GOALS FOR THIRD GRADERS
Students will work on the following skills in all subject areas: listening, speaking, problem solving, critical thinking, study skills and participation.
READING
Our reading series in third grade from the Houghton-Mifflin company. Our new books are loaded with great stories (all of which may be found in local book stores, too). We will be working on building reading fluency, decoding, vocabulary, comprehension and numerous other skills all year long.
LANGUAGE ARTS
The students will work on numerous writing projects throughout the year. These will incluse: friendly letters, picture prompts, listening prompts, fictional stories, descriptive stories, peer interviews, report writing, note taking and more. The students will also work on capitalization, punctuation, nouns, verbs, adjectives and more.
SPELLING
The students will be working in a program Month By Month Phonics. Each week the students will be responsible for learning several "Word Wall" words (words that are highly used when reading or writing). They will also work on spelling patterns to help them become better spellers. Each Friday the students will take a spelling test on the spelling patterns and Word Wall words.
HANDWRITING
The students will be reviewing print as well as lower case cursive letters. They will also receive instruction in upper case cursive letters.
SCIENCE
The students will work on the following units during the school year: Role of a scientist, buoyancy, solar system, electricity, magnetism and butterfiles & moths.
SOCIAL STUDIES
The students will learn about different kinds of communities as well as mapping skills. Units during the third grade year include: Maps & Globes, Plymouth, Massachusetts, London, England, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Honolulu, Hawaii.
MATH
Our math series is the enVisions Math Program from the Pearson Corporation. The students will work on the following skills this year: addition, subtraction, graphing, fractions, place value, time, money, measurement, multiplication, division and solving word problems.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
During the school year the students will be able to take part in many special projects during the school year. These include the Growing Hope Together community garden, art projects, guest speakers, a Friday Fun special activity which usually will center around one of our subjects and much more!