CURRICULUM NIGHT MORE INSIGHT ON THIS THIRD GRADE JOURNEY...
CURRICULUM NIGHTMORE INSIGHT ON THIS THIRD GRADE JOURNEY...
Important Points
Parents, please keep these important points in mind.
Attendance
Attendance Affects Learning!
Absences-When students are absent, they miss hands-on activities and group work. These activities cannot be re-created.
Attendance (cont.)
Tardies - Students are marked tardy at 7:55 a.m. and there are morning work assignments that your child is responsible for completing.
Early Pick-ups - Instruction does not stop until 2:45 p.m. When you pick your child up before that time, they are missing classwork assignments that oftentimes can not be made up.
Read-to-Achieve
● Beginning of Year Assessment Scores● Reading 3D BOY, MOY, and EOY
3rd Grade At A Glance (What your child will learn by the end of 3rd grade in English Language Arts/ Literacy)Foundational Reading Skills:
Phonics and Word Recognition Skills: Know and apply 3rd grade phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words
● Read and understand common prefixes and suffixes ● Decode multisyllabic words ● Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words
Fluency: Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate and expression, to support comprehension
3rd Grade At A Glance
Reading Literature and Informational Text:
● Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, citing the text as a basis for answers ● Recount stories, fables, folktales and myths from diverse cultures● Determine the key message, lesson, moral, or main idea and how it is supported by text details● Describe character traits, motivations, feelings and how actions contribute ● to story sequence of events ● Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ● ideas, or steps in a technical procedure, using language of time, sequence ● and cause/effect ● Determine the meaning of words and phrases, literal and non-literal, general ● academic vocabulary and grade 3 subject area words and phrases ● Use text features and search tools to locate information efficiently ● Refer to parts of a text such as chapter, scene, and stanza ● Distinguish point of view from self, narrator, author, and/or characters ● Explain how words and illustrations contribute to understanding of mood, ● character, setting, details of a text● Describe logical connection/structure of sentences and paragraphs ● (cause/effect, sequence, comparison/contrast) ● Read and comprehend literature with increasing difficulty as well as ● informational texts such as history/social studies, science and technical text
WRITING: As writers, students will be able to:● Produce at least three types of writing: opinion pieces supporting a point of view with reasons and a
concluding statement or section; informative/explanatory writing, developing a topic with facts, definitions and details and a concluding statement or section; narrative writing thatestablishes a situation, introduces a narrator or character, and uses dialogue and description of actions, thoughts and feelings with a sense of closure
● Strengthen writing by planning, revising and editing
● Write routinely for different purposes and audiences
● Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
WRITINGAs writers, students will be able to:
● Produce at least three types of writing: opinion pieces supporting a point of view with reasons and a concluding statement or section; informative/explanatory writing, developing a topic with facts, definitions and details and a concluding statement or section; narrative writing thatestablishes a situation, introduces a narrator or character, and uses dialogue and description of actions, thoughts and feelings with a sense of closure
WRITING
● Strengthen writing by planning, revising and editing
● Write routinely for different purposes and audiences
● Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
Mathematics
There is an expectation that students in 3rd grade understand and have mastered the math objectives
from 2nd grade. The math curriculum is like a ladder. You can’t climb a ladder if there are missing rungs!
Students should master with fluency these skills before entering 3rd grade:
● memorize addition and subtraction facts without counting on their fingers● tell time to the hour and half hour fluently.● Rote counting● Place value with ones, tens, and hundreds● Compare numbers (less than, greater than, equal to)● Skip count by twos, fives, tens, threes, and fours fluently.● 2 digit addition and subtraction with regrouping● Know how to measure in standard and metric units● Count coins fluently below $1.00.● Represent data on a graph and answer questions about data from a graph● Recognize number of angles and faces of most 2D shapes● Break or partition a 2D shape into equal parts.
