1. Welcome to Back to School Night
Room 15A and 16
3rd Grade 1

2. A Little About Me Education
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies (Cal Poly Pomona)
Masters of Arts in Education (Pepperdine)
GATE Certificate (UCR)
My experience
One year of intervention in grades 1-5
Seventh year working for WVUSD
One year at a charter school
Third, Fourth, and Fifth grade experience

3. A Little Bit More…

4. A little about me My background My experiences
Grew up in the Walnut district
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies from University of California, Riverside
Attended Cal Poly Pomona for my teaching credential and my BCLAD
My experiences
Middle school counselor at church for 2 years
Summer camp coordinator and teacher

5. A little bit more…

6. Our Educational Philosophy
We believe that the classroom is ours, not mine.
We believe that the key to a better world is through educating the youth.
We believe that teaching takes place not only in the classroom, but in the home as well. Let’s work together.
We believe that the students are teachers, too.
We believe all children are individuals and all children are gifted.

7. Tonight’s Topics Daily Schedule Homework Friday Folders/Week in Review
Classroom Management
Birthdays
Curriculum

8. Daily Schedule Tuesdays: PE 8:20- 9:20 Mondays: Jiji math
8:15-8:30 /11:15-11:25
Morning Business, Read/AR , Rocket Math, JAM session
8:30-8:45/11:25-11:40
Grammar, Writing, and Spelling
8:45-9:15/11:40-12:15
Math
9:15-10:20/1-1:45
Integrated Language Arts/ Chinese
10:20-10:35
Recess
10:35-11:15/1:45-2:30
Science/Social Studies/Technology/Art
11:15 am Switch
12:15-1:00pm Lunch
2:40pm Dismissal
Tuesdays: PE 8:20- 9:20
Mondays: Jiji math
Mondays: Library
Wednesday: Music

9. Homework Sent home nightly in your child’s binder
Recorded daily in their agenda
Homework should take about minutes in addition to 20 minutes of read aloud.
Assignments are meant to reinforce and/or enrich current units of study.
Students who miss homework will receive a deficiency notice.
Multiple missed assignments in any particular subject will result in an overall trimester drop.

10. Homework Deficiency

12. Weekly Communication
Check and Sign your child’s weekly folder on Fridays
Completed work, test, school, community information, and important updates
Sign and Return test that have received a grade lower than a C
Review papers with many errors
Progress reports will be sent home three times this year
First conference will be held in October. Please sign up for a scheduled time before you leave today.

13. Week in Review & Friday Folder

14. Room 15A and 16 Expectations
Show respect.
Solve your problems.
Make good decisions.

15. Classroom Management Learnball Teaches team building skills
Makes students accountable for their behavior
Accountability
Students have designed their own classroom rules under our guidance
Positive: Points are awarded to opposing team
Shoot out: Ensures the tournament is NEVER over
Classroom Jobs=Responsibility

16. Positive Reinforcements Negative Consequences
Smiles
Kind words
Pats on the back
Small rewards (stickers/pencils)
Paper Clip Parties
High fives
Raffle tickets
Learnball Points
Shoot Out
Negative Consequences
Reminder
Points awarded to opposing team
Student-teacher reflection during recess
Note/Call home
Visit the Principal

17. Birthdays
Your child’s birthday or ½ birthday will be acknowledged this year.
Please do not send edible treats to school.
You can send stickers, pencils, erasers, notebooks, goody bags, and/or a book donation to the classroom.
Please notify our class ahead of time so we can be sure to make adequate time for distribution.

18. Language Arts
In our language program we will integrate reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills through a variety of literature activities.
Vocabulary development
Writing
Comprehension
Spelling
Phonics
Grammar skills
Handwriting
Presentations

19. Reading Comprehension
Activating Schema
Mental Imaging
Discussions
Questioning
Inferring
Synthesizing

20. Writing Step Up to Writing/Nancy Fetzer Multiple Paragraphs Letter
Narrative Writing
Expository Writing
Opinion Writing

21. Math This year’s curriculum will include: Computation Problem Solving
Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
Problem Solving
Math Fluency (multiplication and division)

22. Science Ecosystems & Habitats Earth Patterns Energy Adaptations
Forms of Matter

23. Social Studies
We emphasize cultural heritage and encourage children to discover their importance in our society.
Geography
Native Americans
Community History
Government and Citizenship
Standing United
Economics

24. Mandarin Students will be able to:
- Identify and write high frequency characters
- Apply vocabulary and phrases
- Read phrases
- Use vocabulary and phrases in writing
- Understand verbal questions and answer with complete sentences
- Type using pinyin
- Present information orally to the whole class
- Learn about Chinese culture and traditions
- Use the Chinese dictionary

25. Room 15A If you haven’t yet, please sign in Please sign up (Room 16)
Parent Conference Week
Volunteer Form
Donation List

26. Thank you!