Welcome to Third Grade with Mrs. Peralta!

     Happy beginning of the 2019-2020 school year!  This is my second year at Saint Lawrence School and I am so excited to have such a wonderful group of students!  We have been getting to know one another in these first weeks of school and we are off to a great start.  Our class is working hard on learning all of the classroom procedures that come along with our exciting third grade work.  We are also taking beginning of the year assessments to help us prepare for the work that is ahead.  Below, I have outlined what we will begin working on throughout the first couple months of the school year.

ELA: 
We will begin our first chapter of vocabulary soon.  Learning new words is exciting!  We are also practicing our center work rotations.  Lucy Calkins Readers Workshop is underway, as students learn about building a powerful reading life and learning how to find books they love to read!

Writing:
We have begun our Lucy Calkins Writers Workshop in the first week of school.  We will begin the year with Narrative writing.

Math:
In Math, we are beginning the year with an introduction to multiplication.  Students will review skip counting through various strategies and learn the rules of multiplying by 1 and 0.  After this introduction to multiplication, students will be reviewing and learning about addition and subtraction within 1,000.  This includes rounding, estimating sums, mental math strategies, properties of addition, place value, and more.

Science:
Currently, students are learning about force and motion.  They have learned and studied many vocabulary terms related to force and motion, and we have even practiced measuring motion.  Students made hypotheses about how fast they thought students could both walk and run 10 meters, and then we put those hypotheses to the test.  

Religion:
In Religion this month, we will be learning about God's never-ending love for us.  We are also learning about what the Old and the New Testament in the Bible contain and what each one teaches us.


If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me!  I can be reached at julia.peralta@dor.org, or by calling the school at (585) 225-3870.

Thank you!
Mrs. Julia Peralta


Important Dates:
9/19 September Birthday Lunch 
9/28  Opening Family Mass at 4:00 PM  
9/28 Welcome Celebration 5:00 PM 
9/23 Lunch and Milk Program begins  
10/1 School Picture Day 
10/2 Quiet Mass 8:30 am 
10/11 Fall Conference Day – No School
10/14 Columbus Day – No School 
10/18 Living Rosary 1pm 
10/25 11am Dismissal 
10/26 Walkathon 10am-1pm