Third+Grade

Your child is in third grade, and you're wondering what you can do to help him or her be more successful in school! Here are a few videos with activities that you can do with your child at home. Check out the second grade and fourth grade pages for even more ideas of things to do at home.
 * Third Grade ﻿ **



__**Reading**__ Click on the videos below to see how to do simple reading interventions with your child at home. Doing these activities regularly will help your child improve his or her reading abilities! Feel free to email the third grade teachers if you have any questions!

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Have your child choose two books at his or her reading level! Then, for each book, have your child complete one of the following activities. Children who complete two activities over the summer and bring them to school in the fall will get to participate in a celebration event!



**__Sight Words__** Practice these sight words: @http://www.kidzone.ws/dolch/grade3.htm

**__Writing Activities__** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Make lists <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Write in a journal <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Send letters or postcards <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Take photos and write captions for them <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Write How-To stories about things they have done <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Write plays <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Research a topic you are interested in and write a paper <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Make a menu for a fake restaurant <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Practice writing in sand or shaving cream <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Write alternate endings to a favorite book

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">**__Math Activities__** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Yahtzee <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Flashcards <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Use shopping ads to make "wish lists" and add how the prices to practice counting money <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Shape,numbers,and color "hunts" <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Count change <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Play, "I'm thinking of a number" <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Play "War" with math facts using a deck of cards <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Play store <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Make patterns with blocks <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;">Cooking



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