July 2024
Dear Students and Families,
We hope you have been having a great summer and spending lots of quality time with each other! We are excited to see everyone again as we begin our year together. In the meantime, soak up these last days of summer vacation -- we are!
With our new school year just a few weeks away, we are getting really excited about this year! We’re looking forward to getting to know each of you and working as partners in education with our students and families.
We will spend the first few weeks of school getting to know one another and building our classroom communities before we dig into our third grade curriculum. Below is a brief outline of what we will study in 3rd grade this year.
Reading & Writing
We will read a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts, often using what we read to help us become stronger writers. We’ll read a variety of genres including mysteries, realistic fiction, and many types of nonfiction. We’ll write narratives (stories), nonfiction books, opinion pieces, research articles, and our own graphic novels!
We’ll be focusing on applying the word study skills we’ve been learning to our spelling and writing. We’ll also learn how to use tools to make sure our words are spelled correctly.
Math
We will continue working with computation and number sense, getting into larger addition and subtraction problems (3- and 4-digit numbers), multiplication, and division. We will also continue and expand work on money, time, fractions, and geometry. This year, we’re using a new problem-based math curriculum called “Illustrative Mathematics.” We’re really excited for this change and hope it instills confidence in our mathematicians.
Science & Social Studies
Organisms (Plants & Animals), Independence, Weather, and Force & Motion
World Geography & Civics
On the back is a list of supplies your child or our classroom needs to start off the year!
Supply List:
1 two-pocket folder, preferably heavier quality for durability (for Home-School Communication)
Headphones to keep at school for use with Chromebooks
(earbuds tend to break and/or bother students)
Please do not send in any “special” pens or pencils.
Keep these at home to use for schoolwork!
Classroom Wish List Items (optional—only if families would like to donate)
soft Kleenex/tissues for classroom use
Cleaning wipes
First Day Of School
For the first day of school, please bring in a water bottle, a healthy snack, a lunch (or you can order one from the cafeteria),
Update Pick-Up Patrol with your child’s end-of-day plans (see attached flier)
We are very excited about starting our year together! If you have any questions before school starts you can reach us by email, and once school starts you can also reach us by phone at 434-2461.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Marie Ayer Mrs. Tonya Girouard
marie.ayer@mmuusd.org tonya.girouard@mmuusd.org
