Parent/Teacher conferences will be held Monday, March 9 and Wednesday, March 11. Please contact me if you need a reminder of your conference time. I look forward to sharing your child’s progress in third grade!

Homework: Study Island homework assignment should be completed by Monday. These assignments can be tricky and require focus and stamina. This is an assignment for you to support your child if needed. Help them read carefully and think through strategies for solving the problem. They should use scrap paper to show their thinking. It is important that this assignment is completed by Monday. Thank you!

Reading: March is Reading Month!! It is very important that your third grader continue to build their reading skills by reading daily for at least 20 minutes. During this second half of the year, reading expectations are set a little higher and reading outside of school can help improve reading skills and boost confidence too!

Math Fact Practice: Help your child to continue building math fact skills by practicing math facts for 5 minutes each day. We will be doing our LAST TIMED TEST this week Friday. I have seen many students making great progress because they have been doing lots of practicing. Way to go!!  After spring break, we will pick up with mixed facts timed tests.

FRIDAY, MARCH 6 is an early release day. Dismissal is at 12:15pm.

Here is an update of our learning:
Writing: We finished up our literary essays and completed our post assessment of opinion writing. We will be spending some time on learning to write a constructed response and practice our test taking skills in preparation for MSTEP.

Math: We are beginning our next unit this week and we will be studying Geometry. We will study rays, angles, quadrilaterals, etc.  Here are pictures of the definitions for this unit.  Please use this if your child has make-up work sent home or homework.

Reading: We are in the middle of book clubs and each club has been reading a book and studying the characters. They have been discussing what their character is learning and how they are moving across the story mountain of their book.

Social Studies: We have started to learn about Michigan History. We are studying the Three Fires, the Native American groups, that lived long ago in Michigan.