Welcome to 3rd Grade

Welcome to 3rd grade! I’m looking forward to another great year. We’ve been in school for one month now and things are moving along. The students are settling in to my expectations and schedule. I’m getting to know each one of them and their strengths.



If you have not registered for Engrade please remember to do so. This will keep you up to date on your child’s grades. You will notice is they are missing any assignments, if they fail an assignment, or how great they are doing.



In Religion we started with discussing the Family of God. In this unit we talked about God’s creation and the Church community. We have discussed why it’s important to be a member of God’s Church community. Our next unit we’ll be starting next week will be on responding to God.



In reading we finished our first theme selection on Adventures. We will be doing the theme skills test toward the end of the week. Our next themed reading series will be Celebrating Traditions. If any family member has a special tradition they celebrate please come join our class and share your tradition. Keep up the homework reading. Remember it will count as part of their reading grade at the end of each quarter.



Spelling is moving along good. Please remember to do the Dear Parent activity at home with your child. This activity is part of the spelling test. I do not give pre-test on Monday and test on Friday. The way this program is set up, there are many mini lesson that I do throughout the week. Some weeks there is one lesson and sometimes there might be three lessons. So, the spelling test may not fall on Friday’s.



ADDITION - This is what we are on now. We started with place value and rounding. The caught on really good with rounding. We started doing column addition. There will be one lesson where I will introduce the calculator. I do not allow the calculator during math lesson, but this one lesson they get to use it. So when they bring their work home and say Mrs. Punjak said, “I can use a calculator”, it’s true for the one lesson. Practice the math facts daily with your child.



What is a sentence? What makes up a sentence? What kind of sentences are there? These are a few of the questions we answered in Language the last month. We will be finishing up the unit shortly and moving on to nouns.



A few Notes:



MAPS testing today and Thursday this week for 3rd grade. Next week Tuesday they will have their last MAPS test. Make sure they get a good nights rest and eat a good breakfast these days.



On Oct. 23rd, 3rd grade will host the Liturgy. We will be celebrating Native American Mass – Saint Katerie. Please come join us.



Each child needs to remember to bring their own snack for break each day.



I will be looking for a Room Parent who can help in the classroom if needed on special occasions and to help with calling other 3rd grade parents. This job can be split between two parents.