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Third grade students will be following the common core standards for New York State.
An overview can be found on http://www.engageny.org
Reading:
Key Ideas and Details
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Responding to Literature
Craft and Structure
Range of Reading Level and Text Complexity
Phonics and Word Recognition
Fluency
Writing:
Opinion
Informative
Explanatory
Narratives
Planning, revising, and editing
Using Technology to produce and publish writing
Short Research projects
Speaking:
Small group discussion norms
Report on a topic or text
Engage Audio recordings
Complete Sentences
Language:
Conventions of Standard English
Knowledge of Language
Vocabulary acquisition and use
The New York State English Language Arts (ELA) Test is given to third grade students in April. Test preparation is part of the curriculum.
Research
Students will use technology to research various topics using several data bases. They will also participate in the NYS Social Studies Inquiries with The Library Media Specialist.
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking
• Represent and solve problems involving
multiplication and division.
• Understand properties of multiplication and
the relationship between multiplication and
division.
• Multiply and divide within 100.
• Solve problems involving the four operations,
and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
Measurement and Data
• Solve problems involving measurement and
estimation of intervals of time, telling time to the hour and quarter hour, elapsed time, liquid volumes,
and masses of objects.
• Represent and interpret data.
• Geometric measurement: understand concepts
of area and relate area to multiplication and to
addition.
• Geometric measurement: recognize perimeter
as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish
between linear and area measures.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
• Use place value understanding and properties
of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
Number and Operations—Fractions
• Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.
Geometry
• Reason with shapes and their attributes.
The New York Math Test 3 is given to 3rd grade students in the Spring.
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How plants live and grow:
How do roots, stems, leaves, fruits, flowers, and cones function?
How animals grow and change:
What is the life cycle of egg layers and mammals?
Living things and their environment:
Where do organisms live? How do they get their food?
How are they adapted to their environment?
How do they live together in groups?
Matter-solid, liquid and gas-and how it changes:
Exploring properties of matter:
What are objects made of?
What are physical and chemical changes?
Forces, machines and work:
What makes things move?
What are friction, magnetism and gravity?
How do simple machines help you do work?
Human Body:.
The skeletal, nervous, and muscular system. Students learn about the brain, vision, and hearing.
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People build communities:
geography, protecting natural resources
Skills: landform maps, problem solving, bar graphs, line graphs
Communities Have History:
people moved West, immigrants, Great Migration, inventions change life-styles
Skills: map scales, intermediate directions, compare/contrast
Communities At Work: economics, choices, running a business
Skills: flow charts, transportation maps
Communities Have Governments: local, national, citizenship
Skills: grid maps, cause/effect
Many Cultures, One Country: sharing stories, celebrations
Skills: hemispheres, using source material, decision-making
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