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.
Find It
Make equations to remove cards in this strategic single-player game. Use all of the math facts you would like: addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division! Think carefully as you develop a strategy to get rid of all the cards.
Be a Factor
Factors can be a tricky concept to master, but they are essential to understanding division. Help your child gain confidence with factors while playing this fun card game. Soon they'll be ready to work with larger numbers and fractions!
Half As Much
Sharing can be a challenge, and division doubly so! Practice halving numbers in this competitive card game. Play in groups or coach your child through one-on-one.
Defensive Struggle, Multiplication Style!
Become a multiplication super-star! Get ready for an exciting way to practice those multiplication facts. Your third grader will love strategizing to earn points as they place their cards on the game board.
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 Edible Holiday Cards!
Want to go "paperless" this holiday season? Here's one delicious place to start.
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.
Get Creative with Cardboard Box Costumes
A regular brown cardboard box makes an ideal blank slate for this free form, child-directed arts and crafts activity in which your child will create a fanciful costume out of just a box, a few art supplies and craft materials, and her imagination.
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!
Trust Me Walk
In this exciting trust game, one player, the communicator, must guide her blindfolded partner through a maze of obstacles using only verbal directions. Don't worry if you're afraid of the dark, in this game being in the dark is part of the fun!
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