3rd Grade
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January 9, 2026
January 9, 2026
Happy New Year! We hope you and your family enjoyed a restful and joyful holiday season. As we begin this new term in Year 3, we’re excited to welcome the children back refreshed, ready to learn, and full of energy. This term will bring new learning opportunities, engaging projects, and continued growth both academically and socially. Thank you, as always, for your ongoing support—we’re looking forward to a wonderful start to the year together!
Learning Goal
Develop evidence based theories
Researchers will be looking onto their non-fiction test, but asking questions and growing big ideas. They will pursue these questions and develop evidence based theories using the text and others to add big-picture concepts.
We encourage your child to read non-fiction books at home, they should ask questions about the topic and develop questions. Using the same book or others on the topic research to develop theories about the question they have.
Learning Goal
Celebración de libros informativos
Los estudiantes concluyen y celebran la escritura de libros informativos, también dan inicio a la jornada Dariana, aprendiendo la biografía de nuestro gran Poeta y príncipe de las letras castellanas Rubé Darío.
Los estudiantes pueden practicar la resistencia a la lectura, durante 20 minutos, luego escribir un resumen.
Learning Goal
Students will estimate and measure mass in grams and kilograms, solve story problems involving addition, subtraction and multiplication of mass measurements given in grams and kilograms.
Students will tell and write time to the nearest minute, solve story problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes, and make sense of problems and perservere in solving them. Students will estimate loquid volume in milliliters, liters, as well as mass in grams and kilograms.
Learning Goal
The children will be moving into Social Studies, where they will begin an exciting new unit on Globalization. They will explore how we are connected to people and places around the world by looking at where everyday items come from, learning about different parts of culture such as food, language, and traditions, and discovering how many of the things we use each day are created or invented in other countries. The children will also discuss the positive effects of sharing and trading across countries, as well as some of the challenges it can create. This unit will help students build curiosity, global awareness, and respect for different cultures.
Look at labels on clothes or food to see what country they come from.
Talk about your family’s culture—foods you eat, traditions you celebrate, or languages you speak.
Try a food, song, or video from another country.
Read or watch something about a different place in the world.
Learning Goal
Relationship Skills: Communicating Effectively (Listening and Nonverbal Communication)
Students learn to attend to messages through active listening with verbal and nonverbal communication.
Students will learn about and will have an opportunity to practice Communication Boosters (listening and supporting)
Share with your family a time when you felt truly listened to, what the other person did, and how that made you feel.
Big Questions Day
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