3-H Back to School Presentation

1. "No Horse Gets Anywhere Until He Is Harnessed.  No Steam or Gas Ever Drives Anything Until It Is Confined.  No Niagara Is Ever Turned into Light and Power Until It Is Tunneled.  No Life Ever Grows Great Until It Is Focused, Dedicated, Disciplined." -Henry Emerson Fosdick 3-H Back to School Presentation

2. What To Do If? Communication: • Notes and “Notes From Home” box • Email is preferred for anything that can wait up to 24 hours. • (shuntington@crsd.org) • Phone calls to the office (215-944-2400) – urgent issues. Dismissal: • Please send a note for all dismissal changes. If a child does not have a note letting • Students may only ride a different bus for child care purposes. Absences: • Missed work -Family Trips district policy • PSSA testing window: March 17 - 28 • Spring vacation is March 30 – April 3

3. More Important Odds n’ Ends • Instrumental Music Lessons: • Lessons add a layer of complication to the day. Some children are more developmentally ready for the responsibility than others. • Students miss learning time for lessons, but the schedule rotates so children do not always miss the same subject. • They need to be responsible for the work that is missed while they are at their lessons. When possible, this work will be sent home to complete. At times, it may be necessary for children to make up missed work during recess. • Healthy Snacks:1:45 PM • Children should bring 1 snack that can be eaten in approximately 5 minutes. • Birthday celebrations are part of snack time. Treats should be individually wrapped and easy for your child to pass out. Please Remember: We are a Nut-Free classroom. Send labelsfor store bought and homemade treats.

4. HomeworkCouncil Rock School District’s policy : 30 minutes per night in third grade. If your child is taking much longer, please contact me.My policy is a no tearspolicy! Homework Assignments are very similar each week and changes are noted in the assignment book. • Math Practice Page M – Th • Memorization of basic facts through home practice. Ongoing flash cards and website practice. (+ - x ÷) SFE Homepage Math Links: “Untangling the Math Web” (games and activities) “Pearson Success Math K-5” ( Math Series On-line) “First in Math” (Basic Facts Practice, etc.) Minimum of 15 Minutes of Independent Reading M-Th. • Students must log this reading on their blue reading log • I also encourage students to read for 15 minutes twice each weekend. • 1 Reading Response Journal entry each week (About 5 per marking period) • The students write a well thought our paragraph response to a prompt which they receive and glue into their journal. • This is assigned the middle +/- 5 weeks each marking period. It is always recorded in the assignment book

5. Additional Homework Information to Help at Home The Book Baggie It helps keep them organized and holds: Blue “Nightly Reading Log” Independent reading book • The expectation is that students read their approved book for independent reading at home and in school. • Each new book needs to be approved by me for a comprehension check. • Books are to be recorded on purple log in the back of the RRJ Reading Response Journal (RRJ) – • Instructions are on the inside cover of the RRJ and examples are on my website. • A well thought out response will be writtenat home and turned in on the day indicated on the cover of the RRJ. • All students have the same response so if your child has forgotten to put it in their journal, all their classmates are a resource for getting it at 5 pm Sunday Projects: Biography Bash Market Day (No food products allowed this year)

6. Important Odds n’Ends • Nurse visits: • Bathroom visits: • Emergency School Closings: please make sure your child knows where to go • Cell phones must be off and in back packs during the school day and on bus. • Electronics (Gameboys, Ipods, etc.) are not allowed in school or on the bus, so… maybe just leave them at home. • E-readers must be approved using permission form in SFE e-Friday Folder