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Welcome to my website!! You can find contact information, homework assignments and some wonderful learning resources here. If you would like to contact me please call 815-838-0542 or email me at kpodwika@d91.net. Please scroll down for learning websites.
Home Folders: Please check your child's home folder every night. Please remove graded papers and look for papers that may need to be completed for the office or for your child's teachers. Spelling pre-tests can be found in your child's home folder. Also a list of reading vocabulary words is sent home every week. Thank you.
Planners: Please look at your child's planner every night for notes from your child's teacher and for assignments. Thank you.
Homework: Monday: Story: Lon Po Po
Spelling Words: pulled, begged, hugged, silly, correct, latter, matter, supper, common, lesson, collect, setting, bottles, different, jelly
Challenge Words: fairy tale, cultural, grandma, courage, weave
Vocabulary Words: latch, dusk, cunning, embraced, tender, brittle, delighted
Spelling: Write your spelling words in ABC order. Math: Write you x7, x6 facts (2 times each). Practice all - and x facts.
Reading: Please read together every day. Discuss stories and nonfiction selections that you have read.
For facts:Use the XTRAMATH site to practice facts. Use the Third Grade Skills website below to practice all third grade skills. Say the fact five times if you miss it (the problem and the answer.)
Tuesday: Spelling: Write your words with colored vowels. MATH: Write x4, x3 facts two times each. Practice all x facts. Quizzes will be based on student's individual level. If they have passed the x0 test they will take the x1 test. We will try to do a few tests each day. Their best score will count for the quarter.
Wednesday: Read our story. Pick two questions from the end of the story to answer on paper. Math: Write x2, x8 facts (twice) Practice all x facts. Quizzes will be based on student's individual level.
Practice - and x facts. Read together every day.
Thursday: Spelling Test, Reading test Friday. Finish Reading pages. Math: Study for x quizzes. These are leveled so if you passed the x0 test you will take the x1, etc. Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. Please study together. Use Xtramath and skills sites below.
Friday: Reading: Read every day. Please discuss what you have read. Practice - and x facts.
Websites:
(Parents please check websites before allowing your child to use each
site.)
Math: New sites:
**EXTRAMATH
Please sign in and practice your facts. If you need your pin number, email me.
Miss Podwika 
kpodwika@d91.net
March review site PRACTICE MAKING CHANGE
1. Thinking Blocks 2. Two Step Comparisons: Math Problems 3. Part-Whole Story Problems
4. Grand Slam Math 5. Brain Pop Angles 6. Brain Pop Comparing Prices 7. Making Change
8. Lots of Math Pages. Geometric Shapes 9. Math You See
11. Math Cats: Story Problems 12.Simple Subtraction (Online Subtraction practice)
13.Multiplication (Online Multiplication practice) 14.Flashcards Online 15.Measurement Conversion site
16.Numeration
17.Roman
Numeral Challenge 18.Tables
and Formulas (Area and Perimeter) 19.Counting
Money 20.Math:
Tic Tac Toe Squares
21.Making
Change
22.Math
Fact Practice
23.TRY
BUG
COORDINATES
24.Spacey Math (practice
Math facts) 25.Geometry
1 (Matching Game) 26.Geometry
2 (Angles) 27.Geometry
3 (Shape Quiz)
28..Math
Cats (A variety of interesting sites to help you learn more about
Math! 29.Really
Big Numbers 30.
Brain
POP Tally
Charts and BAR GRAPHING (Free)
31. Do You Know Geometry? 32. How to Find Area 33. Roman Numerals PRACTICE MAKING CHANGE
***Third Math Grade Skills: Please Practice at this site. **
Reading/Language Sites: Antonyms
More Antonyms
Antonym
Game Storyline
(Hear actors reading books to you!)
