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Welcome to 3rd Grade Curriculum
Night 2021-2022
Third Grade Team
➢ Miss Belcher
belcherd@fultonschools.org
➢ Ms. Daniels
danielsa1@fultonschools.org
➢ Ms. Derrico , GLC
derrico@fultonschools.org
➢ Dr. Ellis
ellist4@fultonschools.org
➢ Miss Gwin
gwinb@fultonschools.org
➢ Mrs. Lewis
lewisch@fultonschools.org
➢ Miss Boykin, EIP
➢ Mr. Baker, SEC
➢ Ms. Ramsey, EIP
3rd Grade Schedule
Time Event
7:10A-7:45A Breakfast/ Morning Meeting
7:45A-8:00A SEL/Leader in Me
8:00A-8:45A Writing
8:45A-9:00A Foundational Skills
9:00A-9:20A Modeled/Shared Reading
9:20A-10:20A Guided Reading Groups
10:20A-10:35 Modeled/ Guided Math
• *** Please see your child’s teacher for your student’s specific schedule***
10:35A-11:20A Small Group Instruction
11:20A-12:05P Specials
12:05P-1:00P Recess/ Lunch
12:55P-1:05P Math cont’d:
1:05P- 1:35P Science/Social Studies
1:35P-2:05P R.T.I.
2:00P-2:15P Health
2:15P-2:20P Dismissal
P.A.C.K Principles/ Discipline
• Wolf Creek Elementary School’s
School-wide Discipline
Red – Superior
• Orange – Outstanding
• Yellow – Good
• Blue – Warning
• Purple – Teacher Choice
Social Emotional / LIM ➢ Self-Awareness ➢ Self Management ➢ Sense of Belonging ➢ Social Competence ➢ Reflective Learning Strategies ➢ Collaborative Problem Solving
Georgia Standards of
Excellence (GSE)
• College & Career Readiness
• Ensures that students are measured against the same
expectations
• Higher order thinking questions
• More rigor
• Visit www.georgiastandards.org for more information
Reading/Language Arts
The Unit Structure:
Literature/Informational
➢ Key Ideas and Details
➢ Craft and Structure
➢ Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
➢ Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Students will read for Information, read for Literature, and develop their writing
skills.
Students will continuously develop their skills for listening and speaking, reading
foundational skills, and language.
- Teachers use varied literature, fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, fables,
folktales, myths and supplemental resources.
Reading and
Language Arts
➢Literature Read
Aloud ➢Vocabulary
➢Phonics ➢Writing
➢Fluency ➢Grammar
➢Guided Reading ➢Comprehension
➢Literacy Stations
Reading Skills
➢Homographs and ➢Prefixes and Suffixes
Homophones
➢Figurative Language ➢Author’s Purpose
➢Compare and Contrast ➢Narrative Elements
➢Make Judgments ➢Reference Skills
➢Fact and Opinion ➢Synonyms and
Antonyms
➢Cause and Effect ➢Main Idea and Details
➢Sequence ➢Inference
➢Summarize ➢Draws Conclusions
Writing
We use the following strategies to teach
excellent writing skills:
➢ 6+ 1 Writing Traits
➢ The Writing Process
▪ Ideas
▪ Prewriting
▪ Organization
▪ Drafting
▪ Voice
▪ Revising
▪ Word Choice
▪ Editing
▪ Sentence Fluency
▪ Publishing
▪ ConventionsLanguage Arts
➢Complete / Complex
Sentences
➢Nouns ➢Verbs
➢Subjects & Predicates ➢Adverbs
➢Simple & Compound ➢Capitalization
Sentences ➢Punctuation (Quotation Marks,
End Marks, Commas,
➢Adjectives & Articles Apostrophes)
➢Contractions ➢Subject Verb Agreement
➢Pronouns ➢Dictionary, Thesaurus and
➢Possessives Glossary Skills
➢Conjunctions and PrepositionsNarrative Writing ➢Relating Personal Experience - students to recount an event grounded in their own experiences - elicit a story with a plot and characters rather than a list ➢Creating an Imaginative Story - students produce stories that are grounded in imagination or fantasy
Informative/Explanatory Writing
[Research Topics]
➢non-fiction writing; to inform or explain a topic to a reader
➢incorporate information from resources (books, on-line
sources, etc.) without copying the information verbatim
➢paraphrasing information and using technical vocabulary
from source materialOpinionated Writing ➢students take a position on an issue or topic that they are familiar with ➢may occur after the class has researched an issue or read related texts ➢may be part of a lesson on the issue in a particular content area
