{"id":24208,"date":"2023-11-15T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/?p=24208"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:24:40","slug":"2nd-6-weeks-of-3rd-grade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/2nd-6-weeks-of-3rd-grade-2","title":{"rendered":"2nd 6 Weeks of 3rd Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joel is staying on track with his siblings as far as school year goes.<\/p>\n<p>In bible, he participates in our family devotions each morning, has school readings, and school memory passages. He also has memory work for children\u2019s class.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6127-Orig2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24210 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6127-Orig2-240x300.jpg?resize=434%2C543&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6127-Orig2.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6127-Orig2.jpg?resize=819%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6127-Orig2.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6127-Orig2.jpg?resize=1228%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1228w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6127-Orig2.jpg?resize=1422%2C1778&amp;ssl=1 1422w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6127-Orig2.jpg?resize=1074%2C1343&amp;ssl=1 1074w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6127-Orig2.jpg?w=1601&amp;ssl=1 1601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a>In history\/social studies, our main spines are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Child\u2019s History of the World<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Usborne Book of World History<\/span>. We read through the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Usborne Time Traveler: Knights and Castles<\/span> section this unit. We use <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Window on the World<\/span> for country studies and he is working through <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Geography Songs<\/span> to learn some geography. We have timeline and currents events on Fridays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read Alouds are fun. We read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tales of Robin Hood<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Door in the Wall<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Minstrel in the Tower<\/span>. We have selections from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Aesop for Children<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">104 Poems of Whimsy and Wisdom<\/span> each week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In LA we are still using assigned spelling lists. Joel is starting to do better at paying attention to how he is supposed to spell words instead of how he wants to. We have a weekly cursive assignment, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Phonics C<\/span> for grammar, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wordly Wise B<\/span> for vocabulary, as well as our weekly writing assignment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/photo-4-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-24211\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/photo-4-300x225.jpg?resize=513%2C385&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/photo-4-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/photo-4-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/photo-4-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/photo-4-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/photo-4-scaled.jpg?w=2000 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/a>Joel read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Secret Valley<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Third Grade Detectives #1<\/span>, .<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Chalk Box Kid<\/span>, and\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Paint Brush Kid<\/span>. He finishes his assigned reading quickly so I add on an extra book for time each day to keep his reading practice going.<\/p>\n<p>Science spines are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">DK Did You Know Science<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Story of Inventions<\/span>. Joel also finished up <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">First Encyclopedia of Seas and Oceans<\/span>. He is getting better at doing his weekly experiments by himself.<\/p>\n<p>Math is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Horizons 3<\/span>. Chugging along. He does well in math though he says he doesn&#8217;t like it.<\/p>\n<p>Joel attended a soccer camp in October and had a trip to Glen Rose to see the dinosaur tracks with the Coopers. Our church hosted a good news club at the elementary on Wednesdays and Joel was able to participate in that as well. He tags along to all the other sports, church, and Connections events. He takes care of the chickens and picks up the eggs each day. His favorite event is Parents&#8217; Night Out every other week because he enjoys playing on the bouncy and with his friends on video games.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel is staying on track with his siblings as far as school year goes. In bible, he participates in our family devotions each morning, has school readings, and school memory passages. He also has memory work for children\u2019s class.\u00a0 In history\/social studies, our main spines are A Child\u2019s History of the World and Usborne Book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[905,302,190,303],"tags":[3698,1672,1250,3401,793],"class_list":["post-24208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-core-c","category-horizons-math","category-joel","category-science-homeschool","tag-12-weeks","tag-2nd-6-weeks","tag-3rd-grade","tag-report","tag-update","wpcat-905-id","wpcat-302-id","wpcat-190-id","wpcat-303-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p504YJ-6is","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22952,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/5th-6-weeks-of-2nd-grade-2","url_meta":{"origin":24208,"position":0},"title":"5th 6 Weeks of 2nd Grade","author":"Becca","date":"May 31, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Joel finished up week 30 last week. 6 weeks left! 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