Mrs. Cooper

Here are a few things you should know about 3rd grade. We are going to have a great year!!!

Expect homework on a regular basis in third grade. Every student in third grade has been given agendas.  We record our homework assignments off the blackboard, into these agenda each day. Something should be recorded in their agendas each day, even if that message is no homework. Please sign your student's agenda every night so I know you have seen them and gone over the assignment with them.

Social Studies- After mastering geography skills. We will spend the remainder of the year learning about communities and cultures. We will be alternating social studies and science units throughout the year.  We won't be studying units in social studies and science at the same time, because in the past years, it proved to be overwhelming for the students. Also, much of our social studies is integrated with our science and language arts curriculum.

Science: Our areas of study will include: life cycles, electricity, the solar system matter, living things, rocks and minerals. We will be using both our science books and trade books to help us in these areas.

Language Arts: Reading, writing, listening and speaking.  We will be working towards mastery through subject integration. What that means is that we will be improving our reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, while learning about social studies, science and math.  We will also be reading various trade books and subject orientated books. Spelling grades will be decided upon through the children's writing skills, journaling, literacy center activities and process writing.  There will be however, a few units of study pulled from the textbook.

Math: We will be utilizing a wide variety of techniques to help us master the following skills: reading and writing numbers up to one thousand, adding and subtracting numbers using landmarks numbers mental math, adding and subtracting numbers with regrouping up to three times, multiplication and division facts up to twelve, writing, comparing, combining, adding and subtracting fractions, problem solver strategies using probability, estimation and measurement skills to solve a variety of problems.



-Mrs. Cooper