What's the Buzz in Third Grade?
Curriculum Corner
READING:
Wayside Elementary School
May/June 2016
Third graders have learned a great deal
about traditional stories which include folktales,
myths, legends, and fables. After discussing the
plot of the stories and determining the theme using
our inference skills, students will move onto literary
non-fiction texts. Additionally, we will discover how
autobiographies, journals, and blogs help to
communicate information. The year will finish off
with a favorite activity of the students which is
journal reading/writing.
In Writer’s Workshop the third graders
researched the pros and cons of having zoos. They
learned some fascinating and shocking facts along
the way. After the completion of our informational
paragraph explaining both sides of the issue,
students will take a stance and write an opinion
paragraph explaining how they feel about zoos
making sure to use the facts from their research to
support their opinion. The remainder of the year
will be spent on some work with narrative writing.
MATH:
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
Throughout this marking period, your
child will study plants and animals and how
living things depend on the accessibility of
Earth’s natural resources. We will look at
habitats and different environments as well as
identify natural resources as
renewable, nonrenewable, and
inexhaustible. We will explore how
humans use natural resources,
change them into products we
need, and how they meet our needs.
We will also identify materials that can be
recycled and how humans reuse materials to
benefit the environment. Students will learn
how technology plays a role in all of this and
how it impacts our environments and the way
we live.
In social studies we will examine money
management strategies. The next few weeks
we will discuss creating and monitoring a
budget. Students will have an opportunity to
develop a budget to use when taking care of a
pet. Students will then become producers of a
good and explore the impact of resources and
technology on producers and consumers.
Third graders learned how to determine the
perimeter of figures. They have also identified and
classified different types of quadrilaterals. We have
been telling time on a clock as well as representing
and solving addition word problems involving time
using number line diagrams. Then, we will represent
a data set with several categories in a pictograph
and scaled bar graph. In addition, we will explore
volume, capacity and mass for measurement. We
will finish the year by revisiting 2-step word May
problems and with reviewing multiplication and May 12-13
& May 16
division.
May 17-20
May 24
May 25
Dates to Remember
May 30
English/Language Arts PARCC
Assessment
Math PARCC Assessment
Field Day
3rd Grade Chorus Concert at 2:30
in the APR
No School: Memorial Day
June
June 7
June 10
June 17
June 20
Croydon Creek Field Trip
Deutsch & Yoo
Croydon Creek Field Trip
Biser & Lewington
Third Grade End-of-the-Year Party
Half Day: Last Day of School