1. Welcome to Third Grade!
Curriculum Night

2. Meet the Teachers Team One: Ms. Weiss – Math and Science
Mrs. Savage – Language Arts and Social Studies
Mrs. Fitzsimmons – Special Education Co-teacher
Team Two:
Mrs. James – Language Arts
Ms. Kurtz – Math
Mrs. Weatherly – Social Studies and Science

3. Homework Policy NEW DeKalb County Grading Policy Homework & Grading
Your child can expect between minutes of homework nightly.
Reading for 20 minutes and 10 minutes of math fact practice is in addition to the above time.
NEW DeKalb County Grading Policy
Homework= 5%
Projects= 25%
Test/Quizzes= 30%
Class Participation= 40%
100%

4. Vanderlyn Expectations
Conduct
Vanderlyn Expectations
Follow directions the first time given.
Maintain a quiet voice in the hallways.
Keep hands, feet, and objects to self.
Demonstrate respect for self, others, and school property.
Conduct Grades
Please use your child’s daily check sheet to monitor their conduct grades.
S (Satisfactory)= Checks
N (Needs Improvement)= 5-9 Checks
U (Unsatisfactory)= 10 or more checks

5. Student Absences Attendance
We will collect missed work for students who are absent. Students will receive the missed assignments upon their return to school.
Please plan vacations around the school calendar. It is extremely important that your child is at school every day.
Please be sure to let us know why your child is absent so we can input your child’s absence correctly.
If your child is ill, we must have written documentation. An will not suffice.

6. Test Dates CoGat October 9 – October 15 ITBS CRCT
April 16 – April 25

7. Common Core Why Common Core?
To ensure that all students, no matter where they live, are prepared for success in postsecondary education and the workforce.
To ensure that students are receiving a high quality education consistently, from school to school and state to state.
To provide a greater opportunity to share experiences and best practices within and across states that will improve our ability to best serve the needs of students.

8. Meeting Your Child’s Needs
Differentiation
Meeting Your Child’s Needs
Throughout each subject, your child will experience differentiated instruction.
We work to identify your children’s individual strengths, areas for growth, learning styles, and academic needs in order to implement instruction that allows for a positive and productive learning experience.
This may look like station teaching, small group guided instruction, different classwork and homework assignments based on learning needs, etc.

9. Reading Goals Reading & ELA Deepen comprehension Increase vocabulary
Foster a love for literature and authors that will last a lifetime
that will last a lifetime.

10. Focus Making good book choices
Making connections to personal experiences, other texts, and the world
Visualizing to create mental images while reading
Inferring and predicting
Identifying important story elements
Summarizing and synthesizing
Understanding elements of fiction and nonfiction
Exploring a variety of genres
Reading aloud with fluency and expression
Participating in Literature Circles

11. Math
Math Goals
All students will be able to divide and multiply up to the number 12. Yes, we do long division in 3rd grade!
We will work on improving fact fluency with nightly homework.
All students will tell time to the minute, measure elapsed time, and measure time before and after an hour.
If you look to the next page of what every third grade math student should know, you will see there is a lot on there. This list are some of the main objectives of third grade. There will be a lot more. These first few weeks have been a review. As you know we are working on rounding right now which is a new concept for many students. We will also start adding with bigger numbers and subtract with regrouping.

12. Third Grade Science Units
Heat
Habitats of Georgia
Pollution
Rocks and Minerals
Fossils
Soil
Magnets

13. Themes of Social Studies
Beliefs and Ideals
Conflict and Change
Distribution of Power
Individuals, Groups, Institutions
Location
Productions, Distribution, Consumption
as of Study

14. Important Reminders
VIP packets are sent home each Thursday. Please sign and return on Friday.
Classroom check sheets are in your child’s agenda. These should be signed weekly.
Homework can be expected each week night and may consist of projects, as well as daily assignments. Students will not have homework on Fridays. Please check agendas nightly.

15. Lunch and Snack
Reminders
Prepaid lunch money will be collected each day. Parents can also pay online at mylunchmoney.com
Students may bring a light “healthy” snack. A small bag of crackers or fruit would be a good choice.

16. Visiting for Lunch You may visit during lunch
Cafeteria Procedures
Visiting for Lunch
You may visit during lunch
We do not allow fast food in the lunchroom – please do not bring it when visiting.
The first ten minutes of lunch are “quiet eat time” – please help us enforce this by respecting the policy when visiting.

17. Birthday Celebrations
Birthdays
Birthday Celebrations
On your child’s birthday, we will celebrate by: -presenting them with a homework pass -allowing them to sit with a friend at lunch *Students with summer birthdays can make arrangements with their homeroom teacher.

18. Potential Field Trips Field Trips Seminole Landfill Federal Reserve
Stone Mountain
Fernbank Science Center

19. Websites
Please check our websites for information regarding:
Homework
Important dates
Useful websites
Electronic textbooks
Much more….

20. Contact Information
is the most effective way of reaching us. We check our several times a day.
In the event of a dismissal change, please send a note with your child in the morning. If there is an emergency during the day, please call the front office to make changes

21. Final Thoughts
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns about your child’s performance.
We will be contacting each parent to set up conferences after Labor Day.