THIRD GRADE GAZETTE
Miss Lozinsky, Mrs. Rauf and Mrs. Sheahin
March 2016
Parent Night
A parent meeting will be held after
school on Tuesday, March 15th, at
3:45 to discuss the upcoming third
grade play. We hope to see many of
you there!
Students should be practicing
their basic addition,
subtraction, multiplication and
division facts at home daily.
Play tryouts began this week during
recess for all interested students.
Every student who tries out will
receive a part in the upcoming play. All
third graders will be participating in
the chorus.
Reading
In March, our reading focus has
been on historical fiction and
literary nonfiction. Our reading
objectives are:
 Distinguishing literal from
non-literal language
 Comparing and contrasting
the themes, setting, and
plots of stories written by
the same author
 Recounting details in a text
to determine the central
message
Math
We will complete our unit on
fractions at the end of the month.
We have been working on:
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Recognizing and generating
simple equivalent fractions
Expressing whole numbers
as fractions
Comparing fractions by
reasoning about their size,
and using what we know
about fractions to answer
deep thinking questions
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in the APR at 2:00 on the 22nd. Please
feel free to stop by and see their
wonderful work!
Language Arts/Writing
We will be developing opinion writing
skills this month and continuing with
narrative writing. Skills covered will
be:
 Narrative writing to develop
real or imagined events
 Use dialogue to describe
actions
 Use technology to produce and
publish writing pieces
Science
Language instruction will focus on
adjectives, adverbs, commas,
quotation marks and dialogue.
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Identify and describe ways in
which heat can be produced
Define friction and identify
examples of heat produced
through friction
Explore how electricity is used
to produce light energy
Social Studies
In social studies, our focus this month
includes:
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Exploring different types of
maps and their purpose
Using texts to compare the
elements of several cultures
Upcoming Events:
3/15 – Play Parent Meeting
3/18 – International Night
Students have been assigned a
comprehensive
Map
project due
March
22nd. A
letter
was sent
home to
parents
explaining
the project in
detail. All 3rd
graders will be presenting their maps
3/22 – Map project presentation
3/24 – No school (Professional
Day)
3/25 – 4/1 – Spring Break
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