3rd Grade Homepage

Students who do not return their papers signed the next day will have the behavior calendar marked for missing work.   

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12 Powerful Words
It is easier for students to answer a question if they fully understand what the
question is asking, so these words and their meanings will be emphasized this year.

1.  Trace - Follow in steps

2.  Analyze - Break apart

3.  Infer - Read between the lines

4.  Evaluate - Judge; tell your opinion of

5.  Formulate - Create

6.  Describe - Tell all about

7.  Support - Back up with details

8.  Explain - Tell how

9.  Summarize - Give a shorted version of

10.  Compare - All the ways they are alike

11.  Contrast - All the ways they are different

12.  Predict - What will happen next

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Reading is vital in all subject areas in school. Please take time to review these suggestions to help improve your child's reading ability.
 Top Ways to Improve Reading Skills
by Peggy Gisler, Ed.S. and Marge Eberts, Ed.S

 Show enthusiasm for your children's reading.
Your reaction has a great influence on how hard they will try to become good readers. Be sure to give them genuine praise for their efforts.

Use a variety of aids to help your children.
To help your children improve their reading, use textbooks, computer programs, books-on-tape or other reading matetrials. Games are especially good choices because they let children have fun as they work on their skills.

•  Look for reading problems.
   Find out if your children can sound out words, know sight words, use context to identify unknown words, and clearly understand what they read.

• Get help promptly for reading problems.
  Reading problems do not magically disappear with time. The earlier children receive help, the more likely they will become good readers. Make sure your children receive necessary reading help.  

• Be knowledgeable about your children's progress.               Know the reading skills your child is expected to learn in the 3rd grade.  Track your child's progress in acquiring basic reading skills on report cards and standardized tests.
  

• Develop the library habit.
  Entice your children to read more by taking them to the library every few weeks to get new reading materials. The library also offers reading programs for children of all ages that may appeal to your children and further increase their interest in reading.
  
   Encourage a wide variety of reading activities.

• Make reading an integral part of your children's lives. Have them read menus, roadside signs, game directions, weather reports, movie time listings, and other practical everyday information. Also, make sure they always have something to read in their spare time when they could be waiting for appointments or riding in a car.
  
  Have a family reading time.

• Establish a daily 15 to 30 minute time when everyone in the family reads together silently. Seeing you read will inspire your children to read. Just 15 minutes of daily practice is sufficient to increase their reading fluency.
  
  Surround your children with reading material
  Children with a large array of reading materials in their homes score higher on standardized tests. Tempt your kids to read by having a large supply of appealing books and magazines at their reading level. Put the reading materials in cars, bathrooms, bedrooms, family rooms, and even by the TV.
  
  Set aside a regular time to read to your children every day.

• Studies show that regularly reading out loud to children will produce significant gains in reading comprehension, vocabulary, and the decoding of words. Whether your children are preschoolers or preteens, it will increase their desire to read independently.

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equivalent fractions

Place fractions on a number line

http://www.visualfractions.com/IdentifyLines/identifylines.html

Short video clips about math or science topics.

http://www.brainpop.com/

STEM 

1. Try this fun engineering site
http://www.uen.org/News/article.cgi?category_id=2&article_id=1352

If you are taken to the home page,  click on 3-6 interactives at the top of the page, then click on science.
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word problem practice
http://www.mathplayground.com/gsmbegin.html
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  Recommended web sites to practice math skills

 Multiple math skills for 3rd graders to practice. 
1. http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/edm/3.htm

Lots of practice for 3rd grade math skills
2.  http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/ksd/ms/math/math3.htm

3. Practice on many 3rd grade skills - scroll down to locate math and science practice.
http://powpak.nlsd.k12.oh.us/powpak/cgi-bin/custom_page_display.pl?id=lhouseholder&cp=5

4. Many links for 3rd grade practice.
http://www.svsu.edu/mathsci-center/uploads/math/E03N.htm


5. 3rd grade skill practice
 http://www.links.provo.edu/Pages/3rdGradeGL.htm

6. Excellent site for practice - click on 3rd grade
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4.cfm

Basic Math Facts Links and More
7. http://www.mrnussbaum.com/tackled.htm
Students must have mastery of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts to successfully play this math football game.

