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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)