LANGUAGE ARTS
· During the year in reading, students will work on fluency as well as comprehension skills. Some comprehension skills we will address are predicting, visualizing, generalizing, sequence, author's purpose, character, cause and effect, main idea and supporting details, context clues, graphic sources, steps in a process, fact and opinion, theme, realism vs. fantasy, drawing conclusions, and plot structure.
· We will be learning about a variety of grammar topics during the year. Some of our biggest skills will be complete sentences, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions! For extra help with the parts of speech, play Grammar Gorillas online!
· Students also work on writing essays in third grade. We will work on expository (telling about facts), persuasive (trying to convince someone), and narrative (telling a story) essays.
· In spelling this year, all third grade students will be using the Sitton Spelling core words curriculum, which concentrates on students truly learning the most often used words in the English language, not just memorizing for the Spelling test as well as Storytown Spelling.
MATH
· Students will be working on addition, subtraction, place value, geometry, fractions, decimals, measurement, probability, money, and multiplication this year.
SCIENCE
· Our units for Science include space, Earth science, and water,
SOCIAL STUDIES
Students will cover many topics in Social Studies, including communities, landforms, Jamestown, the founding of our country, capitals (including Washington, D.C.), local government, immigration and migration, and the economy.
· During the year in reading, students will work on fluency as well as comprehension skills. Some comprehension skills we will address are predicting, visualizing, generalizing, sequence, author's purpose, character, cause and effect, main idea and supporting details, context clues, graphic sources, steps in a process, fact and opinion, theme, realism vs. fantasy, drawing conclusions, and plot structure.
· We will be learning about a variety of grammar topics during the year. Some of our biggest skills will be complete sentences, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions! For extra help with the parts of speech, play Grammar Gorillas online!
· Students also work on writing essays in third grade. We will work on expository (telling about facts), persuasive (trying to convince someone), and narrative (telling a story) essays.
· In spelling this year, all third grade students will be using the Sitton Spelling core words curriculum, which concentrates on students truly learning the most often used words in the English language, not just memorizing for the Spelling test as well as Storytown Spelling.
MATH
· Students will be working on addition, subtraction, place value, geometry, fractions, decimals, measurement, probability, money, and multiplication this year.
SCIENCE
· Our units for Science include space, Earth science, and water,
SOCIAL STUDIES
Students will cover many topics in Social Studies, including communities, landforms, Jamestown, the founding of our country, capitals (including Washington, D.C.), local government, immigration and migration, and the economy.