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: 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:
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Writing for Reports
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Expressive Writing
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Editing and Rewriting
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Gather, Analyze, Apply Information and Ideas (dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and trade books)
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Figurative Language (personification, simile, metaphor)
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Make and Explain Predictions
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Main and Supporting Details
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Use Types of Communication (Fairy tales, letters, personal narratives)
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Identify Problem or Goal of Main Character
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Decoding Strategies to Figure Out Unknown Words
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Pre-reading Strategies
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Recognizing Text Features
Math:
- Addition and Subtraction Skills
- Regrouping and Renaming
- Basic Multiplication and Division facts
- Solving and Estimating Skills
- Measuring (length, capacity, weight, area, volume, time, temperature, and angle)
- Fractions (addition)
- Perimeter
- Area
- Volume
- Basic Geometry
- Mental Computation
- Place Value
Science:
- Scientific Inquiry
- Investigating States of Matter
- Life Science
- Plants
- Food chains
- Scientific Tools (Thermometers, microscopes, balanced scales, etc.)
Social Studies: (Michigan)
- Map Study
- Government
- Economics
- 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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