Preparing for Third Grade

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By Miriam Myers, GreatSchools Staff

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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.

Green Schools Parent Toolkit

Green Schools Parent Toolkit

How to get your child's school going green!

Use our Parent Toolkit to green your school

We know how busy you are! And we know how important a green school is to your child's health and education. This Parent Toolkit is designed to make it easy for busy parents like you to follow a few quick and easy steps for greening your child's school.

For each of the steps, we provide links to more information and tools; everything from our "How Green is Your School?" Quiz to waste-free lunch guidelines, and from greening your PTA events
to student action projects and beyond:

1. Watch our 3-minute video - Share the video with friends or download it from the Vimeo site to show at your next PTA meeting, or to your child's principal or teacher, to get them inspired and persuade others to join in greening your school.
   
   
   Green Schools: Growing healthy kids and a sustainable future from Green Schools Initiativeon Vimeo.
2. Form a Green Team - Establish a Green Team with other parents, teachers, students, and staff who will work together on green school activities and ways to engage the whole school community in saving resources. Use our tips for starting a Green Team.
   
3. Make an inventory - Take our "How Green is Your School?" Quiz and find out what your school is already doing and what else needs to be done. Bring the Quiz to your next PTA meeting and involve other parents and school staff in answering the questions. Volunteer to help your child's teacher engage students in hands-on audits where they can use their math and analysis skills to analyze the school's garbage, energy, carbon, or water footprints. These kinds of real-world, hands-on lessons are shown to improve academic achievement.
   
4. Take action with students - Work with your child's class, your Green Team, or a student club or After School program to choose one area from the inventory or audit that you want to improve. Follow actions done by these schools - or dream up your own! Share our Tips for Parents one-pager with your PTA.
   
5. Change your own habits - Parent behaviors play a big role in determining a school's footprint and set examples for children. On your own, you can make a meaningful difference through efforts like these: 
   
   • Green your PTA events and fundraising;
   • Pack a waste-free lunch;
   • Walk, bike, carpool or transit to school;
   • Buy environmentally-friendly and recycled school supplies; and
   • Serve healthy food and get outside with your kids.
6. Celebrate your success - Organize an Earth Day celebration in your child's class or school-wide to celebrate your efforts.

 Thank you for all that you do! Please contact us if we can help support your efforts. 

Green Schools Parent Toolkit and the "What's Your Green Dream School?" Contest made possible by a grant from Full Circle Fund.

3rd Grade Expectations!

http://www.greatschools.org/students/academic-skills/276-preparing-for-third-grade.gs?page=2

Article 7.2 Work day for teachers regularly assigned for the full year:

7.2 Work day for teachers regularly assigned for the full year: 

7.2.1 The length of the teacher work day, including preparation time and time regularly 

required before and after school, exclusive of the duty-free lunch period, shall be 

based on a work week of seven (7) hours per day or thirty-five hours per five (5) day 

week. Teachers may work an approved schedule which includes time expended 

outside the assigned site. Such time approved away from the site shall be considered 

time worked for purposes of this article.

All teachers regularly assigned to a school shall be at their respective classrooms 

or other places of service at least fifteen (15) minutes but not more than thirty (30) 

minutes before the regular opening of school as communicated by the 

administrator. The UBC, following consultation with the faculty, may designate 

additional before or after school time within the workweek described above. 

7.2.1.2.1 At sites where common planning time is built into the schedule, the minimum 

report time referred to in Section 7.2.1.2 shall be five (5) to ten (10) minutes. 

Common planning time shall be used for the following types of activities: 

team planning, student study teams, parent conferences, curriculum 

development, faculty meetings and other professional activities. 

7.2.2 Teachers shall be provided a duty-free lunch period, equivalent in length to the lunch 

period of the teachers’ students, exclusive of passing periods, or thirty (30) 

consecutive minutes, whichever is longer. 

7.2.3 Every good faith effort will be made to schedule all I.E.P. conferences during the 

seven hour workday. 

7.2.4 The site administrator of each school may require teachers to perform related duties 

on a reasonable and equitably distributed basis among teachers, such time to be 

considered part of the work week described above. 

Whenever the term “preparation time” or “preparation period” is used, it is to mean 

the time within the workday of teachers set aside for planning, grading papers, 

contacting parents and other instructional tasks to be determined by the teacher. 

7.2.5.1 Preparation time within the workday for classroom teachers 

7.2.5.1.1 Secondary – Within the workday, high school and middle school teachers 

shall have a duty-free preparation period equal in length to a teaching period. 

The specific schedule for the work day shall be set by the site administrator. 

7.2.5.1.2 Elementary – All elementary school teachers shall be provided sixty (60) 

minutes of duty free preparation time weekly. 

PDF on S.F. Union 101 for New and All Teachers

http://www.uesf.org/pdf/teacher-faq-11-12.pdf

Have your class start an online community with Kidblog.org

My daughter has loved being a part of this project with my class.  She has posted so much information she thinks my student's 3rd grade students will be into as well for her own 3rd grade information!

Please check it out below:

http://kidblog.org/MsDawnsClass/