Third Grade Blog

Math Third Graders finished the year learning about points, lines, angles, vertices, and different types of shapes, including open plane figures and closed plane figures. Our students also learned the different properties of five different types of quadrilaterals such as rectangles, squares, rhombuses, parallelograms, and trapezoids. We also finished up the year reviewing important concepts from earlier in the year such as adding and subtracting fractions, multi-digit subtraction with regrouping, and multi-digit multiplication. It’s been a wonderful year for our third grade mathematicians. I’m very proud of their growth and work. Have a great summer; we will miss you!

Music Third Graders sang and played “Don’t Worry Be Happy” and “Lava” before saying goodbye to their ukuleles this week. In the last couple of weeks, they have also been examining the power and meaning of the musical underscoring of animations. And for fun, they have been reading and playing body rhythms to some of their favorite songs. General Studies What a class of performers we have! The third graders have been hard at work practicing their lines for the third grade play. They practiced reading slow, loud, and clear, and also using emotions and hand movements to deliver their... Read More

Music In Music, Third Graders have been hard at work practicing songs they have chosen for their upcoming ukulele concert. They have also been practicing the Eerie Canal Song, which they are looking forward to sharing with you at their end-of-year celebration. Writing and Reading We have begun writing our very own adaptations of Cinderella. We have been reading and studying many adaptations of different fairytales to learn what changes authors make and why. We have read many adaptations that represent different cultures such as The Golden Sandal, a Middle Eastern adaptation, and Cendrillon, a Caribbean adaptation. As the third... Read More

Social Studies and Reading Transport yourself back, way back, to the 1600s when New York was inhabited by Dutch colonists. Manhattan was named New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland. This is what we have been learning about in social studies. Who were the Dutch colonists? What was their way of life? We have been reading and researching the different director-generals who impacted how New Netherland was run, promoted slave trade, and their relationships with the Native Americans who originally inhabited the land. We have studied the colonial fashions, and how clothing can give us other information about how a... Read More

Social Studies The past few weeks we have reviewed what we have learned about the Hudson river, and now are learning more about who it is named for. We have been delving into the Age of Exploration, focusing in on Henry Hudson. Third graders have discussed the benefits and challenges of exploring during that time, the English and Dutch rivalry, and the effects European explorers had on the Native American tribes who were settled along the Hudson river. We have studied maps and all four of Henry Hudson’s routes to find the northwest passage to Asia. Over the weekend, research... Read More