1. Welcome to 3rd Grade! Meet Miss. Poarch 4th year of teaching
Undergrad: Elementary Education, Benedictine College
Masters: Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Kansas
I love spending time with my family, fiancé, and friends, reading, and shopping.
Huge Arizona Cardinals football fan!!

2. Our mission is for all students to learn, grow, and experience success.
Our vision is that all English Landing students will meet grade level expectations and demonstrate responsible citizenship.

3. Miss. Poarch’s Classroom
MISSION STATEMENT
We will work together to develop a quality classroom environment. This includes developing a class mission statement, setting class and individual goals, classroom expectations, and establishing procedures for the class. I will share these with you on the classroom website as we create them.

4. Classroom Ground Rules
Treat others the way you want to be treated.
Be an active listener.
Keep your hands, feet, and
objects to yourself.
Follow directions given by
adults.
The students will collaborate
to add any ideas to these expectations.

5. Personal Development (LiveSchool.com)
I believe focusing on the positive in all aspects of life will result in more positives. My classroom behavior expectations are no different. I incorporate a reward system to help students notice their positive behaviors as well. As students earn points, they are able to use those points to buy special things like lunch with the teacher, treasure box treat or sitting next to a friend.
Marble Jar: Marbles are earned as a class for showing we are the best class at English Landing by receiving a compliment for our behavior outside our classroom. Every time we fill up our marble jar, we will have a class celebration.

6. English Landing Eagles S.O.A.R.
S = Safety First
O = Own Your Actions
A = Attitude Matters
R = Respect Everyone
Students are recognized when they demonstrate
“soaring behaviors” on the bus, at arrival and dismissal,
in the restroom, at lunch, at recess, in the hallways,
and in the classroom!

7. Avid Elementary
English Landing, Prairie Point, and Renner are piloting AVID Elementary during the school year. 
Focuses on teaching and reinforcing academic behaviors and higher-level thinking.
Provides educators a structure for teaching students academic habits they need to be more successful in middle school, high school, and college or career, in an age-appropriate and challenging way.

8. Avid Elementary
The strong college-bound culture will be visible to encourage elementary students to begin thinking about their future while embedding AVID skills of Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading into grade level curriculum.  
Throughout this first school year of AVID Elementary, families will see K-5 classrooms adopt age-appropriate Organization systems to develop greater independence for ALL students including the use of daily visual schedules, student academic binders, and grade level planners.

9. Third Grade Goals Comprehension and fluency in reading
Study techniques and habits
Legible and literate writing
Skills of independence
Problem solving
21st century learners
Best effort always
Self-discipline

10. SETTING GOALS
Research shows students who set challenging goals show more growth in achievement than those who do not. Not only are students setting goals, they are keeping track of their own performance in reference to each learning goal. I will meet with students frequently to help them reach their goals.

11. Curriculum and Assessment
Park Hill Curriculum:
Assessments:
NWEA – NWEA assessments are district-wide online assessments to monitor student progress. We will be administering these tests 3 times a year in Math and ELA, and once for Science. Please see the parent guide for more information:
MAP - The Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) is a statewide assessment that has been developed to assess the degree to which students are proficient in the knowledge, skills, and competencies represented in the Missouri Learning Standards.

12. 2018-2019 Park Hill (Elementary) Report Card Reporting Learning Progress Change
Reading Reporting Change: A student in grades: second, third, fourth, and fifth must be reading (independently) on grade-level to receive an “M” or “E” on reading standards.

13. English Language Arts
Reader’s Workshop: “Reading to learn, not just reading to read.”
Increase independent reading level and stamina
Read for comprehension
Read for information
Read for pleasure
Small guided reading groups
Building Academic Vocabulary
Determine meaning for unknown words
Word Study: Individualized per student, using decoding and comprehension strategies
Nonfiction reading is very important

14. Power Block Groups
Students will be working with teachers and staff on individual skills.
Students are grouped by abilities to meet their individual needs through enrichment and remediation.

15. Writer’s Workshop Writer’s Workshop is a place for kids to be writers.
Writer’s Workshop is a place where students will have time to work on writing as adult writers do:
Finding topics which interest them
Sharing their works-in-progress with each other
Giving and receiving peer feedback
Learning skills and techniques of writing in the context of their own stories, poems, and pieces
Sharing the insights they've gained in their own writing.

16. Math Envision Math Facts – practice for fluency Computation
Hands-on materials
Problem solving/critical thinking
Cooperative group work
Encourages students to think about solving problems in other ways
Math Facts – practice for fluency
Computation
Problem Solving
Prodigy

17. Social Studies Science Missouri Focused Life Science
Land and People
Our First Communities
Growth and Change
Missouri Today
Science
Life Science
Earth and Space Science
Physical Science

18. 3rd Grade Technology Goals (Standard 1 & 2)

19. Parent/Teacher conferences
This year parents will sign up for Parent/Teacher Conferences through an online service called Sign-Up Genius. I will send directions and the link for this site in September. If you do not have computer access, please call me to schedule a conference time for you.

20. Volunteer Procedures Volunteering in Park Hill
The Park Hill School District’s volunteers make valuable contributions to our schools. In order to keep students safe, we screen all volunteers who might ever serve with students unsupervised by district staff.
If you would like information about volunteering in our schools, please see the volunteer page on the district website, or contact the district’s communication specialist at the district office for more information.
If you are interested in volunteering in the classroom, I will have interest forms available at back to school night.

21. Parent/Teacher Communication
Student Binder
Reviewed nightly
Planner inside along with notes and graded work
Parent initial every night/Teacher initial every morning
Student’s responsibility!
Other Forms of Communication
Phone:
Friday Facts
Each Friday an will be sent that will include the focus for each subject for the upcoming week.

22. Thank you… for your support
If you have any questions or concerns please contact me at any time during the year.
I look forward to working with you and your 3rd grader this year. It is going to be a wonderful year filled with exciting learning activities!