The Sweet Life
of Third Grade…
Welcome:
• Read your child’s 3 rd grade goal. Write a goal you have for your
child on the back along with a positive note for Friday morning
• Please complete How Well Do You Know Me ? Your child will be
giving you a grade on this tomorrow and bringing it home for you
too see!
• Please read the letter your child left you and find your child in
our “Guess Who?” activity in the hall (you can do this now or
after).
• Please note you will be taking home PTA information, report card
information, and Class T-shirt forms this evening.
Daily Schedule
7:20 – 8:00
Warm Up Activities/Morning Meeting
8:00 – 9:00
Reading Workshop
9:00 – 10:00
Writing Workshop (Spelling/Grammar)
10:00 – 10:50 Specials
10:55 – 11:20
Math (Number Talk/Problem of the Day)
11:21 – 11:51
Lunch
11:55 – 12:20
Recess
12:25 – 1:00
Social Studies/Science
1:00 – 1:50
Math (Guided Math Groups)
1:50 – 2:00
Homework Review/Pack Up
2:00 – 2:10
Read Aloud/Dismissal
Reading Workshop
• Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Project
• Mini Lesson
• Shared Reading/ Read Aloud
• Independent Reading
• Strategy Groups
• Conferences (Small group, individual)
• Running Record Assessments
• Celebrations
Writing Workshop
• Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Project
• Mini Lesson
• Independent Writing
• Small Group Conferences
• Table Conferences
• Individual Conferences
• Writing Notebooks
• Celebrations
Word Work/Grammar
• Words Their Way (word families, syllable patterns, suffixes)
• High Frequency Words
• Grammar Interactive Notebook (nouns, verbs, pronouns, adverbs,
verb tenses)
Specials
• P.E.
• Art
• Music
• Guidance
• Computer Lab
• Science Lab
• Math Lab
Specials are from 10:00 – 10:50 each day.
Math Workshop
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Math Adoption (McGraw Hill)
•
Number Talks
•
Problem Solving
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Mini Lesson (Teacher Time)
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Lesson Work (Independent Practice)
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Small Group Work (Differentiated)
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Math Centers (Games/Hands on activities)
•
Fact Practice
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Interactive Math Journals
WE ARE SO EXCITED TO HAVE GREG TANG COMING BACK!!!
Lunch/Recess
• Lunch Schedule – 11:21– 11:51
• Recess – 11:55 – 12:20
• Please join us any time. You may meet your child in the cafeteria
and be seated at the guest table
Social Studies
• Map Skills, Democracy, Greece, Economics
• Paul Revere, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony
• Mary McLeod Bethune, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt
• Thurgood Marshall, Lyndon B. Johnson, Caesar Chavez, Review
for Milestone Assessment
• Interactive Social Studies Journal
Science
• Rocks and Minerals, Soil
• Fossils,
• Habitats and Organisms
•
Magnets
• Heat, Conservation, and Recycling, Review for Milestone
Assessment
• Interactive Science Journals
Rules/Classroom Management
• Positive Discipline
• Class Rules/Consequences
• Raffle Tickets
• SMARTIE Points
Homework
• Nightly homework – usually due the next day
• Planners
• Homework/Communication Folders
• Practice and Review
• 30 minutes per night (20 minutes of reading)
A NEW IDEA - GENIUS HOUR!
Important Points
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No parking in the fire lanes at any time – we will be ticketed if vehicle is unattended
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When you enter the parking lot please go all the way around – not straight
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Please drop car riders off in front of the school under the overhang
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Lunch guest – parent and child only at overflow tables - Please meet your child at the café and
say goodbye in the café
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Please do not go to the classroom to pick up your child at the end of the day, wait outside or in
the lobby
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ONLY ASP changes can be made over the phone – calls must be made by 1:45
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Other dismissal changes must be brought to the office by the parent
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Students being signed out early must be signed out by 2:00 PM
Volunteer Sign Ups & Information
• Breakfast With a Book
• Science Lab
• Math Lab
• Parties/Field Trips (Our FIRST trip is to the Tellus Museum on
November 19 th)
• Fit in Third
• Adventures in ART
Class Web Site
You can access our class website through East Side’s home page.
We will also have a shutterfly page, which will be utilized for
important events and volunteer opportunities in the classroom
(PLEASE NOTE: This site will be our primary site for all events
going on in class).
Kristin Jones will be our room rep this year!
Thank You for Coming!
It is going to be a great year!