Third Grade Newsletter- Week 1

9/25 SPIRIT DRESS Day

9/26 Rainey's Birthday

Dear Third Grade Families,

What a wonderful week we had! Last week, we enjoyed celebrating International Dot Day with our students. It was so much fun watching their imaginations and creativity shine as they explored, created, and expressed themselves through different activities. Our students had a wonderful time, and we loved seeing their enthusiasm and unique ideas!

A friendly reminder that Parent Conferences will take place on October 2nd. Please be sure to sign up using the SignUpGenius link that was sent home in an email. We are excited for the opportunity to meet with you and share how your child is doing as they begin their third grade journey. We look forward to talking with you about their progress, strengths, and goals for the year ahead.

Thank you for your continued support! We are so excited about all that this year has in store for our third graders!

Warmly,
The Third Grade Team

Math Focus for Next Week: Next week, our 3rd grade students will learn different mental math strategies to add 2-digit numbers. They will practice making 5s and 10s, adding tens and ones, and breaking apart numbers to make addition easier. Students will also explore patterns in addition and use these strategies to solve problems more efficiently.

Find out more in the School-to-Home Connections!

ELAR Focus for Next Week:

• Reading:

  • Students will read the Readers Theater: King Midas
  • Skill focus: Genre/Myth, fluency

• Spelling

  • Our first spelling test will be Friday, October 2nd.
  • Please encourage your child to practice their spelling words at home each week!
  • If your child's list has been misplaced, the list of words is in the Language Arts section of the 3rd grade newsletter

• Writing: Conjunction practice using FANBOYS- for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. We will also work on paragraph writing.

Science Focus for Next Week:

What is Happening in Science/STEM?

Forces Around Us is still the focus in third grade. The students have done a wonderful job exploring forces, time , height and patterns. This week the students will connect their explorations, questions, and curiosities to specific content as to what forces are and how they interact with each other and affect the motion of objects to begin creating their interactive notebook. We will also learn that physics is with us when we play on our playground.

Academic Language We Are Using This Week

force, balanced forces, unbalanced forces, patterns

Social Studies Focus for Next Week:

We began map skills! This week we are looking at the compass rose and learning cardinal and intermediate directions. Next up will be locating places on maps and globes.

A huge Hilltop THANK YOU to our wonderful parent volunteers for serving as your grade-level Class Captains! Please be sure to join the 3rd Grade Group on the St. Luke’s App to stay connected and receive important updates and communication throughout the year.

Stacie Koonhow - stacie_harris@hotmail.com

Angie Shotzberger - angie.shotzberger@gmail.com