- A la Carte
- >
- Grade 3
- >
- Grade 3 Month 6 The Wonder of Measurement: Mass & Capacity
Grade 3 Month 6 The Wonder of Measurement: Mass & Capacity
SKU:
g3m6
CA$44.00
CA$44.00
Unavailable
per item
Students will explore practical math experiences through scale building, estimation, and hands-on weight exercises.
This purchase is for 1 month of curriculum and includes access to our members-only area with supporting documents, videos, resources, and community.
Curriculum Areas/Learning Outcomes
Math: Concept 1: Development of computational fluency in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers requires flexible decomposing and composing.
Connection: Your child will spend the weeks of the unit practicing with measurement and computation including estimation.
Concept 2: Regular increases and decreases in patterns can be identified and used to make generalizations. Connection: Your child will hear about the Imperial and the Metric system and use these to make generalizations. Concept 3: Standard units are used to describe, measure, and compare attributes of objects’ shapes. Connection: Your child will learn about the Imperial and Metric systems of measurement for mass and capacity.
Language Arts: Concept: Stories and other texts help us learn about ourselves, our families, and our communities.
Connection: Stories about measurement will get your child thinking about their own life and the things around them. Old Testament stories or Legends support the contemplation of the human condition as well.
Social Studies: Concept: People from diverse cultures and societies share some common experiences and aspects of life.
Connection: All stories about measurement will begin with the historical story of it, thereby connecting your child to the world. The common language of measurement will be presented.
Connection: Your child will spend the weeks of the unit practicing with measurement and computation including estimation.
Concept 2: Regular increases and decreases in patterns can be identified and used to make generalizations. Connection: Your child will hear about the Imperial and the Metric system and use these to make generalizations. Concept 3: Standard units are used to describe, measure, and compare attributes of objects’ shapes. Connection: Your child will learn about the Imperial and Metric systems of measurement for mass and capacity.
Language Arts: Concept: Stories and other texts help us learn about ourselves, our families, and our communities.
Connection: Stories about measurement will get your child thinking about their own life and the things around them. Old Testament stories or Legends support the contemplation of the human condition as well.
Social Studies: Concept: People from diverse cultures and societies share some common experiences and aspects of life.
Connection: All stories about measurement will begin with the historical story of it, thereby connecting your child to the world. The common language of measurement will be presented.
Curriculum Overview
This month you will dive into Measurement of Mass and Capacity. You will work from the whole to the parts, from the child to the world around them. Each piece of the history of measurement will include the story, the perspective of the people of that time, an activity for your child, and book work that will become like a manual for measurement. This month is designed to provide you with some flexibility and therefore will cover all curriculum in the first 15 days of plans. The final 5 days, the Flex Week, will be a project that you can choose to skip or complete. We hope that this way you can create flexibility if you need time off or can count on the routine of having all 20 days of planning if you need to keep going. As you go through the month remember that your child will need to be working on their math foundation muscles and should be taking 15-30 minutes a day to work in a leveled math workbook. There will be math facts questions for you to use every second day. These questions are taken from the list of the most difficult arithmetic facts presented in the book “Making Math Meaningful” by Fabrie, Gottenbos and York. You will also need to provide about 30 minutes of reading time each day. Your child will get time to write this month but feel free to have them keep a journal as well. For the project week your child will be invited to build a menu and present their family with a feast on Day 20. The meal will be baked and cooked independently, using the skills for measurement as the backdrop. Imperial and Metric systems will be covered.
For your story line, you can keep reading from the Old Testament. If the Old Testament is not a match for you it is possible to use Legends. A good resource is Sparkle Stories linked in the DW Resources Hub on our website.
For your story line, you can keep reading from the Old Testament. If the Old Testament is not a match for you it is possible to use Legends. A good resource is Sparkle Stories linked in the DW Resources Hub on our website.