Chloe / Third grade / October 19-23

Times ten.
Drop the e.

Pip has four autumn adventures for you this week!

Pip the fox waves in falling autumn leaves.
The Times-Ten Machine.

Math / Times ten

The Times-Ten Machine

Feed it a number. Watch every digit slide one place left while a zero pops into the ones.

Start the machine
 Pip's autumn coloring picture.

Math / Color by multiplication

Color by Ten

Solve each times ten fact, find its crayon, and color Pip's autumn picture.

Open the coloring page
 The quiet e hops into Pip's basket.

Spelling / -ed and -ing

Drop the e

Watch the quiet e hop off when -ed or -ing comes along. Then build the words yourself.

Build the words
 Pip's basket of leaves.

Spelling / Thursday test practice

Pip's practice test

Listen, type, and fill Pip's basket with leaves. Missed words come back.

Take the practice test
 Pip in autumn leaves.

A paper-cut cartoon / Times ten and teamwork

Pip and the Lantern Night

Pip fills jars with ten fireflies each, and her friends help her count by tens to seventy.

Watch the cartoon
For your grown-up: what this week practises

This page was built from photos of three of Chloe's sheets for October 19-23: her Vowel Detective page, the spelling pre-test list, and the Color by Multiplication page (times ten). No newsletter or choice board came with them, so the page practises only what those sheets show. These are extra practice and do not replace her paper work.

Spelling words: dine, dined, dining, smile, smiled, smiling, prepare, prepared, preparing, translate, translated, translating, rake, raked, raking, tire, tired, tiring, drive, drove. The pattern: a word that ends in a quiet e drops the e before -ed or -ing. Drive to drove is a rule breaker: its vowel changes.

The Times-Ten Machine shows why times ten adds a zero: every digit slides one place left and a zero holds the ones place, for 0 x 10 through 12 x 10, in both orders, and backward (what went in?). Color by Ten is her color sheet as a game, with an original picture and the same crayon guide (10 purple, 20 red, 30 brown, 40 white, 50 pink, 60 yellow, 70 blue), plus orange for 80 and green for 90. Drop the e teaches the rule with a short animation, then she decides which letter goes and spells each new word; a few words with no quiet e (like jump to jumped) keep the decision honest. Pip's practice test reads each word and a sentence for the Thursday test; a missed word shows her spelling beside the right one with the different letters glowing, and comes back at the end.

On her Vowel Detective page, translate was written without its s and prepared started with pra. Watch those two. The green marks on the pre-test list were not used to pick words: every word gets practice, and the page brings back whatever she misses.

Voice: this week's lines are read by a different voice from earlier weeks, a stand-in while the usual voice is unavailable.

Stars and progress are saved in this browser only. Every answer is also saved for the grown-ups page.