Preparing for Third Grade
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Physical and social skills you can expect of your third-grader:
- Work cooperatively and productively with other children in small groups to complete projects
- Understand how her choices affect consequences
- Become more organized and logical in her thought process
- Build stronger friendships
- Be helpful, cheerful and pleasant - as well as rude, bossy, selfish and impatient
- Better understand the consequences of her behavior
- Be more influenced by peer pressure because friends are very important at this stage
- Want and expects immediate rewards for good behavior
Academic skills you can expect of your third-grader:
- Be able to copy from a chalk board
- Be able to write neatly in cursive because the small muscles of the hand have developed
- Read longer stories and chapter books with expression and comprehension
- Use prefixes, suffixes, root words and other strategies to identify unfamiliar words
- Multiply single and multi-digit numbers (3 x 4,652)
- Divide multi-digit numbers by one-digit numbers (165 / 5)
- Tell time to the half-hour, quarter-hour, five minutes and one minute
Learn more about where your child should be at the end of second grade.
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