Students in 3rd grade will learn these skills:
● Show their work to solve word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and be able to explain what they did
● Show their work to solve number pattern problems● Understand the properties or rules of how numbers work
together● Memorize their multiplication facts● Understand place value in different forms● Be able to round 2, 3, and 4 digit numbers to the closest ten,
hundred, and thousand
Students in 3rd grade will learn these skills:
● Understand equivalent fractions and be able to compare fractions
● Measurement in metric units● Collect and represent data on a graph and be able to answer
questions about the data using the graph● Calculate area and perimeter of given shapes● Understand the attributes of 2D shapes and special cases (a
square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square)● Elapsed time ( time that has gone by)● Solve multistep problems
What can parents do?● Talk to your child everyday about what they are doing in school● Communicate with your child’s teacher on a regular basis● Read and sign your child’s planner every night● Buy or make cheap flash cards and use them with your child● Regularly practice routine skills like addition and subtraction facts,
telling time, and counting money so your child won’t forget them● Talk to your child’s teacher about providing some extra practice to
do at home● Make sure that if your contact information changes that you let
your child’s teachers know immediately.
Third Grade Math EOG
● Operations and Algebraic Thinking = 30 - 35% (biggest part of the test!)
● Number and Operations in Base Ten = 5 - 10%● Number and Operations ~ Fractions = 20 - 25%● Measurement and Data = 22 - 27%● Geometry = 10 - 15%
Helpful Websites
● www.corestandards.org● www.commoncoresheets.com● www.softschools.com● www.ixl.com● www.learnzillion.com● www.brainpopjr.com● www.brainpop.com
Helpful Websites● http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en-us/● http://www.havefunteaching.com/● www.storynory.com● http://www.flocabulary.com/subjects/●
Helpful WebsitesPrimary Games http://www.primarygames.comA+ Math http://www.aplusmath.comAAA Math http://www.aaamath.comCool Math http://www.coolmath.comMath Cats http://www.mathcats.com/All Math http://www.allmath.comBrain Bashers http://www.brainsnbashers.comFunbrain http://www.funbrain.com
Helpful WebsitesFact Monster http://www.factmonster.comFigure This http://www.figurethis.comWeb Math http://www.webmath.comMath Storieshttp://www.mathstories.comStop the Clock http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthecR.html
Clock Works http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/telling_the_time/play/
Helpful WebsitesClose to 20, 100, 1000http://www.pearsonschool.com/live/images/custom/investigations/Investigations_widget1.htmlGive the Dog a Bonehttp://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/DogBone/gamebone.htmlKindergarten-First Grade http://investigations.terc.edu/library/Games_K1.cfmSecond-Third Grade http://investigations.terc.edu/library/Games_23.cfm#a_time
Fourth-Fifth http://investigations.terc.edu/library/Games_45.cfm
Helpful Websites
One More Story http://www.onemorestory.comStoryLine Online http://www.storylineonline.net/Between the Lions http://www.bps.org/wgbh/lionsGrammar Gorillas http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/Golden Books Fun Factory http://www.goldenbooks.com/Scholastic http://www.scholastic.com/kids/home.htmStarfall http://www.starfall.comTumblebooks http://www.tumblebooks.com
Helpful WebsitesPrimary Games http://www.primarygames.comTime for Kids http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/Kidsnewsroom.org http://www.kidsnewsroom.com/index.htmlCurrent Events in the Social Studies Classroomhttp://www.eduplace.com/ss/currentFact Monster http://www.factmonster.com
Helpful WebsitesPrimary Games http://www.primarygames.comFunology.comhttp://www.funology.comFunbrain http://www.funbrain.comSeussville Games http://www.seussville.com/gamesSesame Street http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/Scratch Simulator http://www.turntables.de/start.htmColoring.com http://www.coloring.com/ALFY http://www.alfy.com
Helpful WebsitesDiscovery Kids http://kids.discovery.comFunschool http://www.funschool.comLightspan’s Learning Planet http://learningplanet.com/
We are going to have a Terrific Year!