3rd Grade Newsletter
January 11, 2022
Language Arts
What are we learning?
- Brainstorm nonfiction topics that students would want to research and write about
- Plan and organize their research piece
- Use text features to help navigate through 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 research nonfiction ideas and/or writing
Math
What are we learning?
- Place value up to six digits
- Addition and subtraction with sums up to 9,999
- Rounding to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand
- Estimating
Home/School Connection
- When would you need to use addition and subtraction in your everyday world?
- When would you need to use estimation in your everyday world?
AAP Math
What are we learning?
- Read, write, represent, and identify decimals expressed through the thousandths
- Round decimals to the nearest whole number
- Compare and order decimals
- Add and subtract with decimals
Home/School Connection
- Link decimals to money at the store or at home. Have students round money to the nearest dollar, add money, or find out how much change would be leftover
Science
What are we learning?
Describe and organize the events in the water cycle
Home/School Connection
- Ask, when do we see cycles in our lives?
- Ask, what happens in the water cycle?
Social Studies
What are we learning?
- Continue thinking about economics
Home/School Connection
- What are some economic choices you have made?