Welcome to Third Grade!

3rd Grade Teachers for 2022/2023 School Year
 3-312 Ms. Velasquez      3/4-414 Mr. SantoStefano         3-317 Mr. Cercone and Mrs. Szalkowski   
​3-318 Mrs. Alvarez   3-319 Mrs. O'Connor and Ms. Ahmed     
Dear Parents and Students,
In the third grade we have been working on Informational writing and topics that children are experts at.  They will publish an informational piece.  We are continuing to read non fiction books and now a focus on biographies. In math we continue to focus on multiplication and the different strategies to solve problems, including repeated addition, skip counting and distributive property with arrays.
In social studies we are starting Nigeria and gathering facts about that country. Science is a focus on magnets and forces.


Sincerely,
The Third Grade Teachers 

Third Grade Expectations for November
Work Habits
  1. Students must be able to complete the morning routine in 15 minutes.
  2. Students must be prepared with materials such as sharpened pencils, correct books, and previous night’s homework.
  3. Homework must be monitored by an adult, but completed by the child.
  4. Students must be responsible for packing and unpacking their backpacks at school and at home.  Students must be able to follow 3 step instructions, orally.
  5. Students must be reading independently at home for at least 20 minutes a day.
Reading
  1. Students must be reading at a level N independently and be able to answer basic comprehension questions.
  2. Students must be able to form ideas about characters and be able to support their ideas with evidence from the text.
  3. Students must be able to form an inference about a character and support that inference with evidence from the text.
Writing
  1. Students must be able to write a 5 sentence paragraph with a main idea (topic) sentence, 3 detail sentences, and a closing sentence that summarizes the main idea.
  2. Students must include capital letters for beginning sentences and proper nouns and proper punctuation.  Paragraphs must begin with an indent.
  3. Students must know all sight words up to third grade level.
  4. Students must be able to write a personal narrative with a clear beginning, middle and end.
Suggested Third Grade Reading List
Choose from the list of series books below:
Judy Moody 
A-Z Mysteries Ramona
Flat Stanley 
Magic Tree House 
Ghostville Elementary 
Horrible Harry 
Boxcar Children 
Jigsaw Jones 
​The Littles