Third Grade

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Develop an awareness and appreciation of many artists and cultures from historical and aesthetic perspectives
• Express ideas in varied media such as painting, clay, printmaking, mixed media, drawing, and textile/fibers
• Use lines to divide space and create shapes
• Recognize warm and cool colors and uses them to express feelings in their own artwork
• Identify similar shapes and uses them to unify a work of art
• Express their own creative ideas in both two-and-three dimensional work
• Add texture to artwork to make surfaces more interesting or realistic

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning these about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Use word solving strategies to read accurately
• Demonstrate the meaning of words and phrases encountered in a text
• Read and comprehend literature and informational text
• Write clearly for a variety of purposes and audiences

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Respect and understand personal safety, peers safety, and classroom safety
• Understand growth and development
• Understand and practice disease control and prevention
• Understand Drug Use and Abuse

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Solve real world problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
• Display and interpret data using a variety of graphs and charts with different scales
• Use tools to measure length, time, and money
• Read, write, represent, compare, and order numbers up to 100,000 with an emphasis on place value and equality
• Use flexible number strategies to add, subtract, multiply, and divide

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Apply reading skills to meet individual needs
• Select and use appropriate technology for educational and personal goals
• Analyze information in electronic and print media
• Use a variety of productivity tools to communicate
• Follow a systemic research process
• Recognize ethical practice in a global society

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Sing a variety of songs tunefully
• Read and notate music
• Sing and read pentatonic scales and songs
• Identify and perform rhythm patterns including sixteenth notes
• Improvise rhythms, melodies, and accompaniments on classroom instruments
• Create, perform, and listen to music
• Value and appreciate music
• Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Know the benefits of physical activity
• Contribute to a team effort
• Play by the rules
• Demonstrate locomotor movements: start, stop, walk, run, hop, jump, skip, gallop
• Demonstrate manipulation skills: catch, throw, pass, shoot, striking
• Move in various directions: forward, backward, sideways
• Move at varying speeds: slow, fast, increasing, decreasing
• Develop a positive self-image and attitude
• Practice good sportsmanship in success and failure
• Listen and follow directions
• Evaluate personal fitness levels

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics:

• Nature and Science of Engineering
• Astronomy
• Light
• Habitats

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics:

• Citizenship: Inventions and Early Rochester
• Economics: Using Money and Making Choices
• Geography: Maps and Landforms
• History: Ancient Civilizations (Egyptian, Chinese and Roman)
• The US Constitution: Laws and Rights of our Country