Transcript Welcome to 3rd Grade Curriculum Night Mrs. Debbie Plenn Kyrene del Cielo

Welcome to 3rd Grade
Curriculum Night
Mrs. Debbie Plenn
Kyrene del Cielo
Mrs. Plenn
• 13 years of teaching
experience
• Background in grades
1-3 and Special
Education
• Married and has 3
children
• Arizona native,
attended NAU
Firebird Pride
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Do the Right Thing!
Respect
Responsibility
Safety
Kindness
Cooperation
Integrity
Cielo Expectations
In conjunction with our district-wide PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) program which
promotes a positive climate for our school, there are specific expectations in place for our classroom. The
behavior management plan for our classroom emphasizes the importance of making good choices. The plan
promotes positive behavior and encourages students to self-monitor their choices to ensure that they are
respectful, responsible, safe, and ready to learn. We have a clip chart in our classroom and each student has
a clothespin labeled with his/her name. All students will start each day clipped to the center of the chart
labeled Ready to Learn. During the course of the day, students have the opportunity to “clip up” or “clip
down” the chart based on their behavioral choices. Positive behavior choices allow the student to move up
into categories such as Showing PRIDE or Role Model, while inappropriate behavior choices require the
student to move down through Think About It, Slow Down or Contact Home.
Displaying appropriate behavior is essential in our classroom. The clip chart allows students to be
acknowledged for positive behavior, and provides a sense of accomplishment for students who are able to
“clip up”. It also allows students who have “clipped down” an opportunity to “clip back up” during the day,
thus they continue to stay motivated to improve. You may choose to further reinforce this system at home
with your own incentives and consequences. This will show children that you value their behavior and that
their actions at school are important to promote success and learning. Your child will color on their weekly
progress report. This immediate feedback will show you what color he/she ended up on for the day. I will
contact you if necessary regarding major incidents which required your child to clip down, but I appreciate
your understanding that it will not be possible for me to contact you for every clip down that occurs. Clipping
down from time to time is to be expected and can be an important learning opportunity for your child.
Third Grade
Arizona College and Career Ready Standards
Language Arts
Reading
Listening/
Speaking
Writing
Language
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Students who are college and career ready in reading, writing,
speaking, listening, and language will:
 read a variety of genres for literary appreciation and content
understanding, including non-fiction, fiction, poetry,
folktales, fables and myths
 comprehend as well as critique
 value evidence
 increase understanding of phonics, vocabulary, and
conventions of language
 respond to the varying demands of audience and purpose
 come to understand other perspectives and cultures
 use technology and digital media capably to communicate
Major Writing Goals
• Writing opinion/argument pieces
• Adding supporting details
• Using rich language
• Use paragraphs
• Making writing a pleasure to read aloud
• Editing and Revising
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Major Third Grade Math
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Place Value to 100,000
Fractions
Money
Time to the minute
Fact fluency
Add/ Subtract four digit
numbers
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More Third Grade Math
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Problem solving
Multiplication/Division
Bar/line graphs
Number patterns
Equations with unknowns
Discrete Math
3 dimensional shapes
Measurement
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MULTIPLICATION FACTS?
YES!
Please work with
your child to help
him/her learn
multiplication facts!
Knowing these facts
fluently is CRITICAL
to 3rd grade
success!
Science
• Scientific process/Inquiry
• Light & Sound
• Rocks & Minerals
• Erosion & Weathering
• Plants & Living Things
• Ecology
Social Studies
• Focus on “Communities”
• Units:
*What defines a community; how
communities develop
* How communities change over time
* Ancient communities – Greece, Rome
* Our country’s history, citizens, cultures
* Early world explorers
* Physical geography; mapping
* Economics
Health
Life Management Skills
Nutrition
Safe Environment and Injury Prevention
Substance Abuse Prevention
Community Health Resources
Disease Prevention and Control
Personal Health and Hygiene
Family Health
Technology
Develop essential technology skills ~
• Perform basic computer operations
• Develop keyboarding skills
• Create documents with software applications,
including Word, PowerPoint, Google, Pixie, and
more!
• Use technology to demonstrate learning in other
content areas.
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Grading
• Proficient – Consistently uses a skill,
shows mastery of content.
• Developing – Use of a skill emerging,
on the way to mastery.
• Area of concern – Experiencing
significant difficulty in an area.
Homework
• Main purpose is to provide practice of skills and
develop the responsibility of completing work at
home and returning it on time.
• Homework checked for completion and effort.
• Parents are asked to check homework at home
for accuracy, and to help correct errors immediately.
• Please let me know if your child is having difficulty
with any of the work assigned as homework.
• Homework is due on Friday. Spelling tests are on
Friday.
• Students should read for at least 75 minutes a
week.
Classroom Management
Positives 
Class marble parties, table points,
Firebird Pride Tickets
Firebird Pride school–wide incentives
Consequences 
Verbal warning, Loss of Recess or Fun
Friday
Please review and sign Progress Reports
each Friday.
Communication
• Please stay in contact through
– Email [email protected], Phone 480-541-2529
• Please check your child’s binder each night for
homework, fliers, returned work, etc.
• Students should bring their binder to school
everyday.
Birthdays
• To preserve instruction time and avoid
comparisons of treats brought in, parents
are asked not to bring in birthday treats.
• Also, unless the entire class is invited to a
celebration, please do not bring invitations
to be passed out at school.
Other Info
• If you haven’t already and would like to, please sign
up for our CLASS DIRECTORY. You will receive a
copy.
• TRANSPORTATION- If there is ever a change in
your normal transportation routine, please email
me. If the change comes during the school day,
please call and have the secretary contact our
classroom.
Schedule
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Monday – Music
Tuesday - Library
Wednesday – P.E. (wear tennis shoes)
Thursday – Art
Friday – Computer Lab
Healthy Kids
• Snack each day – Please make it
healthy. (yogurt tube, fruit, veggies,
crackers)
• Please put the snack in the child’s
backpack each day. It is too hard to
get the snack out of the lunch boxes.
• Water bottles to sip on during the day.
(water only)
Volunteers
• I’m looking for some volunteers.
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Party Coordinator/Volunteers
Math games volunteer
Writer’s Workshop volunteer
Book order coordinator
Material prep volunteers
Thank You!
• Thank you for all of the wonderful supplies! I
appreciate your generosity!
• Thank you for attending Curriculum Night. I look
forward to great school year!