3rd Grade Language Arts |
Celebrating Traditions
For the next few weeks, or class will be reading the theme Celebrating Traditions.
Your child will explore ways people across the United States celebrate family and
cultural traditions and how these traditions enrich their lives.
Theme related activities to do together
Designer You Have your child list several visual symbols for things he or she enjoys (for example, a soccer ball if he or she plays soccer). Then help your child plan a square for a cloth quilt or a collage that includes these symbols. |
Prisms and Raianbows Help your child research prisms and write several sentences that explain how light passing through a prism can create a rainbow. Then have your child explain in his or her own words how a prism can “make a rainbo” |
Music and Dance Together with your child look for videos or audio tapes with music from various cultures. Listen to the tapes together and identify the subject of the music. Is it celebratory? Does it tell a story? |
Theme-related Books to Enjoy Together!
The Wedding by Angela Johnson. Orchard 1999.
A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting. Harcourt 1999
Song of Shiprock Fair by Luci Tapahonso. Kiva 1999
Seven Candles for Kwanzaa by Andrea Davis Pinkney. Dial 1993
Moon Festival by Ching Yeung Russell. Boyds Mills 1997