UCS Grade 3/4 Newsletter
September 12, 2025
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A Great Start in 3rd & 4th Grade!
We’re off to a wonderful start to the school year here at UCS! Our third and fourth graders are settling into their routines, building classroom community, stepping into their roles as school leaders, and having fun as they learn and grow together.
During the first six weeks of school, teachers move at a slower pace to focus on building routines, establishing expectations, and getting to know each student. This thoughtful beginning lays a strong foundation for a successful year of learning.
We’re looking forward to an exciting and rewarding year in 3rd and 4th grade!
For Third Grade Parents
From the PTO:
Calling all 3rd grade parents! The PTO needs your help to lead UCS' participation in the Harvest Market Parade! The Parade is to be held on Saturday morning September 27th and is a tradition where many local schools and groups participate. We need two event leaders who are willing to have a vision and run point on logistics, a number of folks to help with decorations, parents to attend the parade and help oversee the parade morning, and parents to donate bags of candy. Please sign up to help using this link. The PTO will provide the event leaders with guidance, but this is 3rd grade's event for the year and it's up to you to make it awesome! For the event leaders, we expect this to take between 1-3 hours of time over the next two weeks, including Saturday's event.
If you have questions please email the PTO at UCSPTO@mmuusd.org. If we don't have enough volunteers, we will unfortunately not be able to host this event. Thank you in advance for volunteering to make this a fun community day for our students!
-- UCS PTO
Important Dates
September 25th ~ Student Picture Day
September 26th ~ Annual Zucchini Relays (more info to come)
October 2-3 ~ No School for Students
Mrs. Bernier's Pictures
Ms. Melone's Pictures
Fourth graders helped lead All School Meeting
Fourth Graders welcomed Kindergarten friends at All School Meeting
Fourth Graders welcomed Kindergarten friends at
All School Meeting
Mrs. Giguere's Pictures
PTO News
Please consider volunteering for PTO events at UCS. The PTO helps to fund enrichment activities for students in the school. They are always looking for support!
Current Curriculum Units
Math
Math
Third Grade Math
Third Grade Math
Third graders are split into two classrooms this year with Mrs. Bernier and Ms. Melone. The first unit in third grade is called Understanding Equal Groups. Here is information about the unit: This unit focuses on understanding the meaning of multiplication, modeling multiplication using arrays, and understanding the inverse relationship between multiplication and division. Students make lists of things that come in groups and use them to write multiplication and division story problems, and equations to match. Multiples and arrays are introduced as two ways to represent multiplication. Students use arrays, and known facts, to develop fluency with the multiplication facts, and are assessed on those that involve multiplying numbers to 10 by 1, 2, 5 and 10. They find factors of numbers up to 100, and examine the relationship between multiplication and division. Check out this letter that includes samples of the types of math that we’ll be exploring if you are interested in more details. Click Here.
Fourth Grade Math
Fourth Grade Math
Fourth graders are split into two classrooms with Mrs. Giguere and Mr. Menz this year. The first unit focuses on using arrays and multiplicative comparison problems to understand multiplication, and gaining familiarity with factors and multiples. Students use arrays to model multiplication situations and to find factors and identify prime numbers to 100. They use what they know about factors of 100 to find factors of multiples of 100, and examine the idea that factors of a number are also factors of a multiple of that number. Check out this letter that includes samples of the types of math that we’ll be exploring if you are interested in more details. Click Here.
Literacy
Literacy
All of MMUUSD has adopted a new literacy program for this school year. We will be using this format for reading and writing instruction this year. We are learning about the program throughout the year as it is implemented. Here is some information about the curriculum:
American Reading Company's high-quality comprehensive core curriculum, ARC Core, includes culturally responsive, inquiry-based, thematic units of study, available K–12 in English and K–5 in Spanish, that integrate reading, writing, science, and social studies content in a student-centered learning environment.
Teacher Contact Information
Underhill Central School 3/4 Teachers
Underhill Central School 3/4 Teachers
Abbie Bernier, Mia Melone, Kristy Giguere
Emails:
kristy.giguere@mmuusd.org
Location: 6 Irish Settlement Rd, Underhill, VT 05489
Phone: 802.899.4676
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