Mrs. Koch

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Welcome to Open House

• Mrs. Kochs Third Grade
• 3rd Grade

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Open House Agenda

• Our Classroom Goals
• Daily Schedule
• Overview of Curriculum
• Adjusting to Third Grade
• Behavior System
• Agenda/Homework Routines
• Absences
• Transportation
• New School Policies
• Communication
• Questions

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Classroom Goals

• We are working toward a
• Respectful Classroom
• Educational Classroom
• Clean Classroom
• Fun Classroom

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Daily Schedule

• 715-800 Arrive, Unpack, Morning Work
• 800-820 spelling/grammar skills block
• 820-910 specials
• 910-1040 Math rap/math workshop
• 1000 working snack
• 1040-1105 Recess
• 1113 1143 LUNCH
• 1145 1245 Readers workshop
• 1245 200 Writers workshop
• (content integration) during reading and
  writing
• 200-215 Stack/Pack/Clean/Read Aloud

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Overview of Curriculum
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Writing Workshop

• Descriptive Writing
• Personal Narrative
• Response to Literature
• Creative Stories
• Informational writing
• Persuasive writing

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Reading Workshop

• Guided Reading-Small group reading that is
  differentiated based upon readiness and
  interests.
• Comprehension Strategies- Connecting,
  Visualizing, Questioning, Determining Importance,
  Synthesizing, and Inferring
• Reading Response Journals
• Encourage age appropriate
• reading 5 finger rule

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Spelling and Grammar

• Words their Way-spelling program that teaches
  necessary phonics patterns that assists in
  reading, writing, and spelling.
• Super Writers Workbooks-grammar practice

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Math

• Number Sense
• Operations (addition and, subtraction,
  multiplication, division)
• -Memorize FACTS!
• Fractions/Decimals
• Measurement (time and distance)
• Data Analysis and Graphing

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Science

• Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils
• Soils
• Habitats and Organisms
• Magnets
• Heat
• Conservation and Recycling

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Social Studies

• Map Skills
• United States Geography
• Famous Americans
• Paul Revere, Frederick Douglass, Susan B.
  Anthony, Mary McLeod Bethune, Franklin D.
  Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall,
  Lyndon B. Johnson, Cesar Chavez
• Roots of Our Democracy
• Economics

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Adjusting to Third Grade

• Third grade can be a big adjustment for students.
  Please encourage and model personal
  responsibility.
• Agenda
• Reading Log
• Higher Expectations
  

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Classroom Management

• Behavior chart
• Please sign when theres a check
• Positive Incentives
• Lunch bunch
• Class store
• Classroom Compliments

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Agenda/Homework

• Agenda and Reading Log
• Sign daily
• Behavior chart will be marked for days unsigned
• Record of homework
• Fosters responsibility

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Absences

• All absences require a written note signed by a
  parent.
• Our instructional time begins at 800, but
  morning work time from 715-750 is used to
  review current and previous concepts. Please
  make every effort to have your child to school as
  early as possible.

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Transportation

• Please send a note on the day your childs
  transportation will be changed.
• Students are required to be sent home the usual
  way unless I have a written note.
• In rare cases, please fax the
• office or call for emergencies.

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New School Policies

• Agenda Signing
• Forgotten Lunches
• Changes in Transportation
• New Dismissal Procedures
• Standards Based Grading
• Response to Intervention (RTI)

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Response to Intervention (RTI)
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Communication

• The best way to contact me is through E-mail
  megan.koch_at_cobbk12.org
• Homework Folders
• Sent home daily
• Graded Work, class news, homework
• School Correspondence

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• Thank you for being here tonight.
• I look forward to working towards your childs
  success with you!

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• Any questions?