Welcome to Third Grade Orientation Please read your child’s letter and write a note back to him/her while we wait to get started. There are sign-up sheets for PTO events on the front table.
About Me ● BA in Elementary Education ● Masters in Curriculum and Instruction ● Martha Jennings Scholar ● 12 years of teaching experience
Atmosphere/Discipline ● be respectful ●take responsibility ●encourage students to take risks ●learning is fun ●it’s okay to make mistakes
Organization ●binder ●homework folder ●Friday folder ●assignment notebooks ●homework routine at home
Communication ● newsletters ● ● phone calls: , ext ● webpage
Differentiated Instruction I will do my best to help each student reach his/her full academic potential. ● pretests ● enrichment ● remediation ● options
Homework Monday – Thursday ● math (worksheet and study facts) ●word study ● read (reading log) ● study for content area tests
Grades ● report cards – standards based - letter grades ● online grade program access for parents is coming soon ● progress reports mid-quarter
Snacks ● healthy ● water bottles ● please limit whole class snacks to those approved on the list
Reading ● Fundations ● whole class ● guided reading ● author studies ● independent reading ● readers’ theatre ● poetry
Writing EVERYDAY :) ● writing process ● letters ● stories ● poems ● informational reports/non-fiction
Math ● Everyday Math ● supplemental materials ● practice math facts ○ addition/subtraction ○ multiplication and division this year
Handwriting ● review cursive ● write many assignments in cursive after winter break
Social Studies ● citizenship ● communities ● map skills ● cultural studies ● economics ● local history ● local government
Science ●Earth’s resources and their properties ●soil and rocks ●energy ●matter ●animals ○life cycles ○habitats ○adaptations ●experiments ●scientific method
Technology ● computer lab ● classroom ● iPads ● research ● multimedia presentations
Testing ● Reading Achievement test October ● Reading Achievement test May ● Summative and Formative Assessments