Cash Elementary

Third grade is a time for your child to become independent and responsible learners.

Parents can foster this by stepping back and keeping an eye on your child’s progress as they are gaining independence. Students are held accountable to mastery of skills, and progress is scored using the 10-point grading scale.

Over the summer, students should READ, READ, READ!!!  Here are some other things you can encourage them to do:

• Fluently add and subtract
• Keep a journal using complete sentences / paragraphs.
• Spelling of high frequency words
• Concept of time - hour, half-hour, quarter-hour
• Practice legible manuscript writing on wide-ruled notebook paper recognizing margins

Below is an overview of what you can expect your child to learn in third grade:

 Mathematics

• Multiplication
• Division
• Graphing
• Fractions
• Addition and Subtraction (Please practice regrouping)
• Mass and Volume (liquid)
• Telling time and elapsed time
• Time to one minute, five minutes, half-hour, quarter-hour
• Multi-step Word Problems
• Area and Perimeter
• Geometry
• Quadrilaterals

Reading

• Nonfiction and Fiction Texts
• Informational Text
• Answer questions using evidence from the text

 Writing

• Narrative Writing
• Opinion/Persuasive Writing
• Explanatory Writing

 Science

• Human Body Systems
• Skin
• Muscles
• Bones
• Solar System
• Plants and Seeds
• Force and Motion
• Matter

 Social Studies

• Communities
• How communities change over time
• Economics
• Local government
• Five themes of government

Testing - Third grade begins more serious testing.

• BOG (beginning of grade) test using third grade standards given the first ten days of school.   Third graders need a score of 439 and/or a level P in TRC to achieve promotion to fourth grade. New to third grade will be end of quarter testing.