Transcript Welcome Back! - Center Grove Elementary School

WELCOME
BACK!
Room 27 Back to
School Night
**Please look around the room, find your desk and locker, and
check the back table to see if there is a bumblebee item that
you would be willing to donate to our classroom. I will return at
7:30 after my son’s Meet the Teacher Night. Thanks!
Introduction
Your 3rd Grade Teacher,
Mrs. Ferguson!
Our Schedule
 8:45 – 9:05
 9:05 – 11:00
 11:05 – 11:55
 11:55 – 12:10
 12:15 – 12:45
 12:50 – 1:00
 1:00 – 1:30
 1:30 – 2:30
 2:30 – 2:50
 2:55 – 3:35
 3:35 – 3:45
Arrival / Morning Work
Language Arts (90 min. of Rdg.)
Specials – PE tomorrow!
Grammar
Lunch
Teacher Read Aloud
Small Groups (RTI)
Math
Recess
Social Studies or Science or Health
Pack up / Dismissal
Our Curriculum
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Spelling
Language
Reading
Math
Social Studies (1st Semester: S+, S, S-, U)
Science / Health (1st Semester: S+, S, S-, U)
Citizenship (S+, S, S-, U)
Specials* – Art, Music, P.E. (S+, S, S-, U)
 Alternate Social Studies, Science, and Health
Grading Scale
93-100 A
92-90 A89-87 B+
86-83 B
82-80 B79-77 C+
76-73 C
72-70 C69-67 D+
66-63 D
62-60 D59 or below F
Reading Workshop
 State-mandated 90-min. Reading only
 Combination of whole group, small group, and
individualized instruction
 Literacy Café – targeted, individualized goalsetting and focus on Comprehension, Accuracy,
Fluency, or Expanding Vocabulary
 Weekly story from textbook, computerized
assessment on Fridays
 IREAD3 in March
Spelling
 One test per week on Thursday! Study!!!
 Lists sent home on Friday for the following week
 Spelling Tic Tac Toe homework card will be sent home
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with the following week’s list and will be due on the day
of the test
Current and following week’s lists posted on classroom
website
15 list words plus 5 word wall words
 **Some students may add Challenge Words in
October
Dictated sentence - Language grade
www.spellingcity.com
Language Arts
 Writer’s Workshop – group lesson and
individual support for writing skills
 Grammar – addressed in Daily Fix-its, weekly
Spelling dictated sentence, discussed in
literature, and through Writer’s Workshop
 Writing prompt / on-the-spot
writing practice
Small Groups (RTI)
 Daily for 30 minutes
 Students will rotate through skill-
specific stations
 Mrs. F. will work with small, flexible
groups
 Title One or remediation may be
available during this time
Math
 At least 60 minutes per day
 Mini lessons to introduce and review skills
 Stations for practice
 Small group targeted instruction with Mrs. F.
 BIG topics:
 Know your facts! Multiplication / division in Oct.!
 Time to minute and elapsed time
 Numbers to 1,000,000 – read, write, use – also place value
 Money – counting and making change
 Problem solving!!!!
 Fractions – reading, creating, equivalent, adding/subtracting
 Decimals – reading from models, converting from fractions
 Measurement – metric and customary
 Geometry – 3D shapes, triangles, polygons, perimeter, area, volume
Social Studies, Science, &
Health
 Alternate between subjects
 Health – 2nd semester
 Discovery Science TECHbook
Rules and Policies
 Room 27 Virtues (see handout):
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Be Respectful
Be Responsible
Be Safe
 Discipline Book
 Homework (see handout)
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Not graded – please work with your child!
Communication
Finishing incomplete classwork – “CW”
What you can expect:
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Math skill practice due Wednesday
Weekly Tic Tac Toe card – due Thursdays
Study for Thursday’s Spelling Test
Weekly Math Fact Practice & Reading Log – due Fridays
Reread Reading story on Thursday nights for Friday open book test
Other – studying for tests, other relevant work
 CG has gone “treat-free” (see handout)
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Birthdays – students invited to bring in a favorite read aloud to
share
Lunch and Snacks
 12:15-12:45
 Check in at office, meet us outside the
cafeteria
 You may charge your lunch to your child’s
account.
 No fast food
 Bring in a healthy snack daily (see handout)
Citizenship
 Grades based on logs in Discipline Book
 See handout on our “Viking Virtues”
classroom and school-wide expectations
Technology
 1:1 student laptops! 10 flip cameras! 10
microphones!
 We LOVE technology in Room 27!!!
 Students will use technology daily!
Our Classroom Website
Mystery Readers Needed!!!
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information.
Great classroom volunteer opportunity!
Fridays at 3:05!
Shhhhh… Keep it a secret!
Parents, grandparents, siblings,
relatives, and special friends welcome!
Contact me to arrange a date!
Tonight’s Homework
 Be sure to take the handouts on your
child’s desk with you this evening.
 Homework for parents:
 Complete and return “All About My Child”
 Complete and return yellow folder info
 Send me an email so I have your address
This will be a
great year!