1. Mr. Gomez’ Third Grade Class
Welcome!

2. My Goals
To give your children the academic and social skills they need to progress to 4th grade.
To provide a supportive classroom environment.
To help children make new friends and discover new interests.
Have a lot of fun

3. Room 12 Rules No bullying Allow others to get their work done
Always give your best effort

4. Homework Homework written in planner everyday Daily Math IXL
Should take about 30 minutes
Additional 20 minutes of reading

5. Want Your Child to
Do Better in School?
Have them READ, READ, READ, READ
-Read TO them
-Read WITH them
-LISTEN to them Read
Read books, magazines, comics, poems, etc.
There is a strong connection between reading a variety of text with reading achievement and vocabulary. 80% of a student’s vocabulary comes from reading and is a direct result from how much is read.*
The more words read per year, the higher their vocabulary, the higher their background knowledge, the higher their exposure to the world, and the higher their ability to comprehend all sorts of information.

6. Test Scores in Percentile ***
Minutes Read Daily
# words read per year
98th percentile
65 minutes daily
4,400,000
75th percentile
12 minutes daily
884,000
50th percentile
4-1/2 minutes daily
282,000
25th percentile
1 minute daily
60,000

7. -DUSD is shifting to the Common Core State Standards so that students,
beginning in Grade 3 in the spring of 2015, will be ready to take the
Smarter Balanced Assessments.
-This year their will be informational meetings to educate parents and
answer questions related to Common Core State Standards and
-We will be adding a link on the DUSD homepage which will
provide additional information about the Common Core State Standards.
-Parents who are interested in knowing more about Smarter Balanced
Assessments should visit: 
Also, there will be revisions to the 1st through 5th grade report cards to reflect the shift to the Common Core State Standards,
however they are not ready for distribution for BTSN

10. Class work Math & Math IXL Science-STEM CA History Writing/Vocabulary
Core Literature

11. Music, P.E. and Art
Every Monday students have P.E. and Thursday they work with our Fine Arts teacher.
Bring sneakers on Monday.
Library is on Tuesday.

12. Important Things Student Planner Returning Test Volunteers/Drivers
Field Trips (SF Symphony-Forest Home Farms)
My Web Site

13. Final Thoughts Organization/Detail Conferences Call or email me
I will contact you
Frederiksen family handbook
Intervention
Supplies
Recorder book

14. Let’s Have a Great Year!