APA - 3rd and 4th Grade News

Date: 3/1/2026

Notes of Interest

• Monday is Read Across America Day! To celebrate it, the kids will be reading most of the day. 

  • They may dress in comfy clothes, including sweats if they wish. 

  • They may bring a pillow and blanket to read with. (no stuffed animals, please)

  • Finally, they should bring their favorite picture books and a chapter book to read. Each child should have a pile of books to read.

 

Christ Light

• God wants us to listen to our parents as they teach us about him. 1 Samuel 2, 4, and 7 share how God was angry with Eli because Eli did not discipline his sons. God expects parents to discipline their children when they sin. And God expects children to obey their parents.

• I Samuel 8-11 shows Saul as a humble king who served God.  God wants us to be humble and to serve him.  One way we can serve God is by helping others. 

Memory Treasures

• Tuesday - Ephesians 6:1 

• Thursday -  1 John 4:19

Math

• 3rd grade -  use a multiplication table to divide, multiply two digit numbers by one digit, use pictures to divide, divisor, dividend, quotient

• 4th grade - sales tax, decimals to thousandths, multiply by 10, 100, 1000, multiply by multiples of 10 and 100s.

Reading

• Third grade will continue the novel, Charlotte’s Web.

• Fourth grade will begin the novel Frindle 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, Wonder, Sarah, Plain and Tall 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, Wonder

Spelling

• 3rd grade - (y toi) cities, cried, puppies, hurried, stories, flies, parties, tried, pennies, fried, carried, babies, spied, ponies (challenge: countries, libraries)

• 4th grade - (VV pattern) idea, lion, usual, radio, liar, poem, India, piano, January, quiet, poet, science, diary, violin, period, February, cereal, video, meteor, rodeo (challenge: variety, gradual, geography, diagram, punctuate)

Social Studies 

• We will learn about the different parts of government and begin local government.

English

• We will share our informational books with one another. Look for them to come home in the near future.

Science

• We will learn how living things get energy.