8. http://www.mrnussbaum.com/fries/index.html
Let the character eat only those french fries that equal the number in the box at the top right side of the screen.

9. http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/ArithmeticFour/
Connect 4 using addition, subtraction, multiplication or division facts.

10.http://www.aplusmath.com/games/
Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, division

11. http://www.ixl.com/
This site practices several math skills.

12. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mhm/index.html
This site has multiple grade level practice, including brain teasers.

Place Value Puzzler
13. http://www.funbrain.com/tens/index.html

Expanded Form of Numbers
 14. http://www.haelmedia.com/html/mc_m2_004.html

Telling Time
15. http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec3.html
Drag and match the times.

16. http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/clock2/clockwordsres.html
Stop the clock.

Elapsed Time
17. http://www.time-for-time.com/swf/myclox.swf

Estimation or Rounding
18. http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/roundoff.html
For more advanced learners. May include rounding decimals.

Number Patterns
19. http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/cracker.cgi?A1=s&A2=0&submit=Start+Game
 Find the missing number.

Pattern Blocks
20. http://arcytech.org/java/patterns/patterns_j.shtml

Tangrams
21. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_112_g_2_t_1.html?open=activities

Base 10 Blocks
 22. http://arcytech.org/java/b10blocks/b10blocks.html

Geoboards
23, http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_277_g_1_t_3.html

Attribute Blocks
24. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_270_g_2_t_3.html

Pentominoes
25. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_114_g_2_t_2.html

26. Greater than/Less than numbers
http://www.mathsyear2000.org/magnet/minus3/hopscotch/more1.html

Fractions

Fraction Frenzy - match equivalent fractions;  fraction match - match fraction to fractional part;
27. Fraction Man - equivalent fractions
http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/clock2/clockwordsres.html


29. Fraction Bars
 http://arcytech.org/java/fractions/fractions.html
Turn a whole bar into fractional parts.

Please check our webpages for updates and additional information.

(Items posted on this web page are subject to change.)

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Below is a list of skills that your child will be practicing this year. Please continue checking your child's folder each night for  assignments and announcements. Thanks for all you do!

3rd Grade Math Skills:

• Place value up to 10,000 in standard, written and expanded form
• Addition and subtraction (2 & 3 digit with and without regrouping)
• Comparing and ordering numbers
• 2D/flat shapes
• Number and shape patterns
• Perimeter
• Symmetry
• Congruence
• Two and three digit addition & subtraction problems (with and without regrouping)
• Rounding to nearest 10 or 100
• Estimating sums & differences
• Count money up to $5.00
• Make change from a $1.00
• Solve story problems
• Solve graphing problems
• Identify fractions
• Equivalent fractions
• Compare fractions
• Order fractions 
• Add/subtract fractions with like denominators
• Telling time
• Elapsed time
• Calendar
• Measurement
• Multiplication

• Science 
• Plant parts
• Photosynthesis
• Life cycle of plants
• Weather - water cycle, clouds, weather instruments
• Solar System
• Magnets
• Sound
• Scientific Method
• Animals - ecosystems, food chain/web, habitats, life cycle, heredity, reproduction, adaptations
• Friction
• Balance Scale
• Chemical/Physical Changes
• Mixtures and  Solutions
• Heat energy
• Rocks

• Reading/Vocabulary skills:
  • Setting
  • Predicting
  • Compare and Contrast
  • Theme
  • Author's purpose
  • Character
  • Draw conclusions
  • Cause and effect
  • Sequence
  • Context clues
  • Graphic sources
  • Fact & opinion
  • Main idea & supporting details
  • Steps in a process
  • Summarizing
  • Text structure
  • Reading Genre (fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, folktale, play, biography)
  • Phonics
  • Compound words
  • Vocabulary words

  English skills:

  • Pronouns
  • Quotation Marks
  • Adjectives, Articles, Adverbs, & To, Two, Too
  • Verbs (present, past, & future time, verb be (am, is, are, was were), helping verbs, irregular verbs, & contractions)
  • Types of sentences (statement, command, question & exclamation)
  • Subjects and predicates
  • Nouns (common, proper, singular and plural, & possessives)
  • Complete sentences
  • Run on sentences
  • Proofreading

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Reader's Theater Links: http://www.timelessteacherstuff.com/