Third Grade Newsletter
December 2019
Information to Know
Monday, December 9 Traditions Project Due
Friday, December 13- Tradition Festival at 2:30
Friday, December 20 - 2 hour early dismissal
December 23- Jan. 1- Winter Break
Please help your son or daughter remember to come to school dressed appropriately for the weather with a coat, gloves, and/ or a hat. We do go outside for recess on most days.
If you’re looking for a way to say thank you during this time of year, please check in with your son or daughter’s teacher about classroom supplies (such as tissues) that may need replenished.
Reading
We are reading short and extended informational text and are focused on the following skills as we interact with the text:
Ask and answer questions about an informational text
Refer to details in an informational text to create and answer questions
Explicitly use the text for evidence for answers
Use text features to support understanding
Use search tools to locate information
Explain how text features clarify information in a text
Use information from the images to explain where, when, why, or how events occur in the text
Explain the relationships between the ideas and information in sentences and/ or paragraphs (compare/contrast paragraphs, cause and effect paragraphs, problem/solution paragraphs, descriptive paragraphs, sequential paragraphs)
Writing
Math
Classes are working on Unit 5: Developing Relationships Between Multiplication and Division.
Students will be able to describe a context in which a total number of objects can be expressed as a multiplication expression. For example, a collection of 7 nickels could be represented by 7× 5.
Students will be able to find the area of a rectangle and show that the area is found by multiplying side lengths.
Students will continue to use their understanding of multiplication of products within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays and measurement and write an equation to represent the problem. Third graders will begin to use multiplication thinking for to solve division problems.
Students will identify, describe, and explain the patterns in multiplication and division.
Students will understand and apply properties of multiplication (commutative, associative, and distributive) and understand the relationship between multiplication and division.
Students will solve two-step word problems using the four operations and will represent these problems using equations with a letter representing a missing number.
Social Studies/Science
Students will resume Science after the first of the year.