Brain Pop Main Idea
Brain
Pop Main Idea Quiz Brain
Pop Explore Brain
Pop Nouns Balto
website. 
http://www.brainpopjr.com/readingandwriting/word/nouns/
CHINESE FOLKTALES Analogy Site Similes Idiom Quiz
Science: WEATHER Science SONGS: Geology and more
Song: 3 Types of Rocks Magic School Bus Science Quizzes EARTH/MOON LIVE PHOTOS
Social Studies Sites: 1. Brain Pop U.S. Symbols 2. Brain Pop U.S. Symbols Quiz 1
3. Brain Pop U.S. Symbols Quiz 2 Learn the states and capitals Learn about U.S.A. bodies of water Find The State Geography Quiz Show Countries of the World Game
National Geographic Chinese Quotations Learn to read Chinese Maps of China Pictures of China
Every Subject: Brain boosters! (CHALLENGE!!!!)
ONE KEY.COM SEARCH ENGINE DESIGNED BY GOOGLE FOR KIDS LEARNING PLANET! Brain Pop, movies, quizzes, games
Computer News: Continue to celebrate "Read Across America" by reading a book with your child. http://www.seussville.com/ (This site is for beginning readers.) Silent reading and being read to helps students achieve in all subjects.
VOCABULARY ENRICHMENT
| Reading Story | Vocabulary Word | Part of Speech | Definitions | Sample Sentence |
| Changing Patterns: Officer Buckle and Gloria | ridiculous | adjective | laughable/not worthy | Pam laughed at Sean's ridiculous idea of trying to catch a fish in a pail. |
| Pepita Talks Twice | courteous | adjective | respectful/well-mannered | Jeremy's courteous behavior made him a favorite at the castle. |
| Nate the Great, The San Francisco Detective | reluctant | adjective | unwilling/resisting | The more they tried to get him into the icy water, the more reluctant he became. |
| Allie's Basketball Dream | accurate | adjective | free from error/correct | In the story, William Tell split an apple on his son's head with an arrow with one very accurate shot. |
| The Olympic Games: Where Heroes are Made | encouragement | noun | support/stimulation/inspiration | Jesse found that a carrot was the best encouragement to keep Burrito moving. |
| Turtle Bay |
tranquil
|
adjective | quiet/peaceful | Afternoon in the desert is time for all to take a long, tranquil nap. |
| Balto, The Dog Who Saved Nome | exceptional | adjective | excellent/superior | At six, Jennifer showed an exceptional talent for advance mathematics. |
| Wild Shots, They're My Life | capable | adjective | having ability/competent | Angela surprised her dad by showing him she was capable of making breakfast. |
| Little Grunt and the Big Egg | frantic | adjective | wild with anxiety or fear | Ruthie was frantic. None of her clothes seemed right for the party. |
| Rosie, a Visiting Dog's Story | recuperate | verb | recover/regain | "The way things are going," Tommy thought, "I'm in no rush to recuperate!" |
| The Stories Julian Tells | opportunity | noun | when time, place and situation favor an action | Digby the ram finally saw his opportunity to get back at Farmer Brown for keeping him locked in the barn. |
| The Talent Show | bewildered | adjective | confused/completely puzzled | Amy was completely bewildered. She didn't know where she was or where to go. |
| Centerfield Ballhawk | numerous | adjective | many/in great numbers | It was going to be a good year. The new arrivals were more numerous than ever. |
| Ramona Forever | uncertain | adjective | not sure/doubtful | Greg was uncertain who the statue's sculptor was, so he looked it up. |
| Sayings We Share: Proverbs and Fables | conscience | noun | inner sense of right and wrong | Andrew wondered if his conscience would allow him just a very tiny piece of cake. |
| On Your Mark: Papa Tells Chita a Story | brilliant | adjective | shining brightly | None of the reindeer had ever seen such a brilliant nose in the herd. |
| Coyote Places the Stars | unanimous | adjective | in complete agreement | Our family was always unanimous when it came to dessert. |
| Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears | consequence | noun | result of something that happened earlier | Luke forgot that, for every action there is always a consequence. |
| Lon Po Po | anxious | adjective | very worried/fearful | Ben was so anxious about failing the math test that his teeth chattered. |
| The Crowded House | humorous | adjective | funny/comical | The family never realized that Bingo had such a humorous personality. |
| Leah's Pony | temporary | adjective | for a limited time only | Until they could afford a stone column, they had to use a temporary wooden one. |
