📰 Early Light Academy – 3rd Grade Newsletter

Week of March 23-27, 2026

🌟 Dear Families,

I think everyone is looking forward to Spring Break. But we intend to have a full week of learning before we enjoy some downtime. Please encourage your student to stay engaged throughout the learning process. 

Please do your best to limit absences and tardies during this time. Because our schedule is very full, we often do not have time to reteach material that students miss. When this happens, students can feel frustrated when they return and find it difficult to understand concepts that were taught while they were away. Your support in helping students attend school regularly makes a big difference.

📖 Reading Focus: Biographies

We will continue our Language Arts lessons with reading biographies while looking for text evidence of what good citizens do. We will use text features such as captions and timelines to help students understand the information better. Students will determine the author’s purpose  and author’s claim from our selected readings. We will focus on cause and effect since this is still a concept most students are struggling with.

📝 Grammar Focus 

This week in grammar students are learning about subject and object pronouns. Subject pronouns are used as the subject of a sentence. Students will determine which subject pronoun works best in the sentence. Object pronouns take the place of an object pronoun. Students will also determine which object pronoun fits into the sentence correctly. Review these with your child this week!

✍️  Writing Focus 

This week students will work on opinion writing this week. They will be using Utah Compose to help them as they read a series of articles and form there opinion about if all cars should be flying cars or not. They will form their opinion, use reasons to back up their opinion and create a strong writing piece in Utah Compose.

🔬Science Spotlight

In this week’s lesson, “Where’s the Best Place to Build a Snow Fort?” we will explore seasonal weather conditions across different regions and investigate how weather patterns can be used to make predictions about future weather.

✖️Math Corner: Understanding equivalent fractions

This week, we will continue working on time and take a quiz on Tuesday! Students reviewed today. Ask them if they need any help at home to prepare! We will then study measuring length with rulers and recording and interpreting data on a line plot. Continue studying multiplication facts. Beginning in the 4th quarter, we will have grades for the multiplication fact standard. 1 for an assignment and 1 as an assessment. To get a 3, students need to have passed the 1-10s. 4s will be given to students who have surpassed the 10s. If your student is still on the 1-5s, they will receive a 1. If your students are on 6-10, they will receive a 2. Please contact your student's teacher for help!

🔠 Spelling Words-Inflected Endings

Inflectional endings are suffixes (like -s, -ed, -ing, -er, -est) added to the end of a base word to change its grammatical function, tense, number, or comparison without changing the core meaning. They commonly signify plural nouns, verb tenses (past/present), or superlative adjectives.

names

named

naming

hopes

hoped

hoping

dances

danced

dancing

drops

dropped

dropping

wraps

wrapped

wrapping

basketball

airplane

birthday

driving

traded

📚 Vocabulary Words

1. Citizenship-the position of being a citizen of a country with all the rights that come with it

2. Continued- goes on without stopping

3. Daring- courageous and bold

4. Horrified- filled with great fear, horror or dislike

5. Participate- join with others or take part in something

6. Proposed- suggest something to others for consideration

7. Unfairness- state of being unfair or unjust

8. Waver- to pause when being unsure

📅 Important Dates

• March 24 @6pm- Honor Choir Concert. Come support Hickenlooper and our kids!

• March 27, 2026- 3rd Quarter ends

• March 30-April 3, 2026 Spring Break

• April 6, 2026 4th Quarter begins

• April 20, 2026 Virtual Wellness Day- No school for students or teachers. 

I've had some parents reach out letting me know they've struggled with the links, so I've copied and pasted them below. Hopefully this helps!

• Quizlet multiplication flash cards: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kQ1jdLL2Qc8TOur9--J8i3SddQaT-yTo2niYB3qzQko/edit?usp=sharing

• Khan Academy steps to login at home: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11c0eFvAk-j0QMoA0N-Jwt1pdgcdlZK2bu3u-0iJ_pDk/edit?usp=sharing

Here are some websites you can use to practice math skills. 

• iReady Flight Fluency available through your student’s portal in Classlink.com  They will use sign in with Google. They use the same log in as they do in school. You may have to add @earlylightacademy.org to their Google login

• Multiplication.com

• https://www.boddlelearning.com/parents-page

• https://xtramath.org/#/signin/teacher_other

• https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/parents

• https://www.boddlelearning.com/parents-page

• https://play.stmath.com/academy/modules/hs_started/ if you sign up as a homeschool student you can get free access to ST math. Your student should be familiar with this math program from years past.