1. 3rd grade
Mrs.Bergeron, mrs.brown, Mrs.gibbs, mrs.Greco,Mrs.Montejo, mrs.roach(Carlson)

2. Our Schedule
3rd grade

3. 3rd grade schedule:
8:00 - 8:45 - Reading 8:45 - 9:30 – Specials 9:30 – 9:50 - Recess 9: :15 - Reading 10: :45 – ELA / Writing 11: :33 – Lunch (Each class will have a 30 minute block inside this time frame) 12:30 - 1:15 - Math 1:15 - 2:00 - Science/Social Studies

4. Our homework policy
3rd grade

5. Subject Areas
Reading – 20 minutes a night plus an interactive reading log
Spelling – Spelling City online program
Math – worksheets reviewing skills taught that week in class
There may be Science and Social Studies activities to complete some weeks. The activities may be optional or not depending on the teacher and assignment.

6. Sample homework

7. Whose responsibility
Each teacher will inform you of their homework procedure.
Your student will have to bring back their homework on the due dates. It is the student’s responsibility to remember to turn in their homework.

8. Behavior management
3rd grade

9. What does it look like
Earning and Losing Funny Money – during the first week of school, each class will determine what behaviors earn/lose money and how much money the behavior will earn/lose them.
Bank Ledger – Students will keep track of their money using a bank ledger and this will come home daily in their blue folder.

10. How you can contribute to our behavior management
End of Quarter Stores – we will ask for volunteers and donated items at the end of each quarter. We will hold a day where the students will get to spend their hard earned funny money.
Economic Standards – 3rd graders have to learn some basic economic ideas. They will get to apply this learning to the Funny Money stores in the later quarters.

11. blogs
3rd grade

12. Check them out!
This is the most frequent way that we will communicate important information to you regarding curriculum and classroom happenings!
Each teacher will post their own presentation on their blogs with more specifics to their classroom after this curriculum presentation.

13. curriculum
3rd grade

14. math
Your students will need to have multiplication facts to 100 memorized by the end of the school year. START NOW.
Division strategies
Multi-digit addition and subtraction – students should have mastered this in 2nd grade!!
2 - Step Word Problems
CUBES strategy.
Fractions
Elapsed Time
This is a difficult concept for most 3rd graders.

15. reading On Grade Level Lexile – Range of 520L – 824L
RI will be given at the beginning of the year to determine the lexile level. They will be reassessed two other times during the year.
On Grade Level Lexile – Range of 520L – 824L
Resources to find books on your child’s lexile level:
* lexile.com *
On Grade Level for report card are levels M, N, O, P (by quarter)
On Grade Level for DRA are levels 28, 30, 34, and 38 (by quarter)
Cobb County has acquired a new language arts program which we will be implementing this year. Look for more information on our blogs!

16. writing Lucy Calkins - Personal Narrative (first quarter)
Informational (second quarter)
Opinion (third quarter)
Fictional Narrative (fourth quarter)
Other -
Constructed Response – Response to Reading

17. Science Social studies
Rocks and Soil
Weathering, Erosion, Fossils
Pollution
Animal Adaptations
Research Project
Heat
American Indian Cultures
Explorers
Colonization
3 Branches of Government

18. Information from Administration
Car Rider Procedures at
Morning drop off/car pool line begins at 7:20.
Late afternoon check out needs to occur prior to 2:00. From 2:00-2:30, our front office is very busy with dismissal.
All Mountain View students will be registered for ASP. Students who are not picked up will be checked into ASP.
Attendance Policy
Bus Lot/Fire Lane
Transportation Changes
Blackboard Connect

20. PTA