A Note to Parents of Third Graders

As a parent myself, I know how homework can be a bit of a nightmare.  Some kids love to work on homework while others cannot even fathom picking a pencil to do MORE of what they have been working on at school.

I have been a preschool teacher, kindergarten teacher and this year was the first year I got into the older grades.  I always knew third grade was a big year for students which State testing and all.  But what I did not realize is that third grade is the year that many children made decisions about whether or not they like school.  Third grade is the year where homework gets very challenging.  In fact, until I was a third grade teacher I did not fully understand that third grade calls for a rigor to those moving from second grade might not be ready for.  And if you child is missing little fundamental pieces of the puzzle,  it will show up in third grade.

There is this saying that educators know: k-3rd grade, students are learning to read and when they go to fourth grade, they are reading to learn.  What does that mean?  It means if your child has issues with reading fluency, decoding words, understanding prefixes and suffixes, reading for context clues, comprehending what they are reading, they will not be able to keep up.

I take the role of the parent very seriously.  I know as a teacher that if you as the parent are not on board to help support what we are doing in the classroom, it will be very difficult to keep your child on track.

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