| Yippee-Yay! A Book About Cowboys and Cowgirls | comparison | noun | noting similarities and differences | In a comparison with Eric's muscles, Jon's muscles definitely needed improvement. |
| Boom Town | gradual | adjective | changing little by little | The class noted that the melting ice happened as a gradual change. |
| Cocoa Ice | moisture | noun | liquid in fine particles, as in a fog | Donna knew the roses loved their gentle sprays of moisture in hot weather. |
| If You Made a Million | hesitate | verb | to delay or wait to act | A sudden wave of fear made Eva hesitate. |
| I'm in Charge of Celebrations | obstruct | verb | to block/prevent passage | Evan could barely see the film because the person in front of him obstructed his view. |
| Alejandro's Gift | nourish | verb | to bring up/provide with food | In the spring, mother birds can find lots of food to nourish their young. |
| Rocking and Rolling | perilous | adjective | full of danger | Kevin's first attempt at snowboarding turned out to be more perilous than he thought. |
| The Armadillo from Amarillo | launch | verb | to send forth | By mistake, Donny's little brother was launched as the town's first astronaut. |
| Visitors from Space | precaution | noun | guard against possible harm | Jimmy felt he'd taken precaution against anything that might happen in the pool. |
Build Your Child's Background in Science & Social Studies
Geography Vocabulary
| archipelago | atoll | badlands | bay | beach |
| continent | delta | desert | dune | fjord |
| forest | geyser | glacier | gulf | hill |
| iceberg | island | isthmus | jungle | lagoon |
| marsh | mesa | mountain | ocean | peninsula |
| plain | plateau | prairie | river | sea |
| sound | strait | swamp | tundra | valley |
| volcano | waterfall |
Please scroll down to find our current units of study, review old units, or preview upcoming units.
Science Vocabulary Words & Key Concepts
Minerals, Rocks and Fossils: rock, mineral, crust, mantle, core, sedimentary rock, igneous rock, metamorphic rock, rock cycle, and fossil
Key Concepts
What minerals are and how they are used
What is under the surface of the Earth
How rocks form
Ways people use rocks to make things
How fossils form
How fossils show that life on Earth has changed
Forces That Shape the Land: weathering, erosion, earthquake, flood, volcano, landform, canyon, mountain, valley, plain, plateau, barrier island, glacier, and desert
Key Concepts
What forces change Earth's surface
The way some landforms look
Why landforms are always changing
How wind, water, and ice change Earth's surface
How earthquakes and volcanoes change the land
How floods change the land
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Science - Minerals, Rocks and Fossils & Forces That Shape the Land |
| Go on a rock, mineral or landform hunt. |
| Check out books or videos on rocks, minerals, and landforms. |
| Look for kid friendly websites on rocks, minerals, and landforms. |
| Look in nature for examples of weathering and erosion. |
Soils: soil, humus, topsoil, bedrock, clay, loam, resource, conservation, strip cropping, and contour plowing
Key Concepts
Where soil comes from
Why soil is important
What harms soil
How soil can be saved
Earth's Resources: resource, renewable resource, reusable resource, nonrenewable resource, and recycle
Key Concepts
What are resources
How we get resources
Which resources will never run out
Which resources could be used up
What is recycling
How recycling saves resources
The Water Cycle: groundwater, estuary, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, & water cycle
Key Concepts
Why Water is important
Where water is found on Earth
How water changes form
How water moves from place to place
Observing Weather: atmosphere, weather, temperature, front, wind, anemometer, & weather map
Key Concepts
The layers of the atmosphere
What is weather
How weather changes
The ways temperature, precipitation, and wind are measured
How people forecast weather
How to read a weather map
Earth and Its Place in the Solar System: solar system, orbit, planet, asteroid, comet, rotation, axis, revolution, phaes, lunar eclipse, & solar eclipse
Key Concepts
The names of the planets
Other bodies in the solar system
Why there are seasons
What causes day and night
What are the moon's phases
What causes eclipses
Properties of Matter: matter, physical property, solid, liquid, gas, atom, evaporation, volume, and mass
Key Concepts
How to observe matter
