Parent Information Night –

Third Grade

2015-2016

Welcome to Third Grade

We are so excited to get to know your child! This year

students will embark on new experiences and will learn

many new skills. This orientation is intended to give you

a glimpse of the concepts and expectations that third

graders will be responsible for. We look forward to an

amazing year!

Meet Our Team….

• Cassandra Boone – Room 33

• Alicia Osen – Room 36

• Stacy Mills – Room 37

• Beth Burton – Room 35

• Stephanie McLennan – Room 32

• Amanda Morvant – Room 38

• Melissa Marshall – Room 39

Expectations and Take-Home Folder

• Student expectation cards go home daily to be reviewed. You only need to sign if your student received a mark thatday. Your child will also have graded papers and important SCE information that will come home on Tuesdays.

Item to Purchase Price

Hat Pass 5

Stinky Feet Pass 5

Fuzzy Friend 5

No Track 10

No Homework 10

Token Machine 15

Rolling Chair 20

Change Seats for the Day 25

Sit with a friend at lunch 30

Lunch with the teacher 30

Third Grade Bark Buck’s Menu

Weekly 3rd Grade Weebly

Curriculum

The Katy ISD curriculum can now be accessed online via the

district website under the “PARENTS” tab – curriculum search –

Elementary, curriculum search. Please see the green handout for

more information and the QR/easy access codes.

This year your third grader will be building upon the skills they

learned in second grade as well as learning new material. We will be

taking the strategies they are familiar with and expanding on them to

help students tackle work of increased difficulty.

Grading Periods

Grading

Period

Dates Progress

Report Goes

Home

Report Card

Goes Home

First August 24-October 16 Tuesday

Sept. 22

Friday

Oct. 23

Second October 19-December 18 Tuesday

Nov. 17

Friday

Jan. 8

Third January 5-March 25 Tuesday

Feb. 9

Friday

April 1

Fourth March 28-May 26 Tuesday

April 26

Thursday

June 2

Conferences

A parent conference will be held in the Fall with

your child’s teacher(s). A second conference with your

child’s homeroom teacher or switch teacher can be

scheduled if needed. We look forward to these personal

meetings and view them as an opportunity to learn

more about your child as well as celebrate his/her

progress in third grade.

Birthday Treats/Invitations

As stated in the Creech Student Handbook and also noted in the Katy ISD

Student Code of Conduct and Discipline Management Plan (available online

www.katyisd.org, under Quick Links: Policies/Code of Conduct/Forms tab),

birthday treats may be shared with the child’s classmates on his/her birth date.

These treats will be served during the last 10 minutes of the instructional day.

The treat is limited to one item per classmate and it is preferred that the treat be a

single-serve item (i.e. cupcake, cookie, etc.) so that it can be served, eaten, and

cleaned up within the 10 minutes allotted. It is strongly encouraged that the

birthday treat be store-bought with ingredient labels brought to the campus for

allergen review. Birthday treats must be delivered to the school no later than

10am to be reviewed by the nurse and delivered to the classroom.

Per GKDA (REGULATIONS), invitations for birthday parties or other

special events are defined as non-school related materials and may

not be distributed to students at school since no other flyers from

similar groups are allowed to be directly distributed to students.

MathStudents must know their basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.

Students will also be working on more complex word problems:

• That often require more than one step or operation

• That will require them to always show how they solve problems in order to help

teachers to identify areas of weakness.

• Reading skills will also be very important to help them be successful in math.

Skills covered:

• Place value

• Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

• Graphing

• Financial literacy

• Geometry

• Fractions

• Measurement

They will be responsible for taking the Math STAAR test this year.

Reading

• Student will study many different genres.

• While second grade focused primarily on fluency and finding information clearly stated in the text, 3rd graders will be focusing more on the elements of fiction:

• Author’s purpose

• Stated and unstated meanings in the text.

• Inferencing

• Character development

• Main idea and supporting details

• Point of View

• Plot

• Theme

• Setting

• Conflict (problem/solution)

• They will be exposed to a variety of novels that will both expand their knowledge base and build their stamina.

They will be responsible for taking the Reading STAAR test this year.

Writing

This year students will learn what the process is to publish a successful essay.

They will publish essays in a variety of genres including:

• narrative (personal story)

• expository (explaining something)

The language arts element is weaved into the writing process as students are responsible for:

• correctly spelling words (using the dictionary, word walls, and other resources to assist them when necessary)

• sentence structure

• capitalization

• properly paragraphing their essays

Grading Policies

The third grade teachers will implement the following late policy:

Late Class Assignments and Homework =

1 Day late = 10 points off

2 Days late = 20 points off

3 Days late = 30 points off

*After 3 days of not turning in class work or homework, the student will be asked to stay for ZAP Lab. ZAP Lab is held each Wednesday after school in the library. ZAP stands for “Zeroes Aren’t Permitted.” Please note that after ZAP lab, assignments will be collected and they will be scored based on what has been completed with the appropriate number of points taken off.

Planner

The planner is used to keep your child organized. It can

be purchased at the beginning of the school year. It is the

students’ responsibility to write homework in their planners

daily. Teachers may also write notes to parents in the

student’s planner. All students bring their planners home

each night, and we ask that parents sign to show that you

have seen the assigned homework and checked that it was

completed. If you see that assignments are not being written

in the planner please discuss the importance of this with

your child and let the teacher know.

Thank You for Coming

If you have any questions…please contact us.