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!

3rd grade assigns homework every week except on breaks.

Homework is assigned every Monday and due back on Fridays.

Math-Daily spiral review

Reading-

• Hi families!
  This week, our class is continuing our space adventure with Starry Messenger and learning all about Galileo! 🌠 Students will:
  ✨ Use quotations and illustrations to identify the main idea in Starry Messenger
  ✨ Identify the introduction, body, and conclusion in an explanatory essay
  ✨ Practice using coordinating conjunctions to write compound sentences
  ✨ Show understanding of sequence words, cause-and-effect, and context clues during New-Read Assessment 1
  ✨ Provide a strong conclusion for their explanatory writing about Galileo

  It’s going to be a bright and busy week of learning as we reach for the stars! 🌟

  
  

📘 What We’re Learning

Students are learning to:

✔ Represent Numbers Up to 10,000

Using tools like base-ten blocks, place value charts, drawings, and models to show what a number looks like.

✔ Read and Write Numbers in Different Forms

• Standard form: 4,732

• Word form: four thousand seven hundred thirty-two

• Expanded form: 4,000 + 700 + 30 + 2

✔ Compare Numbers Using Place Value

Students use the symbols >, <, and = and explain why one number is greater or smaller based on the value of the digits.

✔ Round Numbers (Up to 1,000)

Students round numbers to the nearest ten and hundred to estimate or make quick, reasonable calculations.

🏠 How You Can Help at Home

Try these quick and simple activities:

• Number Hunt: Notice numbers at the store or on signs and ask, “What does the 3 mean in this number?”

• Compare It: Give two numbers and ask your child which is greater—and how they know.

• Rounding Practice: Ask your child to round prices or distances to the nearest ten or hundred.

• Build Numbers: Say a number (e.g., 4,506) and have your child write it in different forms.

We will be begin our Social Studies unit on Native American tribes. Each week for the next eight weeks we will learn about a new tribes housing, clothing, culture, and traditions.

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.

Dec.1: Pictures with Santa

Dec. 2-Dec.5 : MAP testing

Dec. 22-Jan.6: Holiday break