Three states of matter
What matter is made of
How matter changes
How to measure matter
How to use tools to measure matter
Changes in Matter: physical change, mixture, solution, and chemical change
Key Concepts
How matter can change and still be the same
Two kinds of mixtures
How new kinds of matter are formed
Some ways we use chemical changes every day
Energy: energy, potential energy, kinetic energy, electricity, fossil fuel, vibrate, and circuit
Key Concepts
Different forms of energy
How energy can be stored
Uses of stored energy
How energy can move as waves
How energy can move as electricity
How energy from sunlight can be changed into other forms
How food, fuel, and electricity can produce motion and heat
Heat: thermal energy, heat, friction, conduction, conductor, insulator, convection, radiation, and thermometer
Key Concepts
What is thermal energy
What is heat
What thermal energy can do
Three ways thermal energy moves
How to keep thermal energy from moving easily
How to measure temperature
Ways to control thermal energy
Forces and Motion: force, motion, speed, gravity, weight, work, simple machine, lever, and inclined plane
Key Concepts
How motion begins
How to find speed
What is gravity
What is work
What force has to do with work
What is a simple machine
Names of simple machines
Social Studies Vocabulary Words & Key Concepts
What is a Community?: map, symbols, title, labels, map key, scale, globe, location, city, state, country, continent, hemisphere, equator, cardinal directions, intermediate directions, compass rose, cooperate, citizens, government, laws, consequence, mayor, judges, responsibilities, resource, volunteers, history, ancestor, missionary, time line, custom, culture, and founders
Key Concepts
Why might you need to find out where places are?
Why do people in your community need to work together?
What kinds of things do you need to live?
Why is learning about the past important?
Why do you think most communities are made up of different groups of people?
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Social Studies - What is a Community? |
| Talk about Lockport as a community. |
| Discuss Lockport's government (mayor & city council) |
| Where are the different zones in Lockport? (business, residential, government, etc.) |
| How has Lockport changed over the years? |
Where People Start Communities: physical feature, landform, mountain range, valley, plateau, plain, peninsula, coast, climate, desert, and human-made feature
Key Concepts
What makes the place where you live different from other places?
What are some physical features of a place?
Along what kinds of waterways and bodies of water do people build communities?
Why are many cities and towns build near water?
Why is land next to a bodyof water a good place to build a community?
Where do poeple meet in your town?
What is the place called where two routes meet?
Why is crossing point a good place to build a city?
What is it about a place that makes people want to build communities there?
Why were the branches of the Mississippi River important?
Why was the location of Chouteaus's trading post important?
What does the Gateway Arch stand for?
Why do you think cities and towns are built near resources?
How do resources help people decide where to start farms?
How can the location of minerals help people decide where to build communities
Why would location be an important reason for building a city or town?
Where are many state capitals and county seats located? Why?
Why would location be more important than physical features in deciding where to build a city?
Why did Brazil's leaders want to move the capital city?
Why did people think Brasilia could not be built?
The Many People of a Community: opportunity, religion, immigrant, literature, heritage, holiday, tradition, folktale
Key Concepts
What parts of the world have people in your community come from?
What is an immigrant
Why did many African Americans leave the South and move to cities in the North?
What is literature?
What form of music became popular in harlem?
How do you celebrate you favorite holiday?
What do Vietnamese people call the New Year's holiday?
What is Kwanzaa?
Why do many people celbrate the New Year's holiday in Times Square?
Compare the way you live with the way a person your age in another country lives.
On which continent is India located?
What is one of the largest groups of people in India?
What is the important lesson taught by "the Jackal's Tale"?
