ThirdGrade
The goal of third grade is to help create organized,
responsible learners.
Language Arts: Reading Workshop
Students should bring home the Book Buddy Bag every night to read for at least 20 minutes.
Students are expected to be ‘stopping & jotting’ thoughts and reactions as they read.
In class, students will participate in whole class lesson and individual and/or small group reading.
Language Arts: Writing Workshop
Students will learn opinion, information, and narrative writing.
Students will keep a personal writing journal in class.
They will be encourage to:
Write many sentences, at least a page a day.
Add details with sequence transition words.
Use lots of punctuation.
Math: Concepts Learned
Number Concepts & Place Value
Multiplication & Division
Estimation & Rounding
Geometry and Measurement
Telling Time & Elapsed Time
Fractions
Students are expected to be fluent in basic addition & subtraction facts in preparation for multiplication.
Social Studies: Concepts Learned
Types of Communities
New Jersey
Economics
Government (Local, State & Federal)
Native Americans Regions Across the USA
The Pilgrims
The Pioneers
Science: Concepts Learned
Engineering - The Design Process
Weather & Patterns
Motion and Matter
Life Cycles & Inherited Traits
Organisms and Their Environment
Fossils
Health: Concepts Learned
Types of Health:
Family/Social, Emotional, & Physical Health
Nutrition & The Food Pyramid/My Plate
Dental Health
Personal Health & Safety
Tobacco, Alcohol & Drugs
Communicative & Chronic Diseases
Sanford Harmony: Social and Emotional lessons to foster communication, connection, and community.