Welcome to Third Grade with Mrs. Peralta!

     Happy beginning of the 2018-2019 school year!  This is my first 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 few weeks 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 are working on in September.

ELA: 
We have begun our first chapter of vocabulary this week.  Learning new words is exciting!  We are also practicing our center work rotations.

Writing:
We are beginning our Lucy Calkins Writers Workshop this week.  We will begin with Narrative writing for the first couple of months of school.

Math:
In Math, we are beginning the year 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 they could both walk and run 10 meters, and then we put those hypotheses to the test.  After measuring students' walking and running time, they then predicted how long they thought it would take them to run 20 meters.

Religion:
In Religion this month, we are learning about God's never-ending love for us.  We are also learning about what both the Old and the New Testament in the Bible contain and teach 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!
Julia Peralta


Important Dates:
1/18 Family Game Night 6:30-8pm 
1/18 All Milk Orders & Payments Due 
1/18 Lunch Order Opens for New Session
1/21 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – No School
1/22 Preschool Info Night 6:30pm 
1/23 Kindergarten Info Night 6:30 pm 
1/24 Preschool Visit Day 9am 
1/25 2nd Quarter Ends 
1/28-2/1 Catholic Schools Week 

2/5 Report Cards Available on MSP 
2/6 Quiet Mass 8:30am  
2/6 Walkathon Wednesday 
2/7 February/August Birthday Lunch  
2/8 Winter Family Dance 6:30pm  
2/8 Returning Family Registration Due 
2/18-2/22 February Recess – No School