Welcome to 3rd-4th Grade

APA - 3rd and 4th Grade News

Date: 1/18/2026

Notes of Interest

There is no school this Monday due to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
If you have not returned the field trip permission form that were sent home last week, please return them by this Wednesday.

Upcoming Valentine Party

Looking ahead a few weeks to our Valentine’s Day observance on February 13,, we will plan to share our Valentines before our field trip.
Please have your child be sure to include all children in the whole class when writing valentines to avoid hurt feelings.
If you’d like to have your child make a creative way to collect their Valentines at home, that is fine. Otherwise, please send a plastic grocery bag to collect Valentines. These days Valentines often are bigger in size than just a small piece of paper.

Christ Light

This week our theme focuses on God encouraging His people with assurances of final victory.
Numbers 27, Deuteronomy 5,18,31, and 34 share how God reminded the Israelites of His promises and brought them safely into Canaan. God assures us that He will take us to the promised land of heaven. He encourages us through His Word as we wait for the day we will go there.
In Joshua 2 we read how God used Rahab to assure the Israelite spies of victory. God uses other Christians to assure us of our victory over sin, death, and the devil. We in turn can use God’s Word to encourage others.

Memory Treasures

Math

3rd grade - parallelograms, polygons, congruency, triangles
4th grade - similar and congruent, multiples of ten, divide with remainders and millimeters

Reading

Third grade will be learning from their textbooks this week.
Fourth grade has begun the novel, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Books that should be added to the thirty book challenge so far from school opportunities: 3rd: Because of Winn Dixie, Secret School, The Best School Year Ever, How to Be Cool in the Third Grade, Stone Fox, I Survived…, Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and 4th: Sounder, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Best School Year Ever, How to Be Cool in the Third Grade, Who Was…, Mr. Poppers’ Penguins

Spelling

3rd grade - /j/ and /s/ age, space, change, jawbone, jacket, giant, pencil, circle, once, large, dance, jeans, bounce, huge (challenge: excited, gigantic)
4th grade - (Suffixes) colorful, weakness, movement, endless, truthful, illness, cheerful, useless, beautiful, restless, clumsiness, pavement, peaceful, fondness, neatness, speechless, statement, wasteful, penniless, treatment (challenge: numbness, ailment, resourceful, cleanliness, appointment)

Social Studies

We will learn how communities of the past compare to today and how people and events change communities.

English

Science