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January: What is Grade 3 is studying?
ELA: Unit of Study: Culture and China
Essential Question: How does culture affect the way people live and work in China?
- Students will read nonfiction text and fiction stories to answer the question: What is culture?
- Students will read nonfiction text and fiction stories to learn about the geography, culture and natural resources affect the way people live and work in China.
Big Idea:
Students understand that factors such as culture impact where and how people live.
Students understand that readers use a variety of strategies and skills to understand complex text.
Resources:
China: People and Culture
Writing: Informative Writing
- Students will use the writing process and 6+1 Traits of Writing to share their research on culture including cultural recipes.
- Students will use the writing process and 6+1 Traits of Writing to share their research on topics related to the culture of China.
Go Math!:
Chapter 4: Students will learn strategies for solving multiplication facts.
- Use arrays to model products and factors
- Model multiplication with factors or 1 and 0
- Use the Associative, Distributive, and Commutative Properties of Multiplication
- Use various multiplication strategies to multiply with factors 2 – 10
- Solve multiplication problems by using the strategy make a table and draw a diagram
Chapter 6: Students will explore and understand division.
- Solve division problems by using the strategy act it out
- Use models to explore the meaning or partitive and quotative division
- Model division by using equal groups, bar models, and arrays
- Use repeated subtraction and a number line to relate subtraction and division
- Understand multiplication and division as inverse operations
Common Core Learning Standards:
3.OA.A.2 - Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 56 ÷ 8 as the number of objects in each share when 56 objects are partitioned equally into 8 shares, or as a number of shares when 56 objects are partitioned into equal shares of 8 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a number of shares or a number of groups can be expressed as 56 ÷ 8.
3.OA.A.3 - Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
3.OA.B.5 - Apply properties of operations as strategies to multiply and divide. Examples: If 6 × 4 = 24 is known, then 4 × 6 = 24 is also known. (Commutative property of multiplication.) 3 × 5 × 2 can be found by 3 × 5 = 15, then 15 × 2 = 30, or by 5 × 2 = 10, then 3 × 10 = 30. (Associative property of multiplication.) Knowing that 8 × 5 = 40 and 8 × 2 = 16, one can find 8 × 7 as 8 × (5 + 2) = (8 × 5) + (8 × 2) = 40 + 16 = 56. (Distributive property.)
3.OA.B.6 - Understand division as an unknown-factor problem. For example, find 32 ÷ 8 by finding the number that makes 32 when multiplied by 8.
3.OA.C.7 - Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.
3.OA.D.8 - Solve two-step word problems using the four operations. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.
3.OA.D.9 - Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table), and explain them using properties of operations. For example, observe that 4 times a number is always even, and explain why 4 times a number can be decomposed into two equal addends.
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Grade 3 Homework, What to expect?
Homework is a crucial part of your child's active learning process and essential to their academic progress. Please make sure that all homework is completed daily.
- Remember, you are there to support your child's learning, but homework needs to be completed by your child.
- Remember to sign your child's homework every day!
Grade 3 Homework is as follows:
Reading Log:- Students should be reading at home for 30 minutes a night. Please have them record their book on the reading log. Parents should initial each night. Reading logs are collected and replaced when they are full.
- Coming soon - students will be expected to write reading responses based on the books they are reading for homework. The specific assignments should stay in their homework folders.
Math:- Students will receive daily math homework from the Go Math Student Edition.
- Every day your child should be studying their multiplication facts by using Reflex math.