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Reading
Your child will:
- understand and select a variety of reading skills and strategies including:
- setting a purpose for readingand adjusting speed to fit the purpose
- identifying structures of different types of text
- checking understanding by asking questions before and during reading
- self-correcting when written material doesn’t make sense by rereading, applying background knowledge and using contextual clues and phonics to understand unfamiliar words
- read to acquire, remember and apply information by:
- extend understanding by making inferences from printed materials by:
- forming generalizations based on written material
- identifying/understanding the author’s purpose and use of literary devices
- understanding implicit ideas and making inferences in written materials
- through reading, investigate issues and interests common to all people and relating characters and plot to real-life situations
Writing
Using the writing process, your child will:
- generate ideas through pre-writing activities
- set focus and purpose for writing and consider audience
- organize writing into beginning, middle and end
- logically sequence ideas
- choose words that are clear and appropriate
- begin to consider voice
- use details to explain and expand ideas
- include some variety in sentences
- use standard spelling, complete sentences and grade appropriate capitalization and punctuation
- complete a research project
Speaking and Listening
Your child will:
- contribute to group discussions
- ask questions when help is needed
- listen attentively
Mathematics
Your child will:
- show academic progress
- display effort
- know basic addition/subtraction facts through 20
- know basic multiplication/division facts through the tens
- demonstrate problem solving strategies
- explain mathematical reasoning
Science
Your child will learn about science by asking questions about the world, designing and conducting experiments and recording and reflecting on findings. Your third grader will:
- discover the difference between a biome and a habitat
- design an imaginary organism that can survive in a habitat within a researched biome
- explore and model how light beams travel
- explore what happens to light as it shines on various materials
- observe how the apparent path of the sun changes during the year using tools to track its position during the fall, winter and spring
Social Studies
Focus: Regions of the United States
Your child will:
- identify major geographic regions of the United States
- describe how different environments affect the way people live in different regions
- learn how regions depend on each other
- compare/contrast various regions in terms of topography, climate and population, etc.
- apply reference and map skills to social studies concepts
Fitness Education
Your child will:
- understand and apply the components of health related fitness to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle
- develop and maintain appropriate levels of skill related fitness
- develop understandings so that they can adopt healthy and physically active lifestyles
- develop positive attitudes about physical activity so that they engage in healthy and physically active lifestyles
Music
Your child will:
- sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
- play, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
- read and notate music
- listen, analyze, describe and evaluate music
Art
Your child will:
- identify, describe and effectively use Elements of Art in their projects
- demonstrate a basic understanding of the Design Principles
- know a variety of artists, art styles, and art movements throughout history
- know that art is created by all cultures
- create art that expresses their feelings and communicates their personal ideas
- demonstrate their understanding of skills and techniques necessary to produce specific projects
- know specific art vocabulary and demonstrate their understanding of it
Classroom Guidance
Students participate in classroom guidance activities facilitated by a school counselor. Each school provides a developmental guidance curriculum that encompasses dealing with feelings, peer relationships, decision making, protective behaviors and careers. Skills taught will assist each child in his/her academic, emotional and social development. This, in turn, will help ensure success in school, at home and in the community. |
