Third Grade 

Welcome to third grade at Belvedere Elementary.

The assignment book is a valuable link between school and home. Please review the assignments each day with your child.

In addition to homework on Monday through Thursday, there will be periodic projects assigned in Science, Social Studies, Math, or Language Arts.

Practice writing at home. The students write to express personal ideas, to persuade, and to inform.

Open Court Reading Program

Designed to…

< Develop confident and fluent readers through print and phonemic awareness activities and explicit phonics instruction

< Engage students in constructing meaning through the teaching of reading comprehension skills and strategies

Grade 3 Goals

Students will...

< Review phonics knowledge and skills developed in first grade.

< Continue to work on developing fluency and learning new vocabulary.

< Read fiction and non-fiction selections organized around concepts from across the curriculum.

< Refine writing skills to communicate knowledge.

< Pursue personal and collaborative inquiry through study and research.

Units of Study - Language Arts

Friendship
Money
City
Wildlife 
Storytelling
Imagination 
Country Life

Units of Study - Math

Place Value & Money
Addition & Subtraction Number Sense
Adding & Subtracting
Time, Data & Graphs
Multiplication Concepts & Facts
Division Concepts and Facts
Geometry & Measurement
Fractions & Measurement
Decimals & Measurement
Multiplying & Dividing Greater Numbers
Measurement & Probability

Unit of Study - Social Studies 

Concepts of Economics
Native Americans
Anne Arundel County Government
Maps and Globes 

Unit of Study - Science 

Materials
Bodies in the Sky
Energy and Forces
Living Things: Keeping Healthy
Natural Resources 

Administration

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