Math-Ready Classroom Mathematics/ I-ready. 
3rd grade is an important year in math. We set the foundation of multiplication and division. By the end of third grade students should know all their multiplication facts through 10 (1x1 , 2x10, 10x10) etc. Please practice this at home. We build upon the foundation set in second grade by adding and subtracting three digit numbers. We expand the amount of fractions students know and recognize and begin to work with fractions. Students will be able to recognize and find equivalent fractions by the end of the year. Students will be able to compare and order fractions, and understand fractions shown on a number line. We learn about area and perimeter. We learn attributes of shapes and describe shapes. We learn volume and liquid measurements. We will learn how to make and read bar graphs and line plots. Our curriculum is very thinking heavy. Each lesson is centered around a word problem that students try on their own first. Then they discuss the strategies that they used. The book and teacher will walk through that word problem explicitly teaching the concept then students have a chance to practice with the concept on their own. There is writing to show thinking and reflect on learning and lots of discussion. 

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Reading- Iready
In third grade we move away from learning to read and into reading to learn. We learn different strategies to understand what we read. We will practice these strategies with both non-fiction and fiction texts. 

Writing We will be using Thinking Maps to support writing instruction

Science/Social Studies- Core Knowledge  Social Studies Topics include: World Geography, Map skills, Ancient Rome, The Vikings , The Earliest Americans, Exploration of North America, and The Thirteen Colonies Life Before the Revolution
Science topics include: Classification of Animals, Human Body, Light and Optics, Sound, Ecology, Astronomy, and Science Biographies