Grade 3-A2

 Hello everyone, this is the last week of the semester so there is actually no vocabulary words and no story. We can use this time to review stories, finish any remaining writing, and also to have a class party. Reminder: We do have winter homework which is to write and draw comics on an A3 sized poster based on what happens during students' experiences over the winter break and Lunar New Year holidays. As for homework, we only have the Savvas Online Homework this week. I'll provide summaries of the stories from this half of the semester for students and parents to refer to prior to doing review activities. Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell This story is a biography that covers the life of Elizabeth Blackwell The setting of the story is America in the 1800s. The story states that jobs were limited for women in the 1830s even in America. Those who weren't wives, mothers, or maids were usually working as teachers or seamstresses. At that ti...

 Hello, our Final Exams are finally over, but learning is not so please remember to bring your books to school for the last two weeks. There won't be any tests for the rest of the semester, but there will be homework so please remember to finish it. Our last reading will be about how water and earthquakes shape the Earth and the landforms on it. Week 20 Vocabulary 1 butter (n.): a soft yellow food made from cream that you spread on bread or use in cooking  2 mitten (n.): a type of glove with a single part for all the fingers and a separate part for the thumb   3 office  (n.): a room or building where people work at desks 4 muffin (n.): a small, round cake   5 dinner (n.): the main meal of the day, usually eaten in the evening  6 become (v.): to begin to be something  7 across (prep.): from one side to the other side of something  8 during (prep.): throughout the duration of something  9 flow (v.): to move smoothly, like wat...