Georgia Standards of Excellence
Mathematics (GSE)
Focuses on actively engaging the students in
the development of mathematical
understanding
using manipulatives
variety of representations
working independently and cooperatively to
solve problems
estimating and computing efficiently
conducting investigations and recording
findingsMathematics - Skills ▪ Rounding (Nearest 10’s and 100’s) ▪ Addition, Subtraction, & Properties ▪ Multiply x10 ▪ Data ▪ Measuring (in.) ▪ Multiplication, Division, & Properties ▪ Word Problems (Multiplication & Division) ▪ Algebra 3x _ = 21 ▪ Fact Families (Multiplication & Division) ▪ 2 step word problems (add, sub., mult., and div.) ▪ Patterns (input / output) ▪ Area / Perimeter ▪ Geometry ▪ Fractions ▪ Time ▪ Volume/Mass
Science ➢Scientific Inquiry / Process Skills ➢Attributes of Rocks, Minerals & Soils of Georgia ➢Fossils and How They are Formed ➢Habitats of Georgia and Adaptations ➢Heat and Temperature ➢Pollution and Conservation of the Environment
Social Studies
➢ Historical Understandings ➢ Government/Civic Understanding
• Native Americans • Branches of government (national & state)
• Colonizers of North America • State the responsibility of each branch
• British colonial America • Explain the importance of Americans sharing
democratic beliefs
➢ Geographic Understandings
➢ Economic Understandings
• Major rivers of the United States
• Define and give examples of the four types of
• Mountain ranges productive resources: natural, human, capital,
• Locate and describe the equator, prime entrepreneurship
meridian, and lines of longitude and latitude • Explain that governments provide certain types
• Describe physical systems
of goods and servicesSpecials
11:20A-12:05 P.M.
◼ Physical Education
◼ Art
◼ Music
◼ METI - Media and Educational Technology
Integration
The students get grades based on participation and performance.
Any concerns with these grades are to be directed to the special area
teacher.EIP
EIP Eligibility for Placement Criteria for 3rd Grade
Students that perform below level on diagnostic testing:
✓ End of the Year Fast Bridge Assessment
✓ BAS
✓ Sight Word List / Words Their Way
✓ EIP Rubric
✓ Teacher Recommendation
The purpose of EIP is to support students who may have gaps in the areas of
reading and math. It is aimed towards students receiving extra support in
order to be successful with on grade level curriculum.
Goal: to help students reach grade level performance in order to exit out of EIPGrading
Weights
Make Up/Redo Policy
-Major: 55% If the student receives a failing
-Minor: 40% grade on a major assignment,
-Practice: 5% they are given ONE opportunity
to redo the assignment.
• Grading Policy The highest a student can get on
• 90 – 100 A a redo is a 79.
• 80 - 89 B
• 70 - 79 C
• 0 - 69 F
• I- Incomplete (less than 80% of
assignments were completed)Agenda & Communications
Folder
• 1 for every student
• Used for daily communication between teacher and
parent
• Agendas and communication folder should be returned
to school daily
• Student copies homework assignment in their agendas
• Communications folder is used to send and receive
important documents between home and school
• Newsletter will be sent out at the beginning of each new
week.Homework Policy • Review daily subject content/ resources from class. • Homework for Math and Reading will be sent home on Monday, and it will be due Friday.
Assessments’ Plan • iReady Diagnostics (given 3x a year- Sept., Jan., May) • WriteScore (Nov.- Dec.) • BAS (Sept/Dec./ May) • GMAS (Apr.) • Unit Tests given for all subjects
Virtual Conference Dates/Sign-up • Please ask your child’s teacher about how-to sign-up for a virtual conference • Conferences will be held via phone or Teams
Miscellaneous Information • Headphones • Snacks • Transportation changes to be communicated by 12:00P to the office FIRST and then to us via Class Dojo/email
Questions
Let’s Have a Great Year! Thank You For Coming!
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