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Lake Pointe Elementary 3rd Grade Curriculum Night. Graded Work and Corrections. Graded work will be sent home. Please review this work with your child. Daily work(Formative ) is counted as 40% of the averaged grade.
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Graded Work and Corrections • Graded work will be sent home. Please review this work with your child. • Daily work(Formative) is counted as 40% of the averaged grade. • Daily work that is below a 70, will be retaught at school and may be sent home for corrections. The original grade and the retaught grade will be averaged together. • Test Grades (Summative) are counted as 60% of the averaged grade. • Test work that is below a 70 will be retaught by the classroom teacher and reassessed. The higher of the two grades will be taken.
Report Cards and Progress Reports • Report Cards are sent home at the end of each nine weeks. • Progress Reports go home the 3rd and 6th week. • Report Cards and Progress Reports must be signed and returned.
Curriculum • Math • Multiplication (1-12) • Regrouping / Borrowing • Division • Rigorous Word Problems • Fractions • Graphs and tables • Measurement • Time • Money • Geometry • Reading and Language Arts (ELR) • Parts of speech • prefix / suffix • Complete sentences • Fluency • Comprehension • Grade-level sight words • Reading Skills: inferencing, sequencing, summarizing, compare/contrast, cause / effect, fact/opinion, context clues, etc. • Reading for extended periods of time • Genres Science matter / energy, force / motion, magnetism, physical changes, natural resources, rainforest biome
A Closer Look at STAAR • Math: format for 3rd grade, Will cover our TEKS . They will be tested on multi-stepped word problems. • Reading: Multiple passages and answers. The test will cover our TEKS. • Yourchild will take 2 STARR tests this year. • Math April 22 Reading April 23
How can you help your child at home? • Healthy breakfast! • Check your child’s folder every night for homework, behavior, and notes from school. • Stay in contact with the teacher! We want to hear about how well your child is doing and any concerns you might have. • Read to and with your child – ANYTHING they are interested in! • Work on Istation and Think Through Math . • Ask your child what they did in school that day. • Establish a reasonable bed time.