Jeffersonville Elementary School
3rd Grade Summer Study Guide
In Reading, your child will learn to:
 Read fluently, accurately and with expression
 Read and understand 3rd grade Fiction
 Find the answers to specific questions within a story
 Retell stories from diverse cultures
 Figure out the lessons or morals of stories read
 Describe characters in stories and explain how their actions affect the story
 Figure out what an author really means by the words and phrases that are
written
 Understand the difference between literal and nonliteral language
 Write and talk about fiction by using the words for the different parts ( scene,
chapter, stanza)
In Social Studies, your child will learn to:
 Explain the political roots of our modern democracy in the United States
 Identify the influence of Greek architecture (Columns on the Parthenon, U.S.
Supreme Court building)
 Explain the ancient Athenians’ idea that a community should choose it’s own
leaders
 Compare and contrast Athens as a direct democracy with the United States as
a representative democracy
 Discuss the lives of Americans who expanded people’s rights and freedoms
in a democracy (Paul Revere, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Mary
McLeod Bethune, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Cesar Chavez)
In Science, your child will learn to:
 Investigate how heat is produced and the effects of heating and cooling, and
will understand a change in temperature indicates a change in heat
 Investigate magnets and how they affect other magnets and common objects
 Investigate the habitats of different organisms and the dependence of organisms on their habitat
 Recognize the effects of pollution and humans on the environment
675 Bullard Road Jeffersonville, GA 31044
In Language, your child will learn to:
 Explain how nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs work in different
sentences
 Say, write, and use all types of plural nouns correctly
 Capitalize beginning words and proper nouns, as well as those in titles
 Say, write, and use regular and irregular verb tense correctly
 Make sure subjects, verbs, and pronouns are in agreement when writing a sentence
In Math, your child will learn to:
 Compare numbers using the >,<,= symbols
 Round numbers using a number line
 Complete multiplication equations using identity, associative, commutative, and
distributive property
 Complete division equations
 Understand the numerator and denominator when working equations involving
fractions
 Understand place value up to the ten thousands place
Fry’s Third 100 Words
201. High
202. Every
203. Near
204. Add
205. Food
206. Between
207. Own
208. Below
209. Country
210. Plants
211. Last
212. School
213. Father
214. Keep
215. Trees
216. Never
217. Started
218. City
219. Earth
220. Eyes
221. Light
222. Thought
223. Head
224. Under
225. Story
226. Saw
227. Left
228. Don’t
229. Few
230. While
231. Along
232. Might
233. Close
234. Something
235. Seemed
236. Next
237. Hard
238. Open
239. Example
240. Beginning
241. Life
242. Always
243. Those
244. Both
245. Paper
246. Together
247. Got
248. Group
249. Often
250. Run
251. Important
252. Until
253. Children
254. Side
255. Feet
256. Car
257. Miles
258. Night
259. Walked
260. White
261. Sea
262. Began
263. Grow
264. Took
265. River
266. Four
267. Carry
268. State
269. Once
270. Book
271. Hear
272. Stop
273. Without
274. Second
275. Later
276. Miss
277. Idea
278. Enough
279. Eat
280. Face
281. Watch
282. Far
283. Indians
284. Really
285. Almost
286. Let
287. Above
288. Girl
289. Sometimes
290. Mountains
291. Cut
292. Young
293. Talk
294. Soon
295. List
296. Song
297. Being
298. Leave
299. Family
300. It’s
Fry’s Fourth 100 Words
301. Body
302. Music
303. Colour
304. Stand
305. Sun
306. Questions
307. Fish
308. Area
309. Mark
310. Dog
311. Horse
312. Birds
313. Problems
314. Complete
315. Room
316. Knew
317. Since
318. Ever
319. Piece
320. Told
321. Usually
322. Didn’t
323. Friends
324. Easy
325. Heard
326. Order
327. Red
328. Door
329. Sure
330. Become
331. Top
332. Ship
333. Across
334. Today
335. During
336. Short
337. Better
338. Best
339. However
340. Low
341. Hours
342. Black
343. Products
344. Happened
345. Whole
346. Measure
347. Remember
348. Early
349. Waves
350. Reached
351. Listen
352. Wind
353. Rock
354. Space
355. Covered
356. Fast
357. Several
358. Hold
359. Himself
360. Toward
361. Five
362. Step
363. Morning
364. Passed
365. Vowel
366. True
367. Hundred
368. Against
369. Pattern
370. Numeral
371. Table
372. North
373. Slowly
374. Money
375. Map
376. Busy
377. Pulled
378. Draw
379. Voice
380. Seen
381. Cold
382. Cried
383. Plan
384. Notice
385. South
386. Sing
387. War
388. Ground
389. Fall
390. King
391. Town
392. I’ll
393. Unit
394. Figure
395. Certain
396. Field
397. Travel
398. Wood
399. Fire
400. Upon
Multiplication Tables
1x1=1
1x2=2
1x3=3
1x4=4
1x5=5
1x6=6
1x7=7
1x8=8
1x9=9
1 x 10 = 10
1 x 11 = 11
1 x 12 = 12
2x1=2
2x2=4
2x3=6
2x4=8
2 x 5 = 10
2 x 6 = 12
2 x 7 = 14
2 x 8 = 16
2 x 9 = 18
2 x 10 = 20
2 x 11 = 22
2 x 12 = 24
3x1=3
3x2=6
3x3=9
3 x 4 = 12
3 x 5 = 15
3 x 6 = 18
3 x 7 = 21
3 x 8 = 24
3 x 9 = 27
3 x 10 = 30
3 x 11 = 33
3 x 12 = 36
4x1=4
4x2=8
4 x 3 = 12
4 x 4 = 16
4 x 5 = 20
4 x 6 = 24
4 x 7 = 28
4 x 8 = 32
4 x 9 = 36
4 x 10 = 40
4 x 11 = 44
4 x 12 = 48
5x1=5
5 x 2 = 10
5 x 3 = 15
5 x 4 = 20
5 x 5 = 35
5 x 6 = 30
5 x 7 = 35
5 x 8 = 40
5 x 9 = 45
5 x 10 = 50
5 x 11 = 55
5 x 12 = 60
6x1=6
6 x 2 = 12
6 x 3 = 18
6 x 4 = 24
6 x 5 = 30
6 x 6 = 36
6 x 7 = 42
6 x 8 = 48
6 x 9 = 54
6 x 10 = 60
6 x 11 = 66
6 x 12 = 72
7x1=7
7 x 2 = 14
7 x 3 = 21
7 x 4 = 28
7 x 5 = 35
7 x 6 = 42
7 x 7 = 49
7 x 8 = 56
7 x 9 = 63
7 x 10 = 70
7 x 11 = 77
7 x 12 =84
8x1=8
8 x 2 = 16
8 x 3 = 24
8 x 4 = 32
8 x 5 = 40
8 x 6 = 48
8 x 7 = 56
8 x 8 = 64
8 x 9 = 72
8 x 10 = 80
8 x 11 = 88
8 x 12 = 96
9x1=9
9 x 2 = 18
9 x 3 = 27
9 x 4 = 36
9 x 5 = 45
9 x 6 = 54
9 x 7 = 63
9 x 8 = 72
9 x 9 = 81
9 x 10 = 90
9 x 11 = 99
9 x 12 = 108
10 x 1 = 10
10 x 2 = 20
10 x 3 = 30
10 x 4 = 40
10 x 5 = 50
10 x 6 = 60
10 x 7 = 70
10 x 8 = 80
10 x 9 = 90
10 x 10 = 100
10 x 11 = 110
10 x 12 = 120
11 x 1 = 11
11 x 2 = 22
11 x 3 = 33
11 x 4 = 44
11 x 5 = 55
11 x 6 = 66
11 x 7 = 77
11 x 8 = 88
11 x 9 = 99
11 x 10 = 110
11 x 11 = 121
11 x 12 =132
12 x 1 = 12
12 x 2 = 24
12 x 3 = 36
12 x 4 = 48
12 x 5 = 60
12 x 6 = 72
12 x 7 = 84
12 x 8 = 96
12 x 9 = 108
12 x 10 = 120
12 x 11 = 132
12 x 12 = 144
June 2015
Sun
Mon
1
14
Wed
2
Body, Music
7
Tue
3
Practice the Fry words
and multiplication
table with your child
daily.
Thu
4
Fri
5
Sat
6
Mark, Dog
Colour, Stand
Practice the 1’s & 2 ’s Multiplication Table
8
9
10
Horse, Birds
Problem, Room Complete, Knew Since, Ever
Practice the 3’s Multiplication Table
Piece, Told
15
16
19
17
11
18
12
28
22
23
Usually, Didn’t
Friends, Easy Heard, Order
Red, Door
Practice the 4’s Multiplication Table
29
30
Top, Ship
Read a book with
your child

