·3rd grade News

We are kicking off this new 9 weeks with lots of energy and excitement for learning! There’s so much happening at FDES, from Spanish Heritage Month to Book Character Day. The cooler weather is making fall feel more real, and it's the perfect time for our students to dive into new learning adventures. We can’t wait to see all the creativity and growth this quarter.

• October 12th - No school for students - Teacher work from home day
• October 22nd - Teacher-Parent Conferences.
• October 26th - Fall picture Make-up Day
• October 30th - Character Dress up Day
• November 3rd - No School - Election Day/Teacher PD Day

Money Skills:

Counting and comparing money amounts up to $5

Multiplication and Division:

Mastering multiplication and division facts up to 10 × 10.Solving real-life problems using these skills.

Telling Time:

Reading analog clocks to the nearest minute.

Polygons and Shapes:

Identifying, describing, and classifying polygons (triangles, quadrilaterals, octagons).

Combining and dividing shapes to learn about new polygons.

Measuring the polygon's perimeter

Fractions:

Represent proper and improper fractions using different models. Compose and decompose fractions.

This quarter in ELA we will be engaging in a series of related texts to build knowledge and vocabulary, with a focus on written responses to reading. Students will apply decoding skills as well as knowledge of affixes and homophones in reading and writing. Students will describe character traits and motivations in fiction texts as well as compare and contrast information presented in nonfiction texts.

We will work on forces and simple machines, as well as soils.

We will work on world geography, Ancient Egypt and Ancient China.

We will be working on synonyms and antonyms and vocabulary related to jobs. We will also investigate and describe our favorite wild animal!