Week 4 of 8
Week 4
3rd Grade → 4th Grade · Division 2 5 and Parts of speech
Math
Division: 2 to 5
Dividing by 2, 3, 4, and 5 with no remainder. Middle of third grade, right after the matching multiplication facts.
The mistake to watch for. Reading 12 ÷ 3 as 3 ÷ 12, or answering 36 by multiplying out of habit.
How to help. Ask the multiplication question instead: "three times what makes twelve?" Division is the same fact read backwards.
A worked example
Try 20 ÷ 4. Ask: what times 4 makes 20? 5 × 4 = 20, so 20 ÷ 4 = 5. Division is multiplication run backwards.
Reading & language
Parts of Speech
Identifying whether a word in a sentence is a noun, verb, or adjective, based on its job in that sentence. Third grade.
The mistake to watch for. Classifying a word by what it usually is rather than what it's doing in this specific sentence — "run" is usually a verb, but in "she went for a run" it's a noun.
How to help. Ask what job the word is doing in that exact sentence, not what job it does most often. The sentence decides, not the word in isolation.
A worked example
In 'The quick fox jumped', 'quick' describes the fox, so it is an adjective; 'fox' is a noun; 'jumped' is a verb. The part of speech depends on the job a word does in the sentence.
Words for this week
- divide
- To share a number into equal groups, or to find how many groups fit.
- share
- To split into equal parts.
- group
- A set of things put together, like 4 groups of 3 apples.
- equal
- The same amount. The sign = means "is equal to".
- multiply
- To add the same number again and again, in a faster way.
- noun
- A word for a person, place or thing, like girl, school or ball.
- verb
- A word that tells an action or a state, like run, is or sing.
- adjective
- A word that describes a noun, like big, red or soft.
- adverb
- A word that tells how, when or where something happens, like quickly, soon or here.
- sentence
- A group of words that tells a whole thought. It starts with a capital letter and ends with punctuation.
Read this week
Extinction
A short dinosaurs & fossils article from our Learn library, chosen for this reading level. Read it together, then ask your child to tell you one new thing they learned.