SPRING 2015 NEWSLETTER
Dear Parents/Guardians,
Take a look at what your child is learning throughout the spring months! Please notice the Common Core
Standards and the NJ Core Content Standards. We are busy bees!
Third Grade Language Arts Literacy
Common Core Standard
Activities
CC W.3.7: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
CC W.3.1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view
with reasons.
CC SL. 3.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussion (one-onone, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and
texts, building on other’s ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CC Sl.3.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with
appropriate facts and relevant descriptive details, speaking clearly at and
understandable pace.
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Writing research reports on influential individuals
Presenting research reports at 3rd grade writing celebration
Writing opinion pieces on a given topic
Reading buddies/groups to complete comprehension tasks using a
given text
Third Grade Mathematics
Common Core Standard
Activities
CC 3.MD.2: Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using
standard units of grams, kilograms, and liters. Add, subtract, multiply or divide
to solve one-step word problems involving masses or volumes that are given in
the same units, e.g., by using drawings to represent the problem.
CC 3.MD.3: Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a
data set with several categories. Solve one-and two-step “how many more” and
“how many less” problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs.
CC 3.MD.4: Generate measurements data by measuring lengths using rulers
marked with halves and fourths of an inch. Show the data by making a line plot,
where the horizontal scale is marked off in whole numbers, halves, or quarters.
CC 3.MD.3.G.1: Understand that shapes in different categories many share
attributes and that the shared attributes can define a larger category.
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EnVisions workbook and textbook practice pages
“Geometry Monster” project
Collect data and create bar graphs, pictographs, and line plots.
Solving word problems (one- and two-step)
Third Grade Science
NJ Core Content Standard
Activities
NJ CC5.4.4.G.1: Explain how clouds form.
NJ CC 5.4.4.G.3: Trace a path a drop of water might follow through the water
cycle.
NJ CC 5.2.2.A.2: Identify common objects as solids, liquids, or gas
NJ CC 5.2.4.B.1: Predict and explain what happens when a common substance,
such as shortening or candle wax is heated to melting then cooled to a solid.
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Create a diagram of the water cycle
Research three types of clouds
Sort objects into categories (solids, liquids, gasses)
Look at objects and tell whether they can have a chemical change.
Third Grade Social Studies
Standard
Activities
NJ CC 6.1.4.D.1: Determine the impact of European colonization on Native
American population, including the Lenni Lenape of New Jersey.
NJ CC 6.1.4.D.10: Describe how the influence of Native American groups,
including the Lenni Lenape culture, is manifested in different regions of New
Jersey.
NJ CC 6.1.4.B.5: Describe how human interaction impacts the environment in
New Jersey and the United States.
NJ CC 6.1.4.B.10: Identify the major cities in New Jersey and United States and
explain how maps, globes, and tools can be used to understand cultural
differences.
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Create a writing piece on how the Europeans influenced the
Lenape Indians’ lives
Create a journal entry pretending to be a Lenape Indian, and
discussing various roles
Label and identify major cities and counties of New Jersey on a
map
Third Grade Technology
NJ Core Content Standard
NJ CC 8.1.4.A.2: Create a document with text formatting and graphics using a
word processing program
NJ CC 8.1.4.A.3: Create a present a multimedia presentation that includes
graphics
NJ CC 8.1.4.A.5: Determine the benefits of a wide range of digital tools by using
them to solve problems
NJ CC 8.1.4.B.1 Produce a media rich digital story about an event or issue
Activities
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Use word documents to complete writing prompts and newsletter
Use Powerpoint or presentation program to display information
about a country in New Jersey
Measuring Up program test preparation