Help your child
practice writing
sentences using the
Fry Words provided

Locate the city,
county, and state in
which you live in on
a map

Visit your local
library
13
20
Use this week to review the Multiplication Table with your child
21

Sun, Questions Fish, Area
24
25
Across, Today
Practice the 5’s Multiplication Table
26
Sure, Become
27
July 2015
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
1
During, Short
Practice the Fry words
and multiplication
table with your child
daily.
Thu
2
Better, Best
Fri
Sat
3
4
However, Low
Holiday
4th of July
10
11
Practice the 5’s Multiplication Table
5
6
7
8
9
Hours, Black
Products, Wind
Early, Waves Reached, Listen
Happened, Whole
Practice the 6’s Multiplication Table
12
13
14
Rock, Space
Covered, Fast
15
16
17
18
Several, Hold
Himself, Five
Measure, Remember
Practice the 7’s Multiplication Table
19
20
21
Toward, Step
22
Morning, Passed Vowel, True
23
Hundred, Upon
24
Against, Pattern
Practice the 8’s Multiplication Table
26
27
28
29
30
31
Use this week to review the Multiplication Table with your child
25

Read a book with
your child

Help your child
practice writing
sentences using the
Fry Words provided

Locate the 7 continents on a map

Visit your local
library
August 2015
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Practice the Fry words
and multiplication
table with your child
daily.
Fri
Sat
1
2
3
4
Numeral, Table
5
North, Slowly
Money, Map
6
7
Busy, Pulled
Draw, Voice
8
Practice the 9’s Multiplication Table
9
10
11
Seen, Cold
Cried, Plan
12
13
14
Notice, South
Sing, War
Ground, Fall
15
Practice the 10’s Multiplication Table
16
17
18
King, Town
23
30
24
I’ll, Unit
25
19
20
Figure, Certain Field, Travel
Practice the 11’s Multiplication Table
26
27
21
Wood, Fire
28
Use this week to review the information your child has learned over the summer.
31 
1st Day
of
School
22
29

Read a book with
your child

Help your child
practice writing
sentences using the
Fry Words provided

Locate the 4 major
oceans on a map

Visit your local
library