Below you will find a description of what we will cover this year in third grade. We will use various materials, including the ones listed below, to meet address the NYS Common Core standards. For more specific information, please visit the district curriculum guide for parents.
WRITING-
We use a workshop model to teach writing. We will use the Columbia Teachers College Units of Study for teaching writing. We will explore narrative, persuasive, creative, informational, and essay writing. It is essential that you support your child's use of complete sentence usage on all work as well as correct usage of mechanics in all subject areas and on homework.
READING
We use a workshop model to teach reading. We will use the Columbia Teachers College Units of Study for teaching writing. Some of our units this year will include Building A Reading Life, Reading To Learn, Character Studies, Must Have Mysteries, Animal Research Clubs and Social Issues Book Clubs. The children will learn and apply various reading strategies. Some of the reading strategies we will work on this year include but are not limited to: connecting, mental imagery, summarizing, questioning, author's purpose, inferring, analyzing part to whole, and critiquing.
MATH-
Problem solving is a skill that will be practiced and reinforced in all units. In addition, please practice number facts at home with your child. It is essential that your child know his or her number facts by memory, not by calculation.
In Grade 3, instructional time will focus on areas of math including:
(1) developing an understanding of multiplication and division and strategies for multiplication and division within 100
(2) developing an understanding of fractions, especially unit fractions (fractions with numerator 1)
(3) developing an understanding of the structure of rectangular arrays and of area
(4) describing and analyzing two-dimensional shapes
(5) measurement and data: time, mass, capacity
(6) place value concepts
SCIENCE-
We will learn about various topics using our science lab and by using our science textbook.
Topics will include:
1. Being A Scientist
2. Forces & Interactions
3. Life Cycles & Traits
4. Weather & Climate
5. Interdependent Relationships & Ecosystems
***Students will be expected to follow additional safety rules that may be needed for a particular experiment. Students will take careful notes and record observations in their notebooks.
SOCIAL STUDIES-
Below you will find a list of some of the various themes that we will explore in our Social Studies Curriculum. Many resources we will use comes from the Putnam-Boces curriculum. These topics will be explored using countries from different continents. Skill development is also incorporated into the 3rd grade curriculum. These skills include but are not limited to reading and interpreting information in a timeline and reading and understanding a given map.
Geography/Location Of Communities Around The World
Cultures Around The World
Communities Around The World
Physical, Human, And Cultural Characteristics of World Communities
Symbols Of Citizenship In Communities Around The World
Geography's Effect on The Way Humans Live
Comparing & Contrasting Communities Around the World