Dear families,
What a fabulous week of learning we have had this week! Mrs. Duffy and I have LOVED having our entire class at school every day. The students worked very hard over the last two days to demonstrate their reading ability on the end of the semester test. Your child’s score will be in powerschool today.
Tuesday is the beginning of the third nine weeks of your child’s third grade year. Students will not have any tests next week!
Next week in reading we will be comparing and contrasting characters, settings, problem and solution using two versions of the familiar fairy tale Cinderella. We will complete our final copies of our animal research projects in writing. Our week in math will be review of what was taught in the first nine weeks to help the students prepare for their semester benchmark on February 6-7. We will review number sense and place value on Tuesday, addition, subtraction, and word problems on Wednesday, patterns and graphing on Thursday, and measurement on Friday. Please support your child at home by reviewing the study guides provided in the notebooks. The students will be bringing home their notebooks every day. In social studies we will learn about the contributions of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, and Cesar Chavez.

Our quarter 3 parent/teacher conferences are scheduled for Thursday, February 6. Please click on the link to sign up for a time for us to meet and discuss your child’s progress during the first half of third grade.

Mrs. Duffy will be going out on maternity leave the week of February 10th, and will be back before the end of the school year in mid-May. We are fortunate to have a substitute teacher, Mr. Kerner, who has experience teaching third grade, join our classroom in her absence. He has met the students before, and we are excited to be working with him!
Upcoming Events:
Monday, January 27-no school for students/teacher clerical day
Thurs./Fri. Feb. 6/7-Math benchmark
Friday, February 14-PAW Achievement and class Valentine’s Party at 1 pm