3rd Grade
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Dear Parents,

​​Thank you for joining us for your child’s student-led conference! It was wonderful to see him/her take ownership of his/her learning, sharing accomplishments, goals, and reflections with such confidence. Your child did a fantastic job guiding us through his/her work and discussing areas of strength and growth.

In Literacy, we will be launching a new unit that focuses on Research skills and this unit aligns with Science as they continue to research on their chosen animal of study. In addition, third graders will be working in book clubs to study and explore different animals’ adaptations. They will engage in comparative analysis so we will see our third graders not only collecting facts but also growing their ideas by adding all the knowledge they collected from their research and inquiry. We will be reading non fiction books, however, they should continue to read fiction books as well.

In math, we will continue to explore subtraction strategies. Third graders will strengthen their skills on subtracting three digit numbers. We will be using strategies based on place value, properties of the operations, and the relationship between addition and subtraction to add and subtract fluently. Reading: Third graders are navigating Nonfiction and Fiction books. We encourage students to explore the nonfiction questions and use their reading response books to document their understanding and thinking.