3rd Grade
Room 204
e-mail address: jljacobs1@cps.edu

Incoming Students Fall 2008-2009

Supplies

• Five pencils
  
• Glue
  
• Colored pencils
  
• Three ring binder for math
  
• Five pens
  
• Pencil sharpener
  
• Scissors
  
• Three highlighters (1 yellow and any 2 other colors)
  
• Four book covers
• Loose leaf paper
  
• Yellow folder and spiral notebook for Math
  
• Blue folder and spiral notebook for Writing
  
• Purple folder and spiral notebook for Social Studies
  
• Red folder and spiral notebook for Reading
• Green folder and spiral notebook for Science
  
• One black three ring binder for Spanish

Skills to practice

Reading

• Build reading fluency and comprehension skills. Read at least five novels over summer break.
  
• Note taking skills
  
• Main idea and plot
  
• Author’s purpose
• Genres

Math

• Landmarks-mean, median, and mode etc.
  
• Graphs
  
• Rounding, place value with decimals
  
• Exponents
  
• Algebra-solving for x
  
• Computation-decimals/fractions, multiplication, and division