Topics Currently Being Taught

January 2014

READING

   We are learning about biographies.  Students are still expected to read at home nightly.

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Math

    This month, we will finish with area and transition into geometry and then into fractions.  Homework will focus on review skills.

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WRITING

    This month we will write small literary essays.  This is a new unit for third grade.  We will learn how to look at a book and evaluate the different parts to further understand the text.

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GRAMMAR

    In January we will look at prefixes and suffixes.  We will continue to work on context clues, as well as, synonyms and antonyms. 

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SCIENCE

    We will finish our study on fossils this month and will start to learn about magnets.  It is important that they study weekly.

SOCIAL STUDIES

     This month we will study Thurgood Marshall, Lyndon Johnson, and will start working on economics.