3rd Grade Newsletter

March 21, 2022

By 3rd Grade Team
3rd Grade
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?

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!