Welcome to 3rd-4th Grade

APA - 3rd and 4th Grade News

Date: 2/8/2026

This week is a busy one. We have MAP testing, two field trips, and a Valentine party.

Upcoming Valentine Party

Looking ahead this week 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.

We see how God made a reluctant leader into a bold conqueror in the example of Gideon, the first judge of the Israelites. Judges 6 shares how God called Gideon to serve him, promised to be with him and gave him two miraculous signs to assure him of His help. God wants us to use the abilities he has given us to serve him. He promises to be with us and help us.
Judges 7 and part of 8 share the account of how God gave Gideon victory over the Midianites. God uses this lesson to remind us that even when our troubles seem too big to handle, our almighty God helps us overcome them.

Reading

Third grade will continue to read the chapter book, Sarah, Plain and Tall this week.
Fourth grade will learn from their textbooks this week.
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, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

3rd grade - compound words: birthday, anyone, sometimes, everything, homework, afternoon, airplane, grandmother, something, without, himself, faraway, sunburned, daylight (challenge: scorekeeper, everybody)
4th grade - dentist, final, finish, narrow, shelter, ahead, corner, hollow, divide, famous, recent, silver, capture, cabin, dinner, minus, minute, value, reward, broken (challenge: decent, secure, standard, frontier, stampede)