What makes the people of India different from one another?
What are the two main religions in India?
People Working Together: basic needs, rural, service, product, technology, producer, raw materials, marketing, human resources, wage, and industry
Key Concepts
How do you work with others in your community, school, and home?
Why are the Amish sometimes called the Plain People?
What is a barn raising?
What are some products and services the Amish buy from other communities?
How are most products made?
What are human resources?
What is an industry?
What makes a person decide to buy one product or service rather than another?
What can competition do to price?
What is an advertisement?
How do inventions create demand?
How do people in your community buy products from other countries?
How is international trade today different from trade long ago?
How do communication links help trade?
How is an export different from an import?
Living Together in a Community, State, and Nation: petition, council, government service, tax, vote, Constitution, election, candadite,ballot, majority rule, minority rights, campaign, governor, public property, private property, jury, Congress, Supreme Court, patriotism, anthem, pledge, allegiance, and province
Key Concepts
What can you do to help solve a problem in your community?
How do city governments pay for government services?
What rules and laws help resove conflicts in your community?
What was the Mayflower Compact?
What does the Constitution describe?
How is a state government like other kinds of government?
Why does each state need its own government?
How is the governor's job like the job of the mayor of a city or a town?
What do state lawmakers and judges do?
What are some of the things state governments do?
How many parts make up the government of the United States?
What are some duties of the President?
What are the two parts of Congress called?
How are the justices of the Supreme Court chosen?
In what ways can you show that you are proud to be a citizen of your community and country?
Why has the design of our country's flag changed many times?
Who worte "The Star-Spangles Banner"?
What is the Pledge of Allegiance?
What are places that display the national flag?
How are governments in other countries like our government?
How has Nelson Mandela brought change to South Africa?
Who has the right to vote in the United States?
Communities Grow and Change: reservoir, decade, century, planning, disaster, decline, canal, causeway, empire, pollution, and historical society
Key Concepts
In the time you can remember, how has your community changed and how has it stayed the same?
How many years are in a decade? a century?
What important service do schools provide?
Why is it important to plan changes?
What are examples of changes that are unplanned?
In what ways did communities change many centuries ago?
What problems do cities face today?
What are some ways to find out about a community's history?
Who can provide you with information about the history of your community?
Character Education
Caring, Fairness, Respect, Trustworthiness, Responsibility, and Citizenship
For Older Students:
Lewis Latimer: Inventor Casimir Pulaski http://polskiinternet.com/english/casimirpulaski.html
Pulaski Sites LRC Page U.S. Imperialism http://www.bookrags.com/essay-2005\11\8\214416\147
American Imperialism http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h815.html
Learn about the 1800's http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/19thcentury.html
Alaskan Map 1917 http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/alaska_stations_1917.jpg
Alaska http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_alaska_1.html
The Spanish American War http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/intro.html
The Spanish American War http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3617.html
Florida and the Spanish American War in Cuba http://www.floridamemory.com/OnlineClassroom/PhotoAlbum/s-a_war.cfm
Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h818.html
Hawaii http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1899.html
China http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h908.html
Imperialism http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/fists.html
The Philippines http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h823.html
Energy Games and Puzzles
http://energyquest.ca.gov/games/scrambler.html
Geothermal Energy http://energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter11.html
Silicate Minerals (STUDY THE ROCK SITES FOR OUR TEST)
Non-silicate Minerals Rock Scavenger Hunt
Rock Activities What is an element? Rock Quiz
Introduction to ROCKS... LEARN ABOUT ROCKS
Jefferson Science Lab: Games, Puzzles and Information (SCIENCE AND MATH FUN)
******Please refer to your child's planner for homework and notes from me and from the office. Feel free to write to me using your child's planner. Please take all graded papers out of your child's folder and check your child's homework for accuracy when they are finished. Thank you. If you have any questions, feel free to call me at 815-838-0542 or email me at kpodwika@d91.net.
Have a wonderful day!!
Miss
Podwika
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