3rd Grade Activities
In third grade, learning gets kicked up a notch, and more complex concepts will land squarely on your child's plate. Want to help, but aren't sure how? From fun activities to learn about place value, to outdoor games that teach parts of speech, we've got the goods to keep your child on track all year long.
Double Trouble
Try this competitive card game! Your child will practice doubling numbers as you flip over cards. Try one-digit or two-digit numbers, or more!
Last Draw
Critical thinking is an important skill! Play this card game with your child and practice using a variety of strategies. "Last Draw" will help your child develop decision making and problem solving skills that are necessary to succeed in math!
Craft Chocolate-Filled Hanukkah Gift Bags
Giving children small bags of coins during Hanukkah is a tradition that remained in steady practice since the Middle Ages! Help your child get in touch with a long-standing tradition by crafting chocolate-filled bags for teachers and friends!
Proportion Rummy
Equivalent fractions can be a difficult concept to master. This card game provides a fun way to practice an important math skill. All you need is a deck of playing cards, paper, and pencils, and you're ready to get started!
Put on a Poetry Party!
A poetry party is a fantastic way to bring out the artist in every child! Your little one will be inspired to unleash her creativity in the perfect environment to create and perform poetry in the form of a traditional café setting, complete with music, decorations, and refreshments.
Create a Venn Diagram Creature!
Venn diagrams provide a perfect starting point for your child to brainstorm ways that two ideas or objects are similar or different. Introduce your child to this technique by helping her create a Venn diagram fantasy creature!
Play Freeze Theater!
If your child enjoys the spotlight, this is the perfect game for her and her friends! Orchestrate a game of freeze theater, an improvisational activity that challenges your child's ability to enter and exit scenes smoothly.
Design a Chinese New Year Dragon Float
Chines New Year starts with a bang, with firecrackers and parades among the festival's highlights. Teach your child about this custom by creating a dragon float inspired by the brilliant traditional ones seen in Chinese new year parades.
Construct a Weather Spinner!
Tracking the weather serves as a great educational, and entertaining, introduction to the natural sciences. Her weather spinner will help her develop important observation and analysis skills.
Create Clay Idioms
Idioms, words or phrases that have figurative meanings different from their literal ones, can be found everywhere from the books we read to our everyday conversations. Idioms are also inspiration for this fun, hands-on activity!
