Inside Third Grade
March 21, 2016
Teachers’ Corner:
We are working on:
Congrats to our Third Grade Stars at the Talent
 Asking questions to check our
Show. We are so proud of you!!!
understanding of a text topic.
Next month, we will be sending home
 Recounting stories using key details.
information about our only out-of-school field trip in
 Explaining how events in the story build
Grade 3. As we mentioned at Back to School Night in
on each other.
September, the trip on May 24th to the Baltimore
 Stating opinions and justifying them with
Museum of Industry in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is
supporting and detailed reasons.
costly. We apologize for inadvertently telling you the
 Writing informational writing with
cost was $47.00 last year; that was, in fact the cost of
hooks, main idea sentences, multiple
the trip two years ago. Last year, we were able to
supporting details, and concluding
work with the museum to shorten our program which
sentences.
allowed our field trip to come in at approx. $34.00,
 Writing realistic narrative stories with
which we admit is still expensive. We feel that the
story elements (characters, setting, and
program offered to our students, however, extends
problem/solution).
several of the things we have learned this year in
 Identifying, classifying, and utilizing
both Science and Social Studies with hands-on
temporal words (time-related) and
activities that are very memorable. We understand
spatial words (setting/location-related)
that this is still one of the more expensive trips at
in example texts, novels, and within our
Woodfield which is why we choose to do only one
own writing.
field trip. The cost is a sum of the museum’s fee and
 Labeling and comparing fractional parts,
the charter school bus (MCPS policy dictates we must
and noticing the relationships between a
take a charter bus when traveling outside of our local
denominators and the size of a pieces
area). There will be a few scholarships available to
when both from the same size whole.
help defray the cost of the trip if you feel the cost is a
 Comparing the culture of others to our
burden. Please be on the look-out after Spring Break
own.
for additional information about the field trip and the
required permission slips.
Important Dates to Remember:
We have been utilizing a program at school
called Prodigy. This program allows students to
 Mar. 21- Spring Picture Day; Reading Log
practice Math problems while completing quests in a
due
game setting. Your child has been assigned problems
 Mar. 22- Author/Illustrator Visit
 Mar. 24- No School/Report Card Prep.
specifically taught this year as a part of the
 Mar. 24-April 3: Spring Break
curriculum, review, or extension by the teacher. Your
child’s teacher is able to monitor his/her progress and
 April 8- Third Marking Period Begins
follow-up in small groups and with targeted lessons.
 April 11- Fourth Marking Period Begins
Currently, students utilize the program twice a week
 April 12- Report Cards distributed
during Math class. Students are able to access and
play from any computer by going to the website
 May 24th- Baltimore Museum of Industry
www.prodigy.com and entering the personal
Field Trip Information will come home in
username and password assigned to them at school.
April
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