Welcome to Third Grade Curriculum Night!

1. Welcome to Third Grade Curriculum Night! l

2. Messages From Administration • Car Rider Procedures at http://www.cobbk12.org/MtView/ Car rider procedures are posted on our school website. For everyone’s safety, please review and follow those procedures. This year, we are using car rider tags during afternoon car pool. If you have not gotten a car rider tag and anticipate needing one, let me know following this meeting.

3. Messages From Administration • Morning drop off/car pool line begins at 7:20 • Teachers are required to be in their classrooms at 7:20. Students dropped off prior to that time would lack supervision. Unless other arrangements have been made with a teacher, students may enter the school no earlier than 7:20 for their safety.

4. Messages From Administration • Late afternoon check out needs to occur prior to 2:00. From 2:00-2:30, our front office is very busy with dismissal.

5. Messages From Administration • Attendance Policy • Regular and consistent attendance is important for our students and their academic progress. Mountain View follows the county’s attendance policy with the following procedures: • After 3 unexcused absences, the teacher will make contact with parents. • After 5 unexcused absences, administration will send a letter home to parents. • After 7 unexcused absences, a referral to the school social worker is made. • Please note that excessive absences (both excused or unexcused) can result in a referral to the school social worker.

6. Messages From Administration • Bus Lot/Fire Lane • Travel through the bus entrance or bus lot is prohibited during times when buses are due to load and unload students. This is a huge safety concern so our staff will take license plates of offending vehicles and turn them over to the district’s Public Safety Department. • Please do not park at the front curb even to run a quick errand in the front office as this is our fire lane. The Fire Marshall has been monitoring schools and issuing tickets to any cars parked in a fire lane.

7. Messages From Administration • Transportation Changes • Should you need to change your child’s afternoon dismissal, please send a written note to the classroom teacher that morning. You may not send transportation changes to email because the district has a strong SPAM filter that on occasion captures parent emails. Additionally, if the teacher happens to be absent, your email will not be received by the substitute.  Last minute changes in your child’s dismissal cannot be accepted by telephone. You may send a fax to the school describing the needed change along with your signature to 770-578-7267. Follow up with a call to the office staff to verify receipt of your fax.

8. Messages From Administration • Visitor’s Policy • All visitors, including parents, must sign in at the front office upon their arrival to the school. To preserve security and to protect instructional time, visitors may not proceed to classrooms during instructional time unless they have a specific appointment to volunteer. Please note that school volunteers are now mandated reporters of child abuse. A flyer with information regarding this new law is posted on the home page of our school website.

9. Messages from Administration Mandated Reporter Law • Please note that school volunteers are now mandated reporters of child abuse. A flyer with information regarding this new law is posted on the home page of our school website and in our front office.

10. Messages From Administration Buzz In System • For security reasons, Mountain View does have all exterior doors locked with a front door buzz in system. All visitors, including parents, must buzz and state their intended business to gain entrance. Visitors must then sign in at the front office and list their destination. To preserve security and to protect instructional time, visitors may not proceed to classrooms during instructional time unless they have a specific appointment to volunteer. Also, administrators have set schedules that frequently have them observing in classrooms so they do prefer meeting with parents by appointment.  Those can be scheduled through the school secretary.

11. Message from PTA • Mad Dash t-shirt order forms will be distributed for each classroom on Monday for all the teachers to share with their families Tuesday evening. Please ask the teachers to mention when distributing the order forms on Tuesday night - These t-shirts will serve as the t-shirts for each grade for the year as well as be the t-shirt for the mad dash. They are due back by the 19th and we would like to provide a reminder notice on 8/16. The cost of the t-shirt is $5.00.

12. Message From Music • We need 1-2 volunteers to help w/the Geology Rocks musical. Fortunately, we have almost everything, but could use some help w/hanging the backdrop, a few costumes, repairs, etc.  • Our performance date of Thursday, November 21st.

