Upcoming important dates:
- Tuesdays Early dismissal (1:30pm)
- Thursday, 9/11 ELAC kickoff meeting (8:15am)
- Friday, 9/12 Family Movie Night (6pm)
- FOT Annual Giving & PTA Membership Drives begin
- Norm Day
- Saturday, 9/13 Community Campus Clean-up Day
- Mon-Fri, 9/15-19 Wellness Week
- Tuesday, 9/16 Back to School Breakfast
- Thursday, 9/18 School Picture Day
- Tuesday, 9/23 Unassigned Day - NO SCHOOL
- Wednesday, 9/24 Middle School Info Meeting
- Click here for the 2025-2026 LAUSD academic calendar, and the calendar at the end of this newsletter for Third Street-specific dates.
Ways to get involved over the next 2 weeks, because teamwork makes the dream work:
- **Please complete your household’s classroom roster form today (1 form per household)**
- We have all filled out numerous forms as part of the new school year, and we appreciate how it may feel overwhelming. This form will help to streamline our communications a lot! Please take a few minutes to complete it as soon as you can.
- FILL ME OUT
- **Volunteer for our Family Movie Night Friday, 9/12!**
- We need help planning and peopling the best kick-off event of the year!
- SIGN UP HERE
- **Join our Community Campus Clean-up Day Saturday, 9/13!**
- Bring your gloves, rakes, leaf blowers, and buckets to school Saturday morning 9-11am. No sign-up necessary, and the whole family is welcome! Don’t forget your water and sunscreen!
- Sign up to bring items to share at, or donate to, our Back to School Breakfast next Tuesday, 9/16!
- This year each grade has an item to bring. Please sign up for your grade's grab-and-go breakfast item or make a monetary donation.
- SIGN UP HERE
- FOT annual giving & PTA membership drive booths at drop off 9/15-9/19
- The FOT and PTA need your *quick* morning help for info booths for these two important drives during kick off week!
- SIGN UP HERE
- Get cleared to volunteer on campus and/or for field trips
- Get cleared today, to help through the year! The requirements for new & returning volunteers are as follows:
- Register for a LAUSD volunteer account, or log in as a returning volunteer: https://
volunteerapp.lausd.net/ - Complete the application/renewal steps
- Submit your TB clearance result (less than 30 days old) to Sul Lee (Rm29)
- Every process will be reviewed by the school and LAUSD. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact to Sul Lee, [email protected].
- Let us know how else you would want to get involved at school
- Please fill out this form to let us know where and how to help you get involved in the school.
- Help keep our families safe and moving smoothly through drop off by volunteering as a traffic safety valets!
- Sign up for communications to make sure you don’t miss any important messages
- Schoology
- Log into your Parent Portal on lms.lausd.edu, view as yourself (not your student(s))
- Go to the “Groups” tab
- Click the “Join a Group” button
- Enter our 3RD STREET PARENT/COMMUNITY GROUP’s Access Code: RZ9W-FGVP-Q72J4
- Phone calls & text messages (to opt in)
- Call (855) 502-7867 and follow the prompts
- Text “START LAUSD” to 91841
- Emails from the front office via Blackboard Connect
- If you are experiencing issues receiving emails from 3RD STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (via [email protected]), please come into the front office.
- Follow our private Friends of Third Instagram account
This week’s news:
- Traffic safety reminders: When driving students to school, please help keep all our students safe, and our relations with our neighbors respectful by:
- Arriving to the school area by 7:45am so you have ample time to walk your student up to the gate or drop off using our safety valet areas. Traffic is formidable, so we appreciate your family planning accordingly;
- Parking away from stop signs, driveways, and fire hydrants. Please only park on streets north, east, west of 2nd, Las Palmas, June, respectively;
- Continuing straight through on each street around school (NO U-TURNS);
- Using crosswalks to cross the streets
- Making Caring Common gets started in the classrooms
More than 50 parent volunteers will be going into every classroom this month as part of our Making Caring Common program, helping to spread kindness throughout 3rd Street and beyond. This month’s lesson will focus on Understanding and Navigating Emotions.
Also, congratulations to Ms. Rachel Park’s 3rd grade KDLP class, August’s kindest class of the month. They will receive a free Levain cookie party!
- English Learner Advisory Committee (ELAC) orientation & election Thursday, 9/11
Please join us for our English Learner Advisory Committee (ELAC) Orientation & Election on Thursday, September 11, 2025 at 8:15 am in room 29 or Zoom at https://lausd.zoom.us/j/
81006652864 (Meeting ID 810 0665 2864).More information is on the below flyer. If you have any questions, please email Mrs. Cha at [email protected].
- Family Movie Night is this Friday, 9/12!!
Please see the below flyer for more information. If you have additional questions, please email Rachel Pring at [email protected].
- Join us for a beautiful morning beautifying our campus Saturday, 9/13!
The whole family is welcome! Don’t forget your gardening gloves, water, and sun protection! Please see the below flyer for more details.
- Join us for the PTA’s annual Back to School Breakfast on Tuesday, 9/16!
- Help kick off the school year with a wellness week, next week 9/15-9/19!
- Please encourage your student(s) to participate in the daily themes, to help us all focus on student and community wellness:
- Monday: Wear blue
- Tuesday: Wear positive affirmations
- Wednesday: Wear comfortable clothes for exercising
- Thursday: Twin with a friend you’re thankful for
- Friday: Wear your favorite color
- Celebrate a student, staff member, or teacher, with a special school marquee message!
Please use the below form, and submit with $25 to the PTA mailbox in the office, to submit your request.
Questions? Please email Inna Kim at [email protected] with the subject line HB Marquee
- A call for our young artists! Sign up your student to participate in the PTA’s annual Reflections Art Program!
Let our students’ creative visions shine as they express what the theme, “I belong!” means to them. Submissions are open, and may be submitted using this form.
- Sign up for telehealth benefits for our school
Please help our school to keep benefits like a full-time nurse on campus by opting in to the telehealth services. See the attached flyer from last year for more details. Please click the following link to access the online consent form parents need to complete and sign: https://my.hazel.co/lausd/info
- More Than a Meal Survey
Each year our school needs each family to fill out A Household Income Form (HIF) for each student enrolled at Third Street. The HIF form can be completed online at https://hif.lausd.net. Completing the HIF form is not about meals, as all students at our school are entitled to free meals at school, regardless of family income.
For more information or assistance in completing the HIF form, please call our community rep Sul Lee, [email protected].
- Traffic Safety
Traffic safety for this week is assigned to room 15 (Yoon) and next week it is assigned to room 16 (E. Ro). If you are in one of these classes (or just love lending a hand first thing in the morning), please sign up here: Traffic Safety Valet Sign Up.
Curious about when your grade 1 through 5 class is assigned to traffic safety duty? Please see the below schedule for the year.
Ongoing:
- Volunteers Wanted - sign up to help in our classrooms, our library, or for special events
- Follow Friends of Third (FOT) on Instagram @friendsofthird!
- School Lunches - Our school-specific lunch offerings are posted here.
- School News - Join our Schoology group in the LAUSD Parent Portal (lms.lausd.edu) to stay informed on messaging from Principal Lee and others throughout the year, and for more information on the above notes.
- Ralph’s Rewards and BoxTops for Education - Add Friends of Third to your Ralph’s Rewards Community Contributions profile and Third Street Elementary to your BoxTops for Education account to earn rewards for our school
- Our school calendar: Please see the below for our 2025-2026 school calendar. Please note that minimum day release time is 12:50pm. Tuesday early dismissal remains 1:30pm.
