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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.
Also, please help your child become a life long reader and lover of
literature. Set aside at least 20 minutes of quiet reading time for your
child to explore the books he or she enjoys reading. Good readers become good
writers, spellers, and thinkers!
WHAT ARE WE WORKING ON TO BEGIN OUR SCHOOL YEAR?
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 will begin the year
with stories about friends and family. The realistic fiction stories we will
share will reinforce our reading strategies.
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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