Third Grade Weekly Update

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Welcome to third grade! We are so excited to be working with you and your child this school year! We will be sharing a SMORE newsletter weekly. Here you can find any and all information pertaining to 3rd grade at Park Street Elementary.

As always, please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have!

The third grade supply list can be found at the bottom of the SMORE

3rd grade assigns homework every week except on breaks.

Homework is assigned every Monday and due back on Fridays.

Math-Daily spiral review

Reading-

Phonics:

During phonics this week, we will work on adding –ing to words with VC and VCC patterns. Please view the video below on adding -ing to words with VC and VCC patterns.We will also learn how morphology can help us determine the meaning of a word. Specifically using the following morphemes:

Prefixes: <re->,<mis>,<un>,<non>

Suffixes: <-ful>, <-ing>

We will also dive into our first reading/writing module, THE SEA! The link below is a curriculum overview for families. Feel free to explore it!

https://greatminds.org/english/witwisdom/family-engagement

This week, we will specifically focus on how artists explore the sea. We will dissect the poem, “The Sea Wind” by Sara Teasdale, and investigate “The Boating Party” and “The Gulf Stream” as our core art pieces. As we discuss the central message behind how these artists explore the sea, we will practice writing topic sentences and identifying nouns and verbs.

This week students will use their place value understanding to add and subtract within 10,000 using the partial sums strategy.

Every 6 weeks we will switch between Science and Social Study standards. We will continue this week with science learning about soil.

Mrs.Rakestraw

Welcome back, 3rd grade students and families! My name is Mrs. Amanda Montgomery and I will be one of your child's Reading Specialists for this year. I am excited to start this school year by getting to know all of your child's strengths and then making a plan to help them grow as readers. Please do not hesitate to email me (amontgomery@marietta-city.k12.ga.us) or call, if you have any questions or concerns. This is going to be a great year of growth.

3rd grade will start their beginning of the year literacy assessments on August 4th. This process will take about 3 weeks to complete and it is very important for your child to be at school, ready to give their best! Thank you for all you do at home to support us here at school.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Amanda Montgomery

Mrs.Powell

I am an interrelated special education teacher; I will co-teach in Mrs. Baker and Ms. Castillo’s classrooms this school year. This is my second year teaching, and I am so excited to be teaching 3rd grade again at Park Street! If your child is in Mrs. Baker or Ms. Castillo’s homeroom and has an IEP, I will be their case manager this year. I will be your contact person regarding your child’s IEP needs. Please know that I am here to support your child and communicate with necessary staff information for the implementation of your child’s IEP. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

August 1st-First day of school

August 14th-Open house

August 26th - MAP Reading

August 27th-MAP Math