CURRICULUM NIGHTMORE INSIGHT ON THIS THIRD GRADE JOURNEY...

Important Points

Parents, please keep these important points in mind.

Attendance

Attendance Affects Learning!

Absences-When students are absent, they miss hands-on activities and group work. These activities cannot be re-created.

Attendance (cont.)

Tardies - Students are marked tardy at 7:55 a.m. and there are morning work assignments that your child is responsible for completing.

Early Pick-ups - Instruction does not stop until 2:45 p.m. When you pick your child up before that time, they are missing classwork assignments that oftentimes can not be made up.

Read-to-Achieve

● Beginning of Year Assessment Scores● Reading 3D BOY, MOY, and EOY

3rd Grade At A Glance (What your child will learn by the end of 3rd grade in English Language Arts/ Literacy)Foundational Reading Skills:

Phonics and Word Recognition Skills: Know and apply 3rd grade phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words

● Read and understand common prefixes and suffixes ● Decode multisyllabic words ● Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words

Fluency: Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate and expression, to support comprehension

3rd Grade At A Glance

Reading Literature and Informational Text:

● Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, citing the text as a basis for answers ● Recount stories, fables, folktales and myths from diverse cultures● Determine the key message, lesson, moral, or main idea and how it is supported by text details● Describe character traits, motivations, feelings and how actions contribute ● to story sequence of events ● Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ● ideas, or steps in a technical procedure, using language of time, sequence ● and cause/effect ● Determine the meaning of words and phrases, literal and non-literal, general ● academic vocabulary and grade 3 subject area words and phrases ● Use text features and search tools to locate information efficiently ● Refer to parts of a text such as chapter, scene, and stanza ● Distinguish point of view from self, narrator, author, and/or characters ● Explain how words and illustrations contribute to understanding of mood, ● character, setting, details of a text● Describe logical connection/structure of sentences and paragraphs ● (cause/effect, sequence, comparison/contrast) ● Read and comprehend literature with increasing difficulty as well as ● informational texts such as history/social studies, science and technical text

WRITING: As writers, students will be able to:● Produce at least three types of writing: opinion pieces supporting a point of view with reasons and a

concluding statement or section; informative/explanatory writing, developing a topic with facts, definitions and details and a concluding statement or section; narrative writing thatestablishes a situation, introduces a narrator or character, and uses dialogue and description of actions, thoughts and feelings with a sense of closure

● Strengthen writing by planning, revising and editing

● Write routinely for different purposes and audiences

● Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.

WRITINGAs writers, students will be able to:

● Produce at least three types of writing: opinion pieces supporting a point of view with reasons and a concluding statement or section; informative/explanatory writing, developing a topic with facts, definitions and details and a concluding statement or section; narrative writing thatestablishes a situation, introduces a narrator or character, and uses dialogue and description of actions, thoughts and feelings with a sense of closure

WRITING

● Strengthen writing by planning, revising and editing

● Write routinely for different purposes and audiences

● Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.

Mathematics

There is an expectation that students in 3rd grade understand and have mastered the math objectives

from 2nd grade. The math curriculum is like a ladder. You can’t climb a ladder if there are missing rungs!

Students should master with fluency these skills before entering 3rd grade:

● memorize addition and subtraction facts without counting on their fingers● tell time to the hour and half hour fluently.● Rote counting● Place value with ones, tens, and hundreds● Compare numbers (less than, greater than, equal to)● Skip count by twos, fives, tens, threes, and fours fluently.● 2 digit addition and subtraction with regrouping● Know how to measure in standard and metric units● Count coins fluently below $1.00.● Represent data on a graph and answer questions about data from a graph● Recognize number of angles and faces of most 2D shapes● Break or partition a 2D shape into equal parts.

