Welcome to third grade!  I hope you are enjoying your summer, and I especially hope that you are just as excited to meet me as I am to meet you!  I have been spending lots of time with my husband, eleven year old daughter, Gracelyn, and nine year old son, Jayden. You will hear a lot about them throughout the year.   I am thrilled to be your teacher and plan on having a fun and interesting school year that provides many activities for our class to join together as friends.

The following is a list of things that I would like you to bring to school on your first day:

• 1 box 24 crayons
• 2 large glue sticks
• 24 #2 pencils (no mechanical pencils)
• 1 box of tissues
• 2 composition books (not spiral bound)
• 1 large pencil/supply box
• 1 4-pack black dry erase markers
• 1 yellow and 1 green plastic folder with 3 holes punched
• 1 plastic homework folder, hole punched*
• 1 sock or white board eraser
• Scissors
• 1 box of colored pencils
• 2 block erasers 
• 2 highlighters
• 2 packs of post-it notes (3x3)
• 1 pencil sharpener
• 1 set of earbuds
• 1 art smock with name (an old shirt will work great)*
• 1 1inch 3 ring binder*
• a favorite book*

You are going to have so much fun this year in third grade!  There are a lot of neat things to learn and many new friends to make.  Get ready to enter the third grade world of animals, forces, and Native Americans.  We will practice math facts, multiplication and division and much, much more! Don’t forget about reading, writing, and spelling too!  

I can’t believe school starts in just a few short weeks.  I hope you are as excited as I am to start the school year and begin many new friendships!  I look forward to meeting you and getting to know all about you in room 205 on Monday, August 27th!  Enjoy the rest of your summer! 

Sincerely,

Mrs. O’Malley

 *These items are not on the Skippack Elementary School Supply List, but are required for my class.