3rd Grade Newsletter January 2020

• The Traditions Festival was a huge success. We enjoyed learning about your traditions and want to thank you for your hard work and support.

• Please help your son or daughter remember to come to school dressed appropriately for the weather with a coat, gloves, and hat. We do go out to recess when the weather allows.

We are reading literary text in January.

On going skills:

• Ask and answer questions about a text

• Refer to details in a text to create and answer questions

• Explicitly use the text for evidence for answers

• Recount sequence of events in a story

• Infer and describe a character’s feelings based on key details

• Describe a character’s traits/motivations/feelings based on details from the text.

Focus for January:

• Identify the narrator’s point of view about the characters, settings, or events

• Identify a character’s point of view about other characters, events, and settings

• Identify the mood of a story

• Explain how the images contribute or create the mood of a story

• Explain how the images emphasize aspects of a character or setting in a story

• Explain what parts of an image contribute to what is conveyed by the printed words

Unit 5: Developing Relationships Between Multiplication and Division

Classes will be finishing the unit during the first weeks of January.

Unit 6: Understanding and Applying Addition and Subtraction

During this unit, students will revisit many skills from first quarter and gain additional experience with one and two step problems in the context of measurement. The skills of telling time to the minute and understanding perimeter are new to third graders in this unit.

• Students will use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.

• Students will fluently add and subtract within 1,000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

• Students will make explicit connections between models and written work while explaining their reasoning when adding and subtracting.

• Students will solve two-step word problems using addition, subtraction, and multiplication and assess the reasonableness of their answer using estimation through rounding.

• Students will tell and write time to the nearest minute.

• Students will solve one-step problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects using standard units of grams (g), kilograms (kg), and liters (l).

• Students will explore perimeter of polygons by solving real world problems with side lengths given and finding an unknown side length.

• Students represent and interpret data using picture and bar graphs to solve one step problems using information presented in graphs.

Economics, Production, and Global Trade

Students will identify the economic principles and processes that are helpful to producers and consumers when making good decisions.

Students will:

• Identify the opportunity cost of a choice or decision.

• Explain how producers make choices because of limited natural, human, and capital resources.

• Explain production may increase when workers specialize.

• Describe the interdependence of people because of specialization.

• Give examples of how limited resources affect the decisions producers make.

• Identify goods and services provided by the government and paid for by taxes, such as roads, police protection, and schools.

• Classify goods and services according to who produces them: the government, business, or both.

• Describe steps in the production process to produce a product.