Bear Creek Third Grade

• Reminder to have students read 20 minutes every day!

Reading

Students can explain the relationships among the major and minor characters.

We will be doing read alouds, having collaborative discussions and analyzing character traits.

Writing

Students can compose literary texts using genre characteristics.

We will be making a heart map with ideas to write about and students will complete their first free write.

Math

Students can compose and decompose numbers up to 100,000 using objects, pictorial models, and numbers, including expanded notation as appropriate.

We will be doing number talks and practicing number problem solving.

Science

Students can measure, test, and record physical properties of matter.

We will be discussing characteristics of matter, as well as finding and sorting objects by their properties of matter.

Vocabulary to Use in Connection with Material

narrator

prediction

character

place value

digit

compose(in relation to numbers)

decompose(in relation to numbers)

matter

temperature

physical property

Spark Conversation at Home

How do good writers get ideas?

What makes a character interesting?

Ask about the physical properties of some objects in your home.

Tell me something you know today that you did not know yesterday.

We appreciate your support in continuing these discussions at home.

Please come to our office hours to get technology or assignment help! That is our designated time to help students one-on-one and it is a great time to make sure everything is working.

Each teacher will hold office hours on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 2:00 PM-3:00 PM on their class Zoom link.

Cassidy Grotte cassidy.grotte@austinisd.org

Lindsey Hanna lindsey.c.hanna@austinisd.org

Kate Luft kathryn.luft@austinisd.org

Elana Stolinsky elana.stolinsky@austinisd.org