3rd Grade

Week of April 27

Academic learning at home resources have been created to provide opportunities for students to engage in meaningful learning experience during the school closure. Below you will find a list of activities that your child can complete both independently and with your support.

Learning Logs are to be completed each day when work is done. These logs will be turned in at the end of the week to your teacher. Your teacher will be in contact with you this week. If you have any questions, please contact your teacher.

Reading

Find time for your reading life! Find a cozy spot and read, read, read! Record your thoughts in a reading journal and track the books you are reading. List the title, author, illustrator, and some thoughts about the book. Try to increase your reading stamina each day. How many minutes can you sit and read? What is your ultimate goal?
Choose an animal to research (this activity ties to science). Read about this animal and think: What does this animal need to survive? What is its habitat like? After you have learned about this animal, write an expository text (informational) explaining what you have learned about the animal. Be sure to include how it meets its basic needs. Make sure you have a central idea and supporting reasons. If you cannot research an animal, then think and write about an animal you already know a lot about.
Choose a person to research that has contributed to their community (this activity ties to social studies). After reading and gathering information about this person, write to explain (expository/informational text) why this person is important. Make sure you have a central idea and supporting reasons.
Write to explain (expository/informational text) how technology has impacted your life (this activity ties to social studies). Make sure you have a central idea and supporting reasons.

Math

Represent (with objects or drawings) and solve the following problems based on this food chain.(see below). (These should go well with the Science lessons below)
- How many frogs would 24 bugs feed, if each frog eats 6 beetles?
- How many raccoons would 18 frogs feed, if each raccoon eats 3 frogs?
- What would happen to the raccoons if 27 frogs were taken out of the food chain?
Draw a picture of things that come in groups (e.g. 6 cars, 4 horses, 8 tricycles) and write 3 sentences of mathematical information about your picture and the equation/number sentence to match (e.g. Here are 6 cars. Each car has 4 wheels. There are 24 wheels in all. 6 x 4 = 24).
Use a number line to practice skip counting by 3s, 4s, 5s, etc. How is this like multiplication?
- Consider making a beaded number line. Check out Dr. Nicki Newton as she shows you how.
Read The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins to think about division as sharing.
Make a factor tree (list all of the factors of 10, 12, 15, 18, 24, etc.)
Make vocabulary cards (Use index cards or cut paper into squares-word on one side and definition on other) or a list of math words about multiplication and division.
- Factor, Product
- Divisor, Dividend, Quotient
- Challenge-name the properties and their definitions (e.g. distributive property…)

*Use with 3rd Grade Math Activity on Food Chains:

Energy that moves through a food chain originally comes from the Sun. Plants receive their energy from the Sun. Animals receive their energy from plants and other organisms. Removal of an organism from a food chain can affect other organisms in the chain.

The food chain below shows a raccoon that can eat about 3 frogs per day. The frogs eat about 6 beetles per day. The beetles eat the seeds from the milkweed plant, which receives its energy from the Sun.

Science

A food chain shows the flow of energy from the Sun to plants to animals that eat plants to animals that eat plants, animals or both. You can write a food chain using arrows that show the flow of energy.

Sun > grass > mouse > hawk

Have your child think of his/her favorite foods. Can he/she pick just one favorite? Trace the food back through the food chain to the Sun. For example, if Johnny’s favorite food is chicken nuggets, Johnny would trace his food back first to the chicken, then to the grains, and finally to the Sun. Johnny should write the chain and be sure to include the arrows showing the direction the energy is flowing from the Sun to the grains to the chicken. (This activity ties to Math.)
The food chain in a wheat farmer’s barn might be Sun > wheat grain > mice > cats Predict what would happen if the amount of grain harvested decreased. Predict what would happen if the number of cats increased. Predict what would happen if all the mice died from a disease. (This activity ties to Math.)
Gather a selection of fruit and vegetables. Cut them open, so the seeds are visible. Have your child collect all the seeds from each fruit or vegetable and place the results in a table that lists Fruit or Vegetable Type and Number of Seeds. Create a bar graph from the results. The seeds can be planted from fresh fruits or vegetables.
Inside the house in a container or outside in a pot or the ground, plant some seeds with your child. The seeds can be from a seed packet you purchase or the seeds from the fresh fruits or vegetables you are eating. What do plants need to survive? Your student can keep a journal of the growth of the new plant.
If you have a family pet, what does your pet need to survive? Draw a picture with labels to show what your pet needs.

Social Studies

Transportation has changed over the centuries. The first people walked or traveled by small boats. Draw pictures of all the different ways we move from one place to another, old and new. Arrange or number the pictures in order from the oldest method to the newest.
Today we can communicate instantly with cell phones and computers. Ask some of the adults in your family how methods of communication have changed in their lives.
One day life will go back to normal and your family can go anywhere you want to go. Make a schedule for your first day after the quarantine. Where will you want to go that day? What will you want to do? Include how much time you will spend at each place.
The Founding Fathers were the men that helped achieve independence from Great Britain and form the United States of America. Who is your favorite Founding Father? What did he contribute to the building of the United States of America?
Record a timeline or schedule for what you do in one day.
Where does everything come from that we buy at the grocery store? Look at different packages in your home to find out where the company is located. Write the name of the companies on a map. For example, the offices for Campbell’s Soup are in Camden, New Jersey. Jell-o has offices in Chicago, Illinois. Trumbull, Connecticut, is the home of Suave Shampoo.

Music

Now let’s listen to a song about notes and then play a game naming the notes.

P.E.

Use the link below to have some fun with old school activities! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XTxVQLrPs63utt0CA8oDyGyNhLZibJ2_/view?usp=sharing
Brain Boosters video https://youtu.be/-BsSXJQCBFA
Videos to help get you moving! https://youtu.be/Uw41-RziKpE

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