{"id":9762,"date":"2026-01-29T15:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/3rd\/?p=9762"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:55:31","slug":"third-grade-update-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/3rd\/2026\/01\/29\/third-grade-update-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Grade Update!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a look at what we&#8217;ve been working on recently in 3rd grade:<\/p>\n<p>Math: We&#8217;ve started our Geometry unit, including the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2D Shapes, including polygons and quadrilaterals<\/li>\n<li>Lines, angles, and vertices<\/li>\n<li>Congruence, translation, rotation, lines of symmetry<\/li>\n<li>Area, followed by perimeter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Social Studies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lewis and Clark<\/li>\n<li>Sacagawea<\/li>\n<li>The Louisiana Purchase<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Jefferson<\/li>\n<li>Native Americans and European Explorers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reading:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Informational text structures, followed by text features (captions, headings, subheadings, table of contents, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Writing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poetry unit (haiku, acrostic, cinquain)<\/li>\n<li>Personal narratives<\/li>\n<li>Cursive writing practice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spelling<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reminder that we only have spelling on 5-day school weeks, we use extra spelling time for reading, writing, grammar, or as flexible time for unfinished work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope everyone is having a great week!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a look at what we&#8217;ve been working on recently in 3rd grade: Math: We&#8217;ve started our Geometry unit, including the following topics: 2D Shapes, including polygons and quadrilaterals Lines, angles, and vertices Congruence, translation, rotation, lines of symmetry Area, followed by perimeter Social Studies: Lewis and Clark Sacagawea The Louisiana Purchase Thomas Jefferson Native [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Third Grade Update! 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