3rd Grade Weekly Update
September 8-12, 2025
Homework:
Please be sure to check and sign your students planner nightly. Homework can change.
If your kiddo is ever stumped on a part of their homework, please write a note in their planner or email us so that I can be sure to help them
Monday: Read/Log and Math Practice
Tuesday: Read/Log and Math Practice
Wednesday: Read/Log
Thursday: Read/Log and Math Practice
Friday: Read and Log, Weekly Doings
Reading Logs:
Our Third Grade Goal is to read at least 100 minutes each week. How you and your student want to break up the 100 minutes each week is up to you. Reading logs will come home each Monday and are due the following Monday. Please be sure your student puts their name on their reading log. Please have them record the date, the title of their book they read, and their minutes each night on their log. One night a week please have your student write a response to what they are reading. There are ideas for ways to respond to their reading on the back of the reading log. Students should write a 3-5 sentence response. When your student completes their reading log, please total their minutes, sign, and return it to school on the following Monday.
Specials:
CAREY - PE
CRAWFORD - Art
BRUCE - STEAM
CHRISTOU - Music
Library:
Please return library books on Wednesday, as we have library on Thursday.
Important Dates:
8SEP | FUN RUN KICK OFF ASSEMBLY
13SEP | CLARKE FARMS FESTIVAL - 3-7pm
15SEP | VISION & HEARING SCREENINGS
16SEP | FUN RUN @ 9am-12pm
22SEP | NO SCHOOL - Teacher Work Day
23SEP | CHAPARRAL HOMECOMING PARADE @ 5-7pm
24SEP | PICTURE RETAKES
26SEP | FIELD DAY - grades 1-6
Other topics to Mention:
Keeping snacks to one item and preferably a healthy item. There should be no juice boxes or drinks other than water at this time.
Please make sure toys and other little things are staying at home/in backpacks at school. These are just creating more distractions in the classroom.
If your student is participating in Run Club, you may want to send another pair of shoes with your student. The grass has been very wet with the weather, and shoes and socks have been getting soaked.
Math: This week we will continue Unit 1. We will continue with Lesson 2 - adding 3-digit numbers. We will begin the week with connecting place value strategies to an algorithm, and conclude lesson 2 with a quiz on Wednesday. On Thursday we will begin Lesson 3- subtracting 3-digit numbers.
Reading: This week we will continue with Unit 1- Animal Adaptations in Benchmark. We will begin a new story, “Animals’ Tools for Survival”. We will work on the strategies: creating mental images to learn about animal adaptations and identifying compare-and-contrast relationships in an informational text.
Writing: We will continue working on our informational writing about animal adaptations. This week, students will research the adaptations of an animal of their choice.
Science/Social Studies:
This week our classes will stay with their homeroom teacher for science/social studies.
Carey/Crawford - Science
Bruce/Christou - Social Studies
In science, we will be studying traits and inheritance - how do you identify a mysterious fruit as well as adaptations of the green lizard that help it survive. In social studies, we will continue our three-week unit on Civics and Government. We will build an understanding of local government.