Transcript Third Grade Meet the Teacher Night

Welcome to
Third Grade Meet the Teacher
Night
Mrs. Deb Reese
815-858-9005 ex.126
[email protected] Office hours: 7:30-3:15
A Little
Bit
about
Me
•Bachelors Degree from
University of Dubuque
•Currently getting
masters from Columbia
College online
•My 16th year teaching
at River Ridge, 13th year
in 3rd grade.
My Family
• I will be married to John,
Hoskins appliance man,
for 15 years in October.
• I have 3 children, Noelle,
7th grade and Bennett and
Parker, 4th grade.
• I live in Elizabeth on Madison Street.
Odds and Ends
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Sign field trip permission slip, and return
Check bus route.
Class list
Schedule (will come home later)
Book Report form (also online)
Monthly book report projects
Skyward Family access should be updated each
Friday.
• Newsletter every Friday, also on the web
www.riverridge210.org >elementary>web
resource
More odds and ends
• Book order money -please write out
checks to Scholastic. These orders due
Aug. 31st.
• Please try to stick to lemonade or
noncolored drinks.
• Please send a note or call if
your child is going to a
different destination after school.
Discipline
• Rules
– Keep hands, feet and other
objects to yourself
– Be quiet and still when it is
expected.
– Turn homework in on time.
Consequences
• Coins – Each student gets three coins each
morning - similar to card changes
– Verbal warning
– Loose 1 coin – fill in a report sheet
– Loose 2 coins – fill in report sheet and get them
signed
– Loose 3 coins – go see Mr. Scarano
– Other consequences may be given for repeat
offences as seen fit by the teacher.
The number of coins each child receives each day will
be written in the assignment notebook.
The coins will be banked each day. The child can
then buy privileges with their “money”.
Discipline, cont.
• If a particular behavior continues even
after loosing coins the student will be
warned and then given a detention.
• Detentions may also be given for bus or
recess behavior and chronic tardiness.
• When the jar is full the class will earn a
party. The teacher can also take away
coins from the class.
Homework
• Homework should not take your student
longer than 30 minutes. If it does please let
me know.
• It should consist of only work that doesn’t
get finished in class and Home Links.
• A yellow homework folder will come home
everyday. (empty or full)
• Daily assignments will be written on the
board. Students are responsible for writing
assignments in their assignment notebooks
each day, and checking each off when
finished. I will initial each day and parents will
need to sign each night.
• Late work will loose 5 pts. and no name 2 pts.
Book Reports
• 400 pages each quarter
• Chapter books containing as least 50
pages.
• 4 square form – online and in the
classroom
• Special project report each month –
watch the newsletter.
Cursive
• We will be starting immediately
• They will need lots of practice
• Watch how they form the letters
• By semester they will be writing everything
in cursive except spelling tests.
Reading and Language
• Reading in 3rd grade uses quality
literature to improve students’
comprehension, reading strategies,
phonics, and critical thinking skills.
• Writing is based on the 4-square
method of organizing information.
• We also have a grammar series.
Spelling tests
• List will be on the newsletter – 5 extra
words from 500 most used words.
• Pretest Monday – write the words they
missed 10 x.
• Posttest Friday
Science/Social Studies
• Watch newsletter for test dates.
• Books should come home before the
test
• Study guide
• Having to study for tests is a
big transition for third graders.
Math
• Special Math Night
• Sept. 14
• 6-7pm
ISAT tests
• Feb. 28-March 11
• 3 Reading, 3 Math
• Writing a strong emphasis, the students
have to respond to the reading passages
with 3-5 paragraphs connecting the
question to the passage and to their own
lives.
• They also have a written response to
two math questions. They have to
explain how and why they did the
problems that way.
Thank You
• Any questions?
• Please feel free to contact me at any
time with concerns.
• Email is a great way to communicate
• Also, writing notes to myself and your
student in their assignment notebook is
great for reminders.