Patricia Chipko

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Dear Parents,

Welcome to third grade at Judson School. 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 seventeen years I have been teaching third grade. The first six were at Baldwin and the last eleven at Judson.

I reside in Watertown with my husband John. I have two sons aged 27 and 25. My oldest, John, is married and is doing a surgery residency in PA. and my younger son Christopher is in his second year of medical school in Richmond, VA. 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 that has been generously provided by the PTA. Homework is written on the board in the classroom for them to copy to their agenda. Students are learning responsibility by copying their assignments daily into the agenda.

Please sign and return all tests that are sent home. This will generally be weekly spelling tests, math, sciene, and social studies tests.

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 rather than the email. am looking forward to working with your child and you!

 Patricia Chipko

Email me at  chipkopa@watertownps.org      

                                     What We Are Learning

  I will be using this portion of the web site to keep you informed about different areas of the curriculum that we are studying.

READ! READ! READ! What do good readers do as they read? They use reading strategies. We are going to learn all about helpful reading strategies that will enable your child to become a stronger and more successful reader, which include CONNECTING, PICTURING, WONDERING, PREDICTING, NOTICING, and FIGURING OUT. We spent twenty days on learning the specifics about these strategies ,how to use the classroom library, and what to do during independent reading time.  Students are now meeting in guided reading groups and they are ready to utilize the time they are not in a guided reading group for optimal learning.

Math - Students will be learning about time.  Please practice at  home telling time to the hour, half past, quarter hour, and to the minute.

SCIENCE - We will resume social studies and science at the beginning of the third marking period.  We are using this time to begin teaching cursive writing.