Welcome to the 2024-2025 School Year!

 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 

Bus Routes: 2022-2023

 

School Bus Routes 2022-2023

We are soooo excited to meet our new students in just a few days!  As a reminder, it is helpful for ALL of us to know your student's dismissal plans in advance to avoid miscommunication or confusion at the end of the school day.

Here is a letter from our MMUUSD Transportation director and the bus routes (& times) for both arrival & dismissal buses.

A couple of reminders:

• Provide your student's teacher a regular dismissal plan for each day of the week.  IF this plan is different for the first few days or school, please indicate that and provide the changes.  (It gets really confusing the 2nd week of school for students!)
• Please send in an to email resoffice@mmuusd.org AND your student's teacher with any changes from this routine plan.  If your student is riding a different bus home, please include the student they are riding home with the home address where they will be getting off of the bus.
• Please update this plan as necessary throughout the year.

Welcome to the 2022-2023 School Year!

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August 2022

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 meet everyone 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 have been planning and getting really excited about this year! We’re really 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. 

Science & Social Studies

Organisms (Plants & Animals), Independence,  Weather, and Force & Motion

World Geography & Cultures

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 fairy tales, mysteries, historical fiction, realistic fiction, and many types of nonfiction.  We’ll write personal narratives (stories),  nonfiction books, opinion pieces, research articles, and fairy tales.

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. 

Technology

Technology is embedded throughout our third-grade curriculum, and we use it in many ways both to learn new things and to showcase and communicate what we’ve learned to others.  Each third grader will be assigned a Google Chromebook to use in school.

Supply List:

• 1  composition notebook with lined paper inside (hardcover, sewn-in pages, 100 sheets) -- We’ll be decorating the cover, so a plain & simple notebook is best.

• 1 two-pocket folder, preferably heavier quality for durability (for Home-School Communication)

• 1 box of #2 pencils for the classroom (we’ll collect & share throughout the year!)

• 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

• Funky sticky notes (hearts, stars, animals, etc.)

• Skinny dry erase markers

• Black & Colored Sharpies  (various sizes)

• Large Expo Dry Erase markers

• Eraser Caps

First Day Of School

• For the first day of school, please bring in a healthy snack, a lunch (or you can order one from the cafeteria), and a note saying how you will get home after school for the first week.***

• Sunscreen, bug spray and clothing layers to be outside for longer periods of time

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               Mr. Carl Ellerkamp Mrs. Tonya Girouard

marie.ayer@mmuusd.org                 carl.ellerkamp@mmuusd.org               tonya.girouard@mmuusd.org