Third Grade Hits the “SPOT” Welcomes You!

1. Third GradeReally Hits the “SPOT”

2. Welcome: • Please read the letter from your child and write a note back. • Read your child’s 3rd grade goals. • Please put together the Pieces of Me Puzzle your child created. • Please note you will be taking home report card information, a math brochure, and Class T-shirt information with you.

3. Daily Schedule • 7:20 – 8:00 Skill Building Activities/Morning Meeting • 8:00 – 9:00 Reading Workshop • 9:00 – 10:00 Writing Workshop (Spelling/Grammar) • 10:00 – 10:50 Specials • 10:55 – 11:30 Science/Social Studies/Health • 11:30 – 11:50 Math (Number Talks/Problem Solving) • 11:54 – 12:24 Lunch • 12:30 – 12:50 Recess • 12:50 – 1:50Math Workshop • 1:50 – 2:00 Homework Review/Pack Up • 2:00 – 2:10 Read Aloud/Dismissal

4. Reading Workshop • Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Project • Mini Lesson • Shared Reading/ Read Aloud • Independent Reading • Strategy Groups • Conferences (Small group, individual) • DRA 2 • Celebrations

5. Writing Workshop • Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Project • Mini Lesson • Independent Writing • Small Group Conferences • Table Conferences • Individual Conferences • Writing Notebooks • Celebrations

6. Word Work/Grammar • Words Their Way (word families, syllable patterns, suffixes) • High Frequency Words • Grammar Interactive Notebook (nouns, verbs, pronouns, adverbs, • verb tenses)

7. Specials • P.E. • Art • Music • Guidance • Computer Lab • Science Lab • Specials are from 10:00 – 10:50 each day.

8. Social Studies • Democracy, 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 CRCT • Interactive Social Studies Journal

9. Science • Rocks and Minerals, Soil • Soil, Fossils, Habitats and Organisms • Habitats and Organisms, Magnets • Heat, Conservation, and Recycling, Review for CRCT • Interactive Science Journals

10. Lunch/Recess • Lunch Schedule – 11:54 – 12:24 • Recess – 12:30 – 12:50 • Please join us any time. You may meet your child in the cafeteria and be seated at the guest table

11. Math Workshop • Common Core (Operations & Algebraic Thinking, Number and Operations, Measurement & Data, Geometry) • Number Talks • Model Drawing • Mini Lesson • Small Group Work • Interactive Math Journals • Exemplars

12. Rules/Classroom Management • Positive Discipline • How Full is my Bucket? • Class Rules/Consequences • Raffle Tickets • Challenge Points

13. Homework • Weekly HomeworkPacket??????? • Planners • Homework Folders • Practice and Review • Challenges • 30 minutes per night

14. Important Points • No parking in the fire lanes at any time – we will be ticketed if vehicle is unattended • When you enter the parking lot please go all the way around – not straight • Please drop car riders off in front of the school under the overhang • Lunch guest – parent and child only at overflow tables - Please meet your child at the café and say goodbye in the café • Please do not go to the classroom to pick up your child at the end of the day, wait outside or in the lobby • ONLY ASP changes can be made over the phone – calls must be made by 1:45 • Other dismissal changes must be brought to the office by the parent • Students being signed out early must be signed out by 2:00 PM

15. 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. • Rhonda Sumsky and Karen Lengallwil be co- room moms this year!

16. Volunteer Sign Ups & Information • Breakfast With a Book • Reading and Writing Workshop • Science Lab • Parties/Field Trips • Copying/Laminating • Fit in Third • Adventures in ART (sign up)

17. Thank You for Coming! • It is going to be a great year!