Students in 3rd grade will learn these skills:

● Show their work to solve word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and be able to explain what they did

● Show their work to solve number pattern problems● Understand the properties or rules of how numbers work

together● Memorize their multiplication facts● Understand place value in different forms● Be able to round 2, 3, and 4 digit numbers to the closest ten,

hundred, and thousand

Students in 3rd grade will learn these skills:

● Understand equivalent fractions and be able to compare fractions

● Measurement in metric units● Collect and represent data on a graph and be able to answer

questions about the data using the graph● Calculate area and perimeter of given shapes● Understand the attributes of 2D shapes and special cases (a

square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square)● Elapsed time ( time that has gone by)● Solve multistep problems

What can parents do?● Talk to your child everyday about what they are doing in school● Communicate with your child’s teacher on a regular basis● Read and sign your child’s planner every night● Buy or make cheap flash cards and use them with your child● Regularly practice routine skills like addition and subtraction facts,

telling time, and counting money so your child won’t forget them● Talk to your child’s teacher about providing some extra practice to

do at home● Make sure that if your contact information changes that you let

your child’s teachers know immediately.

Third Grade Math EOG

● Operations and Algebraic Thinking = 30 - 35% (biggest part of the test!)

● Number and Operations in Base Ten = 5 - 10%● Number and Operations ~ Fractions = 20 - 25%● Measurement and Data = 22 - 27%● Geometry = 10 - 15%

Helpful Websites

● www.corestandards.org● www.commoncoresheets.com● www.softschools.com● www.ixl.com● www.learnzillion.com● www.brainpopjr.com● www.brainpop.com

Helpful Websites● http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en-us/● http://www.havefunteaching.com/● www.storynory.com● http://www.flocabulary.com/subjects/●

Helpful WebsitesPrimary Games http://www.primarygames.comA+ Math http://www.aplusmath.comAAA Math http://www.aaamath.comCool Math http://www.coolmath.comMath Cats http://www.mathcats.com/All Math http://www.allmath.comBrain Bashers http://www.brainsnbashers.comFunbrain http://www.funbrain.com

Helpful WebsitesFact Monster http://www.factmonster.comFigure This http://www.figurethis.comWeb Math http://www.webmath.comMath Storieshttp://www.mathstories.comStop the Clock http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthecR.html

Clock Works http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/telling_the_time/play/

Helpful WebsitesClose to 20, 100, 1000http://www.pearsonschool.com/live/images/custom/investigations/Investigations_widget1.htmlGive the Dog a Bonehttp://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/DogBone/gamebone.htmlKindergarten-First Grade http://investigations.terc.edu/library/Games_K1.cfmSecond-Third Grade http://investigations.terc.edu/library/Games_23.cfm#a_time

Fourth-Fifth http://investigations.terc.edu/library/Games_45.cfm

Helpful Websites

One More Story http://www.onemorestory.comStoryLine Online http://www.storylineonline.net/Between the Lions http://www.bps.org/wgbh/lionsGrammar Gorillas http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/Golden Books Fun Factory http://www.goldenbooks.com/Scholastic http://www.scholastic.com/kids/home.htmStarfall http://www.starfall.comTumblebooks http://www.tumblebooks.com

Helpful WebsitesPrimary Games http://www.primarygames.comTime for Kids http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/Kidsnewsroom.org http://www.kidsnewsroom.com/index.htmlCurrent Events in the Social Studies Classroomhttp://www.eduplace.com/ss/currentFact Monster http://www.factmonster.com

Helpful WebsitesPrimary Games http://www.primarygames.comFunology.comhttp://www.funology.comFunbrain http://www.funbrain.comSeussville Games http://www.seussville.com/gamesSesame Street http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/Scratch Simulator http://www.turntables.de/start.htmColoring.com http://www.coloring.com/ALFY http://www.alfy.com

Helpful WebsitesDiscovery Kids http://kids.discovery.comFunschool http://www.funschool.comLightspan’s Learning Planet http://learningplanet.com/

We are going to have a Terrific Year!