Dear Parents,

Welcome to third grade. I am very pleased to be your child's third grade teacher. My first teaching experiences were in Waterbury and Middlebury teaching special education. I also did some part time teaching while my boys were younger. For the past fourteen years I have been teaching third grade. The first six were at Baldwin and the last eight at Judson.

I reside in Watertown with my husband John. I have two sons aged 25 and 22. My oldest, John, is in medical school and my younger son Christopher is taking postbac courses in anatomy and neurobiology at Virginia Commonwealth University. I enjoy reading, listening to music, cooking, gardening, and using the computer.

Among some of the things the students learn in third grade are reading strategies, multiplication, cursive writing, and more developed writing skills.

I hope you will find this web page helpful. This is a way to keep you informed of assignments and other happenings in the classroom. I generally update it weekly. Students are still responsible to record homework assignments daily in class in the agenda and to get it signed.

Please feel free to contact me with any concerns or questions. I will get in touch with you as soon as possible. A note or phone call should be used for anything that needs immediate attention.

Patricia Chipko    
   

  What We Are Learning  

This year I will be using this section to let you know what skills and areas we are studying in the different academic areas. I will update it periodically.

The students have completed the Storytown anthology.  For the remainder of the schoolyearwe will be reading short stories and discussing them.  We also will be reviewing reading strategies.

In math, we will be reviewing some of the skills we learned this year.
  Weekly readers will be used for social studies for the remainder of the school year.  If the students have any current events they would like to share and discuss we will incorporate that into our lessons.