Welcome to third grade at Rolling Hills! Third grade is a big transition year
from the primary grades to the intermediate grades. Our goal is to help your child become an independent and
confident learner. The units of
study that are our focus for the year include:
Reading
We focus primarily on reading
comprehension strategies. Third
grade shifts the reading focus from learning
to read to reading to learn. Our students also work on fluency and
word study.
Writing
In third grade we work on
writing in the following areas: technical, persuasive, narrative, and
expository. Working on “showing”
and not “telling” in our writing is a focus as well.
Math
Rolling Hills uses the
Everyday Math program. We focus on
the 6 Colorado math standards: number sense, algebra, data and probability,
geometry, measurement, and computation.
Social Studies
Our third graders learn
about the Native Americans, Map Skills, Cities Around the World, Europe, and
Australia.
Science
Matter and Energy; Roles of
Living Things; Sun, Moon, and Earth; and Life Cycles are the science units of
study.