G3 Midyear Revision Guide [Jan 2011]

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Grade Three Midyear Revision Guide January 2011

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8th January 2011

Dear parents,

The midyear examination week will begin on Saturday the 22ndJanuary 2010. Information on the exact dates for specific subjects willfollow shortly in a letter from the school.

This examination week is testing a selection of the material that wevecovered since the beginning of the academic year.

There will be a revision week prior to the examination week. Therevision week will start 15th January 2010. Subject teachers will give

students additional revision worksheets to complete during thoserevision lessons.

The following provides a summary of what topics can be revised athome.

Information on Arabic and other subjects should follow from theteachers of those subjects.

This booklet includes information on: English, maths, science, social

studies, Islamic Studies (in English) and I.T.

Thank you.

(Grade Three Teachers)


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Mid-year Exam Preparation - Grade 3

Subject Exam Revision Work

Reading Students will have to read through a previouslyunseen reading text.

Comprehension Unseen Comprehension Passage: more informationgiven below

Spelling Listed in a table below

Grammar Listed in the table belowCreative Writing Narrative or Summary:

Practice examples in study pack (to follow).

Mathematics Listed in the table below

Science Revise the following in the Science Textbook

Chapter 1

Lesson 2p7Lesson 3p10Lesson 4p18

Chapter 2

Lesson1p39Lesson2p44Lesson3p48

Chapter 3

Lesson2p76Lesson3p82

Chapter 4

Lesson1p103Lesson3p110Lesson4p114

Chapter5

Lesson1p151Lesson2p156


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Social Studies Revise the following in the Social Studies Textbook

For a Better World.

Chapter 1

Lesson 2p5

Chapter 3

Lesson 1- p21Lesson 2 p23Lesson 3 p27

Chapter 4

Lesson 1 p39Lesson 2 - p41

Chapter 5

Lesson 2 p61

Islamic Studies

(in English)

Islamic StudiesGrade 3 Textbook:

Content

Fasting 1 pg.#27 & 28,Fasting 2 pg.# 33,Hajj pg. #38 & 39,Prophet Adam pg. #45,Khadijah bint Khuwaylid pg.# 49 & 50,

Prophet Ibraheem pg.# 56 & 57,Prophet Ismaeel pg. 62, 63 & 64,Prophet Ishaq pg. 68

I.T. See revision notes below

English: Comprehension

This subject tests the childs comprehension of the text and stories,including concepts such as the characters and how they feel.

Knowing where stories are set. He needs to know whether the story isabout fantasy or realism. Recognising order in stories, what happenedfirst or last in a story.

The story is always an unseen passage.

The children will then be asked questions that will show whether or nottheyve understood the story. The questions will follow many differentformats to test the learners understanding of the story.


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Examples of comprehension style questions:

1. Why did the male emperor penguin hold his egg on his feet?

a. to carry it to the nest

b. to see how heavy it is

c. to hide it from bears

d. to make sure it is warm

2.When did the mother penguin leave the rookery?

a. before the father took the egg

b. after the ice melted

c. before the parents sang together

d. before the egg hatched

This is a difficult topic to revise, as its a skill rather than thememorisation of facts. However, to help encourage this skill in thechildren you can have you son answer the given comprehensions inthe study pack (to follow).

English: Spelling

We will retest the children on a selection of the words that we havecovered in recent spelling tests.

Please revise the following words. We will select 20 words from thistable and ask for them to be spelt (i.e. written) correctly in the exam.

Long

voweldigraphs

Vowel

Sounds

Outand

toy

Syllable

patternv/cv,

vc/v

Words

endingin -le Compoundwords

Words

with

spl,thr,

squ, str

Digraphs

sh, th, ph,ch, tch

Contractions

CleanDreamCoachGrain

display

ProudShowerChoiceAvoidannoy

PilotWagonSilentCamelsalad

HandleTroubleTablegentleuncle

FootballHomeworksandboxPopcornblueberry

SplashThrowSquareStrike

throne

FatherWatchShrinkPitcherTrophy

LetsHed

HaventTheyllDidnt


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English: Grammar

Please revise the following topics and skills that have been coveredduring the first Semester.

Topic Grammar & Writing Practice BookPage Numbers

Subjects and Predicates 56

Statements and Questions 62

Commands and Exclamations 68

Compound Sentences. 74

Common and Proper Nouns 80

Singular and Plural Nouns 86

Irregular Plural Nouns. 92

Action and Linking Verbs 110

Main Verbs and Helping Verbs 116Pronoun 140

Subject and Object pronoun 146

Possessive Pronoun 152

Math

Please revise the following topics that we have covered. There will beat least one question on the exam paper on each of these topics.

TopicCorresponding page in

Homework Workbook

Place Value 6-11

Comparing Numbers 18-21

Ordering Numbers 22-25

Addition and subtraction 70-71

Find a rule 72

Break apart numbers 80-81

Estimating sums 86-87Adding two and three digits 126-135

Subtraction two and three digits 148-151

Time to the half hour and quarter hour 192- 194

Time 196- 199

Using line plots 208-209

Pictographs and Bar graphs 212-214

Graphing ordered pairs 218- 220Line graphs 222- 223


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I.T.

Part of the I.T. exam will be theory based (i.e. answering questions) andpart will be practical (i.e. students will have to demonstrate that theyare able to perform certain tasks on the computer)

The I.T. exam (theory and practical) is normally held during the revisionweek (i.e. the week 15th January to 19th January). The exact date ofthe exam will follow from the school shortly.

Here are a summary of the core skills that the students should havegrasped.

The I.T. teachers will hand out some revision worksheets during theweek starting 8th January targeting some of these skills.

Chapter: 1 (Theory)Lessons: 1-2-4-5-6-7-9-10-12(you can cover this from the worksheets)

He should know:

The definition of the computer Parts of the computer Exploring the keyboard

Input and Output Devices The difference between software and hardware Computer Safety and rules

Chapter: 2 (Practical)Lesson: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7(you can cover it from the worksheet)

He should know:

How to use the Home Row Keys when typing Using the Enter key Using the spacebar Using backspace key

Typing capital letters by using shift key Using the caps lock key Typing numbers and symbols Typing punctuation marks


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Chapter: 3 (Practical)Lesson: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-(you can cover it from the worksheets)

He should know:

How to open the word processing program Highlight text Cutting, Coping and pasting Changing the font

Changing the font size Formatting text (Bold Italic Underline) Using the Undo and Redo buttons Alignment

Changing the color of the text

Inserting clip art Printing and Saving

Chapter: 5 (Practical)Lesson: 1-2-3-4-5-6(Cover it from the book / page 172 To 194)

He should know:

How to open the paint program Drawing lines and shapes Using colors

Using the fill tool Adding text Saving and Printing a drawing Changing the image

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