Hop Brook Open House Third Grade Welcome, parents and students!

Welcome to Third Grade!  I will give a quick overview of our third grade curriculum and our classroom.  If you have any questions during my presentation, please wait until the end.

Year Long Reading Expectations  We will continue to become better decoders using our six syllable types.  We will improve fluency and oral reading using inflection and emotion.  We will strengthen comprehension with familiar strategies and use more evidence to support our ideas.

Strategies  Visualizing  Predicting  Connecting  Questioning  Inferring

Year Long Writing Expectations  We will plan and organize our ideas with entertaining beginnings, elaborate middles, and extended endings.  We will create more detailed writing pieces using similes.  We will edit our stories to improve them and make them more enjoyable to the reader.

Strengthen Math Abilities  counting by 2’s, 5’s & 10’s  using place value to represent 4-digit number’s  solve addition, subtraction & multiplication facts using a variety of quick strategies  solve word problems using mathematical reasoning  tell time, measure and count coins so it is second nature

CMT Math Expectations  Estimation  Place Value  Approximating measurement  Mathematical applications  We need to improve:

CMT Examples Estimation Kim wants to subtract 285 from 411. Which of the following would be best for Kim to use to estimate the answer? A B C D Approximating Measures The pen is 6 units long. About how many units long is the pencil? A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5 Place Value The value of 79 would change by how much if the 7 was replaced by a 5? A. 2 B. 5 C. 20 D. 50

Conferences  Conference Dates:  Wednesday October 19 th  Thursday October 20 th  Friday October 21 st  Please, sign up for a time of interest before you leave tonight.  Notes:  Conferences will no longer be held to review your child’s report card, instead we will be looking at a series of reading and math assessments to help your child receive the best possible education.  You are receiving a pamphlet discussing SRBI. Please, review it prior to October conferences, so we could discuss what steps we could take to help your child Succeed.

Treemendous Behavior  Here at Hop Brook we have a positive behavior system where students will be recognized for their wonderful behavior!!

Homework  I will assign about 30 minutes of homework every night. All homework assignments will be found in your child’s Student Planner.  In addition your child should be reading for a minimum of 20 minutes a day. Please log their minutes each night & return Reading Calendars at the beginning of each month.

Students Meeting At-Home Reading Goal Grade 2 46% Grade 3 71% Grade 4 52%

Research shows that one of the greatest factors to improving reading comprehension and fluency for children is the at-home learning environment. Reading at home is essential! Our Readiculous Participation Reading Program is mandatory and all students are required to take part in this terrific activity. Your child is simply required to read aloud or to themselves for 20 minutes each night. In addition, once a month your child will need to complete a creative and fun book project. Your child will not only be rewarded with improved reading skills, they will also be rewarded with lunch in their classrooms with their teacher! Again, reading is the key to your child’s success in school. Good readers enjoy books and do very well in school. Regardless of the current reading level of your child, at home reading will allow him or her to greatly improve their reading skills.

Parents Support  Parents could help their child by:  reviewing concepts and strategies daily.  checking class work & homework daily  maintaining an avenue of communication with your teacher  continuing to praise & motivate  monitoring daily reading

Third Grade Web Site  Parents could check homework assignments, class news, weekly spelling lists and current topics in Math and Language Arts on our web site. 

Journal Entry  Today your child wrote in their journals explaining what their favorite thing about being a child was, but also what their most difficult thing was.  Before leaving this evening please read this journal entry and respond by writing what your favorite thing about being a parent is, but also what is the most difficult thing too.

Thank you for coming & let’s have a great year together! Mr. Remillard, Mrs. Murphy & Miss McKinnon