This year we will be using Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Journeys series for our ELA lessons. Each week we will read a selection and complete comprehension, writing, spelling, grammar, and close reading assignments based on this weekly selection. Each Thursday we will have a comprehension test on the selection and weekly spelling tests will be on Friday. Schedules may change if we have a day off on a Friday. Any changes will be noted in student planners and our class calendar. Below you can find our weekly spelling lists and the name of the weekly reading selections that accompany them.

Grade 3 Spelling Lists

Sept. 14- Lesson 1-"A Fine, Fine School" - crop, plan, thing, smell, shut, sticky, spent, lunch, pumpkin, clock, gift, class, skip, swing, next, hug, hospital, fantastic

Sept. 21-Lesson 2"The Trial of Cardigan Jones" - spoke, mile, save, excuse, cone, invite, cube, price, erase, ripe, broke, flame, life, rule, these, those, surprise, decide

Sept. 28- Lesson 3 "Destiny's Gift "-lay, real, trail, sweet, today, dream, seem, tea, treat, afraid, leave, bait, screen, seed, paint, please, yesterday, explain

Oct. 5-Lesson 4 "Pop's Bridge"-load, open, told, yellow, soak, shadow, foam, follow, glow, sold, window, coach, almost, throat, cold, most, tomorrow, sailboats

Oct. 12- No Spelling work or test this week

Oct. 19- Lesson 5 "Roberto Clemente "- slight, mild, sight, pie, mind, tie, pilot, might, lie, tight, blind, fight, die, find, night, midnight, silent, frightening

Oct. 26- Lesson 6 "Bat Loves the Night"- math, toast, easy, socks, Friday, stuff, paid, cheese, June, elbow, program, shiny, piles, sticky, each, both, comb, holiday

Nov. 2- Lesson 7 "What Do Illustrators Do?"- three, scrap, street, spring, thrill, scream, strange, throw, string, scrape, spray, threw, strong, scratch, think, they, straight, scramble

Nov. 9- Lesson 8 "The Harvest Birds"- itch, wreck, knee, patch, wrap, knot, watch, knife, stretch, write, knew, knock, match, wrong, know, catch, wrinkle, knuckle

Nov. 16- Lesson 9 "Kamishibai Man": clown, round, bow, cloud, power, crown, thousand, crowd, sound, count, powder, blouse, frown, pound, house, found, mountain, coward

Nov. 23- No spelling work or test this week.

Nov. 30- Lesson 10 "Young Thomas Edison": talk, cross, awful, law, cloth, cost, crawl, chalk, also, raw, salt, wall, lawn, always, soft, small, often, strawberry

Dec. 7- Lesson 11 "Technology Wins the Game": joy, point, voice, join, oil, coin, noise, spoil, toy, joint, boy, soil, choice, boil, come, are, poison, destroy

Dec. 14- Lesson 12 "Tops and Bottoms": hole, whole, its, it's, hear, here, won, one, our, hour, their, there, fur, fir, road, rode, peace, piece

Dec. 21- No spelling work or test this week

Vocabulary- examined, peak, fondly, steep, rugged, mist, pausing

Jan. 4- Lesson 14 "Aero & Officer Mike": horse, mark, storm, market, acorn, artist, March, north, barking, storm, thorn, forest, chore, restore, dark, story, partner, fortune

Vocabulary- lying, loyal, partners, shift, quiver, patrol, ability, snap

Jan 11- Lesson 15 "Extra Good Sunday": nurse, work, shirt, hurt, first, word, serve, curly, dirt, third, worry, turn, stir, firm, her, girl, perfect, hamburger

Vocabulary- festive, degrees, ingredients, recommended, anxiously, cross, remarked, tease

Jan. 18- Lesson 16- "Judy Moody Saves the World": air, wear, chair, stairs, bare, bear, hair, care, pear, pair, chair, near, ear, beard, buy, year, earring, compare

Vocabulary- recycle, project, dripping, carton, complicated, pollution, rubbish, hardly, shade, global

Lesson 17- "The Albertosaurus Mystery": age, once, large, dance, jeans, space, change, jawbone, jacket, giant, pencil, circle, bounce, huge, nice, place, excited, gigantic

vocabulary- fossils, clues, remains, prove, evidence, skeletons, uncovering, buried, fierce, location

