of complex shapes

Social Studies: Famous Natural Features of the World

• 3.04 Examine major political features on globes and maps.
• 3.13 Explain how geographic challenges are met with bridges, canals, dams, freshwater supply, irrigation systems,
  landfills, tunnels.

Science:

Have a great weekend! The 3rd Grade Team