Sally Raichle

Third Grade

Third grade is the transition to the intermediate grades. Students learn to organize their work to meet long-term goals such as research projects and assignments integrating several academic areas. 

Comprehension is the emphasis in reading with a multidisciplinary connection of creative writing, science, and art to further extend concepts.  Core areas of math covered in third grade are estimation, place value, measurement, time, money, geometry, fractions, patterns, probability, word problems, graphs and tables, and computation with an emphasis on the introduction of multiplication and division.

 Third graders are forming their own ideas about their world and love to discuss their feelings.  So we spend time sharing ideas, original stores and poems, and reactions to events in order to build confidence and to practice expressing our thoughts.