Homework Requirements

  • Reading 20 minutes every day:
  • Study spelling words every night.

Third Grade Service Project

In third grade, we are collecting aluminum cans as a third grade service project to help preserve forests. Once we have collected $50 worth of cans, we will be able to adopt an acre forest in North America through a program called Adopt an Acre®, sponsored by The Nature Conservancy. Adopt an Acre® funds are used primarily to protect and restore land. Because these acres often require stewardship and management, a portion of the funds may also be used for those purposes as well. To find out more information about the program, you can visit their website.
If you wish to donate cans, please send the smashed cans to school with your student. As the cans will be stored in our classrooms, and we don’t wish to encourage rodents in our rooms, we request that the cans be completely empty before they are smashed. Thank you for your support!
 

Soaring Eagle Award

To earn the Soaring Eagle Award in third grade, students must complete 15 of the 20 options listed below.
  1. Create a project and enter it in the School Science Fair.
  2. Publish 5 original writings.
  3. Earn at least 3 requirements for National or Presidential Fitness Award.
  4. Turn in 2800 reading minutes.
  5. Pass off timed multiplication facts 0-10.
  6. Enter the school sponsored Reflections Contest.
  7. Complete all oral book reports during the year (September - April).
  8. Have your cursive approved by your teacher and a fourth grade teacher.
  9. Earn an average of 85 % in math for the year.
  10. Earn an average of 85% in spelling.
  11. Be able to write down your personal geography (address, city, state, country, continent, planet).
  12. No more than 5 think times during the year.
  13. No more than 5 absences during the year.
  14. No more than 5 tardies during the year.
  15. Participate in an out of school service project, write out what you did, and have a parent/guardian sign the note.
  16. Write 10 letters to other students.
  17. Complete 6 art projects.
  18. Complete all required poems during the year (September - April).
  19. Varies by class
  20. Varies by class

Utah Core Curriculum

Mathematics

By the end of grade three, students develop understandings of multiplication and division of whole numbers. They use properties to develop increasingly more sophisticated strategies to solve problems involving basic multiplication and division facts. They relate division to multiplication. Students understand fraction equivalence for simple fractions; they recognize that the size of a fractional part is relative to the size of the whole. They understand meanings of fractions to represent parts of a whole, parts of a set, or distances on a number line. They compare and order simple fractions by using models, benchmark fractions, or common denominators.

Students investigate, analyze, and classify two-dimensional shapes by their sides and angles. They decompose, combine, and transform polygons to understand properties of two-dimensional space and use those properties to solve problems. Students construct and analyze frequency tables, bar graphs, picture graphs, and line plots and use them to solve problems.