After you’ve made yourselves comfortable and looked around a bit, please take a moment to read your child’s letter to you. On the back of the letter, please write back! The class is very excited to hear what you think of our room!

Welcome to 3M’s Open House!

Mr. Mark Moura

About Me

Educator

15th year teaching (6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd)

Master’s degree in reading (SHU) Coaching

– High School– Local Travel/Premier levels

Live in Trumbull with my wife and 2 sons Life-long area resident

Grade 3 Expectations

Respect Responsibility Increased Independence (transition) Organization Preparedness Making Good Choices Effort

Class Rules

Rules:Please see the wall.

Consequences: One on one talk Teacher signal Take a break Group meeting Peer reminder (Social Consequences)

Specials Schedule

A – Art

B- Music

C- Tech Time and PE

D- Music

E- PE

Curriculum Overview

Teacher Centered-Student Centered

Balanced Math Curriculum Whole Number Concepts – Estimation, Place

Value, and Computation. Multiplication Concepts and Facts Division Concepts and Facts Measurement and Data Geometry Fractions Multiplying and Dividing 1-digit Numbers

Language Arts

Balanced Literacy Program: Reading Workshop Independent Reading Read alouds Informative, Narrative, Opinion, Poetry, and Fairy

Tale Writing Word Work (introduce new words, patterns and

letter-sound relationships)

Science

River Basin System Properties of MatterProtecting the Environment

Social Studies

Native Americans (LMC project/Parent presentation)

Asia Africa Europe Australia

OPTIONAL Passion/Challenge Projects Free choice of topic to pursue

• Question • Expert topics

Self-initiated Check in before starting presentation or

model End Presentation Date (choice)

Homework “Paper” Homework - no more than 20 minutes

each night. Read 15 minutes every night in a “just right” book Practice math facts

Birthday Information

Birthdays may be celebrated in school! Please NO food items as part of the celebration Small items (pencils, erasers, stickers, etc.) are

welcomeNo party invitations are to go through class mail

unless the entire class is invited!

Field Trips

River Lab (Mill River) – Late Oct. Native Americans - New Pond Farm – Oct. 14th

Kitchen Chemistry (States of Matter) Discovery Museum – February

Smart Living Center (Protecting the Earth) – Spring

Conferences…

Please sign up for both Fall and Spring Conferences

The sign-up sheet is on the desk outside Please take note of your times I will send out a reminder

Final Thoughts...

Please sign up:If your ever interested in reading to our

class, please let me know at least 1 week in advance

Volunteer opportunities (PTA)

Thank you for coming!

I look forward to working with you this year….

Class List

PEARSON BIGGS RANIA BROWN DREW CASARATTO MOLLY COCCARO WILLIAM DEAN LIAM FORREST BEN FORTE WILLIAM HENSEL STUART KAGEL HANNAH LUND LIAM MCMAHON CHARLOTTE MICHENER AIDAN MOHAMMED

SCARLETT TRENSKYTAYLOR WOLF EVAN O'NEILLTYLER POWELLJON MORRISELLIE WHEELER

Math Curriculum – Inquiry Units We are working with curriculum by Cathy

Fosnot for 3 of our 7 units (Place Value, Multiplication, and Division)

This allows for a deeper understanding of concepts and development of new skills.

It helps establish a community where students learn to communicate their mathematical thinking and work to solve problems together.

Spelling Students will be taught lessons to introduce new words,

patterns and letter-sound relationships. A word wall is introduced in the beginning of the year and

is added to as the year progresses. All lessons will also be applied to everyday reading and writing.

Some of these lessons include: Using words you know (to decode and spell other words) Guess the covered word (Using context clues to identify unfamiliar-in-

print words) Making words (to identify patterns in words and use those patterns to

read/spell other words) Reading/Writing Rhymes (use patterns to decode and spell a lot of

words) What looks right? (to know correct spelling by writing a word and

seeing if it looks right)