WELCOME TO
GRADE 3 BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
The third grade team is composed of
Mrs. Byrd, Mrs. Cody and Mrs. Ducker.
This is the second year we will be departmentalizing and
switching students for three periods per week. Mrs. Ducker
will be doing a writing focus lesson, Mrs. Byrd a Social
Studies lesson and Mrs. Cody a Science lesson for a one hour
period each week.
Thinking and Academic Skills
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking involves being objective and open-minded while
thinking carefully about what to do or what to believe, based on
evidence and reason. Examples are Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.
Creative Thinking
Creative thinking involves putting facts, concepts, and principles
together in new ways and demonstrating a novel way of seeing or
doing things. Examples are Elaboration, Flexibility, Fluency, and
Originality.
Academic Success Skills
Academic Success Skills involves possessing attitudes and behaviors that
enable students to reach their full potential in academic settings.
Examples are Collaboration, Effort/Motivation/Persistence, Intellectual
Risk Taking and Metacognition.
WELCOME TO GRADE 3 MATHEMATICS
• Aligned to the Common Core State Standards
• Number sense and operations are the primary focus
in the elementary grades. Place value, addition and
subtraction, multiplication and division are
examples.
• Will provide enrichment/acceleration for our most
advanced students and provide support for students
as needed.
• Our school is focusing on small group math
instruction, based on student performance.
MATH BLOCK TIME FRAME
• Warm-up
• Short Focus lesson
• Guided math groups/independent practice/math stations
Teachers are differentiating instruction to meet students’
needs.
• Closure
• 75 minute math block.
Understand
Properties of
Multiplication and
the Relationship
between
Multiplication and
Division
Represent and Solve
Problems Involving
Multiplication/Division
OPERATIONS AND
ALGEBRAIC
THINKING
This is graded in all Marking Periods.
Fluently Multiply
and Divide
within 100
8 x 5=40
40÷5=40
Fluently add and
subtract within 1000
Use Place Value
Understanding
to Round numbers to
nearest 10 or 100
Multiply 1 digit
numbers by multiples
of 10
NUMBER AND
OPERATIONS IN BASE
TEN
This is graded in Marking Period 1.
Understand a fraction as a
number on a number line
Developing Understanding
of Fractions as Numbers
Understanding
Equivalent Fractions
and Comparing
Fractions
NUMBER AND
OPERATIONS FRACTIONS
This is graded in Marking Periods 2 and 3.
Liquid Volume/Mass
Represent and
Interpret Data
Measuring
Lengths
Time
Area
MEASUREMENT AND
DATA
This is graded in all Marking Periods.
Reason with
Shapes and their
Attributes
Partition Shapes Using
their Knowledge of
Fractions
halves, thirds, and fourths
GEOMETRY
This is graded in Marking Period 4 only.
READING INSTRUCTION
Students will:
• Use a variety of culturally relevant texts, third grade students
read and discuss the characteristics of realistic fiction, historical
fiction, poetry/plays, biographies and folktales/myths.
• Identify the main idea and or theme of a text.
• Identify a personal point of view about a character’s actions.
• Study how authors share real and imagined experiences.
• Read informational text to apply knowledge gained from text
features
• Make inferences before, during and after reading.
• Use context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words.
Instructional Reading Block
• Warm Up/ Whole Class Read Aloud or Discussion (10-25 mins.)
• Guided Reading Block- teacher reads with each reading
group while students complete independent work and centers
relating to reading, word work and writing. (60-70 mins.)
• Closure/Summarizer (10 mins.)
Inquiry
Publishing
Editing
Narrative Writing
Informative
Writing
Opinion Writing
SIX TRAITS
Ideas
Organization
Word Choice
Sentence Fluency
Voice
Conventions
Prewriting
Drafting
Revising
Grade 3 Writing Instruction
SPELLING
• “Words their Way” is the county approved
curriculum for spelling.
• Each reading group will get a new set of words that
follow a given spelling pattern every other week.
Students should study and learn the pattern for their
words. Students will be tested on 10 randomly
selected words from their list every other Friday.
• The “Writing: Use of Language” grade on the report
card is comprised of spelling test, spelling in writing
as well as grammar, capitalization and punctuation.
SOCIAL STUDIES UNITS OF STUDY
Rights and
Responsibilities
Natural and
Human-made
Features
Basic Functions
of Government
Elements of
Different
Cultures
Goods/Services
Production
of a Good
SCIENCE UNITS OF STUDY
• wit
Forces and
Motion
Ecology
Properties of
Matter
Heat Energy
Levels of Performance
Instruction begins at the grade-level standard.
How the student performs at the grade-level
standard determines level of proficiency.
Exceptional (ES)
Exceptional at the grade-level
standard.
Instruction on
the
Measurement
Topic
Meets the grade-level standard by
demonstrating proficiency
of the content or processes for
the measurement topic.
In progress (I)
In progress toward meeting the
grade-level standard.
Not yet or minimal (N)
Not yet making progress or making minimal
progress toward meeting the grade-level
standard.
How the student responds
Proficient (P)
Grade 3 Standards-based Report
Card
Subject
PARCC ASSESSMENT
• Partnership for
Assessment of Readiness
for College and Careers
• This year, students in
Grades 3-8 will take
Maryland’s new
standardized test,
PARCC.
• This test assesses math
and language arts skills.
• Aligned to the Common
Core State Standards
• The PARCC assessments
include two test
components, a
Performance-Based
Assessment and an End
of Year Assessment,
administered in two
separate testing
windows during the
year.
HOMEWORK POLICIES
• Students will record their homework each night in
their agenda. They will also record their “color for
the day” from our classroom behavior chart. Please
check their agenda each night.
• Homework will include math skills, reading
comprehension and spelling. This work is
reinforcing skills we are working on in class. Later in
the year, this will include PARCC practice
questions. We expect students to read for a
minimum of 20 minutes every night.
• We will have quarterly homework projects.
• Please write us a note if your child is struggling with
their homework or could not complete it.
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COMMUNICATION
• Check your child’s
agenda and Take Home
Folder each night,
especially on Tuesdays.
• Once a month, we will
write an article for the
PTA’s electronic
newsletter, The Ice Page.
• Check Mrs. Cody’s Blog,
“Mrs. Cody’s Grade 3
Penguins” for updates,
information and links.
We will always make
ourselves
available for a conferenceSimply e-mail us or
call the school
to schedule one.
SCHOOL POLICIES
• At W.T. Page, birthdays
are recognized during
the morning
announcements and
are given a special prize
in the office. Food items
may not be brought into
school for birthdays.
• In Mrs. Ducker and Mrs.
Cody’s classes, there
are students who are
allergic to nuts. Please
ensure that we keep
products made with nuts
or in facilities that may
have nuts out of the
classroom. Students may
have peanut butter/ nut
products in the lunch
room.
ANY QUESTIONS?
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