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3rd Grade!

Mrs. Kane and Mrs. Daley

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I am so excited to spend my 10th year of teaching with you and your child! I’ve taught third and fifth grade. In addition to my Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education, I also have my Gifted Endorsement and Google Educator Certification.

I am so excited about our learning adventure together this year!

I love to make learning fun and come to life, but more importantly, I love to teach kids how to interact with each other and to support them as a person! We talk a lot about Growth Mindset and that making mistakes is part of how we learn.

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Mrs. Kane

Math & Science

• Unit 1 - Place value, addition, subtraction, rounding
• Unit 2 - Multiplication, division, patterns
• Unit 3 - Word problems, area, scaled graphs
• Unit 4 - Fractions, measurement, data
• Unit 5 - Measurement, volume, mass
• Unit 6 - Geometry

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iReady

Spiral Math

Math Facts

Math

• A daily math warm up that we will use all year long! We answer 4 questions Mon-Thur
• Every Friday there’s an open notes quiz on those skills
• This allows us to practice a range of important skills everyday opposed to only a few weeks out of the year!

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• Kids should already be pretty quick with their Addition/Subtraction facts! If not, PLEASE work on those nightly.
• We take a 2 minute-timed test each week to track progress!
• We will begin to memorize multiplication facts as we learn them!

Reflex

• Classlink
• This is what they’ll use to access everything educational…
• Logins will be taped inside of their take home folders
• To access Classlink: Go to www.ccboe.net and click the Classlink icon on the right hand side
• Google Classroom (via Classlink)
• This is where I will assign most online assignments!
• Also where students will look for assignments if they will be out for 3+ days. After you let us know, we will put together an assignment with directions telling them what they need to do for each day!

iReady Math

• Our math program has a component that is adaptive. It provides lessons one-at-a-time that are at the exact level they need to work on individually (based on their diagnostic test in the beginning of the year). These lessons might be reviewing skills they need to strengthen from previous grades or introducing new concepts on grade level or beyond.
• There will also be “teacher assigned lessons” on 3rd grade skills that your child will complete from time to time!

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Reflex

• This is a website that we use to practice Math facts
• It utilizes fact families to help them learn their facts
• Right now, most are practicing their addition and subtraction facts. As they master this, they’ll move on to multiplication and division facts.
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Unit 1: Rocks, Soils, and Fossils

Unit 2: Heat Energy

Unit 3: Plants, Animals, and Habitats of Georgia

Unit 4: Interdependence of Man (Pollution/Environment)

Students have 30 minutes of Science every other day!

*There will not be as many graded assignments for Science/Social Studies

• STEMscopes
• Generation Genius
• Mystery Science
• Flipbooks made in class

I am so excited to spend my 21st year of teaching with you and your child! I’ve taught third, fourth and fifth grades. I have three teaching degrees, two endorsements and three certifications. I earned my Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree of Science in Education at Augusta State University and my Specialist Degree in Teaching and Learning from Georgia Southern University. Go Eagles! I have my Gifted and Reading Endorsements along with my Google 1 & 2 certifications.

I am so excited about our learning adventure together this year! We’re going to do lots of hands-on, engaging, creative activities! I can’t wait to see how much your child grows this year!

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Mrs. Daley

ELA & Social Studies

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• Author’s Point of View​

• Theme

• Literary Elements

• Figurative Language

• Main Idea & Details​

• Text Structure

• Compare & Contrast​

• Text Features

•Poetry​

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Reading

Grammar

Writing

Language Arts

•Parts of speech

•Parts of sentences

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•Narrative​

•Informational​

•Opinion​

•Response to Literature​

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•Exploring New Land

•Maps and Globes

•American Indians

•European Explorers

•New England, Middle and Southern Colonies

•Government

•Resources

•Entrepreneurship

Social Studies

Newsletter

Every week we will edit our newsletter to let you all know what we’re learning about in class and what else we have going on that week!

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Please bookmark the link and save it for regular viewing!

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I encourage you to go over it with your child! It’s a great conversation starter for what’s going on at school!

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Newsletter Link

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Bi-Weekly�Folders

Every other week gold folders will come home with graded papers inside. Please sign the form in the back of the folder so that we know you have seen the grades!

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Students should make corrections on notebook paper and return both the graded papers and corrections back to school as soon as possible.

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Going

Beyond

Excellence

Rewards

Rewards

• Individual
• Students earn Pack Bucks for following “The Pack Way” which can be spent in our classroom store!
• Class-wide
• Our class earns links for our class chain when the entire class is doing the right thing in the hallway or at lunch
• When our class earns 20 links, 2 students will represent our class on the GBE news show and play PLINKO for a prize

• We use a 100% grading scale! This is good because you’ll know how much of the material they understood and were able to answer correctly.
• Graded papers will be sent home every other Tuesday in their gold folder! Please review the papers, make any corrections on notebook paper with the assignment labeled and numbered!

Grades

Diagnostics

Georgia Milestones

Grades & Assessments

• We take a diagnostic assessment in reading and math three times a year using iReady.
• The results create MyPath lessons for each child.

April 29: ELA Section 1-

Writing

April 30: ELA Sections 2/3

May 1: Math Sections 1 & 2

•A = 100 - 90 ​

•B = 89 - 80 ​

•C = 79 - 73 ​

•D = 72 – 70​

•F = 69 and below

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• Grades - Bi-Weekly folders and Parent Portal
• Feel free to reach out anytime via Remind!

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Communication�

Kane’s Homeroom

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Daley’s Homeroom

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• Please load money onto their accounts for a quick moving lunch line- all lunch payments can be made through E-Z-Pay online, or you can send in money in an envelope with your child's name and homeroom teacher!
• Kids love to buy extras/jumbos! Pay attention to their lunch account balance and make sure your child knows your expectations for what they should be purchasing in the cafeteria.

• Parents coming to lunch should sit with their child at the overflow table. No outside food should be brought in.
• Parents coming to check a student in, out, or as a visitor need state issued ID (driver’s license)

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Birthdays

We all want to celebrate our birthdays!

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You are welcome to send in Birthday treats for the homeroom class (20 kids). Cookies, Donuts, and small cupcakes with minimal white icing are all okay and only 1-2 flavors options please! Please be sure to send plates, napkins and wipes to clean student hands. All treats must be store bought with ingredient label attached.

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• Students are welcome in the building at 8:10
• Dismissal begins at 3:40 with car-riders and walkers. Bus riders stay in the classroom and leave as their bus arrives.
• PLEASE make sure students know how they are getting home ☺
• We appreciate notes being sent in for transportation changes the morning of! If you must, please send a Remind message to let me know of any last minute changes and I will communicate it with your child as long as I check my phone or e-mail and see it!
• If you don’t get a response from me or if it’s late in the day, call the office and ask them to let Mrs. Kane or Mrs. Daley know to check our email for a transportation change!

• It is very important that students are present at school every day, if possible!
• If they’re not feeling well or if there’s reason for other absence, please send in a doctor’s note or a written excuse when the student returns.
• If your child needs to be out for more than a couple of days, please let us know! First, we’re keeping track! And second, we want to help keep your child caught up as much as possible!
• Now that we are beginning to really dig in, they will need to stay caught up on what we’re learning if they’re out for 3+ days.�Please let us know so we can keep your child up to date!!

Thank You

Mrs. Bridges' Welcome Video

Please watch the video below from Mrs. Bridges with a few more important reminders: