Add your main content here - Reading Calendar for 3rd Grade – October 2009 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri 1 2 Lesson 6 Day 4 Lesson 6 Day 5 5 6 7 8 9 No School Theme 2 Lesson 6 Test Lesson 7 Day 1 Lesson 7 Day 2 Lesson 7 Day 3 12 13 14 15 16 Lesson 7 Day 4 Lesson 7 Day 5 Theme 2 Lesson 7 Test Lesson 8 Day 1 Lesson 8 Day 2 19 20 21 22 23 Lesson 8 Day 3 Lesson 8 Day 4 Lesson 8 Day 5 Theme 2 Lesson 8 Test Lesson 9 Day 1 26 27 28 29 30 Lesson 9 Day 2 Lesson 9 Day 3 Lesson 9 Day 4 Lesson 9 Day 5 Theme 2 Lesson 9 Test Theme 2 Lesson 7 – 10/7/09 – 10/14/09 Lesson 7 Vocabulary words – Student friendly definitions 1. babble – If you babble, you say words that cannot be understood. 2. suspicious – If you think someone cannot be trusted, you are suspicious of him or her. 3. accompany – When you accompany someone, you go someplace with him or her. 4. competent – If you are competent, you are good at what you are doing. 5. scent – A scent is what something smells like. 6. wanders – A person who wanders travels without planning where he or she is going. 7. whined – If someone or something whined, it gave a long, high cry. 8. obey – When you obey, you do what you are told to do. 9. demonstrate – When you demonstrate something you show how it works or how it is done. 10. patrol – People patrol an area when they go through it with the purpose of guarding it. Lesson 7 Spelling words: chin, itch, push, chef, when, wash, much, sharp, pitch, where, peach, child, wheat, chance, machine, cashier, friendship, hatched, finished, children Theme 2 Lesson 8: 10/15/09 – 10/22/09 Lesson 8 Vocabulary words – Student friendly definitions 1. charging – If an animal is charging, it is rushing or moving quickly towards something or someone. 2. ferocious – A ferocious animal looks angry and wild. 3. dominant – If someone or something is the strongest, it is dominant. 4. conflict – If two animals are fighting, they are in a conflict. 5. communicate – When two people or animals communicate, they share information. 6. flick – When you flick something, you move it or snap it quickly. 7. alert – If you alert people to something, you get their attention and let them know to be careful. 8. signal – A signal is a sound or an action that sends a message. 9. chatter – When animals chatter, they repeat their sounds quickly. 10. groom – When an animal grooms itself, it makes itself neat and clean. Lesson 8 Spelling words: foil, loud, gown, coil, house, annoy, growl, moist, enjoy, round, spoil, mouse, clown, bounce, cowboy, eyebrows, voyage, boiling, cloudy, avid Theme 2 Lesson 9: 10/23/09-10/30/09 Lesson 9 Vocabulary Words-Student friendly definitions 1. dense – When something is made of things that are very close together, it is dense. 2. reaction – A response to something that happens is a reaction. 3. ingredients – Ingredients are all the foods and spices that you use to make a certain kind of food. 4. momentum – If an action or idea grows quickly and is hard to stop, it has momentum. 5. famine – When there is a famine, there is not enough food to feed everyone. 6. generous – People who are generous are happy to share with others. 7. curiosity – Something that is called a curiosity is something odd or unusual that interest people. 8. gaze – A gaze is a long look at something. 9. agreeable – Something that is agreeable is pleasing to the senses. 10. banquet – If you are going to a banquet, you are going to a special meal that will have a large amount of food. Lesson 9 Spelling Words: spray, street, spring, stripe, screen, strong, spring, stray, scream, strike, spread, string, sprout, scratch, stream, strangers, describe, strength, destroy, instruct text, photos, videos, addons, whatever you want!