3rd Grade Teachers Welcome you to Curriculum Night

Lindy Wend

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Ashley Kyzer

Sherry Ward

Lorie Jennings

Kim Taylor

Ashley Zeigler

Jessica Jones

Anne Summe

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Missie Starkey

Parent/School Communication*Agenda

*Thursday Folder

*Handwritten note

*Email – not for emergency use

*Website

*Parent Portal

Grading Policies*Use Parent Portal to check grades and

interims. *Report cards every nine weeks*Grading Scale A 93 – 100B 85 – 92 C 77 – 84D 70 – 76F 69 and below

Grading Weights

Tests/Projects – 40%

Quizzes/Labs/Projects – 30%

Classwork – 20%

Homework – 10%

Homework Policy*IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOUR CHILD TURNS

IN ALL WORK DAILY!

*Homework counts as part of the final grade in each subject area.

Turned in on time =100One day late = 80Two or more days late = 60

Behavior and DisciplineStudents are expected to follow our

PAWS for excellence school-wide policy.

P-ersonal Best A-ct Responsibly

      W-ork and Play SafelyS-how Respect

Clip charts are used in all 3rd grade classrooms.

HHoommeerroooomm VVoolluunntteeeerrss*Homeroom parents are chosen by PTO. *There will be times when teachers will need small tasks done & will contact parents individually.*Please make sure you fill out the volunteer sheet with PTO if you want to help or be contacted by the homeroom mom for anything.

Off Campus:*SC State House & Museum*Saluda Shoals

Field TripsOn Campus:

*Diamond Dell *Traveling Trunks

*All parent chaperones should check in with Lobby Guard prior to the field trips.

Science

• Process Skills• Scientific Investigations• Habitats and Adaptations• Sound and Motion• Earth Materials and Changes• Heat and Changes in Matter

2004 SC Science

Standards

Inquiry Science Resources

SC Science Curriculum Standards

•Science FOSS kits

•MacMillan/McGraw Hill textbook and workbook

Social Studies

3rd grade focus South Carolina

History

TextbookThe South Carolina

Adventure

2011 SC Social Studies Standards

Social StudiesSouth Carolina History Content

•SC places and regions

•The role of human systems in SC

•Exploration and settlement of SC

•American Revolution and SC’s role in the development of the new American nation

•The events that led to the Civil War, the course of the War, Reconstruction, and SC’s role in these events

•SC’s major developments in the late nineteenth and twentieth century

Balanced Literacy•Shared Reading•Guided Reading

•Independent Reading•Read alouds

South Carolina College and Career Ready

Standards

• Cursive handwriting

• Word Study/Vocabulary

• Constructed Response

• Writer’s Workshop

WritingSouth Carolina College

and Career Ready Standards

Math

My Math

Areas of StudyOperations and Algebraic ThinkingNumbers and Operations – Base10Numbers and Operations – FractionsMeasurement and DataGeometry

South Carolina College and Career Ready

Standards

Math HomeworkMonday-Thursday the kids will usually have a

worksheet (usually front and back) for homework. If your child is having difficulty then send an email to the teacher so that we can help the

child in the classroom.

Multiplication*Will start in the fall.*All quizzes will be timed – 1 ½ minutes for 11 problems.*Must pass each table through 10.*Then we will go on to have mixed multiplication quizzes, which will also be timed.