Students will finish Knowledge 6: Cycles in Nature. Students will be introduced to the many natural cycles that make life on Earth possible. They will increase their knowledge of cycles in nature by learning more about seasonal cycles, and by beginning their study of flowering plants and trees, animal life cycles, and the importance of the water cycle.

Students will begin Module 6: Foundations of Multiplication and Division. This module lays the conceptual foundation for multiplication and division in Grade 3 and for the idea that numbers other than 1, 10, and 100 can serve as units. Students begin by making equal groups using concrete materials, learning to manipulate a given number of objects to create equal groups (e.g., given 15 objects, they create 3 groups of 5 or 5 groups of 3), and progress to pictorial representations where they may begin by circling a group of 5 stars, adding 5 more, and then adding 5 more. Students then organize the equal groups created in Topic A into arrays, wherein either a row or column is seen as the new unit being counted. Lastly they will focus on doubles and even numbers.

Students begin the marking period by exploring how technology affects the way people live, work, and play. Students compare methods of transportation and communication. They determine how these technologies have changed over time and the impact of these changes on daily life. Students examine the production process to identify how natural, capital, and human resources are used to produce goods and provide services. Next, students examine different markets and explore methods of payment consumers use to obtain goods and services. Students end the marking period by examining why people, consumers and producers, must make economic choices. 

Students will focus on Social Studies for the beginning of Quarter 3.