| To help your student learn organizational skills, please check their
homework planner daily. Homework should be checked and placed in their
homework folder. Developing good organizational skills is a key to success
in school.
Please practice math facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication and
division with your child throughout the year. Fact triangles are a great
way to reinforce these operations. Creating some problems which involve
real life situations,such as "How much change do I have in my pocket?", is
another important way you can reinforce the skills we are working on in
class.
MATH - We are working with our addition and subtraction skills. The
students are reinforcing math facts through fact triangles and problem
solving. We are working with number grids to reinforce place value and
number concepts. We are also solving number puzzles and sequence problems.
These strategies help the children understand operational skills and place
value.
READING AND WRITING - Encourage your child to read a variety of books at
home to help strengthen their reading fluency, vocabulary and
comprehension. Have your child talk about some of the books that we share
in class. The children should try to make connections between the books
they are reading and experiences from their own lives.
We have been reading mystery stories. Some of the books have had animal
characaters acting like humans. We have had fun finding examples of
personification. Ask you child about some examples they have found in their
readings. We are also making connections in mystery stories. The class is
becoming strong readers and writers! I am very proud of their efforts in
reading and writing.
The third graders are switching classes for SCIENCE and SOCIAL
STUDIES. Check with your child for homework assignments and tests in these
subject areas. In SOCIAL STUDIES the students in third grade are learning
about communities and map skills.
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