Third grade ready to roll

The third grade students are getting back into the swing of things, and we’re looking forward to a fantastic year!

This year, we are delving deeper into our reading program, Expeditionary Learning, or EL for short. We are exploring a variety of texts and focusing on the character traits of collaboration, integrity, compassion, craftsmanship, perseverance and initiative.

Students are reading books about children in other countries and how they are educated.

Many of our social studies and science topics will be discussed within our reading program. In math, we’re working on strategies for basic addition and subtraction, as well as one step story problems. Students are working toward mastery of the basic math facts. As time permits, students have begun to learn the lowercase cursive letters and can already write a few words containing undercurve letters. We are also reading library books and will soon begin to take tests on the computerized Accelerated Reader program available to us over the internet. To determine our entry-level skills, we have just completed the Aimsweb tests in reading, math and language arts. These tests help us determine our strengths and weaknesses, so that we can set personal goals. Finally, we have done activities with our kindergarten buddies.

It’s important to do things the Rocket Way. Everyone needs to act in ways that are responsible, respectful and safe. We have been working on the correct way to act in the classroom, hallway, bathroom and cafeteria.

Our third graders have been displaying their positive character traits in these areas.

-Ms. Morzewski, Mrs. Payant and Mrs.

Hintze