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Our goals for the year

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Preservation

The theme of the GT reading program in third grade is preservation. Preservation is the process of saving or making treasure or things that have value last. Throughout this year we will learn how studying preservation can help up understand literature and how preservation can help us understand our own lives.

Math

Unit 1: Place Value, Number Patterns, and Money

Unit 1 covers place value, number patterns, and money. This week, students were able to identify and describe numbers as odd and even and used place value patterns to skip count forward and backward by 10 and 100.

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Homework

Students will have homework Monday through Thursday. Spelling packets will be given Monday and students must complete them by Thursday. Spelling tests will be on Friday.

Math homework will include daily worksheets to reinforce the activity that we learned that day. This worksheet will never include new material. It will be practice for the concepts that have already been taught in class.

Reading homework will include a minimum of 15 minutes of reading per night. This may be through a textbook, Scholastic reading sheet, library book, or any other book from home. Your child needs to be reading for at least 15 minutes daily to continue to strengthen his or her decoding and comprehension skills.

We will also have cursive homework or a grammar worksheet every night.

There will be no homework on the weekends. Enjoy this time as we will be working hard during the weekdays to prepare for MSA testing and 4th grade!

Math

UNIT ONE OBJECTIVES

Students will be able to:

• Read, write, and represent numbers


• Write numbers in expanded form, and identify the value of a digit


• Compare and order numbers


• Identify, describe, extend, or create numeric patterns by skip counting


• Identify and describe numbers as even or odd


• Count and represent money amounts

http://www.bcps.org/offices/prek-12_math/elem_math/parents_corner.html

The website above is a link to BCPS math resources. Student resources such as games, flashcards, and worksheets are available for you to use with your child.