Important Dates
May 13th – 3rd Field Day
May 20th – 3rd Awards
May 22nd – Last Day for Students
TEKS: MATH
REVIEW
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
REVIEW
TEKS: SCIENCE
3.10B – investigate and compare how animals and plants undergo a series of orderly changes in their diverse life cycles such as tomato plants, frogs, and lady beetles.
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can investigate and compare the life cycles of plants.
Important Dates
May 13th – 3rd Field Day
May 20th – 3rd Awards
May 22nd – Last Day for Students
TEKS: MATH
REVIEW
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
REVIEW
TEKS: SCIENCE
3.10B – investigate and compare how animals and plants undergo a series of orderly changes in their diverse life cycles such as tomato plants, frogs, and lady beetles.
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can investigate and compare the life cycles of plants.
Important Dates
April 23rd – Third Grade STAAR Math
May 13th – 3rd Field Day
May 20th – 3rd Awards
May 22nd – Last Day for Students
TEKS: MATH
REVIEW
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
REVIEW
TEKS: SCIENCE
3.7B – investigate rapid changes in Earth’s surface such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and landslides;
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can investigate rapid changes in Earth’s surface such as volcano eruptions, earthquakes and landslides.
Important Dates
April 19th- Class Pictures
April 23rd – Third Grade STAAR Math
May 13th – 3rd Field Day
May 20th – 3rd Awards
May 22nd – Last Day for Students
TEKS: MATH
3.4F – recall facts to multiply up to 10 by 10 with automaticity and recall the corresponding division facts;
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can recall my multiplication facts.
TEKS: SCIENCE
3.6B – demonstrate and observe how position and motion can be changed by pushing and pulling objects such as swings, balls, and wagons; and
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can demonstrate how position and motion can be changed by pushing and pulling objects.
I can observe how position and motion can be changed by pushing and pulling objects.
Important Dates
Monday, April 8th – Eclipse viewing – wear red or green
Tuesday, April 9th – Third Grade STAAR Reading
Tuesday, April 23rd – Third Grade STAAR Math
TEKS: MATH
3.4F – recall facts to multiply up to 10 by 10 with automaticity and recall the corresponding division facts;
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can recall my multiplication facts.
NO math homework this week. Study your facts and be prepared for reading STAAR.
TEKS: SCIENCE
3.10A – explore how structures and functions of plants and animals allow them to survive in a particular environment;
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can explore how structures and functions of plants allow them to survive in a particular environment.
I can explore how structures and functions of animals allow them to survive in a particular environment.
Important Dates
March 29th & April 1st – School holidays
April 4th – Spring Pictures
April 9th – Third Grade STAAR Reading
April 23rd – Third Grade STAAR Math
TEKS: MATH
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
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can determine when to use units of weight or liquid volume.
I can determine liquid volume.
I can determine the weight of an object.
TEKS: SCIENCE
3.10A – explore how structures and functions of plants and animals allow them to survive in a particular environment; and
Important Dates
March 28th – Easter party at 10:15am
March 29th & April 1st – School holidays
April 4th – Spring Pictures
April 9th – Third Grade STAAR Reading
April 23rd – Third Grade STAAR Math
TEKS: MATH
3.9A Explain the connection between human capital/labor and income.
3.9B Describe the relationship between the availability or scarcity of resources and how that impacts cost.
3.9C Identify the costs and benefits of planned and unplanned spending decisions.
3.9D 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 List reasons to save and explain the benefits of a savings plan, including for college.
3.9F Identify decisions involving income, spending, saving, credit, and charitable giving.
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can explain the connections between work and income, education and income, and effort and income.
I can explain the connections between the number of people working together and production and income.
I can explain how human capital can benefit the employer and the company.
I can describe how availability or scarcity of a resource can impact its cost.
I can identify how planned expenses affect people.
I can identify how unplanned expenses affect people.
I can explain why and how credit is used.
I can list reasons to save money.
I can explain the benefits of saving and making a plan to save money.
I can explain how saving affects people.
I can determine when financial decisions involve income.
I can determine when financial decisions involve spending.
I can determine when financial decisions involve saving.
I can determine when financial decisions involve credit.
I can determine when financial decisions involve charitable giving.
TEKS: SCIENCE
3.9C – describe environmental changes such as floods and droughts where some organisms thrive and others perish or move to new locations.
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can describe environmental changes and how they affect organisms.
Important Dates
March 11th-15th – SPRING BREAK
March 21st – PTO paint party
March 21st – Report cards coming home
March 28th – Easter party at 10:15am
March 29th & April 1st – School holidays
TEKS: MATH
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
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can use tools and models to add intervals of time to solve problems.
I can use tools and models to subtract intervals of time to solve problems.
TEKS: SCIENCE
3.9B (R)- 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
3.4A – collect, record, and analyze information using tools, including cameras, computers, hand lenses, metric rulers, Celsius thermometers, wind vanes, rain gauges, pan balances, graduated cylinders, beakers, spring scales, hot plates, meter sticks, magnets, collecting nets, notebooks, and Sun, Earth, and Moon system models; timing devices; and materials to support observation of habitats of organisms such as terrariums and aquariums.
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can identify the flow of energy in a food chain and predict how changes will affect the ecosystem.
I can describe the flow of energy in a food chain and predict how changes will affect the ecosystem.
Important Dates
March 11th-15th – SPRING BREAK
March 21st – PTO paint party
March 21st – Report cards coming home
March 28th – Easter party at 10:15am
March 29th & April 1st – School holidays
TEKS: MATH
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
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can determine the area of rectangles, using multiplication.
I can determine the area of a composite figure.
I can determine the area of composite figures with missing side lengths.
I can determine the perimeter of a polygon.
I can determine the missing length of a side of a polygon.
TEKS: SCIENCE
3.A (R) observe and describe the physical characteristics of environments and how they support populations and communities of plants and animals within an ecosystem;
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can observe the physical characteristics of the environment and how they support populations and communities of plants and animals within an ecosystem.
I can describe the physical characteristics of the environment and how they support populations and communities of plants and animals within an ecosystem.
Important Dates
Wednesday, Feb. 28th – Early release at 11:30am
TEKS: MATH
3.6A – (R)- Classify and sort two- and three-dimensional figures, including cones, cylinders, spheres, triangular and rectangular prisms, and cubes, based on attributes using formal geometric language
3.6B – (S)- Use attributes to recognize rhombuses, parallelograms, trapezoids, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories
3.6E- (S)- decompose two congruent two‐dimensional figures into parts with equal areas and express the area of each part as a unit fraction of the whole and recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can classify and sort two-dimensional figures based on their attributes.
I can classify and sort three-dimensional figures based on their attributes.
I can use attributes to recognize quadrilaterals and triangles.
I can draw nonexamples of quadrilaterals and triangles.
I can decompose a shape into parts with equal areas.
I can explain that equal parts do not have to be the same shape.
TEKS: SCIENCE
3.A (R) observe and describe the physical characteristics of environments and how they support populations and communities of plants and animals within an ecosystem;
STUDENT-FRIENDLY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
I can observe the physical characteristics of environment and how they support populations and communities of plants and animals within an ecosystem.
I can describe the physical characteristics of environment and how they support populations and communities of plants and animals within an ecosystem.