Third Grade Expectations

• Read with fluency and understanding at appropriate difficulty
• Develop an extensive vocabulary
• Use a variety of strategies to comprehend selections read aloud and selections read independently
• Pass the Third Grade Reading STARR test in order to be promoted to fourth grade
• Know multiplication/division facts through 12
• Use measurement skills in order to determine time, temperature, and length (standard & metric)
• Solve problems by collecting, displaying, and interpreting sets of data
• Apply third grade mathematics in order to solve problems connected to everyday experinces and activities in and out of school.
• Pass the Third Grade Math STARR test
• Compose meaningful  texts applying the knowledge of: grammar, usage, convention (penmenship,puntucation & capitization) and the writing process
• Conduct science investigations which involves the use of the Scientific Process
• Learn and understand about past and present historic figures and gain an appreiciation of  various cultures and communities.