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3rd Grade
Teachers:
Elise Brown
Ted Proctor
Contact information
Teacher emails:
Horn office: 319-688-1115
Have a concern? Stop in or email to set up a
meeting time that is mutually convenient.
Student Absences
Best to CALL office
Note/email to the teacher for a planned absence
Refer back to Parent Handbook for illness policy
Home-School
communication
Assignment Notebooks (daily)
Transport Folders (daily)
Take Home Envelopes (Fridays)
Class schedules (sent home previously and on classroom website)
Assignment schedules (in packet and on classroom website)
Reading/ Language Arts
Using district-wide reading curriculum from Journeys Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt.
Includes whole group and small group instruction each day with a variety of literature, supplemented with reader’s theater and novel units.
Strategies for reading (in packets)
Writing in a variety of formats. Focus on personal narratives, informative (How-to/research), and opinion (persuasive) writing.
Book Talks
Completed at home/ presented in class twice a year
Book report format
Directions and rubric discussed and modeled in
class (in packets and on classroom website)
Dates will be scheduled and posted on classroom
websites.
Spelling
Tests: Monday and Friday
List and homework sent home Monday
Great studying resource: www.spellingcity.com
(link on website)
Math
Pearson enVision Math Curriculum.
Family letters sent home- explains upcoming unit.
Homework- comes straight from math journal. Normally the front of the homework is assigned. Back of homework is optional but encouraged.
Practice test done together in class and taken home to study. Tests are sent home to review, sign, and return
Timed tests/ flashcards another component of math curriculum in third grade.
Science/ Social Studies
3rd Grade FOSS Science Units are Water and
Climate, Motion and Matter, and Structures of
Life
3rd Grade Social Studies from Social Studies
Alive! curriculum. Big ideas are Maps,
Immigration, Government, Diversity, Culture,
Economy, and Environmental Issues
Iowa Statewide Assessment
of Student Progress (ISASP)Now taken in the Spring, week of April 6-10
We will practice the format of the test ahead of time in our classrooms. 4 tests: Reading, Writing, Language Arts, and Math.
What you can do at home:
Make sure your child gets plenty of rest and eats a good breakfast during testing week. Classroom website contains link for practice tests.
Classroom & Building-Wide
Behavior Supports
3rd Grade: Emphasis on building responsibility/ problem-
solving skills.
During each week, class earns alphabet letters towards
their own Gum Day on Fridays and/or other classroom
rewards by following procedures and expectations.
School-Wide: Positive Behavioral Interventions and
Supports (PBIS). Students earn tickets by displaying
respectful, responsible, and caring behaviors.
Conference Sign Ups
Parent-Teacher Conferences occur twice a year.
Once in the fall (November 14th and 19th) and
once in the winter (February 27th and March 2nd).
School-wide conference sign-up this year will be
available online through sign-up genius. We’ll
email when the sign-up goes live!
