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Welcome!!

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Welcome to 3rd Grade! I am so excited to get ready for the new school year. I am really looking forward to meeting all of you. This is going to be a fabulous year. Here are a few announcements just to get us started. All announcements from here on out will be available on our class blog. To subscribe enter your email address on the side of the page where it says, “Make sure to subscribe to our blog!”


Remember Back To School Night is Monday, August 14 from 5:30 to 7:00. I will be doing a presentation every 15 minutes starting at 5:30. If there is a session already started when you get to class, please wait for the next one. At 7:00 we will be having an inclusion parent meeting that will be in the Q1 Gym. Please come with any question you might have about our upcoming school year. We will be talking with all of the inclusion teachers and aids, as well as the SPED coordinators.


I’ve decided to do my supplies a little differently this year. I am giving the parents and option to pay $20 to cover each student’s supplies. (If you can, I would prefer this. I already bought class sets of all the supplies. I promise it is a great deal for all these great supplies!) This way I can get all needed supplies purchased and labeled before students even come back to school and parents have a few less things to buy during a busy time of year.


You can start paying the $20 to the office the day school starts or on back to school night. I will be buying, labeling, and organizing the supplies over the summer so that we will be ready–or close to it–by the first day of school!
The $20 will purchase each student:
  • Pencil pouch
  • Colored pencils
  • Crayons
  • 3 Folders, including a homework folder
  • 2 Spiral notebooks
  • 3 Composition notebook
  • Scissors
  • 3 Mechanical pencils
  • Headphones (if you already have headphones that you like, you are welcome to bring them. Regardless, there will be a set available for every student that stays at school.)
  • Glue sticks
  • Copy paper
  • 1 Box of Tissues
  • 1 Container of anti-bacterial wipes (i.e. Clorox or Lysol)
  • 1 roll of paper towels
                                                                         Have a great last couple days of summer!
                                                                         Miss Young

Last Week of 3rd Grade

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  • Tuesday
    • The play is TOMORROW!!! Our first performance is at 9:00 am and the second is at 6:30.
    • Students may come to school in their costume and then change into uniform after the performance.
    • Students need to be at the school at 6:00 with their costume already on. Please let me know if there are any delays or problems getting to the school.
    • Please put your phones on airplane mode when you come to the performance, we are having issues with the microphones and this helps!
  • Thursday
    • FIELD DAY!!!
    • All students must bring a home lunch. There will not be school lunch that day.
    • All students need to wear their tie-dye shirts. It is a free dress down day, but we want to distinguish 3rd graders from the rest.
    • All students need to bring a water bottle.
    • I would recommend wearing sunscreen.
  • Friday
    • Free dress down and a short day.
    • We will be having our cast party, which includes watching our Tuesday performance and having popcorn and juice. If this is a problem, let me know.
    • We will be giving out class awards.
    • We will be watching all of the iMovies that students made this week.
    • We will also be signing yearbooks on this day.
Phewwww! That was a ton of info! It is going to be a crazy week, but we are going to have so much fun! I love our class so much, I really am going to miss each and every student. Thank you so much for your support this year, volunteering, chaperoning, sending in supplies, and everything else you do. This is definitely a team effort. Have a wonderful and safe and adventurous summer! 

                                                                                                              Love,
                                                                                                              Miss Young

Week of May 15, 2017

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Announcements:
  • Play Practice is in full swing! Our play is next week!!
    • The dress rehearsal is May 22nd at 9:00 and the Play is May 23rd at 9:00 am and 6:30 pm.
  • SAGE English/Language Arts this week. Please make sure students are on time, get plenty of sleep, and eat a good breakfast.
    • SAGE ELA Session #1- Tuesday, May 16th @ 2:00-3:00
      SAGE ELA Session #2-Thursday, May 11th @ 2:00-3:00

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SPELLING

  • We will be focusing on review and not introducing new sort words.  

MATH 

READING
Students are expected to read every night for 20 minutes.

