Third Grade
Foundation of 21st Century Skills
With a strong foundation from earlier grades, school becomes more challenging and rigorous in Third Grade. This is the year that students transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn." Third Graders will experience standardized testing for the first time, which may cause some anxiety. Our energetic and passionate Third Grade teachers, Jessica Coughlin and Carlie Bodart, create a caring, supportive and encouraging learning environment so all students succeed. Here's what to expect your Third Grade student to learn:
Reading
- The Ocean
- Outer Space
- A New Home
Math
- Multiplication and division
- Using place value to solve addition/subtraction
- Geometric figures
- Perimeter area
- Fractions
- Comparing fractions
- Equivalent fractions
- Measurement
- Time/elapsed time
- Representing data
- Multiplication/division
Science
- Matter
- Energy
- Magnets
- Electricity
- Planetary objects
- Weather/climate
- Natural hazards
- Life cycles
- Human impact and ecosystems
Social Studies
- Geography
- Physical/political features
- United States geography
- World geography
- Indigenous peoples and European exploration
- Colonization
- Economics
Social Emotional Learning
- Move This World daily morning meetings
Skills to Practice for Third Grade Readiness
- Adding and subtracting with regrouping
- Summarizing a story and its story elements — characters, plot, problem/solution, setting
- Writing multiple sentences using correct punctuation and capitalization
- Knowing place values of numbers up to 1000
- Identifying the central message/theme of a story