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Welcome to our class page! I am so excited to begin the 2025-2026 school year with our new classroom family! Please use this website to keep up with the latest updates in our classroom. You will find a general outline for weekly instruction below. Please keep in mind that instruction & homework may vary or change throughout the week based on student needs and understanding. 
 
Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions! I look forward to working together this year to best support your child! We are going to have a great year!
 
 

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Please let me know if your child does not have access to a device at home. Log in using Microsoft. Username and password are taped into the first page of your child's assignment notebook.

 
Math

This week, we will begin Module 6 which focuses on Collecting and Displaying Data. We will complete lessons 1-4 which target skills such as generating and organizing data, creating scaled bar graphs, and solving one and two step problems involving graphs.

 

Need help with homework? Search "Eureka Math, third grade, module 1 lesson ___" on YouTube :) Each day in class, we will be completing a portion (or all) of the problem set. Students are responsible for completing the corresponding homework pages for our daily lesson on Monday through Thursday each week. Please make sure your child is putting their workbook right back in their backpack after completing their homework. You will find all homework assignments written in their planner and on our class webpage.

 

 
Reading

 

Our focus skills this quarter are:

 

Informational Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

CSS.ELA-Literacy. RI 3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently. Use information gained from illustrations and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy. RI 3.8 Describe how the author connects ideas between sentences and paragraphs to support specific points in a text.

 

This week we will utilize the texts "One Small Place in a Tree", "The Value of Trees", "Beyond the Beehive", and "Into a Bee's Nest" to target the skills of cause and effect and sequencing.

 

 

 

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Mystery Science: "How is your life like an alligator's?"

 

 

Writing

 

This week we will begin our fourth quarter inquiry project. Students will identify an important cause in the world and research how they can be a changemaker!

 

 

 
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Cre: Meaning "bring forth, produce"

 

 
Important dates
 
 
Monday, March 30- Monday, April 6: Spring Break
Monday, April 6: No School
Tuesday, April 7: Return from Spring Break
Tuesday, April 7: Hot Lunch
Wednesday, April 8: Library
Thursday, April 9th: Feature Presentation 10 am
Thursday, April 9th: Theme Thursday- Character Day
 
E Learning Schedule

 

*Governor Pat Quinn signed Erin's Law in January of 2013, which requires all schools in the state of Illinois to provide age appropriate sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention education programs for students in grades Pre-K through 12. Our lessons  3rd grade students will begin the week of February 1st. The Chelsea Intermediate School Social Workers will be teaching each lesson in the child’s classroom. The "Think First and Stay Safe" program will be the curriculum utilized for these lessons with a focus on Child Lures.