  • Please record your reading minutes under the Library Reading Challenge tab as well as on the reading log. Here is the updated reading log if you want to print it out and turn it in. Reading Log

Homework for the Week of May 8, 2017

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Announcements:
  • If you did not get a chance, please take a moment to fill out the survey about an evening performance of our play, Pirates from Grammar Island.
  • Please continue to practice and drill your multiplication facts at home.
  • Play Practice is in full swing! Start looking for costumes.
    • We are going off script this week! Please help your student memorize their lines.
    • The dress rehearsal is May 22nd at 9:00 and the Play is May 23rd at 9:00
  • SAGE English/Language Arts this week. Please make sure students are on time, get plenty of sleep, and eat a good breakfast.
    • SAGE ELA Session #1- Tuesday, May 9th @ 9:40-10:40
      SAGE ELA Session #2-Thursday, May 11th @ 9:30-10:30

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SPELLING

  • We will be focusing on review and not introducing new sort words.  

MATH 

READING
Students are expected to read every night for 20 minutes.

  • Please record your reading minutes under the Library Reading Challenge tab as well as on the reading log. Here is the updated reading log if you want to print it out and turn it in. Reading Log

Homework for the Week of May 1, 2017

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Announcements:
  • Please continue to practice and drill your multiplication facts at home.
  • Play Practice is in full swing! Start looking for costumes.
    • We are going off script after this week! Please help your student memorize their lines.
    • The dress rehearsal is May 22nd at 9:00 and the Play is May 23rd at 9:00
  • SAGE English/Language Arts next week. Please make sure students are on time, get plenty of sleep, and eat a good breakfast.
    • SAGE ELA Session #1- Tuesday, May 9th @ 9:40-10:40
      SAGE ELA Session #2-Wednesday, May 11th @ 9:30-10:30

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SPELLING

We are doing the same sort that we did last week because most students did not do very well on our assessment. We are going to try again this week to master these words.
Review Sort

MATH 

READING
Students are expected to read every night for 20 minutes.

  • Please record your reading minutes under the Library Reading Challenge tab as well as on the reading log. Here is the updated reading log if you want to print it out and turn it in. Reading Log

Homework for the Week of April 24, 2017

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Announcements:
  • Please continue to practice and drill your multiplication facts at home.
  • Play Practice is in full swing! Start looking for costumes.
  • SAGE Writing this week. Please make sure students are on time, get plenty of sleep, and eat a good breakfast.
    • SAGE Writing Session #1- Tuesday, April 25th @ 9:50-10:50
      SAGE Writing Session #2-Wednesday, April 26th @ 10:40-11:40

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SPELLING

Students know that when we count money each one gets a certain number of “touches” (this is touch math). Quarters get 5 touches, dimes get 2 touches, nickels get 1 touch, and pennies get the number 1 written on it.

We are going to focus on a review sort for the whole class to prepare for our writing test.
Review Sort

MATH 

READING
Students are expected to read every night for 20 minutes.

  • Please record your reading minutes under the Library Reading Challenge tab as well as on the reading log. Here is the updated reading log if you want to print it out and turn it in. Reading Log

**Important SAGE Testing Information**

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It’s time to get started with our end of year SAGE testing.  I really want to make sure your children are well rested and full with a BIG, yummy, protein rich breakfast on these testing dates.  Also, please make sure your children are here and are ON TIME these days!  We want them to be as successful as possible.  Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.  

Also, research shows that students are calmer and focus better when they chew peppermint gum during tests.  So, I will be giving peppermint gum to the students during each session.  If you do not want your child to have gum, please contact me and let me know.  Thanks so much for all you do!

SAGE Writing Session #1- Tuesday, April 25th @ 9:50-10:50
SAGE Writing Session #2-Wednesday, April 26th @ 10:40-11:40

SAGE Language Arts Session #1-Tuesday, May 9th @ 9:40-10:40
SAGE Language Arts Session #2-Thursday, May 11th @ 9:30-10:30

SAGE Math Session #1- Tuesday, May 16th @ 2:00-3:00
SAGE Math Session #2- Thursday, May 18th @ 2:00-3:00