Mrs. Budarf * Ms. Gatti * Mrs. Giampapa * Mrs. Le Roy * Mrs. Wagner * Ms. Wright

Mrs. Budarf * Ms. Gatti * Mrs. Giampapa * Mrs. Le Roy * Mrs. Wagner * Ms. Wright ------Dear Parents, Fall is in full swing at 102 and we are working hard to learn new and important third grade skills and concepts. Students will work on developing goals in Literacy and Math. They will be expected to work on achieving their goals and must push themselves to do so both at home and in school. Please become familiar with your child’s goals so that you can support them in their work to achieve these goals.  Third Grade Teachers “ ACHIEVING IS WHAT WE DO AT P.S/I.S 102!”

IMPORTANT DATES  October 1st-2nd: Bayview Players Auditions for “The Wizard of Oz”  October 3rd: Lunch Money Due  October 4th: Yom Kippur  October 5th: Eid al-Adha  October 8th: Candy Sale Ends  October 13th: Columbus Day (School Closed)  October 15th: Parent’s Assocatiaion Meeting  October 23rd: Diwali  October 24th: P.S/I.S 102s 11th Annual Read Aloud Day  October 25th: Muharram  October 29th: Parents’ Association’s Pumpkin Patch  October 31st: Halloween REMINDERS  School Schedule: Arrival 8:20 am and Dismissal is at 2:40 pm  Breakfast is served 7:40-8:10 am  Be sure your child is on time and prepared to learn everyday!  Third graders do not dress up in costumes for Halloween. We do celebrate by wearing black or orange on October 31st! Helpful Websites: www.arisparentlink.org www.mycapstonelibrary.com www.cainc.i-ready.com www.multiplication.com www.ps102q.org Literacy Math Workshop

This month we are beginning the second unit This month we will be starting chapter 2 and 3 of ReadyGen entitled “Connecting Character, of the My Math program. These units will review Culture, and Community.” The essential concepts learned in second grade. During chapter questions we will focus on throughout this unit 2, students will review addition. In chapter 3, are “How does a character’s environment and students will review subtraction. Students will culture impact behavior?” and “How does a learn multiple strategies to solve addition and character’s dialogue and actions impact the subtraction equations. We will also continue to course of events in a narrative?” To help practice math problem solving skills. Students will students prepare to answer these questions, we answer math word problems by following The will teach them that readers use text-based Problem Solving Strategy. We will be encouraging evidence to draw conclusions about the students to explain and justify their mathematical characters in literary texts. They will also thinking and processes. explore content to understand that people have Science rich cultural heritage. Our students are busy in Science class! We We will continue to read various complex introduced new vocabulary and reviewed the words texts in this unit that will aid our students in in our science notebook word wall. The students becoming better readers. The first text we will are excited to do hands-on activities that require read is titled The Athabascans: Old Ways and critical thinking and forming hypothesis. Some of New Ways written by Ron Fridell. This is an these involve using new and old science tools such informational text which explores the culture as spring scales that measure force in Newtons. and way of life of Native Alaskans. The second Mass and measurement Gravity, force and simple text will be the literary text The Year of Miss machines are some topics we will be learning about Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill. We will use our prior and noting what we learn each day in our science knowledge from our first text on Native notebooks as well and talking about our discoveries Alaskans to help us better understand this in our small and whole group discussion. Please ask narrative text about life in a small Alaskan town. your child about their Science homework as it will Social Studies be 5% of their overall grade.

This month students will begin their “journey around the world” as they learn about the first Follow our School on continent and country we will study this year. Twitter: @psis102q Students will learn about Africa and it’s land, Instagram: PSIS102Q water, environments, plants and animals. Then they will learn all about NIGERIA! We will study Please refer to the UNIT VOCABULARY SHEET all about the country’s land, economy, climate, for all new and important words! government, culture and much more!

WHAT WILL WE LEARN IN THIRD GRADE THIS MONTH?