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Grade 3

Mrs. Kerry Bruno

Mrs. Jennifer Graham

Mrs. Lynn Sisson

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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

 

Grade 3 Supply List

 

Please have your child bring in the following supplies on the first day of school.

 

1        Three subject WIDE RULED, SPIRAL BOUND notebook

1        Single subject WIDE RULED, SPIRAL BOUND notebook

2        laminated double horizontal pocket folders (no Trapper Keepers- they cannot fit in the desks)

3    large glue sticks

1    white liquid glue bottle

2    boxes of tissues

1   container of disinfecting wipes

Ample supply of sharpened pencils

Hand sharpener with shavings catcher (not battery operated)

1    box of crayons, colored pencils, and markers

1    soft-sided, zippered pencil pouch (no plastic boxes- they cannot fit in the desks)

2    good sized, durable erasers (not pencil toppers)

1    box of addition flash cards (name on outside of box)

1    box of subtraction flash cards (name on outside of box

*  You will be notified around Thanksgiving about purchasing  multiplication and division flash cards

 

Many of the above items will need to be replenished throughout the school year.

 

When the trimester progress report comes home, ask your child what supplies s/he needs to replenish.

 

Thank you for assisting your child in being ready for a successful third grade year,

Mrs. Sisson

Mrs. Lachance

Mrs. Bruno