Welcome to Curriculum Night….

1. Welcome to Curriculum Night…. Mrs. Baughman Room 180 630-636-3163 abaughman@sd308.org

2. The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you. ~Author Unknown

3. Getting to Know Mrs. Baughman… • Bachelors Degree-Illinois State University • Master’s Degree in Reading from Olivet Nazarene University • Mr. Baughman-AP, Harper 3 in September, Holly • 11th year teaching 3rd grade at Homestead • High expectations-progress academically/socially • People make mistakes, learn from them • You can do anything in my room, as long as it doesn’t disturb YOUR learning, MY learning or ANYONE else’s learning- Advocate for YOURSELF • Emails/Phone calls – 48 hours • Newsletters • Group Email

4. Morning Routine • Attendance/Lunch Count • Empty backpack • Hand in notes • Complete their morning job • Check planners and homework =completed and checked *Please sign every night! Open communication • High expectations for the morning/organization • Math Block starts right away!

5. Math Block 8:50-10:00

6. Math *Resource McGraw-Hill My Math -Written to the Common Core -Fully Print and Digital -Easily Connect Classroom & Home -Aligns to District 308 math curriculum. -Scope and sequence available on SD308 Website. -Focus on key topics at each grade level. -Foster reasoning and sense-making in mathematics. -Content standards require both conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.

7. Math • Whole Group/Small Group instruction • Daily homework in student workbook- rip out or take home books- Use Homework Helper (books MUST be • brought back to school the following day) • Basic Facts Practice/currently working on Place Value • Options for enrichment challenges • Xtra Math Practice • MULTIPLICATION!!!!!!!...Timed Tests- Fall

8. Math • Assessments: • Common Core Quick Checks (Mini Quizzes) • Checking Progress (1/2 way thru chapter) • Chapter tests • Daily check ins • TA support/differentiation • Math switching • Online Feature-HW/Review Units: Unit 1: Place Value Unit 2: Addition Unit 3: Subtraction Unit 4: Understand Multiplication Unit 5: Understand Division Unit 6: Multiplication & Division Patterns Unit 7: Multiplication and Division Unit 8: Apply Multiplication and Division Unit 9: Properties and Equations Unit 10: Fractions Unit 11: Measurement Unit 12: Represent and Interpret Data Unit 13: Perimeter and Area Unit 14: Geometry • Ongoing: • Work on basic facts (+,-) • Multiplication/Division • Teachable Moments

9. Literacy Block 12:55-2:55

10. Spelling • Homestead will not be implementing this word study program • Students will review/practice 3rdGrade No Excuse Words. • Continue to practice spelling/ROCK strategies through our daily writing. • Misspelled words will be circled and expected to be corrected • Online Spelling- BigIQKids.com (PHH option) • 3rd grade No Excuse Words- kept in Writing folder/flashcards at home

11. Power Half Hour • 2:55-3:25 • Flexible groups • Interventions from previous year continued • Variety • Great way to get to know ALL students

12. Language Arts Language Foundational Skills: • Sentence correction/Capitalization • Subject/Predicate usage/Tense • Speaking/Listening Grammar • Parts of Speech: nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, interjections, prepositions, and conjunctions • Complete sentences/Subject and Predicate, Paragraphs • Analogies, Synonyms, Antonyms • Word Usage/Vocabulary/Dictionary Work

13. Reading Routines Think-Pair-Share Whole Class Discussion Small Group Discussion Read Aloud Shared Reading Independent Reading Assessments Baseline Performance Based End of Unit Progress Monitoring Daily Assessments in Student Workbooks ReadyGEN 2016 Pearson 4 Units Whole Group Reading Whole Group Writing Small Group Reading Skills & Comprehension Making Predictions Making Inferences Questioning Monitoring and Clarifying Summarizing Decoding Connecting Cause/Effect Fact/Opinion Problem Solving Comparing/Contrasting English Language Arts

14. Read-Aloud • Promotes Fluency • Allows Teacher Modeling • Make Connections Text-to-Text Text-to-Self Text-to-World • Poetry books for fluency practice • (Optional) 20 minute reading per night • Fluency booklets daily

15. Why 20 minutes?

16. Cursive • Review Manuscript- No excuse words • Review Lower Case Cursive • Introduction to Upper Case Cursive • Students will work on handwriting booklet in class

17. SocialStudies • Houghton Mifflin • Maps and Globes (Quarter 1) • Early Illinois History (Quarter 2) • Illinois Tribes/Government, famous Illinoisan project (Quarter 3) • States and Regions (Quarter 4) **The units go in this order but the length is subject to change based on the learning in the classroom**

18. Second Step (SEL) • Stands for Social Emotional Learning. • We will have 30 minutes a week devoted to S.E.L. These 30 minutes will consist of “mini lessons”. • It is a school wide program: Each grade level features developmentally appropriate ways to teach core social-emotional skills such as empathy, emotion management, and problem solving.

20. Science -Three units of study, stretched over the course of the school year: - Unit 1:Physical Science -Force and Motion & Magnetism and Electricity - Unit 2: Earth Science -Air and Weather -Unit 3: Life Science -Life Cycle

21. Grading Scale E 90% - 100% S+ 85% - 89% S 75% - 84% S- 70% - 74% N 0% - 69% ONLINE REPORT CARDS!

22. Other Information Volunteers STAR Testing/PARCC Assessment Newsletters (on my website/email) Proper Clothing Rewards Transportation Information Lunch Money Letter for Kids/Wishing Tree Technology- Kid Blog/PowerPoint/SpellingTime/Xtra Math *Don’t forget to sign up for Fall Conferences on your way out! *Check out our Wish List! 

23. Thank you so much for coming! Any questions?

24. Before You Leave!!! • 1. Please sign up for a fall conference!!! • 2. Please see our class wish list items Thank you!! 