3rd Grade Newsletter

January 12, 2021

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

Language Arts

What are we learning?

  • Continue writing all about nonfiction books
  • Edit and revise their all about nonfiction books
  • Use text features to help read and better understand a nonfiction text

Home/School Connection

  • Ask, what nonfiction books are you reading?
  • Talk about the difference between fiction and nonfiction
  • Have students share their “all about” nonfiction topic and/or writing

Math

What are we learning?

  • Create and solve practical multiplication and division problems
  • Represent multiplication and division in a variety of ways
  • Explore the relationship between multiplication and division

Home/School Connection

  • Discuss equal groups in real life experiences
  • Describe how numbers can be divided equally in real life experiences

AAP Math

What are we learning?

  • Read, write and identify place value from thousands to millions
  • Create and solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of whole numbers
  • Estimate and determine sums and differences of whole numbers 999,999 or less

Home/School Connection

  • Ask, how do you say this number (when given a really big number)?
  • Ask, what word problem can you write using really big numbers? Will you use addition or subtraction in your word problem?
  • Ask, can you round this big number to the nearest hundred? thousand? hundred thousand? million?

Science

What are we learning?

  • Describe and organize the events of different cycles in nature like the water cycle, moon phases and the seasons.
  • Define and compare energy resources

Home/School Connection

  • Ask, when do we see cycles in our lives?
  • Ask, what happens in the water cycle?
  • Ask, what are the phases of the moon?

Social Studies

What are we learning?

Continue thinking about economics

Home/School Connection

  • What are some economic choices you have made?

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!