Welcome to Curriculum Night

3rd Grade

Mrs. Carpenter

2015-2016

Classroom Management

Monthly Behavior Contract- please look at it nightly, and sign it monthly.

Students start each day with 5 “pillars”.

Students receive one warning, and then pillars are taken for breaking any of our class promises.

Warnings are not given for severe infractions.

Not bringing homework= loss of 2 pillars.

Students who have kept 4 or more pillars per day may participate in grade-level recess.

Students who keep 20 or more pillars per week participate in Success Club on Friday.

Brag Tags!! Students can earn “brag tags” for meeting

academic, behavior, and character goals!

A little ceremony will take place on Fridays to those students who have earned a brag tag.

Not every student will earn a brag tag every week.

Brag tags will stay at school and be displayed

HomeworkPresented weekly, but with daily due dates.

Students need to read a minimum of 60 minutes per week and obtain a parent signature.

*Mon. night (due Tues.): Word Problem/ Computation / Spelling (activity from menu)

*Tues. night (due Wed.): Word Problem/ Computation / Spelling (activity from menu)

*Wed. night (due Thurs): Word Problem / Computation / Spelling (activity from menu)

*Thurs. Night (due Fri.): Reading Comprehension Sheet with questions/ Word Problem / Computation / Spelling (activity from menu)

• Once weekly, students are expected to complete an activity off the math menu. This can be either a simple fact recall practice or one of the various math games we will learn this year.

• We are in “Training” right now in terms of Homework expectations: Schematic representations, written explanations and justifications, underlining passages to support answers, complete sentences, quality handwriting. Once students are more comfortable with the expectations, homework will not be accepted until standards are met.

Curriculum

Using the Common Core Standards in Reading, Language Arts, and Math in 3rd Grade

http://www.azed.gov/standards-practices/common-core-state-standards

Highlights of What We Will Learn

Reading: More of an emphasis on Non-Fiction Text and its many forms. Many reading elements integrated thematically around a weekly piece of foundational text from new reading adoption.

Math: MULTIPLICATION, fractions, problem solving, logic are highlights this year.

Science and Social Studies: Integrated and embedded within the Language Arts time- Rocks, Plants, Light and Sound, Government, Explorers, Famous Americans.

A Method to the Madness: Structures and Strategies of Rm.

37 Math: emphasis on problem solving, schematic representation, writing and justifying our reasoning, critiquing and analyzing the logic of others. Introduction of multiple strategies or processes for computation methods.

Reading: Daily 5 structure. Constantly setting and evaluating personal reading goals on CAFÉ strategies. Emphasis on comprehension. Later in the semester: Formal Note Taking!

Writing: formal 5 paragraph essays with introductions, conclusions, main ideas and details: for all forms of writing. Use of the “Idea Closet” graphic organizer.

Changes from 2nd to 3rd

Parent Portal

AZ Merit testing in spring- Reading, Writing, and Math.

Official grades on the report card in Math, Reading, Writing, Science and Social Studies. Grades will be presented in a percentage form and must be checked on Infinite Campus.

Some weekly testing in ELA done on the computer rather than paper form.

No paper report cards or progress reports this year- all done through the Infinite Campus Portal. Please sign up for an account if you have not already.

Mobile Devices will not display ALL items on infinite campus

Need Help with parent portal? Computer lab is open tonight!

Conferences

Mark your Calendars!

August 26th(afternoon only)

August 27th (afternoon and evening)

Sharing of data and goal setting for the year.

Field Tripsand Tax Credit

We are planning several field trips this year! All are in the final planning stages.

All field trip fees or tax credit donations must be made online and applied on the Infinite Campus Portal.

Field trip fees will be $55.00 per student for the school year/ this does not include any extra-curricular activities.

We hope to have the money collected by September 1st in order to attend the field trips.

Tax credit for married is up to $400.00 and single is $200.00

Thank you for Coming to

Curriculum Night!