Third graders are developing the strategies to use language. Through writing, speaking, collaborating, and listening, they learn to write and speak with purpose. Students will learn the skills to think deeper, become independent problem solvers, and identify the elements of a story. Vocabulary development is built through phonetic and decoding skills while word analysis is challenged by learning the parts of speech and context clues Reading comprehension is a gigantic element of third grade! This includes: understanding fiction and nonfiction reading selections, identifying main ideas, sequencing events, recalling details, making predictions, drawing inferences, and understanding cause-and-effect relationships. Looking for text evidence to prove their thoughts is another big skill learned during 3rd grade.

Third graders practice the important steps of the writing process and learn the tools needed to write, edit, peer edit and give constructive feedback before they publish their writing. They will learn to effectively communicate their thoughts for a specific audience. Most importantly, they will learn to write using the three distinct styles of writing: Narrative, Informational, and Opinion.

Third graders focus on fact families in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Automatic recall of multiplication facts through the 12's is a goal for us this year! Third graders will learn how to read and solve word problems, learn how to tell time, round numbers to the nearest ten and hundred, add and subtract larger numbers solve, understand the basics of fractions, and learn basics about geometry.

• Invisible Forces

• Animals Through Time

• Power of Flowers

• Stormy Skies

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• Where in the world is El Cajon? (Geography)

• Kumeyaay Native Americans and Project

• Immigration - How do people become part of our country?

• El Cajon History/FLUMES

• 3 Branches of Government

• Neighborhood Project

• Famous Americans

• US TOUR