Feb. 1- Lesson 18- "A Tree is Growing": shark, check, queen, circus, flake, crack, second, squeeze, quart, squeak, quick, coldest, Africa, Mexico, black, thank, correct, question

vocabulary- pollen, store, clumps, passages, absorb, throughout, coverings, spines, tropical, dissolve

Feb. 8- Lesson 19- "Two Bear Cubs": mood, wooden, drew, smooth, blue, balloon, true, crooked, chew, tooth, hooves, cool, food, pooch, blew, foot, loose, jewel

vocabulary-scolding, greedily, ignore, hesitation, burden, glancing, base, console, drowsy, heroic

Feb. 22- Lesson 20- "Life on the Ice": birthday, anyone, sometimes, everything, homework, afternoon, airplane, grandmother, something, without, himself, faraway, sunburned, daylight, someone cannot, scorekeeper, everybody

vocabulary- shelter, colony, constant, wilderness, climate, region, unexpected, gliding, overheated, layer

Mar. 1- Lesson 21- "Sarah, Plain and Tall": coming, swimming, dropping, tapping, taping, invited, saving, stared, planned, changing, joking, loved, gripped, tasted, making, stopped, freezing, scared

vocabulary- prairie, slick, fetch, clattered, sniff, rough, thumped, batted, buzzing, rustle

Mar. 8- Lesson 22- "The Journey: Stories of Migration": cities, cried, puppies, hurried, stories, flies, parties, tried, pennies, fried, carried, babies, spied, ponies, pretty, very, countries, libraries

vocabulary- migrate, survival, plenty, frightening, accidents, solid, chilly, landscape, thunderous, dramatic

Mar. 15- Lesson 23-"The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman": singer, loudly, joyful, teacher, fighter, closely, powerful, farmer, quickly, friendly, speaker, wonderful, truly, hopeful, safely, listener, calmly

Mar. 22- NYS ELA TESTING 4/20-4/24

Lesson 24- Dog-of-the-Sea Waves: unfold, rejoin, untie, reheat, unfair, unclear, repaid, rewrite, unhurt, recheck, unlucky, unwrap, reuse, unsure, reread, unsafe, unbuckle, unknown

Mar. 29- Lesson 25-* NO SPELLING HOMEWORK, SPELLING TEST, OR WEEKLY READING TEST THIS WEEK DUE TO EASTER RECESS "Mountains: Surviving on Mt. Everest": painless, sickness, sadness, helpless, thankless, kindness, hopeless, darkness, fearless, thickness, careless, goodness, spotless, softness, useful, weakly, breathless, eagerness

vocabulary- approached, section, avalanches, increases, equipment, tanks, slopes, altitude, succeeded, halt

April 12- Lesson 26-"The Foot Race Across America": person, helmet, until, carpet, Monday, enjoy, forget, problem, Sunday, garden, order, mistake, umpire, herself, expect, wisdom

April 19- Lesson 27-* NO SPELLING HOMEWORK, SPELLING TEST, OR WEEKLY READING TEST THIS WEEK DUE TO NYS ELA TEST (4/20-4/21)"The Power of Magnets": jelly, bottom, pillow, happen, butter, lesson, cherry, sudden, arrow, dollar, hello, rabbit, letter, button, stubborn, mirror

April 26- Lesson 28-"Becoming Anything He Wants to Be": taught, thought, rough, laugh, bought, cough, ought, caught, fought, daughter, tough, through, enough, brought, sought, naughty

May 3- Lesson 29-* NO SPELLING HOMEWORK, SPELLING TEST, OR WEEKLY READING TEST THIS WEEK DUE TO NYS MATH TEST (5/4-5/5) "A New Team of Heroes": apple, river, little, October, ladder, summer, purple, later, November, giggle, uncle, winter, center, double, whistle, character

May 10- Lesson 30- "Saving Buster": below, about, belong, around, again, alone, because, above, between, alive, behind, begin, along, before, awhile, beyond

May 17- Lesson 31- "Stone Fox" chapters 1-4: code, mend, acre, credit, harvest, mature, official, sturdy, plow, crisp, legal, directly

May 24- Lesson 32- "Stone Fox" chapters 5-7: tilted, stunned, lightly, tribe, awesome, legend, entrance, represent, construct, contestant, clutch, bobble

May 31- Lesson 33- "Stone Fox" chapters 8-10: embarrass, deserted, swollen, glimpse, challenger, attempt, massive, suffer, rooting, halt, regain, jagged