Grade 3 Wiki

Summer Guidelines and Back-to-School Assignment

This wiki/blog is an online resource for both students and families at The Chestnut Hill School. Check the blog to find out what's new in the classroom, browse the calendar for classroom events, or use the links below for access to important wiki pages. Recent changes and the newest posts are linked to the sidebar.

• Reading: Egyptian Unit (Tut Tut, Egypt Game, The Curse of King Tut's Mummy, Mummies in the Morning), Biography ( I Have a Dream The Story Of Martin Luther King by Margaret Davidson)
• Writing: Writing Workshop: process writing, personal narrative, letter writing, factual and imaginative stories, and publishing
• Composition: sentence and paragraph structure
• Grammar: nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns
• Math: A.D.D. Math(Arithmetic Developed Daily), addition and subtraction with regrouping, multiplication and division, place value in whole numbers and decimals, fraction, and measurement and data
• Science: Life in and around the earth's oceans; Electricity: static vs. current electron movement, insulators vs. conductors, circuits; Individual Science Fair Projects: report, poster and display; Use of temperature and light sensors in Robolab and programming Lego vehicle using a sensor as a 'modifier;' construction and programming of a Lego 'snail' using gear trains and program to slow its pace; creatures living in and around the earth's oceans: producing a flip book depicting vertebrate(s) and invertebrate(s) in their habitat; food web
• Physical Education: Spring units: Baseball, Softball, Track & Field, Cooperative Games, and Fitness Activities
• General Music: Rhythm activities, vocal skills: sight-singing and expressive qualities, elements of rhythm and notation, introduction to soprano recorder, and concert preparation
• Art: Spring term: Comic strip making, self-portrait in clay, Georgia O'keefe unit: study of flowers (drawing and painting), complementary colors, hieroglyphic (or other Egypt-related) unit

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