WELCOME TO
PARENT
INFORMATION
NIGHT!
Daily Schedule
7:50-8:05 Enter Room and Begin Warm Ups
8:05 TARDY BELL
8:15 – 9:10- Block 1
9:10-10:05 Specials/Conference Time
10:05 -11:20 Block 1 cont'd
11:20-11:35 Block 2 (w/ Switch Teacher)
11:35 -12:05 Recess/Study Hall
12:05-12:35 Lunch
12:35-2:55 Block 2
3:05 Switch back to home base
3:05 Dismissal
Parent Access & Student Handbook
All parents need to create a Parent Access
Account through CISD.
(This can be done through the CISD website.)
Through Parent Access, please read and sign electronically the
Student Handbook. This must be done by 9/17 or your child will
not be photographed for the yearbook.
The Student Handbook covers many important topics such as:
District Discipline Policy, Attendance, Grading, & Dress Code.
(After reading if you have questions, please let us know.)
In Parent Access, PLEASE select to receive all your student's
grades (even if >80). This is how you will know about your
student's progress and will know what papers to look for.
Attendance Policy
* Students need to come to school every day to provide
the building blocks for a great education.
* Attendance patterns are established early in life for
students.
* Parents model the value of education, including
attendance.
* Please schedule family vacations during school
holidays.
* For the school state report card, David Elementary fell
in Quartile 2 for attendance rate , with a 97.1%.
Quartile 1 attendance rate was 97.2%.
Attendance Policy cont'd
Students may start entering the room at 7:50. This is when
they complete their morning procedures and warm up.
At 8:05 the tardy bell rings and morning procedures should be
complete.
Instruction and checking of warm ups begins promptly after
announcements.
If your child is going to be absent, please call or email
before 8 am!!!
It is not only important for your child to be at school everyday,
but for them to be here for the ENTIRE day.
STUDY HALL
Study hall is a great place to finish your work!
Study hall is used for:
•Incomplete work
•Missed work due to absence
•Extra time needed for assignments
•Injury/illness notes- When your child has a no
PE/Recess sticker they will go to study hall or sit at a
picnic table outside.
•AR Testing
UFO's/Green Cards
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Please check UFO's daily and sign. This is
where homework and important notes and
information are found.
Green Cards go home each Wednesday. Please
sign and return the next day.
REMEMBER no checks are a good thing, which
is the equivalent to Satisfactory on their report
card!
TRANSPORTATION
Changes: PLEASE send a written note with your child.
Include:
– Child's Full Name, Date, Change, & Parent Signature.
– You can call as well. PLEASE make phone calls before
2 pm to ensure they are delivered in time to make the
necessary changes.
– If you need to email a change the day of, PLEASE do so
before 2pm to Kim Mount: at kmount@conroeisd.net.
TRANSPORTATION
• If your child is a walker, parents should establish a
meeting place and wait there until the student arrives.
• Parents of walkers should not be under the front porch
waiting. This will free up the front area so that the car
rider line can move as quickly as possible.
Rainy Day Dismissal
On Rainy Day Dismissal, ALL Biker/Walkers are released as
Car Riders unless other arrangements have been made.
If you drove to the school, you need to stay in your car instead
of parking and getting out. This is for the safety of the
children.
If you walk from home on those days, please do not wait on the
porch. There is no place for the children to sit as car riders
and this slows down dismissal greatly.
You must have your school issued car rider sign with you to
have your child released to you, or go into the office and
show your Driver's License
WELCOME to Lunch Time
* You are always welcome to each lunch with your
child. Our lunch time is 12:05 to 12:35.
* Please eat with them at his/her table and do not
bring students from other tables over. There is
no separate table.
* When the teacher on duty gets on the
microphone to get ready for dismissal, PLEASE
say goodbye to your child at that time. Please do
not wait and walk them back to class.
Birthday Treats
When sending in treats, please drop them off at the front office or
have your student bring them in.
NO cake, cupcakes, cookie cakes, or treats with icing are
allowed!!!!
Alternatives would be muffins, cookies (no icing), or non-food items such as
pencils, erasers, etc.
All treats must be store bought with ingredients listed.
Please send in napkins with any edible treats as we do not have these
items in our rooms. The treats will be shared at the end of the day.
Thank you for following these guidelines!!!!!!!!
(Items that do not follow guidelines will not be passed out and returned home.)
Birthday Parties
Please only allow your child to pass out party
invitations at school if they are inviting all the girls, or
all the boys, or the entire class. This helps to alleviate
any hurt feelings.
Students also are not allowed to pass out invitations to
students in other classes either.
Thank you!
Water Bottles
Students may bring a water bottle
to class to keep at his/her desk.
It should not be able to be spilled
if tipped over & should only
have water in them (no
additives).
(Screw on tops or flip tops aren't allowed as often the tops aren't put on
tightly or closed fully. Sports top bottles and Camelbacks are examples
of bottles that work well.
Language Arts
Components
-Cursive
-Word Study
-Writer's Workshop
-Poetry Performances
-Reader's Workshop
What in the world is AR?
