Third Grade News
August 2015
Welcome to Third Grade!
This is our first official newsletter of the 2015-2016 school year. As a team we will send a newsletter out to you on the first Friday of each month. In an effort to conserve paper and keep up with the digital world, we would like to make our newsletter online only. If you would like to continue to receive a paper copy of the newsletter, please let your child’s homeroom teacher know. If we do not hear from you, we will assume you are fine with receiving an emailed copy. Within our newsletter you will find important dates, and upcoming curriculum, tests, and assignments. We hope to provide you with as much information as we can on ways to help your child at home. As always, if you have questions, you can email the appropriate teacher.
Important Dates
September 1st - Yellow River Game Ranch Night
Reading Rocks
Reading is Wonderful! It makes you…
Laugh,
Think,
Remember,
Wish,
and
Dream
All third graders will participate in a 25 Books Reading Campaign. Each student is charged with reading 25 books. Students may read more than 25 books, but the goal for the year is to read 25 books. Students are currently being tested to determine their reading level. The books required for reading must be at their reading level as well as documented in their reading logs. The 25 Books Campaign will kick-off September 1, 2015.
In the next few weeks, students will learn about fiction, figurative language, fables, and myths. Students will also learn about one of the historical figures, Paul Revere.
Writing for Success
Grammar Fun
In grammar we will use these first couple of weeks to review nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns. We will not only use them in our everyday writing but also work to identify these parts of speech in sentences and stories that we read. Once we have reviewed these parts of speech we will begin to discuss abstract nouns. These can be a little bit tricky! Abstract nouns differ from concrete nouns in that an abstract noun is a noun that names an idea and cannot be experienced using the five senses. For example: Freedom is important to people. In this sentence, freedom is an abstract noun; you cannot use your five senses to identify it. The word people is a (plural) concrete noun, you can touch a person. Check out the site below to receive a more in depth explanation as well as a list of several abstract nouns:
Math Corner
Social Studies News
We are getting off to a great start in Social Studies! Students will learn how to use cardinal and intermediate directions. They will use a letter/number grid system to determine location and inch-to-inch map scale to determine distance on a map. They will draw conclusions and make generalizations based on information from maps. Latitude and longitude will be used to determine location. Lastly they will locate the equator, the prime meridian and the lines of latitude and longitude on a globe.