Welcome to third grade with Mr. Long! This page will list important dates, give information about our curricular studies, and have details about anything else going on. The page gets updated weekly.
Important Dates:
Specialists for our first week of school: Mon -- PE, Tues -- music, Wed -- art, Thurs -- PE, Fri -- music
Monday, August 31: first day of school!
Monday, September 7: no school (Labor Day)
Friday, September 11: Picture Day
Monday, September 21: no school (staff work day)
Poetry Memory Work: Our quarter one poems are two limericks by Edward Lear, "There Was an Old Person Whose Habits" and "A Young Lady Named Bright". Students choose ONE of these to memorize to recite near the end of quarter one. The poems and a sample of the grading rubric can be found by clicking on the Poetry Memory Work tab at the top of this page.
History: Our first unit of the year is a study of exploration and colonization by Europeans. The study begins with a look at WHY and HOW Europeans began exploring (they were looking for the Spice Islands and spreading Christianity). We will also look into two groups that were highly affected by this -- the Taino people of the Caribbean and the people of the Congo.
Writing:
Science:
Grammar:
Here are links to jingles we will use in class. For the month of September we will likely learn and practice only the first three as we review nouns/verbs in sentences and study the three types of pronouns (subject pronouns, objective pronouns, possessive pronouns).