New+Third+Graders

Online Games:

 * [|All subject-area game links]
 * [|Destination Success] (Reading and Math enrichment)

Skills:

 * [|Cursive practice sheets 1]
 * [|Cursive practice sheets 2]
 * 1000 Sight words to know (you should be able to read each sheet in ONE minute or less with ZERO mistakes!)
 * [|First Hundred sight words.pdf]
 * [|Second Hundred sight words.pdf]
 * [|Third Hundred sight words.pdf]
 * [|Fourth Hundred sight word.pdf]
 * [|Fifth Hundred sight words.pdf]
 * [|Sixth Hundred sight words.pdf]
 * [|Seventh Hundred sight words.pdf]
 * [|Eighth Hundred sight words.pdf]
 * [|Ninth Hundred sight words.pdf]
 * [|Tenth Hundred sight words.pdf]

Reading:

 * Read EVERY Day for at least 30 minutes: Students tend to drop levels upon returning to school due to the fact that they often read less over the break. Don’t let this happen! Don’t forget that books on CD (available at the library and only effective if they follow along in the book!
 * [|Summer Reading Incentives]
 * [|Reading Comprehension practice 1]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Reading Comprehension practice 2]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Writing:

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Writing Prompt Ideas]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Writing Journal Topics]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Math:

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Review 2nd Grade skills]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|New 3rd Grade skills]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Summer Flash Cards.pdf] (print front/back)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Science:
**__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Habits of a Good Mathematician __**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Science Websites for Kids]
 * [|Experiments for Kids]
 * [|PBS Kids activities]
 * [|Easy Kids projects]
 * [|Easy family experiments]
 * [|Fun Science experiments]
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Neatness counts! **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Handwriting is important, even in math class. Taking time to organize work will allow your child to focus on the math involved, preventing the opportunity for computational errors.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Always double check your work. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Students should strive to use two strategies for every problem in order to check their work.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Show all thinking on paper. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> When students show their thinking, it often helps the student keep track of his or her thinking and helps the teacher determine where errors are occurring.

**__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Helpful Materials to Gather __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Print several copies of digit cards: []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Place Marker: Any game piece, bingo chip, or coin to mark a place on the hundreds chart
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Gather coins from your wallet or piggy bank.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hundreds Chart: []
 * __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt;">Summer Activities __**
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Objective **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">: Identify relationships between digits and their place value through the thousands, including expanded notation and comparing the numbers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To build this skill, when working with a number such as 1,258, ask questions such as, “What digit is in the tens place?” (5) and “What is the value of the 5 in this number?” (5 groups of 10 or 50) Have students practice writing the number in expanded form 1,000+200+50+8 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt;">.
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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Objective **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">: Recall basic addition and related subtraction facts and their fact families. This should also include combinations of 10 fact families such as 3+7, 7+3, 10-7, 10-3, combinations of 20 fact families such as 12+8, 8+12, 20-8, 20-12, and combinations of 100 such as 40+60, 60+40, 100-40, 100-60.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To build this skill, do not stress memorization of combinations. Rather, practice related combinations together. For example, “doubles plus one” combinations such as 4+5. As one strategy, the student can use a double they know to help them out. If they know 4+4=8, then 4+5 is one more than 8, so 4+5=9.
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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Objective **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">: Estimate solutions and solve addition and subtraction problems involving multi-digit whole numbers through thousands (including invented strategies and the traditional algorithm).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To build this skill, have your child practice solving story problems using multiple strategies. For a video tutorial of addition and subtraction strategies, please visit <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[] for parent reference.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To extend this skill, move to larger numbers. Students should be able to solve these problems through the thousands quickly and efficiently.


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Objective **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">: Extend number patterns as a foundation for multiples and factors including skip counting by 2, 5, 10, 25 up to 100.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To build this skill, practice skip counting with your child daily. This can be done more concretely with objects, or even verbally in the car when driving. Also practice counting backwards (this will help with subtraction) or to higher numbers such as 200. When skip counting, students do not need to begin with the number they are skip counting by. For example, when skip counting by 10’s, students can begin with 7. They would say, “7, 17, 27, etc.” Your child should be able to tell you that the pattern is adding ten each time, not counting by 7’s.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To extend this skill, practice skip counting by the numbers 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15.
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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Objective **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">: Identify time to the nearest hour, half hour, and quarter-hour including elapsed time.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To build this skill, practice telling time on an analog clock. Also, practice determining the difference in AM and PM times to the nearest hour, half hour, and quarter hour.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To extend this skill, practice telling time on the quarter hour and five minute intervals. Students can also practice working on elapsed time problems. For example, Mrs. Phillips left home for the mall at 3:00 PM. She returned home at 4:30 PM. How long was she gone
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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Objective **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">: Identify, combine, and compare amounts of money in cents up to $1 and in dollars up to $100, including making change for items purchased.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To build this skill, have your child practice counting and sorting change. One game that is great to play is called Collect $1.00. Students take turns rolling a dice and collecting that much money. When students have an amount that they can trade for another coin, they are encouraged to do so. For example, when students have 5 pennies, they should trade them for one nickel. Play continues until students collect $1.00.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To extend this skill, students can play Spend $1.00 (similar to Collect $1.00 mentioned above). In this game, students begin with $1.00 and work to spend it by trading down the value of coins. You can also play the game up to higher denominations.
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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Objective: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Select and use appropriate units to measure length, weight, capacity, and temperature, both standard and metric.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To build this skill, give your child access to measuring tools such as a ruler, measuring tape, measuring cup, scale, and thermometer. Help them practice these measurements and have conversation on why these measurements are important in everyday life. For example, knowing how to read a thermometer can help decide what clothes to wear to school each day.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To extend this skill, practice comparing the measurement of items. For example, the weight of an apple is greater than the weight of a grape. One quart holds more water than one cup. One foot is longer than three inches.
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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Objective **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">: Identify two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To build this skill, go on a scavenger hunt around your house for two and three dimensional figures. Focus on two-dimensional figures with three sides (triangles) and four sides (quadrilaterals.) Focus on three-dimensional figures such as cubes, rectangular prisms, cones, spheres, and cylinders.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To extend this skill, focus on two-dimensional shapes with five sides (pentagon), six sides (hexagon), seven sides (heptagon), eight sides (octagon), nine sides (nonagon), and ten sides (decagon).
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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Objective **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">: Represent, compare, and explain halves, thirds, quarters, and eighths.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To build this skill, remember that fractions are equal parts of a whole. Discussions about fractions can take place using food (such as evenly cutting brownies, pizza, or chocolate bars) or even money (such as ½ of a dollar).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">To extend this skill, students can compare fractions using inequality symbols (>,<,=) and explain their reasoning.
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