13. Morning Routine 7:20-8:10 • Students take care of their morning responsibilities • Greenfolders and agendas are checked. Please be sure to check both of these each night at home • Morning Work • Announcements • Attendance

14. Daily Schedule • 7:20-8:00 Morning Responsibilities • 8:00-10:30 Reading, Language Arts, Spelling • 9:00 Snack • 10:30-11:10 Specials • 11:10—11:54 Math • 11:54-12:24 Lunch • 12:24-1:00 Math • 1:00-1:30 Science or Social Studies • 1:30-1:50 Recess • 1:50-2:10 Read aloud • 2:05-2:15 Prepare for dismissal/Dismissal

15. Behavior Management • I am striving for your child to become an independent learner and to take responsibility for their actions. • I will use Way to Gos • I will continue to use the school wide behavior system of “Give Me Five.”

16. Behavior Management Behavior/ work habits sheet is inside the clear pocket in the front cover of your child’s agenda. Please monitor it, and sign it on Thursday evenings. Please donate to our Way to go Store. Please see donation schedule.

17. Math Addition and Subtraction Rounding Numbers Multiplication and Division Strategies Area Fractions Two Dimensional Shapes Algebra Word Problems See Parent Road map

18. Reading and Language Arts • Focus lessons, mini-lessons and wrap ups using teacher modeling texts that model strategies and promote understanding. • Novel Studies – Independent and Guided • Core Books to incorporate Science and Social Studies: Fiction, Non-fiction, Historical Fiction • Please have your child read aloud to an adult 20 minutes each night • Book Reports • Spelling: Words Their Way/High Priority and Core Words • Grammar – Daily • IXL • Raz-kids

19. Friday Readers • The room mom will schedule Friday readers. • Bring a favorite book/books to read aloud to the students on Fridays from 11:15-11:45. Join your child for lunch from 11:48-11:18.

20. Writing • Thinking Maps to organize ideas • Types of writing: Narrative, Descriptive, Informational and Persuasive • Steps of the Writing Process: Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing and Publishing • Book Reports and Journals • Write across curriculum

21. Social Studies • Instruction delivered through reading of text, workbook, independent projects, media/technology,quizzes, tests, etc. • Areas of Instruction: Greece, Government, map skills, Economics, Paul Revere, FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Cesar Chavez, LBJ, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Mary McLeod Bethune, Thurgood Marshall

22. Science • Instruction delivered through reading of text, workbook, investigations, classroom projects, field trips, quizzes, science journals, tests, etc. • Areas of Instruction: Rocks and Minerals, Fossils, Weathering and Erosion, Soil, Georgia regions (plants and animals), Heat, Magnets, Conservation

23. Assessments • Class Participation • Projects, including classroom writing, social studies,science, research, group projects, independent projects and home assignments • Tests and quizzes: Study guides will be given in advance for tests • DRA: Development Reading Assessment • SRI: Scholastic Reading Inventory: Matches reading material to the comprehension level and interest level of a child • SRA: individualized leveled reading • CogAt- Sept. 18-20, Iowa- Sept. 23-30.

24. Field Trips • Diamond Dell (in house)

25. Homework and Daily Preparedness • Given nightly, except on weekends • Spelling tests on Friday • Projects will be announced with ample time to complete • Be sure your child is prepared each day by having all of their materials and appropriate paperwork signed. • Any money or important office information must be placed in a closed envelope. • Students place papers in colored folders. (red, blue, yellow, green)

26. Communication • Communication between us is KEY in the success of your child! • Lines of communication in order of preference: • Notes: Please send us a note in your child’s agenda or communication folder. I will respond promptly • Email: patricia.abel@cobbk12.org I will do my best to email you back that same day. • Phone: Call me at school to leave a message. • Conference Week is October 21-25.

27. So, what do you have to sign and check daily? • Agenda - Nightly Monday through Thursday • Agenda is checked daily. • Behavior/work habits sheet should be checked each night and signed on Friday. • Graded papers will be sent home if reassessment is not needed for the standards tested • . • I am asking the children to be responsible and show you all communication and papers that will go home in the green Communication folder. However, they are very young and will continue to need your support, so please check behind them to make sure they return each day with an agenda, green folder, snack, and lunch money. Students may bring a water bottle also.

28. Thank You! Thank you for all you’ve already done and for all that you will continue to do for your child to be successful throughout the third grade school year! I appreciate all that you do to support Mountain View! Room mom volunteer? Copy mom? Fall Festival Volunteers? Technology Consultant for Raz-kids? Needed and wished for items? Welcome to 3rd Grade!!