3rd Grade Newsletter

October 12, 2021

By 3rd Grade Team
3rd Grade
October 12, 2021

Language Arts

What are we learning?

  • Brainstorming personal narrative writing ideas
  • Creating a personal narrative with a problem and solution
  • Analyze characters in fiction stories
  • Combine ideas about characters to develop theories 
  • Include dialogue and characters’ thoughts and feelings in writing

Home/School Connection

  • Describe a personal narrative idea, the problem, and solution
  • Ask, what do you think of the character in your book? What makes you feel that way?

Math

What are we learning?

  • Ways to show multiplication including pictures, arrays, number lines, and equations 
  • Explore the relationship between multiplication and division

Home/School Connection

  • Discuss equal groups in real life experiences
  • Describe how arrays show equal groups

AAP Math

What are we learning?

  • Introduction to multiplication and division
  • Basic multiplication facts and the related division facts 
  • Create and solve multiplication and division problems

Home/School Connection

  • Ask your child to describe these words:
    • multiply
    • product
    • equal, equivalent groups
    • repeated addition

Science

What are we learning?

  • Ladybugs, life cycles, habitats, and ecosystems

Home/School Connection

  • What does a scientist do?
  • Describe an ecosystem different from the one around your home

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!