3rd Grade Newsletter

May 16, 2022

By 3rd Grade Team
3rd Grade
May 16, 2022

Language Arts

What are we learning?

  • Readers support ideas with evidence from text, experience, background knowledge.
  • Readers build on ideas of others in order to strengthen their understanding of a book.
  • Writers elaborate using elements that inform and persuade so that the reader can make an educated decision.

Home/School Connection

  • When do we use reviews to make decisions? 
  • How could you persuade someone? 
  • What are you reading lately?

Math

What are we learning?

  • Investigate and describe the concept of probability as a measurement of chance and list possible outcomes for a single event. 
  • Determine the likelihood of an outcome of a simple event.

Home/School Connection

  • Talk about events using the terms certain, likely, equally likely, unlikely, and impossible.

AAP Math

What are we learning?

  • Investigate and describe the concept of probability as a measurement of chance and list possible outcomes for a single event. 
  • Determine the likelihood of an outcome of a simple event.

Home/School Connection

  • Talk about events using the terms certain, likely, equally likely, unlikely, and impossible.

Science

What are we learning?

  • Investigate and understand simple machines and their uses
  • Learn how simple machines make work easier

Home/School Connection

  • Ask, “Where do you see planes, wedges, and wheels used in everyday life?”
  • Ask, “How do they make life easier?”

 

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!