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Third Grade

 

 

 

Highlights:

 

• Reading contracts
• Customs in other countries
• Cranberry unit
• Attend professional plays
• Guidance
• Library
• Computer lab
• Field trips

 

 

Communication Arts

 

• Edit and publish fiction and

non-fiction

• Use dictionary skills
• Participate in class discussions
• Understand story elements (setting, main characters, main event, problem)
• Interact with text
• Read and analyze various literary selections
• Develop the writing process

-Prewriting

-Writing

-Revising

-Proofreading

-Publishing

• Present an oral report
• Read independently (I.R.)

 

 

Science

 

• Investigate science in the kitchen
• Understand how living things grow and change
• Investigate forces and simple machines
• Learn about rocks and minerals
• Investigate magnets and electricity
• Use good dental health habits

 

 

Social Studies

 

• Identify geography of communities
• Study the government of a community
• Understand state and national governments
• Investigate America’s early communities
• Use maps and globes

 

 

Math

 

• Identify geometry figures and angles
• Memorize multiplication/division
• Review addition/subtraction
• Investigate graphing
• Understand fractions
• Solve addition and subtraction problems with regrouping
• Use measurement
• Solve story problems
• Tell time to the nearest minute
• Count money and make change

 

 

 

 

 

 

Physical Education

 

• Demonstrate mature form in all locomotor movements (skip, hop, gallop, slide, etc.)
• Demonstrate mature motor patterns, sequences, and transitions between sequential motor skills
• Use feedback to improve performance
• Engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity outside of physical education class
• Identify at least one activity associated with each component of health-related physical activity
• Work cooperatively with another to complete an assigned task
• Perform a self-assessment on a specific or general skill
• Records daily steps and uses the information to

track daily physical performance

Music

 

• Continue the development of vocal skills
• Develop the confidence to do solo as well as group singing
• Continue the concepts of note symbols as a way of showing pitch and value
• Further the understanding of musical styles and history

Computer

 

• Use appropriate terminology
• Access information from book marked sites
• Use technology in a responsible manner

 

Art

 

• Learn and incorporate warm-light, cold-dark, primary and secondary colors
• Learn various weaving techniques
• Understand how nature can be found and used in their art designs
• Continue to develop drawing skills
• Understand and use symmetry in their art work
• Design a three-dimensional building with environment
• Learn grade level vocabulary related to their art work
• Continue to explore elements and principles of design

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homework Tips

·     Keep practice time short (10-15 minutes)

·     Try to have a consistent practice schedule

·     Keep distractions (television, radio…) to a minimum

·     Praise your child’s effort

·     Most important: Read to your child often!