•  3rd Grade Team

    Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Gay, Ms. Antaramian, Ms. Ortiz, Mr. McKinnon

    WELCOME!

    The third-grade teachers would like to take this opportunity to welcome you and your child to third grade!

    Third grade is a major milestone in your child’s education. When children enter third grade, the level of work and completion expectation becomes much more challenging than what they experienced in previous grades. The reading requirements and passages get harder (no longer read for them), the amount of writing gets longer, and the level of abstract thinking in mathematics increases.

    Third grade teachers will be focusing on student independence, responsibility, and organization throughout the year. Students will be expected to take responsibility for their behavior, relationships, and work habits.

    During this school year, we will be learning many exciting and challenging things. We look forward to working with you and your child. It is our goal to keep you as informed as possible throughout the upcoming school year.

    Sincerely, 

    The Third Grade Teachers 

  • LEARNING EXPECTATIONS FOR THIRD GRADE

    ELAR

      • Use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and multiple‐meaning words
      • Recognize and use word patterns (prefixes and suffixes)
      • Use and understand the meaning of idioms, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, and homographs
      • Spell and identify compound words, contractions, and basic abbreviations
      • Evaluate details read to determine key ideas
      • Make inferences, predictions and use text evidence to support understanding
      • Recognize and correct errors while reading
      • Identify authors purpose and text structures
      • Read with comprehension and fluency for more than pleasure for an extended period
      • Paraphrase what has been read
      • Explore and identify various genres
      • Identify the main idea and theme of passages
      • Analyze elements of drama and poetry
      • Communicate fluently in written form
      • Write complete simple and compound sentences with subject‐verb agreement
      • Use text evidence to support an appropriate response verbally and in writing
      • Retell stories with accuracy verbally and in writing

    Math

      • Add and subtract three- and four-digit numbers, with and without regrouping to 1,000
      • Solve one‐step and two‐step problems involving multiplication and division within 100
      • Recall facts to multiply up to 10 by 10 with automaticity and recall the corresponding division facts
      • Understand how place value works in our number system
      • Tell in which place each of the digits is located up to 100,000
      • Count combinations of coins and bills
      • Tell time on analog and digital clocks to the minute
      • Measure using customary and metric units
      • Determine basic area and perimeter
      • Know the basic multiplication and division facts to 10
      • Round to the nearest 10 or 100 to estimate solutions to addition and subtraction problems
      • Classify and sort two‐ and three‐dimensional figures, including cones, cylinders, spheres, triangular and rectangular prisms, and cubes
      • Find fractions of whole and fractions of a set
      • Understand how frequency tables, dot plots, pictographs, and bar graphs with scaled intervals communicate information

    Homework Tips

      • Please read nightly to promote good fluent readers
      • Practice all math facts
      • Make real-world connections
      • Ask questions
      • No more than 45 minutes nightly
      • Have fun - wonder, dream, and inspire

    Conference Times

    Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday

                       9:25 – 10:00