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3rd Grade

Connie Maier - Teacher

 

Jean Wittich - Teacher

 

 

Third grade expectations and skills

 

Reading

Previews text to establish prior knowledge using pre-reading strategies
Use of strategies of sampling, questioning, predicting, confirming, monitoring self-correcting, inferring and summarizing
Identify main idea and two supporting details
Summarizes text of story-setting, plot, characters, problem/solution

Math

Add and subtract with unknown quantities
Read, write and order numbers up to 999,999
Demonstrates understanding of problem solving in real life situations
Identify, count and make change up to $5.00
Show relationship between inverse operations of adding and subtraction
Add and subtract up to 4 digit numbers with regrouping
Multiply single digit numbers
Use tools such as table and graphs to analyze and record patterns
Use appropriate measurement tools to estimate and measure length, capacity, weight and temperature
Identify and measure two distances between locations
Demonstrate the meaning of perimeter and area
Identify, describe, and extend geometric and numeric patterns including growing and shrinking
Use analog and digital clocks to tell time in 5 minute intervals
Recognize and identify basic terminology such as point, line, angle, parallel, perpendicular, radius and diameter
Multiply and divide 1 and 2 digit numbers
Explain clearly the strategy used and the solution to mathematical and real world problems
Define and understand equality and inequality
Define and understand the concepts of probability of simple events
Use and explain real-world problems through written and oral communication

Language Arts

Writes for a variety of reasons
Uses a writing process
Conventions
Grammar
Spelling
Organizational Skills

Social Studies

Native Americans
Map Reading
Germany

Science

Space
Plants
Earth Materials
Chemicals

Integration of Core Knowledge

Language Arts

Sayings and phrases
Fiction stories
Myths
Poetry

History & Geography

World Geography (Germany)
Earliest Americans
Early exploration of North America
Thirteen Colonies

Science

Astronomy
Earth Materials
Human Body
Plants
Animal classification