1. “Embarking on A
Learning
Adventure!”

2. Mrs. Ramirez Mrs. Ravagnoli
English Teacher
Homeroom Teacher
Mrs. Ravagnoli
Portuguese
and Math
Teacher

3. Academic Expectations
* Students will analyze, interpret, evaluate and think logically to solve problems using a variety of resources and strategies.
* Students will communicate effectively.
* Students will develop skills and knowledge to reach personal and academic goals.
Social Expectations
* Students will work cooperatively to achieve objectives.
Civil Expectations
* Students will demonstrate self-respect, understanding and appreciation for the diversity of all people.
Students will recognize and fulfill their duties and
obligations as students and citizens.

4. M, T, Thur.- P.E. Wed- Music Fri.-Art
Class
Time
Reading
8:15 am – 10:00 am
Specials
10:00 am – 11:00am
Science/Social Studies
11:00 am – 12:00pm
Switch
12:00 pm
Conteúdos - Poruguese
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Math - English
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Portuguese
2:30 pm – 3:40 pm
M, T, Thur.- P.E Wed- Music Fri.-Art

5. All Parents must attend
FSA Workshop
All Parents must attend
December 10, 2019

6. Paper-Based Assessment
FSA
April 2019 –May 2019
Paper-Based Assessment
Students respond to items in multiple ways, including creating graphs, writing extended responses, and using other interactive features. The various question types are designed to assess higher-order thinking skills and offer diverse ways for students to show what they know and can do.

7. FSA
Prior to completing the FSA Reading Assessments, students will complete a READING Portfolio.
We will take this portfolio from January to May.
The portfolio assesses 18 standards (Fiction and Non Fiction).
Student must pass each standard in order to pass the portfolio.

8. Reading in the Third Grade
Third grade reading work focuses on teaching kids how to think and talk about what they read in deeper and more detailed ways. Many reading lessons are dedicated to writing about and talking about texts to think about their meanings, lessons, and important ideas. Third graders are also encouraged to develop their own points of views about books and texts that they read, talking about their ideas about a text or characters. 

9. Third grade students should:
* Reads grade-level text with appropriate pace, accuracy, expression and understanding.
* Talks about and answers questions about a text using specific example from the text and connects different parts of a text.
* Reads a variety of texts including, fiction, non-fiction, fables, and poetry and understands and talks about their main ideas and lessons.
* Begins to understand the difference between literal and non-literal text such as metaphors and analogies.
* Uses the text and context to determine the meaning of words.
* Makes comparisons between books written by the same author and books such as series that are about the same characters.

10. Writing in the Third Grade
Third graders grow as writers as they write more structured and complex pieces. More time is spent on planning, revising and editing texts so that students really learn the “writing process” that writers go through.  As a result, students may spend a long period of time such as a few weeks, working on one writing piece.

11. Writes a variety types of texts including:
* Opinion Pieces: Students introduce their opinions, state their opinion, provide reasons for their opinion and provide a conclusion.
* Narrative Pieces: Students write about an event, using descriptive details, feelings and proper order and provide a conclusion.
* Informative/Explanatory Pieces: Students introduce a topic and use facts. Students also provide a conclusion.

12. Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Third Grade Math
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
* Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
* Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
* Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
Number and Operations—Fractions
* Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.

13. Measurement and Data
* Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects. Represent and interpret data.
Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.
* Recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish between linear and area measures.
Geometry
*Reason with shapes and their attributes.

14. Portuguese
Gramática: Encontros vocálicos e consonantais, divisão silábica, acentuação, pontuação, substantivos e verbos.
Vocabulário: Praticar a escrita de palavras e explorar seus significados.
Interpretação de texto e produção escrita: compreensão de diversos tipos de textos e praticar a linguagem escrita.

15. Portuguese Program Highlights
We will be using Elefante Letrado in school as well as at home.
Username: DaniR
Password: Student ID
Students should read 30 min per week.

16. Grades can be checked through Parent Portal: www.dadeschools.net
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Grades can be checked through Parent Portal:
*Grade book will be up and running by the end of the week.

17. As per the DDCES Homework Policy:
K & 1st Grade: 30 minutes per night, five days
2nd & 3rd Grade: 45 minutes per night, five days
4th and 5th Grade: 60 minutes per night, five days
These times do not reflect the additional 30 minutes
of required reading for all students K-5. Participation
in the Dual Language Program and/or Gifted
Program often requires additional home learning
assignments on a daily basis.

18. Students will have a Password Keeper worksheet, which they will keep in their folders.
Passwords will be given for:
I-Ready (Once the diagnostic assessment is complete)
Accelerated Reader (Once the STAR assessment is complete)
Reading Wonders
Think Central
Reflex Math (Portal)
MyOn (Portal)

19. Students must wear their PTO shirt in
order to attend a field trip. We will provide more information on the our trips as their dates approach us.
* Please sign up with PTO/Sipa membership.

20. Teacher
DDCES APP
Go Green Communicator
DDCES THIRD GRADE WEBSITE