Week 2

Owl News

• Please encourage your student to always have a book with them anywhere they go and to read in as many places as possible. We are trying to enjoy reading this year by not focusing on time but instead focusing on where we read great books! They will fill out their “Reading Itinerary” boxes at their own speed. One box is for each session read. They can get a new sheet from their teacher once their boxes are all filled in.

• IXL and Raz Kids are not yet available. We will send home login and passwords as soon as we have those available.

• There will not be any school on Monday, September 5th because of Labor Day.

• Just a reminder that if you would still like to make a voluntary donation and bring in school supplies, these are very helpful to fund our field trips and classroom projects.

•  Please remember that anyone who wants to volunteer who will have unsupervised access, (such as field trip supervision or volunteer tutoring outside the classroom) will now need to have a regional-level background check.  This is a more broad background check and fingerprinting process that needs to be completed at the Alpine School District office a minimum of 30 days prior to the event.  The cost is $55.00.

• The secret code word for this week is: FRAZZLE......The secret code word is to encourage parents and students to look on the blog and find the spelling words and find out the owl news for the week.  Each teacher in 3rd grade has a different way they are implementing how they reward students for telling their teacher the secret code word. 

Each student will be given a pretest in spelling each week.  Your student will be given a colored list, Blue, Green or Orange for the week. The color is based on the number of correct words they spelled on the pretest.  The spelling list can be found on the left side of the blog under the heading "Weekly Spelling lists".

Welcome to 3rd Grade!

We as a teaching staff want to welcome you all into the 3rd grade. It's going to be an amazing year full of fun and learning!

We are also very excited to start off the year using this new blog as a way to communicate to you all the happenings and homework this year.  This we hope will be an effective way to answer those weekly questions or concerns you may have throughout the year.   If you have further concerns please don't hesitate to e-mail or call your student's teacher at any time.

Please login weekly to find what our weekly curriculum focuses will be and any important information you will need to be aware of.    The blog will be updated each Monday by 5:00 p.m. to show the most update homework and curriculum lessons for the week.

As we begin this school year we have provided a donation/supply list  for each student entering 3rd grade. This list can be found below as well as on the school website and our school Facebook page.


*Please note that some teachers may have specific donation requests for their individual classroom that will be made available to you on back to school night.

3rd Grade Supply List This year we are requesting a voluntary donation of $15. It will help pay for field trips, art projects and other academic purposes.  If paying by check, please make your voluntary $15 donation check payable to Dry Creek Elementary. NOTICE: The items on this list will be used during the regular school day. They may be brought from home on a voluntary basis, otherwise, they will be furnished by the school.
Essential Items: It is helpful for every child to bring these supplies, and they will be used throughout the school year.	Wish List: These items will be used by everyone in the class. If you would like to donate items, that would be great, but you don’t have to bring everything on this list.
2 highlighters 2 or more skinny dry erase markers 2 or more normal dry erase markers 3 composition books Large pack of pencils (Ticonderoga are preferred) 1 inch binder with clear view cover 4 pack of glue sticks 2 boxes of crayons 2 or more black sharpies 5 2 pocket folder, no prongs Scissors Box of markers Tri-fold project board. (These don’t need to come to school until specified.)	Clorox wipes Hand Sanitizer Kleenex tissues Paper towels Sheet protectors Large bottle of hand soap Ziploc bags: snack, sandwich, quart or gallon size. Ream of paper