1. Welcome to 3 rd Grade!!

2. Parking lot procedures Mornings & Afternoons Children load and unload from the curbs and at the crosswalks only. The West (back) parking is for teachers only. Children will be accounted for by their color coded dismissal cards. If your child will be leaving school differently than normal, please call by 2:30 or send a note! Please stay off your cell phones in our school zones.

3. Morning Procedures School starts at 8:25 Doors will be unlocked at 7:55 There is no supervision prior to this time so please do not drop off before 7:55 am. Students that arrive before 8:25 will report to the gymnasium. Students that arrive after 8:25 will report to the office to pick up a tardy slip.

4. Curriculum Our curriculum is TEKS based from the State of Texas. The TEKS can be downloaded from the TEA website! http://www.tea.state.tx.us A packet is going home with you today with more detailed information on all our curriculum.

5. Classroom Newsletters This year your student’s classroom newsletter will be online. Simply go to the campus website. Click on Faculty & Staff and scroll down to 3 rd grade. Should you have problems locating the site please contact your teacher.

6. STAAR Testing This test is completely TEKS based. The 3 rd grade STAAR test covers material introduced and covered from Kindergarten – 3 rd grade! STAAR Testing dates. April 22 - Math April 23 - Reading

7. Take Home Binder Your child will bring their binder to and from school each day. This binder will include sections for their homework, behavior chart, important notes, and graded work. It will also include their planner showing what they worked on in class that day.

8. Homework Your student will have math and reading homework weekly. Both of these will be assigned on Monday and due on Friday. Their math homework will consist of practice problems for recently taught concepts. The reading homework will be a reading log for your child to write about books they are reading at home.

9. Reading at Home

10. Graded Work Graded work comes home in your child’s binder. On any assignment with a grade below 70%, the student will have an opportunity to correct their work. The average of the original assignment and corrected assignment will be recorded in the grade book.

11. Chisholm Ridge Elementary Behavior Program Please be sure that you see and sign the Behavior Management sheet each Thursday night. Conduct grades are based on the number of additions and deductions your child has during the 9 weeks.

12. You can help! Volunteer! Let your student see you here! Listen to students read, help tutor, or help prepare teaching materials!

13. We’re looking forward to a great year!