Third Grade Weekly Update

Meet your village!

We are here to help you and your child in any way!

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!

3rd grade assigns homework every week except on breaks.

Homework is assigned every Monday and due back on Fridays.

Math-Daily spiral review

Reading-

🦈 This Week in Literacy: Shark Attack!

Hello families! This week, our class will continue exploring the text Shark Attack! to build reading, writing, and discussion skills. Here’s what we’ll be working on:

• Use text features (like photographs, captions, and headings) to find information for New-Read Assessment 1.

• Identify the main idea of a passage and practice writing a summary of Shark Attack.

• Complete a graphic organizer to sort related evidence.

• Choose two new vocabulary words and write meaningful sentences about why it’s important to protect sharks from extinction.

• Define and use the words predator and prey.

• Make real-life connections with new ocean vocabulary.

• Participate in a Socratic Seminar, where students will practice listening carefully, following discussion rules, and speaking in complete sentences with elaboration and details.

We’re excited to keep learning about sharks while practicing important reading and writing skills!

Monday Oct.6th- Students will determine the area of a rectangle by counting tiles, build area models using a multiplication table, find the area of a rectangle by lining up squares with no gaps or overlaps and determine the area of a rectangle by multiplying the number of squares in one column by the number of squares in one row.

Tuesday Oct. 7th- Students will determine an appropriate scale to use when creating pictographs, determine an appropriate scale to use when creating bar graphs, and create a bar graph with a scale of 2, 5, or 10.

Wednesday Oct. 8th- Review for unit 2 test. (review questions linked below)

Thursday Oct. 9th - Unit 2 test

Friday Oct. 10th- Field trip!

This week in Social Studies students will continue to learn about the US Government and how it functions.

FREE english classes for parents!

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

Reminder: Your student has made multiplication flash cards in class. Please encourage them to study the cards that come home to support strategy modeling in class.

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.

October 10- Atlanta History Center Field Trip

October 13-17 Conference week