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Dear Parents and Students,
It has been a pure pleasure serving your children at Madison Academy. Thank you for all the love and support you gave me in my departure. You and your families will be forever in my heart. Please keep in touch.
Love, Mandy Schwerin
 
 
Spelling words can be found at www.superteacherworksheets.com .This week's words are list #19. List #2 is list #19 with the fourth grade words.
 
 
  
Spelling:  Dolch Sight Words

http://www.kidzone.ws/dolch/grade3.htm

 

Handwriting:  Practice Cursive Writing

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/letters/cursiveall.shtml

 

Reading:  Read 20 minutes per day

http://kids.nypl.org/reading/recommended2.cfm?ListID=62

 

Science: Read Science Books

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_3rd_science.htm

 

Social Studies:  Use the map of Michigan to locate important places

Study the history of Michigan

 
Math:  Study the Mulitplication Table

 

Writing:  Start a Journal, record observations, and write summer memories

http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html

 

 

English/ Language Arts:
  1. Writing for Reports
  2. Expressive Writing
  3. Editing and Rewriting
  4. Gather, Analyze, Apply Information and Ideas (dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and trade books)
  5. Figurative Language (personification, simile, metaphor)
  6. Make and Explain Predictions
  7. Main and Supporting Details
  8. Use Types of Communication (Fairy tales, letters, personal narratives)
  9. Identify Problem or Goal of Main Character
  10. Decoding Strategies to Figure Out Unknown Words
  11. Pre-reading Strategies
  12. Recognizing Text Features

 

Math:

  1. Addition and Subtraction Skills
  2. Regrouping and Renaming
  3. Basic Multiplication and Division facts
  4. Solving and Estimating Skills
  5. Measuring (length, capacity, weight, area, volume, time, temperature, and angle)
  6. Fractions (addition)
  7. Perimeter
  8. Area
  9. Volume
  10. Basic Geometry
  11. Mental Computation
  12. Place Value

Science:

  1. Scientific Inquiry
  2. Investigating States of Matter
  3. Life Science
  4. Plants
  5. Food chains
  6. Scientific Tools (Thermometers, microscopes, balanced scales, etc.)
 Social Studies: (Michigan)
  1. Map Study
  2. Government
  3. Economics
  4. Historical Events: Importance of Individuals to Family, Community, and Country

 

 
 
  • Attached to my website are the grade level expectations for 3rd grade. Each poster describes what children are expected to know and be able to do in third grade.  The knowledge and skills described on the poster reflect the ISD-wide curriculum, the Michigan Curriculum Framework and the Michigan Grade and Course Level Expectations.

 

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  • 3rd_grade_ela_poster.pdf - on Jun 15, 2009 8:17 AM by Mandy Schwerin (version 1)
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  • 3rd_grade_math_poster.pdf - on Jun 15, 2009 8:18 AM by Mandy Schwerin (version 1)
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  • 3rd_grade_science_poster.pdf - on Jun 15, 2009 8:18 AM by Mandy Schwerin (version 1)
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  • 3rd_grade_ss_poster.pdf - on Jun 15, 2009 8:18 AM by Mandy Schwerin (version 1)
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