Millridge Elementary 2015-16

Caitlin (Bernard) Moore

Visit me on the Mayfield Web Page

Cbernard@mayfieldschools.org

My voicemail is 440-995- 7267

Students will complete Morning Work, which is a review of reading and math skills, and then select a book to read.

After morning announcements, we will check Morning Work!

This is a new time added to every student’s schedule. It is a time to focus on the individual needs of each student providing intervention or enrichment as needed.

During guided reading I will teach reading strategies through mini-lessons and focus on skills and comprehension. Students will read leveled books individually, with partners and in small groups.

This year the students will be indoors for morning recess. During this time the students will eat a snack, use the restroom, and have a choice of activities in the classroom.

Please send a HEALTHY snack to school with your child daily

Fruit, vegetables, yogurt, bagels, cheese and crackers, cereal bars…

No sweets please!!!!

During writing workshop, students will learn strategies for developing personal narrative and fictional stories. We will emphasize writing from our own life experiences, using model texts as examples. I will conference with students during this time to develop their individual writing skills.

• The students will begin to work on cursive writing as part of the Fundations program (reading decoding program from K-2)

*** Fundations is new this year in grade 3

• There will also be a focus on grammar skills

• Students will be learning about parts of speech and ways to make their writing more meaningful.

•Cursive will also be integrated into these lessons

Eat - Play

Our class family will have a meeting each day where we greet one another and students will have an opportunity to share things from their own lives weekly.

Students will read self-selected books independently during this time. I will conference with the students to assess their reading comprehension.

Monday- Music

Tuesday- Library

Wednesday- double specials every other week. Specialists will plan.

Green Weeks – rotate specials

White Weeks - Innovation

Thursday- Gym

Friday- Art

The third grade math curriculum emphasizes problem solving skills, basic facts, measurement and basic algebraic and geometric concepts.

This year the third grade math class will be focusing on mastering the third grade math common core.

Students will be going to Mrs. Grantham for all social studies instruction. This year will focus on communities with an emphasis on the history, geography, economics, government and citizenship of our local area. Each unit will last for 4 weeks.

I teach science to my class and Mrs. Grantham’s class. I will start by teaching the first unit to my class for 4 weeks and the other 4 weeks your child will have social studies with Mrs. Grantham. The third grade science units include animal lifecycles and classification, composition of rocks and soils, and matter. Our first unit will be plants and animals.

Students will write in their agenda at the beginning of each week. Please see your child’s agenda daily for assignments and due dates! Every Friday they will bring home their Green folder with their mail. Please empty this folder and return it to school every week.

Assignment Day Given Due Date

Math Home Links Monday Friday

Blue Fluency Monday Wednesday

RRJ Wednesday Friday

Pink Home-School LinksDsa will replace pink sheets 2nd

quarter

Monday Thursday

Assignment Day Given Due Date

Math Homework*start week 2

Monday – do not work ahead!

varies

Reading Homework*start week 2

Monday Wednesday

Grammar and Handwriting*start week 3

Monday Thursday

RRJ – composition notebook* start week 3

Monday Friday

I will email a weekly newsletter each Friday since Millridge is a paperless building. On occasion I will also send home information in the Friday Folder along with your child’s class work. Please empty the folder and return it to school on Monday. Please check my teacher webpage for photos, event and test dates, curriculum info, reminders, etc.

Every student in the class will have the opportunity to be the student of the week. They will:

•Be the student of the day and share an all about me poster.

•Your child will have a week to work on the poster at home and bring in the following Monday.

•You are welcome to take your child out to lunch sometime during that week if you would like to!

• You may be hearing a lot about blue “Good Behavior” from your child. It is part of a system that helps students take responsibility for their own behavior in the classroom.

• A copy of my classroom discipline plan is in the parent handbook for a detailed description.

• Marble jar (class)

• “Bee Bucks” (Individual)

• Also detailed in the parent handbook.

• Individualized Behavior Plans/ Schedules as needed

The students will visit the Holden Arboretum twice this year, in the fall and spring, to explore science concepts.

We will also visit the Mayfield Historical Society to see how people lived in our community long ago.

I look forward to working with you and your child this year. It is going to be a wonderful year

filled with exciting learning activities!

for taking the time to attend Orientation!