WELCOME!!!

1. WELCOME!!! Thank you for coming!! Please sign in at the table by the door. Please read your child’s letter to you and respond, if you wish.

2. Welcome to Back to School Night! Miss Saffro Room 402 3rd Grade 2014-2015

3. Back to School Agenda • General Rules and Expectations • Schedule • Curriculum • Common Core Standards • Grading • Aeries Gradebook/Report Cards • Homework/Agenda Book • Special Activities • Communication/Website • Volunteer Sign-up • Items that need to be signed/returned • Questions

4. General Rules and Expectations • 3rd grade is a year for organization, taking responsibility for their own learning, focusing on independence and critical thinking. • Discipline Plan and Dress Code • Please refer to the Atherwood Student Handbook

5. Schedule for Room 402

6. Language Arts • Reading • Foundational Skills • Literature (Fiction) • Informational Text (Non-fiction) • Multimedia • AR/6 Minute Solution • Writing • Purpose/Range/Research • Conventions/Language/Vocab • Cursive writing • Spelling City • Speaking/Listening • Comprehend/Collaborate • Present • Houghton Mifflin Reading Series

7. Math • Everyday Mathematics • Grade level concepts, games, distributed learning, and projects Topics: • Operations and Algebraic Thinking (multiply/divide, choose correct operations) • Numbers and Operations in Base 10 (place value, add/subtract, large numbers) • Numbers and Operations of Fractions (form, value, compare) • Measurement and Data (time, length/volume/mass, graphs, area) • Geometry (shapes/attributes)

8. Social StudiesOnline Learning ExchangePearson Scott Foresman • 3rdGrade - Our Communities • Land and Water in Your Area • California Natives Past and Present • Your Community Over Time • Rules and Laws • The Economy of Your Region

9. Science • Foss Science • Science Journal • Main Topics: • Investigation: Tools and Scientific Method • Physical Science: Matter and Energy • Life Science: Structures of Life • Earth Science: Sun, Moon and Stars

10. Common Core – What is it?? • A set of academic standards which outline what a student should know at the end of each grade level. • A progression of learning from one grade to the next. • Teaches students to access information through a set of critical thinking skills. • It will help students meet the challenges of today and tomorrow, including communications skills, perseverance in problem solving, technical reading and writing, literacy across disciplines, and the most important mathematical skills. • Third Grade I Can Statements

11. Grading Standards Based Grading System video District Rubric Grading Scale (on all graded assignments/tests): 4: Exceeds and Expands – consistently demonstrates greater depth and application of the standards 3: Consistent Achievement – consistently meets grade level standards independently 2: Partial Achievement – inconsistently demonstrates understanding of standards addressed, student is beginning to understand 1: Minimal Achievement – seldom demonstrates skill or understanding and is not meeting standards

12. Aeries Gradebook and Report Cards WE ARE NOW ON THE SEMESTER SYSTEM Standards Based Report cards will go home in December and June You can access grades as they are inputted when you login to the Aeries Parent Portal This will eliminate surprises when report cards come due. Please check once a week to keep current. New Report Card Format

13. Homework Agenda Books should be checked daily! Assignments are also listed on my website. • District expectation is approximately 30-45 minutes nightly for all 3rd graders • Additional reading 30 minutes every night • Most nights: Math and either Vocab, Spelling or Grammar • Once/twice a week: Science and Social Studies • Unfinished class work as assigned by teacher • Extensions for Science labs, Reading units, Social Studies

14. Special Activities P.E.is twice a week for 50 minutes with other 3rd grade classes Library/Computer Lab is once a week for 45 minutes Field Trips: Strathearn Historical Park Stagecoach Inn Museum La Brea Tar Pits

15. Communication • Weekly Report/Weekly Note • You may leave me a message at school at 520-6730, ext. 2233 • Or email me (best method) at jana.saffro@simivalleyusd.org • Please check out the class website for regularly updated information on current studies, homework, upcoming due dates, etc. • Sign up for Remind for quick notifications

16. Parent Volunteers • Volunteer forms/Driver’s License must be updated/on file in the office each year We need assistance with: • P.E. Tuesday 10:55 – 11:45 Friday 1:20 – 2:09 • Library Wednesday 1:20 - 2:09 • Co-Room Parents and Assistants • Special Occasions/Events

17. Required signed items (*) must be returned by TOMORROW • *Library Permission slip • *Accelerated Reader contract • *Student Handbook Information • (0ptional) Parent Volunteer form. • MUST INCLUDE A COPY OF DRIVER’S LICENSE. PLEASE DON’T FORGET TO GO ONLINE TO UPDATE THE PARENT PORTAL BY TOMORROW. Any questions???

18. THANK YOU FOR COMING!!!