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.
This game helps children learn directions in a fun way. The object of the game is to find the hidden teddy bear by using only cardinal directions and coordinates.
Mosaics are great fun for the part of the brain that recognizes patterns, and can help build geometrical awareness in your child. Introduce your young artist to this art form with this fun and creative activity, which blends arts and crafts with patterning for hidden math practice!
More activities for third grade:
Make a Book Square!
If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square. It's a fun way to highlight important story details and put them in a logical order. She can even use the Book Square as a bookmark, and add information to it as she reads!
Play Word Bags to Learn Parts of Speech
Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around by creating this fun, easy learning game that your child will enjoy playing!
Learn Science with Bean Sprouts
After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants – and may develop a green thumb in the process!
Learn to Connect with Stories
As important as it is to sway your child away from TV, computer games and plastic toys, sometimes you just have to bring the lesson to him! This activity uses your child's favorite television show to illustrate how we connect to what we read.
Race for Spelling Patterns!
In this high energy, interactive game, third graders are challenged to a race involving spelling patterns in words. This is one race your child will want to run again and again! And it will do wonders for her reading fluency.
Build Vocabulary with Prefixes and Suffixes
Learning prefixes and suffixes is a great way to boost vocabulary quickly. And these letter combos are best learned in the context of the words that they create. Here's an easy game to get your child thinking about these beginnings and endings, in between a lot of shouting and laughing.
Get Some Punctuation Practice
Knowing when to use a period or a question mark is important in third grade reading. Here is a fun activity that will give your child some punctuation practice.
3 Ways to Practice Getting the Main Idea
Understanding the main idea of a paragraph is an important part of the third grade language arts curriculum, but if can be tough for beginning readers. Here's three exercises you can do at home to help your child to see the forest through the trees!
Learn to Read with Expression
Your child nailed reading fluency in the lower elementary grades. Now it's time to work on expression! Here's a fun way to practice good oral reading skills, and get your child to express herself at the same time.
Compare "Cup"acity! A Measurement Activity
This fun water activity will help your child understand capacity, and give him a chance to practice measuring a liquid.
