2008-2009 School Supply List for Grade 3

10 folders with brads AND pockets (2 orange, 2 yellow, 1 red, 1 green, 1 blue, 1 purple, and 2 your choice of color)

1 ruler (inches & centimeters)

4 glue sticks

4 packs wide-ruled notebook paper

2 70-sheet spiral notebooks (wide-ruled)

2 stenographer's spiral notebooks

1 box washable markers

1 package assorted dry erase markers

1 box (12 count) colored pencils

2 boxes (24 count) Crayola crayons

1 pair Fiskars or "Fiskars-like" scissors

1 black Sharpie

2 dozen #2 pencils (not mechanical & no hand-held pencil sharpeners)

1 large cloth or nylon zippered pencil bag (no boxes)

1 box of gallon zipper bags

3 large boxes Kleenex

2 rolls paper towels

1 assignment book (required, available in bookstore)

1 chair bag (very helpful, not required, available in bookstore)
1 Parent-Teacher Communication Folder "Tuesday Folder" (Required; available in bookstore)

Supplies are collected and used as group supplies.

3^rd Grade Summer Reading List

In order to prepare out students for the upcoming school year, the following books should be read over the summer break.

• Optional students read 8 books.
• Non-optional students read 5 books

1. Why Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears by Aardema, Verna
2. Stone Fox by Gardiner, John Reynolds
3. My Great-Aunt Arizona by Houston, Gloria
4. Frog and Toad are Friends by Lobel, Arnold
5. The Giant-Jam Sandwich by Lord, John Vernon
6. Roxaboxen by McLerran, Aslice
7. The Haunting of Grade Three by Maccarone, Grace
8. Chicken Sunday by Polacco, Patricia
9. Tar Beach by Ringgold, Faith
10. When I was Young in the Mountains by Rylant, Cunthis
11. Grandfather’s Journey by Say, Allen
12. Caps for Sale by Slobodkina Esphyr
13. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by Steig, William
14. Storm in the Night by Stolz, Mary
15. Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Viorst, Judith
16. Galimoto by Williams, Karen Lynn