Grade 3 News

            We enjoyed meeting with so many of our families during our parent/teacher conferences held the beginning of November.  We look forward to continuing to work with you to insure that our third graders have a successful year.

Here is a quick overview of what we will be studying during the second marking period.

Reading –

Theme 2 - We have been reading and learning about traditions.  The stories that are in Theme 2 are The Keeping Quilt, Anthony Reynoso Born to Rope, and The Talking Cloth and Dancing Rainbow.

We will be learning about the structure of plays and poems as we complete a 2 week mini-unit before our winter holiday break.

Theme 3- We will begin to read incredible stories.  We will read Dogzilla, The Mysterious Giant of Barletta, Raising Dragons and The Garden of Abdul Gasazi

Math –
Unit 3- Addition and Subtraction word problems

Unit 4- Figures, Angles, and Triangles

Unit 6- Patterns.

Unit 7 – Multiplication and division with 0-5 , 9 and 10

Don’t forget you may turn to Houghton Mifflin Website and look under third grade as a resource to help your child with math strategies and terms.

Writing- Our main writing pieces this marking period is writing stories and opinion paragraphs.

Social Studies- We are completing our Cecil County unit and will be beginning our unit on the Amish Community.  We enjoyed a field trip to the Amish Farm in Lancaster, PA.

Science- We are continuing to work with our sound unit and will be beginning our structures of life unit.