During 3rd grade, students will read fluently and with expression, as well as practice a variety of strategies for reading and writing with confidence. Your child will:

• Use different strategies to read unknown words and words that have many syllables;

• Listen to, read, talk and write about fiction and nonfiction using clues from the text to help make sense of and analyze what they have read;

• Practice writing various types of products, including opinion pieces, informational products and stories using evidence to support points and ideas;

• Speak and write appropriately using parts of speech, capitalization and punctuation, as well as language that shows a growing vocabulary; and

• Use print and digital resources to clarify pronunciation, spelling and meaning.

During 3rd grade, students will develop the ability to multiply and divide up to 100 and add and subtract up to 1,000 using place value and properties of operations. Your child will:

• Represent and solve problems using multiplication and division;

• Have a variety of experiences with fractions to prepare for 4th grade;

• Use rounding to estimate answers for addition and subtraction problems in order to decide if an answer makes sense;

• Solve problems involving measurement; and

• Understand and apply the statistics process.

During 3rd grade, your child will be an active learner who will be doing science to learn science. They will learn skills that promote analysis and interpretation of data, critical thinking and problem solving similar to professionals in the field while making connections across the different areas of science to develop a deeper understanding of the science concepts. Your child will:

• Describe climates in different regions of the world and natural hazards that may occur due to the climate;

• Look at life cycles of different organisms and understand that organisms have different traits inherited from parents;

• Develop an understanding of the idea that when the environment changes some organisms survive and reproduce, some move to new locations, some move into the changed environment, and some die;

• Determine the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object; and

• Identify cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

In 3rd grade, students will apply the idea of community globally, understanding the impact of human interaction between groups on different continents. Your child will:

• Illustrate the relationship between supply and demand;

• Explain the basic purposes and functions of different governing bodies in the world while comparing how diverse societies govern themselves;

• Compare their local community to diverse world communities in terms of members, customs and traditions, while explaining how world events impact Kentucky; and

• Investigate how communities work together.