3rd Grade Newsletter
March 21, 2022
Language Arts
What are we learning?
- Brainstorm and write realistic fiction stories.
- Edit for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
- While reading biographies, readers pay attention to a subject’s challenges and choices to understand what lesson the subject learned.
Home/School Connection
- Ask students to share their realistic fiction story ideas.
- Ask students to share about the biographies they have learned about.
Math
What are we learning?
- In this measurement unit, students expand their knowledge of measuring length in customary and metric units.
- They estimate and measure lengths and develop understandings of perimeter and area.
- Students will also estimate and measure liquid volume using customary and metric units.
Home/School Connection
- When do we use measurement in real life?
- Practice measuring things around the house.
AAP Math
What are we learning?
- In this measurement unit, students expand their knowledge of measuring length in customary and metric units.
- They estimate and measure lengths and develop understandings of perimeter and area.
- Students will also estimate and measure liquid volume using customary and metric units.
Home/School Connection
- When do we use measurement in real life?
- Practice measuring things around the house.
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?
Ancient Rome
- Explain how the contributions of ancient Rome continue to influence our world today (architecture, inventions, democracy)
- Explain how Ancient Romans had to adapt to their environment
Home/School Connection
- Ask, how did the Ancient Romans contribute to life today?
- Ask, how did people adapt to survive in Ancient Rome?