While you wait...
*Write your child a note
back on the butterfly
paper
*Sign up for a fall conference,
Carnival volunteers, ect
• Check over the GREEN
Enrollment Form. Make any
Needed corrections. SIGN AND DATE TWICE! This goes in the yellow basket on my
round table.
Leave cash or check for class funds (with t-shirt size) in the blue basket on my round table
(if you don’t have it today, please send with your child within a week)
*Make sure you have signed up for Remind 101
Welcome to
Curriculum Night!
Lakeway Elementary
3rd Grade Team
About Kelly Rees
Daily Schedule
7:35 – Daily Assembly in Gym
7:45 – 8:00 Math Morning Work
8:00 – 8:50 Math
8:00 LIBRARY EVERY WEDNESDAY
8:50 - 9:10 Recess
9:10 - 9:40 Reading/Language Arts
9:40 - 10:30 Specials (PE on WHITE Days)
10:30 - 11:30 Reading/Language Arts
11:30 – 12:00 Lunch
12:00 – 1:00 Computer Lab (every Wednesday)
12:00 – 1:00 Skill Building
1:00 – 1:30 DUCKY GENIUS TIME
1:30 – 2:15 Science (Schwartz) and SS (Rees)
2:15- 2:30 Cursive Creative Writing
2:40 Dismissal
rd
3
Grade Events
October 8 – Picture Day
February 24 – Class Picture
October 9 – Science Day
April 22 – DisneyNature Field Trip
October 17 – PTO Carnival
May 9 – Math STAAR
October 29 – Track and Field
May 10 – Reading STAAR
October 30 – Pumpkin Math
May 27 – Inner Space Caverns
November 10 – 12 – Book Fair
**More Spring Dates TBD**
December 9– Nutcracker
December 11 – Science Day
December 17 – Winter Party
Math
1st Grading Period
Place Value
Comparing & Ordering
Numbers
Addition
Rounding
Money
Subtraction
Begin Multiplication with
pictures and arrays
Problem Solving
2nd Grading Period
Multiplication
Multiplying 2 digit #s
Division
Problem Solving
3rd Grading Period
Fractions
Comparing Fractions
Area
Perimeter
Time, Liquid, Volume, and
Weight
Problem Solving
4th Grading Period
2D and 3D figures
Personal Finance (income
and spending)
Problem Solving
STAAR Test
4th Grade Math
Problem Solving
TEKS can be found by subject and grade level at:
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=6148
Everyday things you can do to help your child:
FLASH CARDS 5-10 minutes nightly
Estimate cost/total of items at the store, count money, tell time on an analog clock,
skip count by non-traditional numbers (4, 6, 7, 9, etc.), flash cards, cooking/baking
and measuring
Reading & Language
Arts
Fiction
Poetry
Other literary genres
Reading to discover
Expository text
Procedural text
Connecting text to self/text/world
Research
Media
Grammar (DOL)
Fluency
Accuracy
Improving vocabulary
Weekly Tests
Spelling
DOL
Vocabulary/Comprehension/LA
TEKS can be found by subject and grade level at:
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=6148
Science & Social Studies
Science
Investigative Questioning
Engineering Process
Properties of Matter
Energy
Forces and Work
Earth’s Surface
People and Resources
Water and Weather
Space
Ecosystems and Interactions
Living Things Grow and Change
Social Studies
Celebrate Freedom Week
Our Communities
Our Environment
Communities Build a Nation
U.S. Government
Citizenship
A Growing Nation
Working in Our Communities
Celebrating Our Communities
Grading Policy and Procedures
All grades and attendance are posted online TXCONNECT
Gradebook Break Down
End of Grading Periods
50% Tests/ Quizzes
Report cards will be sent home 1-2
40% Daily Work
weeks after the end of the grading
10% Homework and/or Participation
period
1st – October 23
2nd – December 18
3rd – March 11
4th – June 2
Conduct
Conduct codes will be written in the planner.
Parent must initial each code.
All graded work will be sent home in Tuesday Folders, so please go over them with your
child. Any daily work or quiz below 75 can be corrected and returned. I will then
average the grade with the corrections and raise the grade to a max of 75.
Homework
Homework goes on Friday- (I cannot send early due to traveling.)
Always both a Math and Reading packet
Parents help Check and initial on Wednesday evening
Look on LWE 3rd Grade Website (not my website) for answer key
Students/parents check work in red pen and make corrections in red pen.
Parent initials in red pen at the top of both packets for credit.
Due on Thursday 8am
100%: if turned in on time, checked, and initialed
75% if turned in without checking or or parent initals.
Late/incomplete work (-25 points per day) will result in losing 25 tickets and extra
recess.
*Spelling HW is extra credit of 6 tickets due Thursday. There is a list of spelling
practice ideas in your child’s master binder.
Online Resources
Lexia
Username: lastname.firstname
Password: 6 digit student ID #
Google Accounts (for Chrome Books and Google Drive)
Username: lastname.firstname@ltisdschools.net
Password: 6 digit student ID #
XtraMath- enroll using the enrollment code. App is $5 for use on a
smartphone/tablet.
Important Info
Library – Wednesday 8:00-8:30
PE – White Days
*wear tennis shoes – no PE, no recess!*
Music – Once they start recorder they will need to bring it to
school every time we have music
Room Mom: April Braun ajbraun@me.com
Cupcake Friday: Last Fri. of the month. Must coordinate with
other birthday month parents. Only 1 cupcake and 1 water perstudent.
Before you leave
*Check the green “Enrollment Form” for any mistakes – correct and sign
(two places) (if everything is correct, still sign )
*Take home Parent Portal ID information sheet for your reference along
with all other info.
*If you have class funds tonight, please put your sheet and payment in
my blue basket on round table.
(if you don’t have it today, please send with your child within a week)
Please leave the signed (two places!) green
Enrollment Form and place in my yellow basket (on
round table) 