1. The Sweet Life of Third Grade…

2. Read your child’s 3 rd grade goal. Write a goal you have for your child on the back along with a positive note for Friday morning Please complete How Well Do You Know Me ? Your child will be giving you a grade on this tomorrow and bringing it home for you too see! See if you can complete the Tic Tac Toe board your child left you. Please note you will be taking home PTA information, report card information, regulations on carpool, and Class T-shirt forms this evening. Welcome:

3. 7:20 – 8:00 Skill Building Activities/Morning Meeting 8:00 – 9:00 Reading Workshop 9:00 – 10:00 Writing Workshop (Spelling/Grammar) 10:00 – 10:50 Specials 10:55 – 11:25 Math (Number Talk/Problem of the Day) 11:27 – 11:57 Lunch 12:00 – 12:20Recess 12:25 – 1:10Math (Guided Math Groups) 1:10 – 1:55Social Studies/Science 1:55 – 2:05Homework Review/Pack Up 2:05 – 2:10Read Aloud/Dismissal Daily Schedule

4. Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Project Mini Lesson Shared Reading/ Read Aloud Independent Reading Strategy Groups Conferences (Small group, individual) Running Record Assessments Celebrations Reading Workshop

5. Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Project Mini Lesson Independent Writing Small Group Conferences Table Conferences Individual Conferences Writing Notebooks Celebrations Writing Workshop

6. Words Their Way (word families, syllable patterns, suffixes) High Frequency Words (assessments will be on these words) Grammar Interactive Notebook (nouns, verbs, pronouns, adverbs, verb tenses) Word Work/Grammar

7. P.E. Art Music Guidance Computer Lab Science Lab Specials are from 10:00 – 10:50 each day. Specials

8. New Math Adoption (McGraw Hill) Number Talks Model Drawing/Problem Solving Mini Lesson (Teacher Time) Lesson Work (Independent Practice) Small Group Work (Differentiated) Math Centers (Games/Hands on activities) Fact Practice Interactive Math Journals Math Workshop

9. Lunch Schedule – 11:27– 11:57 Recess – 12:00 – 12:20 Please join us any time. You may meet your child in the cafeteria and be seated at the guest table Lunch/Recess

10. Map Skills, Democracy, Greece, Economics Paul Revere, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony Mary McLeod Bethune, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt Thurgood Marshall, Lyndon B. Johnson, Caesar Chavez, Review for CRCT Interactive Social Studies Journal Social Studies

11. Rocks and Minerals, Soil Fossils, Habitats and Organisms Magnets Heat, Conservation, and Recycling, Review for CRCT Interactive Science Journals Science

12. Positive Discipline SWEET Choices Class Rules/Consequences Raffle Tickets SMARTIE Points Rules/Classroom Management

13. Weekly Homework Packet??????? Planners Homework Folders Practice and Review 30 minutes per night Homework

14. No parking in the fire lanes at any time – we will be ticketed if vehicle is unattended When you enter the parking lot please go all the way around – not straight Please drop car riders off in front of the school under the overhang Lunch guest – parent and child only at overflow tables - Please meet your child at the café and say goodbye in the café Please do not go to the classroom to pick up your child at the end of the day, wait outside or in the lobby ONLY ASP changes can be made over the phone – calls must be made by 1:45 Other dismissal changes must be brought to the office by the parent Students being signed out early must be signed out by 2:00 PM Important Points

15. Breakfast With a Book Math Lab (every 3 weeks) Parties/Field Trips (Our FIRST trip is to Tellus on November 20 th ) Fit in Third Adventures in ART Volunteer Sign Ups & Information

16. You can access our class website through East Side’s home page. We will also have a shutterfly page, which will be utilized for important events and volunteer opportunities in the classroom (PLEASE NOTE: This site will be our primary site for all events going on in class). Angie Kirka and Karen Gray will be co- room moms this year! Class Web Site

17. It is going to be a great year! Thank You for Coming!