3rd Grade Newsletter

September 28, 2021

By 3rd Grade Team
3rd Grade
September 28, 2021

Language Arts

What are we learning?

  • Brainstorming personal narrative writing ideas
  • Creating a personal narrative with a problem and solution
  • Describe characters in reading
  • Think about character feelings and why they act the way they do

Home/School Connection

  • Describe a personal narrative idea, the problem, and solution
  • Describe a character from a book you are reading
  • Describe your main character’s problem in the story

Math

What are we learning?

  • Ways to show multiplication including pictures, arrays, number lines, and equations

Home/School Connection

  • Discuss equal groups in real life experiences
  • Describe how arrays show equal groups

AAP Math

What are we learning?

  • Introduction to multiplication and division
  • Basic multiplication facts and the related division facts 
  • Create and solve multiplication and division problems

Home/School Connection

  • Ask your child to describe these words:
    • multiply
    • factor
    • product
    • divide, division, divided by, divided into   
    • equal, equivalent groups
    • repeated addition
  • repeated subtraction

Science

What are we learning?

  • Ladybugs, life cycles, habitats, and ecosystems

Home/School Connection

  • What does a scientist do?
  • Describe an ecosystem different from the one around your home

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!