Grade Three Team
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Click Here or on the picture to visit Mrs. Norton's class page.
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Click Here or on the picture to visit Ms. Rybak's class page.
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Click here or on the picture to visit Ms. Hawk's class page.
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Click here or on the picture to visit Mrs. Garry's class page.
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Click here to visit Mrs. O'Connor's class page.
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HCS Grade 3 Information
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During a typical third grade day, children will spend about two and a half hours on language arts (reading, language, spelling, writing, and speaking). Through extensive experience with language students develop literary appreciation and communications skills. Students are encouraged to reflect, probe, analyze, interpret and evaluate as they engage in the various elements of language arts. Since reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing are keys to thinking and learning, instruction in the language arts is integrated into all disciplines. |
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Students spend approximately an hour each day on developing math skills. We are actively engaging students in problem solving, reasoning, and communicating mathematically. Approximately three-quarters of an hour each day is spent on social studies or science/health. During the week students will have a class period of physical education, music (vocal and the recorder), library, art, and computer. Please visit our classroom web pages to see some of our exciting programs in action. |
Language Arts
| Students begin the year in language arts learning about entertaining beginnings. Next, they learn about adding details to their stories and stretching out the main events. After cooking up some great endings, the class will move on to writing complete stories. Students will be brought through the entire writing process with samples of well written stories and story parts as a guide. |
Science
| In science, students will learn about Ideas and Inventions. You may want to ask your child if he/she has invented anything lately in class. Third grade students also investigate human systems. In the human body unit, children learn about bones, muscles, and joints. In addition, our science curriculum covers rocks and minerals. Students keep a field book as they explore different types of rocks (metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous) and minerals such as quartz, graphite, sulfur, and diamonds.
Check out this link for some fun science activities: http://sv.berkeley.edu |
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Social Studies
| Social studies focuses on comparing cultures from around the world to our community here in Burlington and Harwinton. Children learn about life in Japan and Kenya while making comparisons to life in the United States. Students also learn about the seven continents and the four oceans.
Here are some fun websites for Japan that you can explore with your child:
Math In third grade students begin focusing on multiplication and division. There are two models that we use for multiplication: equal groups and rectangles. Many things come in equal groups: shoes, bicycle wheels, and cans of soda are some examples. The rectangle model is also used for area. We see this often in tiles on a floor and when objects are arranged in rows and columns. When we begin to connect multiplication and division, students will be sorting objects into equal piles and sectioning objects into equal pieces. A good model for division is sharing food. Pieces of cereal can be sorted into groups. A pizza can be cut into equal pieces. As students gain an understanding of the concepts of multiplication and division, they will begin to memorize the basic facts. Students can play fact games using dice or cards, or practice using computer software or Internet games. One great math site is http://www.aaamath.com |
