April Third Grade News
Bridle Ridge Mustangs
Field Day Shirt Money is Due Friday, April 5
Bridle Ridge Book Fair April 8-12
Donuts with Dudes Tuesday, April 9th from 8:00-8:35
No School Friday, April 19
Third Grade Music Program
Bridle Ridge Literacy Night
MAP Testing
Headphones are used during testing. We are asking all parents to talk with their children and make sure that they have a pair of headphones at school.
4th Quarter Learning Targets
develop an understanding of vocabulary by decoding and identifying the meaning of common prefixes and suffixes and knowing how they change the meaning of root words
develop an understanding of vocabulary by using sentence-level context to determine the relevant meaning of unfamiliar words or distinguish among multiple-meaning words
develop an understanding of vocabulary by distinguishing the literal and non-literal meanings of words and phrases in context
read appropriate texts with fluency (rate, accuracy, expression, appropriate phrasing), with purpose, and for comprehension
develop and demonstrate reading skills in response to literary text by drawing conclusions and support with textual evidence
develop and demonstrate reading skills in response to text by summarizing a story’s beginning, middle, and end determining its central message, lesson, or moral
develop and demonstrate reading skills in response to informational text by drawing conclusions and support with textual evidence
read, infer, and draw conclusions to compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in texts on the same topic
compose well developed opinion texts for audience and purpose
Math
identify arithmetic patterns and explain the patterns using properties of operations
distinguish rhombuses and rectangles as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to these subcategories
solve problems involving addition and subtraction of minutes
use the four operations to solve problems involving lengths, liquid volumes or weights given in the same units
multiply whole-number side lengths to solve problems involving the area of rectangles
decompose a rectangle into smaller rectangles to find the area of the original rectangle
solve problems involving perimeters of polygons
create frequency tables, scaled picture graphs and bar graphs to represent a data set with several categories
Social Studies
describe the decision making process of the state government
Science
construct an argument with evidence that in a particular ecosystem some organisms -- based on structural adaptations or behaviors -- can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all
develop a model to compare and contrast observations of the life cycles of various plants and animals
construct scientific arguments to support claims that some characteristics of organisms are inherited from parents and some are influenced by the environment