Play Your Cards Right

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Play Your Cards Right..
Become DECKED out with Knowledge!
Grade 3 Mrs. Judy Hrabak
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Our Goals

• To provide a supportive and fun environment where
  each students individual needs are met
• To help students make new friends and discover
  new interests
• To give students the academic and social skills
  needed to progress to fourth grade

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Class Rules

• Our class rules are
• Be respectful of
• Other people
• Ourselves
• Our Environment

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Behavior Plan

• Post-It note warning
• 1 check mark 5 minutes of recess
• 2 check marks 10 minutes of recess
• 3 check marks student writes a note home to
  have signed.

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Punches

• When a student ends the day with no check marks,
  they have a hole punched in their Positive
  Behavior cards.
• We are working toward a reward at the end of a 10
  day period.
• Students must have 8/10 holes punched to
  participate in special activity.

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Attendance/Tardiness

• School starts at 750 A.M.
• If students arent in the classroom by the time
  the second bell rings, please have them check in
  at the school office before coming to class.
• If a student is absent or tardy five times, I
  will be sending you a note.
• When absent or tardy 10 times, the school office
  will contact you.

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Reading Genres
Shift from Learning to Read to Reading to
Learn

• Narrative Text
• Informational Text
• Fiction Text
• Poetry

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Reading Skills

• Comprehension main idea, inference, use of
  context clues, drawing conclusions, sequence of
  events,
• Fluency 120 wpm by end of grade 3
• Vocabulary
• Guided Reading Level goal of Level P by end of
  third grade

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Reading Program Components

• Guided Reading
• Kidstations Structured Activities to
  reinforce standards learned
• Literature Circles
• Author Studies
• Lexile Levels read 20 minutes daily in book of
  appropriate Lexile
• Students must pass the CRCT Reading Test to be
  promoted to Grade 4.

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Writing

• 6 1 Traits of Writing
• Writers Workshop
• Writing Journals
• Grammar
• Writing effective paragraphs
• Cursive handwriting beginning after Fall Break.

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State Writing Assessment

• 4 Genres
• County Rubrics are used to assess
• Response to Literature
• Narrative
• Persuasive
• Informational
• Completed throughout the school year
• Final scores submitted to state by the end of
  March.

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Math

• Place Value to Ten Thousand
• Addition/Subtraction Facts
• Multiplication Facts
• Division
• Elapsed Time
• Counting back change

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Math, cont

• Problem Solving
• Measurement length, area, perimeter
• Fractions and decimals

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Math Program Components

• Flexible Small Groups
• Guided Math
• Math Journals
• Problem Solving Activities
• Problem of the Day
• Rocket Math mastering math facts beginning in
  November

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Science

• Rocks and Minerals
• Fossils
• Soil
• Magnets
• Heat
• Georgia Habitats and Organisms

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Social Studies

• Roots of Our Democracy Ancient Greece, Ancient
  Olympics
• Our Economy
• Locating important rivers and mountain ranges in
  the US
• Famous American Heroes Having an impact on our
  democracy

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Social Studies Famous Americans

• Paul Revere, Fredrick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony,
  Mary McLeod Bethune, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
  Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Lyndon B.
  Johnson, Cesar Chavez

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Homework

• Homework should take about 30 minutes every
  night.
• 20 minutes of reading in a book of an appropriate
  level
• Monthly WEB project
• (Wonderfully Exciting Books!)

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How Can Parents Help?

• Please check Take Home Folder and Agenda each
  day.
• Sign or initial to show homework has been
  completed.
• Use Agenda to write any necessary notes. It will
  be checked each morning. (e.g. Transportation
  changes, misc. information)

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Questions???
Email Judith.Hrabak_at_cobbk12.org
Blog www.blackwell.typepad.com/jteam/
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Lets Have a Great Year!