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Grade 3 - Mrs. Janine Hanley
janine.hanley@cheverusschool.com
Welcome to 3rd Grade!Third Grade is an exciting year filled with learning, exploring, and sharing! One highlight of third grade is learning multiplication and division, and we will learn and play many fun games to master all our facts. We will also read many great stories together in our reading textbook as well as chapter books! We will perfect our reading skills of story elements, inferencing, point of view, fact and opinion, and sequencing. Also in language arts, we will incorporate new parts of speech into our writing and add more details and descriptions. We will learn about the 50 states in our country and all the capital cities in social studies, as we visit many different kinds of communities, and learn about ecosystems, water, weather, the layers of our earth, and more in science. Technology is incorporated into all of our subjects through our computer lab and smartboards.
Every day we will discuss the importance of our Catholic faith and learn different prayers and ways to pray. Spirit of Truth is our religion series and will help us understand the life of Jesus and Mary, and many Catholic teachings.
Third grade is a year where students will learn to be more independent as they grow. It is expected that high quality work is completed and handed in on time. Students’ schoolwork should be of high quality in both content and appearance. There is homework each night of the week in third grade, always consisting of a language arts and math activity. Homework is expected to be passed in the next day. Study of skills learned and practiced during the week should continue to be studied over the weekend.
All graded papers, including tests, quizzes, and classwork, go home on Fridays in a special weekly folder. Parents are asked to sign the signature sheet inside the folder and return the signed weekly folder every Monday. Some worksheets are graded with a checkmark system that signifies excellent, good, or poor schoolwork.
Positive reinforcement of good behavior is encouraged through incentive charts, and students are able to receive stickers on their charts regularly for good, kind behavior, great effort, and positive choices. Upon filling up their chart, students are awarded with an item from our treasure box, a prayer card or religious item, and a homework pass. Poor behavior will result in a range of consequences including a time out, seat moved, missed participation in class activites, written letter home to parent, meeting with parent, and/or meeting with our principal.
Third grade is a busy and exciting year! It is a true blessing to be able to get to know all of the wonderful third graders who come through my classroom, and I always look forward to working together to make each and every school year an exciting, successful, and enjoyable one!
Many blessings,
Mrs. Janine Hanley