Hello All,
Welcome to Week 2 of Third Grade! It has been a great beginning to learning about your children and the character of this year's class. We have spent the last week becoming familiar with rules and expectations for Third Grade, and will continue to do so over the next several weeks.  The kids have been a pleasure, eager to learn and to support each other.

This week we will wrap up our math chapter, "Data and Graphing", with a test on Tuesday.  Then we will move on to a short chapter titled "Probability".   In Language Arts, we will continue reading Charlotte's Web all together, and work on summarizing, as well as other reading and writing strategies.

In addition, we have a representative from Save Our Shores visiting all Third Grade classrooms on Monday.  We will follow up this morning visit with a school clean-up, using their gloves, buckets, and data-collecting materials.  If you would like to join us for the clean-up, we will begin at 12:15 (after lunch.) If you decide to join us, please sign in at the office before you come up to the classroom.

On Monday, students will bring home a Homework Packet that will include a Reading Log, Math Drill, and Spelling work. The weekly packets are fairly uniform, and are due on Fridays, unless otherwise noted. We will have a spelling test on the words in the packet most Fridays.  A big thank you to Maggie's and Abby's moms, for their labors last week, dismantling homework books into "bite-size" pieces!

Finally, most of the students have sent in their paperwork and "Parent Homework", but if your child's is not complete, please send it ASAP.  In addition, those children who forgot Mystery Bags should bring them on Monday.  We will be looking at 5-6 a day this week.

Have a great week,
Carroll Mayer