How You Can Help Your Child:
Reading:
Have as many books as possible to read at home.
Visit the library frequently.
Model the importance of reading. Read in front of your child.
Have your child read to you daily.
Ask your child questions about books and materials they are reading.
Provide your child with reference materials- dictionaries, atlas, thesaurus, and encyclopedia.
Do work games, puzzles, word searches.
Let your child know how important it is to be a good reader.
Writing:
Provide your child with many opportunities to write.
Encourage your child to write legibly.
Write letters and postcards to friends and family.
Practice spelling Word Wall words and other challenging words.
Keep a word list for spelling a vocabulary.
Listening and speaking:
Encourage your child to listen respectfully to others.
Work with your child on following a set of directions.
Encourage your child to use proper speech and appropriate language.
Mathematics:
Practice addition, subtractions basic facts. This should be mastered by the end of the first quarter.
Practice basic multiplication facts 1-10. By the end of third grade students should know their basic multiplication facts.
Work on homelinks together on a regular basis.
Play games using a deck of cards, dominos and dice.
Measure things around the house using inches, centimeters, ounces, milliliters, pounds, and kilograms.
Observe and discuss size, shape, and patterns in the environment.
Expose your child to the concept of calendars, clocks, thermometers, and money used in every day life.
English Language Arts:
Reading:
The student should be able to:
Acquire and apply appropriate strategies to construct meaning at the sentence and paragraph level.
Explore the following genres in depth:
Realistic Fiction, Fables, Historical Fiction and Non Fiction
Identify text characters of core genre.
Explain how authors use personification and first person point of view
Use a variety of comprehension strategies to deepen understanding of grade level narrative and informational text.
Read grade level textbooks.
Identify problem, solution, and sequence organizational patters in informational text.
Writing:
The student should be able to:
Write a topic sentence with supporting sentences.
Write a well-developed paragraph using transition words and a concluding sentence. Use personification and first person point of view to develop a simple story level theme.
Write an information report (Michigan based project linked to Social Studies)
Show understanding of writing conventions through proper use of grammar, usage and mechanics in written work.
Present a report on a class focus question and/or fable.
Speaking Listening and Viewing:
Tell/present a story, speech, reports or projects to the class audience.
Listen to or view and discuss a variety of genres and interact appropriately.
Use visual representational skills in their writing and speaking.
Mathematics:
The student should be able to:
Read, write and compare whole numbers up to five digits and identify place value in whole numbers up to five digits.
Count by 10s to 1,000 forward and backwards.
Identify and demonstrate the knowledge of basic addition and subtraction facts.
Complete fact and number families for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Add and subtract multi-digit numbers
Solve addition and subtraction number stories.
Use estimation to add or subtract
State multiplication facts from 1-10 Identify the meaning of fractions and their parts
Measure to the nearest ¼ of and inch and nearest centimeter.
Count combinations of bills and coins and write the total using dollars and cents notation
Solve money number stories
Tell time to the nearest minute.
Demonstrate an understanding of lines, line segments, rays, parallel lines and intersecting lines
Draw line segments with a straight edge.
Identify symmetrical figures and draw lines of symmetry.
Identify right, acute and obtuse angles.
Identify and name two and three-dimensional shapes.
Find equivalent names for numbers and fractions.
Social Studies:
The student should be able to:
Michigan’s geography and the location of the Upper, Lower Peninsulas and the Great Lakes.
Michigan’s Native Americans: economy, use of natural resources to meet basic needs, culture. Student will need to be able to identify Michigan’s state symbols such as the state bird, flower, tree, soil, and fish
The impact French explorers had on Michigan, Marquette Joliet and LaSalle.
The impact of the British influence on Michigan: American Revolution
The impact pioneers had on Michigan: territory, state, governors and scarcity/
The impact of slavery on Michigan Underground Railrod: nation divided.
The importance of Michigan’s natural resources and the impact of evolution of transportation in Michigan: rivers, roads, ships, cars trains.
The impact of Henry Ford on Michigan: inventors: assembly line, capital human and natural resources.
Key ideas of economy of Michigan: manufactured and agricultural products: producer and consumers.
The impact of multicultural influences in Michigan and its connection to the works: immigration, ancestry
Michigan government: Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches; constitution; elections
Map and globe skills; keys, legends, compass rose, state, country and oceans
How current events relate to Core Democratic Values and the impact on our lives.
The Core Democratic Values of Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness, Common Good, Justice, Diversity, and Patriotism.
Science:
The student should be able to:
Use the processes of science including observing, predicting, measuring, experimenting, collecting and interpreting data.
Science in third grade is divided into:
Life Science:
A plant’s physical structure: leaf, stem, root and cells
Students will be able to draw and identify the parts to a pant cell
Plant processes: making food, reproduction, life cycles, photosynthesize, seeds and pollination
Classification skills of objects based on traits such as hardness, luster, light and smell.
Earth Science
The weather and impact of Earth and the severe weather: tornado, hurricane, and blizzards flood drought.
The water cycle: Michigan's water shed; conservation
Physical Science:
Simple machines: push and pull; levers, incline planes, wheel and axles, pulleys and the uses of simple and complex machines.
I look forward to working with your child throughout third grade to reach these important goals.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Claudia Dichtel
