Third Grade Team

• Ms. Foy

• Mrs. Pierce

• Mrs. Stokes

Resources:

Third grade Dolch Sight Word List

By the end of third grade, you can expect your child to:

• Work cooperatively and productively with other children in small groups to complete projects

• Understand how choices affect consequences

• Become more organized and logical in her thinking processes

• Build stronger friendships

• Be helpful, cheerful, and pleasant as well as rude, bossy, selfish, and impatient

• Be more influenced by peer pressure because friends are very important at this stage

• Like immediate rewards for behavior

• Be able to copy from a chalkboard

• Be able to write neatly in cursive because the small muscles of the hand have developed

• Read longer stories and chapter books with expression and comprehension

• Use prefixes, suffixes, and root words and other strategies to identify unfamiliar words

• Multiply single- and multi-digit numbers

• Divide multi-digit numbers by one-digit numbers

• Tell time to the half-hour and quarter-hour and to five minutes and one minute