Grade 3

Mrs. Kerry Bruno

Mrs. Diana Lachance

Mrs. Heather Matarese

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Activities for 3rd Graders:

Provide time and a quiet place for silent reading for at least 20 minutes a day

Encourage your child to read books from a series.  Discuss personality and character traits of characters

Use resource and reference materials with your child as questions arise.  Do a search for information with encyclopedias and the Internet

When listening to your child read, listen for fluent reading, tone of voice, attention to punctuation, and structural/contextual clues

Read magazines, newspapers, and other appropriate non-fiction text.  Discuss articles and other current events

Discuss story messages with your child

Write a friendly letter to a pen pal

Persuade your family to do something

Write a paragraph describing your family

Solve number problems and ask your child how they arrived at their answer (show their work)  Look for more than one strategy

Use license plate numbers to compare numbers and create equations

Use flash cards to learn math facts

Use a bathroom scale to weight household objects

Plan a family trip using time to five minutes and use of a set amount of money

Play board games

Cook together and discuss fractions in cooking and meal preparation