In third grade your child will be reading to learn and will begin to read more for pleasure. Your child should enter third grade reading fluently and with comprehension. Your child will be learning how to use a more formalized writing process of drafting, editing and publishing. Your child will most likely be taking tests on a regular basis. Your child will also take their first standardized test called CSAP.

1. Work cooperatively and productively with other children in small groups to complete projects

2. Understand how choices affect consequences

3. Become more organized and logical in their thinking processes

4. Build stronger friendships

5. Better understand the consequences of her behavior

    6.  Like immediate rewards for behavior

7. Be able to copy from an overhear projector

8. Read longer stories and chapter books with expression and comprehension

9. Use prefixes, suffixes root words and other strategies to identify unfamiliar words

10. Multiply single and multi-digit numbers (4 x 453)

11. Divide multi-digit numbers by one-digit numbers (105 / 5)

12. Tell time to the half-hour, quarter-hour, five minutes and one minute

To prepare for third grade, take your child to the library and have them pick out books of interest at their reading level. Continue to read aloud to your child and ask comprehension questions about the text, to see if he or she understands the who, what, where, when, and how of what he or she is reading. If your child is reading nonfiction, you could have him or her pick out interesting facts about the topic.  

Practice math skills at home. In math your child will learn the multiplication tables, how to tell time to the minute, and how to solve problems with fractions. To practice fractions at home you can ask your child to divide fruit such as an apple into fractional parts of halves, thirds, and fourths. You can also have your child divide it into equal shares. For example, if there are ten apples and two people, you can ask, "How many apples does each person receive?" Learning to solve problems in math is a critical skill, and many of the math standards and tests expect children to be able to reason through problems. Also, ask you child to explain to you how he or she got that answer.

 This is an age when children are interested in learning new things. It is an opportune time to teach your child some type of craft.  Not only will your child learn a skill, he or she will learn to use organizational skills, math skills, and reading skills. Each child passes through a range of social, academic, and developmental stages at their own pace.

WELCOME to 3rd Grade! We can't wait to meet you!!