April 25 – 29

Important Date:

April 26th- 3rd Grade Field Day

May 10th- 3rd Grade Math STARR Test

May 11th- 3rd Grade Reading STARR Test

May 16th- 3rd Grade Awards – 9am

Math Learning Goals:

3.7D(S)- determine when it is appropriate to use measurements of liquid volume (capacity) or weight

3.7E(S)- determine liquid volume (capacity) or weight using appropriate units and tools

3.9A(S) – Explain the connection between human capital/labor and income

3.9B(S) – Describe the relationship between the availability or scarcity of resources and how that impacts cost

3.9C(S)-identify the costs and benefits of planned and unplanned spending decisions

3.9D(S) – explain that credit is used when wants or needs exceed the ability to pay and that it is the borrower’s responsibility to pay it back to the lender, usually with interest

3.9E(S)-list reasons to save and explain the benefit of a savings plan, including for college

3.9F(S)-identify decisions involving income, spending, saving, credit, and charitable giving

Math Homework:

  • Math Homework will be passed out on Friday, April 29th. It will be due the following Thursday, May 5th.

Science Learning Goals:

TEKS: SCIENCE

3.10A explore how structures and functions of plants and animals allow them to survive in a particular environment; and

3.10 B Investigate and compare how animals and plants undergo a series of orderly changes and their diverse life cycles such as tomato plants, frogs, and ladybugs

April 11 – 15

Important Date:

Thursday, April 14th Easter Party 9:45 (Students can be checked out after party)

Friday, April 15th Student Holiday

Monday, April 18th Student Holiday

Tuesday, April 26th – Third grade field day

Math Learning Goals:

3.8A (R) Summarize a data set with multiple categories using a frequency table, dot plot, pictograph, bar graph with scaled intervals

3.8B (S) Solve one and two- step problems using categorical data represented with a frequency table, dot plot, pictograph, or bar graph with scaled intervals

3.7C(S)- determine the solutions to problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes using pictorial models or tools such as a 15-minute event plus a 30-minute event equals 45 minutes

Math Homework:

  • Math Homework will be passed out on Friday, April 14th. It will be due the following Thursday, April 21st.

Science Learning Goals:

TEKS: SCIENCE

3.9B –  identify and describe the flow of energy in a food chain and predict how changes in a food chain affect the ecosystem such as removal of frogs from a pond or bees from a field; and

April 4th – 8th

Important Date:

April 5th – PTO Paint Event for Intermediate 3:30 (must have signed up for this)

April 4th – 8th – Elementary Book Fair

April 14th – School Party Day (more info to come)

April 15th – Good Friday Holiday

April 18th – Easter Holiday

Math Learning Goals:

3.6C(R)- determine the area of rectangles with whole-number side lengths in problems using multiplication related to the number of rows times the number of unit squares in each row

3.6D(S)- decompose composite figures formed by rectangles into non-overlapping rectangles to determine the area of the original figure using the additive property of area

3.7B(R)- determine the perimeter of a polygon or a missing length when given perimeter and remaining side lengths in problems

Math Homework:

  • Math Homework will be passed out on Friday, April 8th. It will be due the following Thursday, April 14th.
  • Please study your multiplication facts (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10).  We will have a Mad Minute on Thursday, April 7th. Students will have one minute to solve 30 multiplication facts. This is not for a grade. We will set goals each week to improve fact fluency.

Science Learning Goals:

3.9A – observe and describe the physical characteristics of environments and how they support populations and communities of plants and animals within an ecosystem;