Welcome to CAE!
The third grade team is dedicated to every learner and provides a rigorous curriculum including content, context and a variety of cognitive thinking levels so each student reaches high success.
Mission Statement: The third grade team will educate students to be responsible, productive citizens who can manage future challenges.
Mrs. Hollie Bates [email protected]
Ms. Cynthia Lewis [email protected]
Mrs. Shanna McLain [email protected]
Mrs. Janet Olson [email protected]
Our conference time is 8:10 - 9:10 a.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Please schedule an appointment, if desired, so we can partner together to help your child have a positive, productive year.
In addition to grade level content:
6th 6 Weeks:
GT FIELD TRIP: AMON CARTER MUSEUM AND FORT WORTH BOTANICAL GARDENS MAY 3 9:00 - 2:00
Literature Circles: Hatchet, The River
Ongoing daily concepts:
Apply and use problem solving strategies to solve and create real world problems
Use decision making skills and communicate effectively
Meet social and emotional needs
Read and analyze literary text novel unit
Evaluate and respond to literary and expository text
Classify using Bloom's Taxonomy of thinking skills
Develop creativity skills including fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration
Language Arts 6 th 6 Weeks:
Week of April 22nd:
STAAR!!
Week of April 29th:
*Reading Skill: Media Literacy
*Spelling: Final Stable Syllable
*Grammar/Writing: Inmaginative Stories
Week of May 6th:
*Reading Story: "Animal Homes"
*Reading Skill: Main Idea of informational/expository text
*Spelling: Change y to i before adding endings
*Grammar/Writing: Research
Week of May 13th:
*Reading: Novel Units
*Spelling: Economics words
*Grammar/Writing: Research
Week of May 20th:
*Reading: Novel Units
*Spelling: Economics words
*Grammar/Writing: Research
Week of May 27th:
*Reading: Novel Units
*Spelling: NO spelling!
*Grammar/Writing: Research
Week of June 3rd:
*Reading: Novel Units
*Spelling: NO spelling!
*Grammar/Writing: Research
Social Studies 56h 6 Weeks:
Citizenship:
Develop and model characteristics of exemplary citizens each 6 weeks
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills:
Week 31:
Understand basic structure and function of various levels of government
Understand important ideas in historical documents at various levels of government
Understand impact of individual and group decisions on communities in a constitutional republic
Week 32 -37:
Identify ways of earning, spending, saving and donating money
Explain the impact of scarcity on production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
Explain the implact of scarcity of a free market as it relates to the US free enterprise system
Explain how a simple business operates
Explain how supply and emand affect the prices of goods/services
Explain how the cost of production and selling price affect profits
6th Six Weeks
Daily: Problem Solving and Review of Math Vocabulary; Apply Multiplication Facts through 12 x 12
Week 1 -
- Review all TEKS
- Math STAAR
- Third Grade Math Competition
- Game Day
Week 2-
- Identify concrete models the show standard units of capacity.
- Measure capacity.
Week 3 -
- Describe parts of objects or sets of objects as fractions.
- Select addition or subtraction to solve problems.
- solve 2 digit by 1 digit multiplication problems.
- Use models to solve division problems and record in a number sentence.
Step up to 4th grade:
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Use place value to read, write, compare, and order whole numbers through 999,999,999.
Week 4 -
- Identify and extend patterns in a table.
- Identify, classify, describe, and compare 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional objects.
- Locate and name points on a number line.
Step up to 4th Grade:
- Use concrete and pictorial models to generate equivalent fractions.
Week 5 -
- Find the perimeter of a shape.
Step up to 4th Grade:
- Represent multiplication and division situations in picture, word, or number form.
Week 6 -
- Collect, organize, record, and display data in pictographs and bar graphs where a picture or cell might represent more than one piece of data.
Step up to 4th Grade:
- Recall and apply multiplication facts through 12 X 12.
Sixth 6 Weeks:
The Rainforest
Explore how structures and functions of plants and animals allow them to survive in a particular environment;
Explore that some characteristics of organisms are inherited and recognize some behaviors are learned
Investigate and compare how animals and plants undergo a series of orderly changes in their diverse life cycles
Safe Haven Anti-Bullying Classroom Lessons: November 29 and December 13
CAE Spring Creek Family Night: December 5
Winter Party Celebrations: December 21, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Holiday: January 18 & 21
HOMEWORK: Math and reading homework distributed each Monday and due by Friday at 8:00 a.m each week.
Spelling Test: Administered each Friday
Library Day: Each Monday