Welcome to Third Grade!

3rd Grade Teachers for 2021/2022 School Year
3-319 Mrs. O'Connor       3/4-414 Mr. SantoStefano         3-315 Ms. Lee         3-317 Mr. Cercone and Mrs. Szalkowski   
​3-318 Mrs. Alvarez        3-312 Ms. Velasquez
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.

Mathematics
1. Students must be able to add and subtract basic facts mentally without manipulatives.
2. Students must do column addition/subtracting with regrouping.
3. Students must tell time, to the minute.
4. Students must round numbers to the nearest ten and hundred.
5. Students must identify key words signaling adding and subtracting.
6. Students must read and write a number to the thousands place.
7. Students should begin memorizing times tables 0-5 and 10 and be able to draw arrays.
8. Students must be able to read and interpret data using graphs and tables.
9. Students must be able to solve multi-step story problems, showing their work and explaining.
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
Math Practice
Please make sure that your child practices addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts this summer. IXL is a great resource to practice math skills.
  • Your child should work on the following skills before entering the third grade:
  • Memorize ALL addition and subtraction facts
  • Practice multiplication facts
  • Subtract with regrouping
  • Tell time to the nearest hour, half-hour and five minutes
  • Identify simple fractions