This Week in 3rd Grade
Week of August 22nd – 26th
Comprehension Skill:
Recount Stories and Fables
Learning Targets:
 determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is
conveyed through key details in the text
 recount means to retell
 stories can teach us a lesson or send us a message that relates life and
the world around us
 morals are lessons that can be inferred from a story
 the plot is the main sequence of events in a text
Math:
Language/Grammar:
Fluently add and subtract within
1000 using strategies and algorithms
based on place value, properties of
operations, and/or the relationship
between addition and subtraction.
Abstract Nouns:
Abstract nouns name ideas,
emotions/feelings, or qualities
that cannot be seen or touched.
Vocabulary:
addition
addends
algorithm
difference
equation
place value
strategy
subtraction
subtrahend
sum
Social Studies:
Maps & Globes
Learning Targets:
 identify and locate the 7
Continents and 5 Oceans
 interpret maps and globes
 use directions (Cardinal and
Intermediate)
 use different types of maps
Parts of Speech Review:
nouns
verbs
adjectives
Important Dates:
Aug 26: Smart Card sale ends
Aug 27: Farm to School Saturday /
Greenhouse Ribbon Cutting @ 9AM
Aug 29 & 30: Cheer Clinic @ 3:00 –
4:30
Aug 31: Cheer Tryouts @ 3:00 – 4:30
Aug 30: Fall Picture Day
Vocabulary Words:
recipe – (n) a set of instructions for making something by combining various things
disgusting – (adj) – causing a strong dislike that one feels for something
ingredients – (n) the substances that make up a mixture
boomerang – (n) a curved club that can be thrown so as to return to the thrower
poisonous – (adj) containing poison
Phonics Skill:
Open Multi-Syllable Words
syllable - a unit of pronunciation
that is organized around a vowel. It
may or may not have consonants
before or after the vowel. It has to
have a vowel.
open syllable - a syllable that ends
in a long vowel sound spelled with
a single vowel letter. (me, so, hi,
she, a, no, go)
VCV syllable division rules: One
consonant between two vowels:
 V/CV: 75% of the time you
will divide after the first
vowel, and the first syllable
will be open.
e/ven, ra/bies, la/zy, tu/lip,
se/cret
*always try to divide after
the first vowel. (long vowel)
If the word does not make
sense try to sound it out the
25% of the rule VC/V. (short
vowel)
 VC/V: 25 % of the time you
will divide after the
consonant and the first
syllable will be closed.
ev/er, rab/id, riv/er,
dec/ade
mon/ster
Writing Focus:
Writing a Personal Narrative
A Personal Narrative is the
recounting of a memory or
event in sequential order.