Third grade is a very exciting year filled with many adventures and much learning.

Among the many things your child will learn this year are:

• Read and understand a range of materials such asmagazines, poetry, and plays.
• Read 25 books for entertainment and information.
• Tell the setting, characters, problems and solutionsafter reading a book.
• Write paragraphs and stories.
• Write letters, announcements, and news stories.
• Give and follow directions that involved several stepssuch as baking cookies or going home from school.
• Use cursive handwriting.
• Organize mathematical information using pictures andcharts.
• Create graphs and tables and use them to drawconclusions and make predictions.
• Read, write, and compare numbers to 1 million.
• Use concrete objects or diagrams to solve problemsinvolving mathematics, arrangements or routes.
• Add and subtract 3 digit numbers without carryingnumbers.
• Learn multiplication through twelve.
• Divide objects into equal fractional parts.
• Add decimals to the hundredths place.
• Create new patterns and complete existing ones.
• Describe 2 and 3 dimensional shapes.
• Recognize and use a growing number of words in reading, writing and speaking.