Welcome to Open School

I am Jill Green, your child’s 3rd Grade Teacher!

Wow are they lucky!!pamela.green@stpsb.org

Meet the Teacher

• Masters in Education-Teacher Leadership

• NBTC

• 17th year teaching, all in 2nd and 3rd grade

• 8th year in St. Tammany Parish

• 3rd year at Woodlake Elementary

Announcements

• Transportations

• Email contact is best.

• Teacher Website (This PPT is on there!)

• Agenda

• Electronic Report Cards

• JPAMS

Snack Time

• Healthy snacks, such as crackers, fruits, veggies, nuts, snack bars, boiled egg, yogurt

• Please limit or completely avoid the 3 Cs: cookies, candy, chocolate

Classroom Procedures

• Newsletter (Mondays)

• FYI Folder (everyday!)

• Pelican Papers (Test Papers, etc.)

• Notebooks will go home and MUST come back.

• Morning routine

• Afternoon routine

Homework• Yes, they do have homework!!!!

• Read each night (anything) for at least 20 minutes.

• Math (flash cards and worksheet)

• Discuss the Word of the Week and the Word of the Day (not tested)

• Agenda notes

Debit Cards

• bonuses

• $5, $10, $20

• Fines

• Gumball Machine

• Treasure Box donations! No candy or sweet treats.

Curriculum

• You will not always see traditional activities and tests.

• There will be many classroom-based assessments and scoring using rubrics.

• Writing and responding to literature• Anchor texts • Reading and writing in all subjects, especially

Science and Social Studies

Word Study

• 7 syllables until November

• Last 2 weeks’ lessons-syllable counting

• Speed Drills (will help with encoding)

• Short vowel sounds

• Prefixes and suffixes

• Greek and Latin roots