AR stands for Accelerated Reader.
AR is a computer based program that consists of vocabulary
and comprehension tests that students will take after
completing books.
Students will take a placement test next week to determine their
individual reading range. They will read books in this range
during Reader's Workshop. This range will change
throughout the year.
Most books have AR tests that match them, but not all books.
It is a supplemental program to my curriculum, it is not my
curriculum.
Reader's
Workshop
• Each week students will check out a total of 3 books
from the school library. Each book should be in their
AR level. They should have one from each of the
categories below.
– 1 Nonfiction book
– 1 Chapter book
– 1 of their choosing within their AR level
• Books MUST be brought to school everyday. They are
used to support many of the important concepts of our
Language Arts curriculum.
Students are expected to keep an in class log of all the
books they have tested on. It includes the titles, level,
points, and score they received.
When testing, students MUST have a copy of the book to
use.
Students may also take tests on teacher read books in the
classroom and literature selections that the whole class
has read.
– These books may be outside of their AR range.
A major grade will be taken each nine weeks for AR. The
grade is determined by an average of their overall
percentage correct and percentage of goal met.
Students will have an individual goal set each nine weeks
based on their previous and current performance.
Goals can be found at the top of the weekly green card
along with username and password.
Please sign up to get email alerts regarding your child's
AR account.
Weekly Reading Logs
Reading logs are sent out each Monday and should
be returned the following Monday.
•Students are the ones responsible to fill out the logs
for the week.
•Parent signature is required for complete credit.
•If there is a “Think Sheet” or activity copied on the
back of the reading log it is also due on Monday.
Social Studies
Notebooks will come home to study for tests. Please send
back the next day.
-Homework will be assigned approximately 2 times per 9
weeks.
Language Arts/Social
Studies Homework
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Monday and Wednesday will be Language
Arts and Social Studies homework nights.
Please check the UFO for assignment
details. Homework is due the next day
unless otherwise written in the UFO.
To be considered “On Time”, your student
must bring in the homework when they
arrive. Dropped off homework will still be
considered late. Each day late will result in
10 points deducted from the final grade. After
3 days the assignment will not be accepted.
Differentiated Instruction
SAME ≠ FAIR
Classroom instruction will be based
on individual needs. Lessons are
planned to meet the needs of ALL
students. Activities will vary to meet
the learning styles of ALL the
students.
Thank You!!!
Now it is time for your
child's switch teacher.
Stay seated and she
will be right in.
Components to Math Instruction:
Daily Math Review
Curriculum
Problem Solving
Math Fluency
Number Sense
Logical Reasoning
Critical Thinking
Analogies & Visual Discrimination
Notebooks
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NOTEBOOKS ARE USED EVERY
DAY.
THEY ARE INTERACTIVE IN SUCH
THAT STUDENTS COPY NOTES,
CREATE CHARTS, DRAW
PICTURES, GLUE IMPORTANT
INFORMATION, RESPOND, etc.
THEY WILL GO HOME TO STUDY
FROM, BUT MUST BE RETURNED
EACH DAY!
Math Instruction
This year we will be doing Guided Math.
During Guided Math, students will rotate through
different activities, as I work with a small
group.
Groups will be changed frequently and are based
on many factors.
All students will rotate through my station and
work with me.
We also do many cooperative and partner
activities, as well as switch students and
teachers at times.
Components to Science
Instruction:
* Curriculum
* Hands-On experiments
* Cooperative Learning
* Investigation
* Research
* Critical Thinking &
Application
NEW
Textbooks/Resources
This year we have new resources in both Math
& Science. We are working very hard to
learn all of the ways that they can be used,
so please be patient with us.
Both resources will be available online as
soon as classes are uploaded and
username/passwords set.(Information will
be sent home as soon as it becomes
available.)
Math & Science Homework
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Tuesday and Thursday will be Math and
Science homework nights.
Please check the UFO for assignment
details. Homework is due the next day
unless otherwise written in the UFO.
To be considered “On Time”, your student
must bring in the homework when they
arrive. Dropped off homework will still be
considered late. Each day late will result
in 10 points deducted from the final grade.
After 3 days the assignment will not be
accepted.
So.....what can you as a parent do to help your
3rd grader be successful this year??
1. Read with your child and talk to them about their reading.
2. Ask your child why they got the answers that they did, rather that
just checking for accuracy.
3. Help your child study their math facts.
4. Sign up to receive email alerts for AR so you can be an active
participant in their progress.
5. Sign up to receive email alerts for all of their grades so you can
have conversations at home about their school work.
6. Please help me to encourage your child to be responsible for their
own assignments. One of our biggest goals of the year is to foster
independence!
Thank You for coming. It
is going to be a
FANTASTIC year!!!
Contact Information:
Conference Time: 9:10 -10:05 @281.298.4700
cmcgowan@conroeisd.net
http://david.conroeisd.net/Teachers/cmcgowan/
ccolson@conroeisd.net
http://david.conroeisd.net/Teachers/ccolson/