3rd Grade Newsletter

📕October BINGO Board

• Please continue to encourage your child to read each night for at least 20 minutes.
• Awesome job to third graders who completed their September BINGO Board!
• Happy Reading!

➕Math Homework

• Please also continue to have students complete their math homework to practice math facts and the skills we are learning in class.

💧Water fountains are only used to fill water bottles.. Please have your child bring a water bottle to school every day. They can refill it as needed.

🧥The temperature is fluctuating inside and outside the building! Your child may wish to bring a sweatshirt or jacket if the air feels cool to them. We have lockers so one could be kept here for days that they need it.

🛝As the weather gets cooler, we have recess in the morning at 11:25. Students should bring jackets appropriate for the weather. We will go out as long as the feel like temperature is 32 degrees or above.

• Please encourage your child to read for at least 20 minutes each night.
• Read with your child. (Third graders still love to read with their parents.)
• Discuss the books together.
• While reading, stop at various spots and have your child retell what he/she has read.
• It’s important to make sure your child understands what he/she has read.
• Most importantly, have fun reading!

• Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text.
• Determine main idea and supporting details of a text
• Read and write multisyllabic words
• Explain how characters actions demonstrate specific themes
• Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

• Fluently add and subtract within 100
• Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories.
• Solve one- and two-step "how many more" and "how many less" problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs.
• Solve multiplication problems such as 5 x 7
• Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities,
• Determine the unknown in a division or multiplication problem 8 × ? = 48, 5 = ? ÷ 3, 6 × 6 = ?
• Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table)

• In Social Studies, we are reading and discussing the importance of working in a community and being a responsible citizen.
• Students will be learning about the state of Maryland and how geography and economic development affects where people live, work and play in our state.

Unit 2: Animal Classification

• Demonstrate understanding of vocabulary related to classification of animals.
• Record observations and reflections based on informational reading.
• Review suffixes and root words
• Apply prefixes
• Alphabetize to the 2nd and 3rd letter.
• Develop sentence structure and parts of speech.
• Writing informational paragraph

Unit 3: The Human Body

• Organize information using charts
• Pluralize nouns
• Subject-verb agreement
• Paragraphs with topic sentences, details and conclusions.
• Pronouns and prefixes

Unit 2

• Students learn about area concepts and relate area to multiplication and to addition.
• Describe area as the number of unit squares that cover a plane figure without gaps and overlaps. Measure the area of rectangles by counting unit squares.
• Explain why the area of a rectangle can be determined by multiplying the side lengths.
• Solve problems involving the area of rectangles.
• Represent and solve multiplication problems involving arrays.

SKILLS for this Marking Period

• Properties (zero, commutative, identity, etc.)
• Solve word problems using properties
• Use multiplication facts to solve problems
• Use concrete materials to represent multiplication
• Concepts of Area Measurement
• Relate Area To Multiplication
• Find Area of Figures Composed of Rectangles

Math night is October 8th from 6 to 7 pm! Come learn more!

• Students will use data in order to identify and describe weather patterns and describe climates in different regions of the world.

• Students will investigate the impact of weather-related hazards in order to evaluate solutions for reducing the impact on humans.