While you wait...*Write your child a note back on the butterfly paper

*Sign up for a fall conference,Carnival volunteers, ect

• Check over the GREENEnrollment Form. Make anyNeeded corrections. SIGN AND DATE TWICE! This goes in the yellow basket on my round table.

Leave cash or check for class funds (with t-shirt size) in the blue basket on my round table (if you don’t have it today, please send with your child within a week)

*Make sure you have signed up for Remind 101

Welcome to Curriculum Night!

Lakeway Elementary 3rd Grade Team

About Kelly Rees

Daily Schedule7:35 – Daily Assembly in Gym

7:45 – 8:00 Math Morning Work8:00 – 8:50 Math

8:00 LIBRARY EVERY WEDNESDAY 8:50 - 9:10 Recess

9:10 - 9:40 Reading/Language Arts 9:40 - 10:30 Specials (PE on WHITE Days)

10:30 - 11:30 Reading/Language Arts11:30 – 12:00 Lunch

12:00 – 1:00 Computer Lab (every Wednesday)12:00 – 1:00 Skill Building

1:00 – 1:30 DUCKY GENIUS TIME1:30 – 2:15 Science (Schwartz) and SS (Rees)

2:15- 2:30 Cursive Creative Writing 2:40 Dismissal

3rd Grade EventsOctober 8 – Picture Day

October 9 – Science Day

October 17 – PTO Carnival

October 29 – Track and Field

October 30 – Pumpkin Math

November 10 – 12 – Book Fair

December 9– Nutcracker

December 11 – Science Day

December 17 – Winter Party

February 24 – Class Picture

April 22 – DisneyNature Field

Trip

May 9 – Math STAAR

May 10 – Reading STAAR

May 27 – Inner Space Caverns

**More Spring Dates TBD**

Math1st Grading PeriodPlace ValueComparing & Ordering NumbersAdditionRoundingMoneySubtractionBegin Multiplication with pictures and arraysProblem Solving

2nd Grading PeriodMultiplicationMultiplying 2 digit #sDivisionProblem Solving

3rd Grading PeriodFractionsComparing FractionsAreaPerimeterTime, Liquid, Volume, and Weight Problem Solving

4th Grading Period2D and 3D figuresPersonal Finance (income and spending)Problem SolvingSTAAR Test4th Grade MathProblem Solving

TEKS can be found by subject and grade level at: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=6148

Everyday things you can do to help your child:FLASH CARDS 5-10 minutes nightly

Estimate cost/total of items at the store, count money, tell time on an analog clock, skip count by non-traditional numbers (4, 6,

7, 9, etc.), flash cards, cooking/baking and measuring

Reading & Language ArtsFiction

PoetryOther literary genresReading to discover

Expository textProcedural text

Connecting text to self/text/worldResearchMedia

Grammar (DOL)Fluency

AccuracyImproving vocabulary

TEKS can be found by subject and grade level at: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=6148

Weekly TestsSpelling

DOLVocabulary/Comprehension/LA

Science & Social StudiesScience

Investigative QuestioningEngineering ProcessProperties of Matter

EnergyForces and WorkEarth’s Surface

People and ResourcesWater and Weather

SpaceEcosystems and Interactions

Living Things Grow and Change

Social StudiesCelebrate Freedom Week

Our CommunitiesOur Environment

Communities Build a NationU.S. Government

CitizenshipA Growing Nation

Working in Our CommunitiesCelebrating Our Communities

Grading Policy and ProceduresAll grades and attendance are posted online TXCONNECT

End of Grading PeriodsReport cards will be sent home 1-2 weeks after the end of the grading period

1st – October 232nd – December 18

3rd – March 114th – June 2

Gradebook Break Down50% Tests/ Quizzes

40% Daily Work 10% Homework and/or

Participation

ConductConduct codes will be written in the planner. Parent must initial

each code.

All graded work will be sent home in Tuesday Folders, so please go over them with your child. Any daily work or quiz below 75 can be

corrected and returned. I will then average the grade with the corrections and raise the grade to a max of 75.

HomeworkHomework goes on Friday- (I cannot send early due to

traveling.) Always both a Math and Reading packet

Parents help Check and initial on Wednesday evening

Look on LWE 3rd Grade Website (not my website) for answer keyStudents/parents check work in red pen and make corrections in

red pen. Parent initials in red pen at the top of both packets for credit.

Due on Thursday 8am100%: if turned in on time, checked, and initialed

75% if turned in without checking or or parent initals. Late/incomplete work (-25 points per day) will result in losing 25

tickets and extra recess.

*Spelling HW is extra credit of 6 tickets due Thursday. There is a list of spelling practice ideas in your child’s master binder.

Online ResourcesLexia

Username: lastname.firstname Password: 6 digit student ID #

Google Accounts (for Chrome Books and Google Drive)Username: lastname.firstname@ltisdschools.netPassword: 6 digit student ID #

XtraMath- enroll using the enrollment code. App is $5 for use on a smartphone/tablet.

Important InfoLibrary – Wednesday 8:00-8:30

PE – White Days *wear tennis shoes – no PE, no recess!*

Music – Once they start recorder they will need to bring it to school every time we have music

Room Mom: April Braun ajbraun@me.com

Cupcake Friday: Last Fri. of the month. Must coordinate with other birthday month parents. Only 1 cupcake and 1 water per-student.

Before you leave*Check the green “Enrollment Form” for any mistakes – correct and sign (two places) (if everything is correct, still sign )

*Take home Parent Portal ID information sheet for your reference along with all other info.

*If you have class funds tonight, please put your sheet and payment in my blue basket on round table.(if you don’t have it today, please send with your child within a week)

Please leave the signed (two places!) green Enrollment Form and place in my yellow basket (on round table)