Trapped by the Ice

Mrs. Campbell’s Third Grade

Week of March 9, 2009 (Due Friday)
Editor’s Hat
Tip: Good writers know how to use quotation marks
and dialogue tags to show who’s talking. Remember
to punctuate inside the quotation marks, as well as
at the end of the sentence.

1. Did you know that soil has many layers asked the teacher
2. I see land exclaimed Christopher Newport
3. We must go on said Juan Ponce de Leon
4. Would you like to be an explorer asked the guide
Word Study Hat

Divide these words into syllables on the next

page. Remember to divide the word between
the two consonants in the middle of the word
(VCCV pattern).

Monday sudden until forget

happen follow dollar window
hello market pretty order
Write each word and divide it into syllables.

Monday
happen
hello
sudden
follow
market
until
dollar
pretty
forget
window
order
Homonyms: Illustrate each word in the boxes.

sea see

Write one sentence that uses both words:

Crazy Compounds! Make a new compound word:

Thinker’s Hat:+ =
home work

If this is the answer, what is

the question?

bedrock

Write the question here:

Now try this: circle the word that does not belong in this
group. Use the box to explain why it doesn’t.

topsoil
worm
humus
bedrock
 Circle the word that completes the analogy.
Sea route to Asia
Gold Christopher Newport is to claiming
Claiming land for land for England as Juan Ponce de
Spain Leon is to _________.
Claiming land for
England
Let’s Review Vocabulary!

Create a new sentence for each

word that shows you know what
the word means.

1. hemisphere 2. equator

3. continent 4. prime meridian

_____ large mass of land on a map

_____ half the world
_____ a line of longitude.that divides the world in eastern and
western hemispheres.
_____ a line of latitude that divides the earth into northern and
southern hemispheres.
Comprehension Hat
Good readers organize information. Read
the story on p.99 and complete p. 100.
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