Welcome to Third Grade!

Curriculum Night with Miss Grzegorzewski

3B

Fun in 3B with Miss G!

Dear Parents,

Welcome to our class! I look forward to getting to know you and yourchild this year. In addition to meeting all of you, I am looking forward to working with your child. We will be creating a learning environment with strong values based on education, love, and faith. One of the reasons I chose this profession is because I enjoyworking with children. It is rewarding seeing the look on a child’s face when they master a new objective. I believe that there is also a lot to learn from children. Every day they remind me that life is an adventure as they approach each new experience with an open mind and wide eyes. I look forward to having you in our classroom this year!

Miss Grzegorzewski

IntroductionHello! My name is Lauren Grzegorzewski. I am a third grade teacher at Saint John XXIII. This is my 2nd year teaching at Saint John XXIII, and my fifth year teaching. I am thrilled to be here and to be a member of this great school community!

I grew up in Grand Blanc, Michigan and attended John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. I received my teaching degree in Early Childhood Education from John Carroll. I moved to Arizona in July, 2014 and really enjoy the beautiful weather and scenery.

I have one brother, one sister, one brother-in-law, and two adorable nieces. I am engaged to my fiancé Craig, and we will be getting married this October! I love adventure and trying new things! In my spare time I enjoy hiking, running, biking, traveling, photography, and spending time with my family and friends.

I look forward to getting to know each and every one of you! I am anticipating a very fun and active year of learning!

Communication

• Contact info: lgrzegorzewski@popejohnxxiii.orgThe quickest way for me to communicate.

• For more in depth discussions, please make an appointment to speak with me before or after school.

• Check our class page on the Saint John XXIII website for daily messages, homework, upcoming test, and any additional information.

http://lgrzegorzewski.weebly.com/

Classroom Discipline• Third grade rules, consequences, and rewards correlate with the school’s PROOF discipline

program.

• Olweus program/Care meetings during Religion and with Mrs. Hepsen, the school psychologist, to help empower our students to become active bystanders.

• REAL reward stickers for student learning expectations K-3 school wide.Also for student learning expectations, there will be certain achievement indicators given on report card: Emergent, Developing, and Mastery”. This will be assessed on a daily basis and reflected on report cards.

• Reminder Slips/Congratulation Paper:– A Reminder Slip is filled out when the student’s clothes pin, from our behavior chart, is on

teacher’s choice or a student breaks a classroom rule.– All Reminder Slips must be signed and returned the next day.

At the end of the week:– 0 = Congratulations paper.– 1 = No congratulations paper. 5 minutes off RECESS.– 2 = No congratulations paper. 10 minutes off RECESS.– 3+ = No congratulations paper. No RECESS.

* If a student does not receive any Reminder Slips for eight weeks they will receive a No Homework Pass. *

Homework

• 5 points extra- each assignment will have 5 points added- 1 for name, 1 for number, and 3 for being complete/on time.

• Agenda Notebook- responsibility of student to write in it each day and find parent to get signature. Homework is listed on my website daily.

• Recommended time frame for 3rd grade is 30 min/night. In addition students should be reading and practicing math facts for 30 minutes a day.

• 10% of grade.

Grading %

Science/Social Studies

Homework =10%

Quizzes= 40%

Class Work= 25%

Projects= 25%

Other Subjects

Homework =10%

Tests =40%

Quizzes= 30%

Class Work/Projects= 20%

Extras

• Allergy Awareness

• Birthday Celebrations

• 3 Sweet Parties:

1. Christmas 2. Valentine’s Day 3. End of Year

• ITBS starting September 7th. We will do some practice testing beforehand.

• Daily use of iPads in classroom!

• Daily Healthy Snack and Water

iPads in 3B!

Notes about the iPads:

-iPads will never go home-Progression of learning on iPad….starting slowly-Teaching proper use and care of iPad-Wonderful learning tool for the students and myself!

Ways to learn on iPads:

-Classroom projects-Reinforcement tool-Differentiated instruction-Reflection and analyzing-Practice of skills and concepts-Preparing our students for the future!

Religion Curriculum

• Religion: 2010 Faith and Life Series “Our Life with Jesus” – This series is intentionally written on a higher reading level than that of the average third grader.

• Therefore, we read the text together in class. Please follow up with re-reading the assigned chapter at home with your child.

Religion Curriculum

• Decade-A-Day-Praying a full rosary each week lead by the students.

• Weekly Mass & Adoration

• Sacramental Preparation

• Atrium

• Personal Prayer

Language Arts Curriculum

• Sadlier: program- includes grammar, spelling, reading, vocabulary, and writing.

• Spelling: Weekly/4th grade challenge words (100% 7 weeks in a row)

• Writing: 6 Traits + 1: Ideas, Organization, Conventions, Sentence Fluency, Voice, Word Choice, and Publishing, Writing Conferences

Language Arts Curriculum

• Daily 5- Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word Work, Work on Writing, Listen to Reading

• Cursive Handwriting

• Novel Studies-

-Because of Winn Dixie

-Who Was Dr. Seuss?

Math Curriculum

• Aligned with the Diocesan math standards.

• Math sprints given weekly.

• IXL

• MobyMax

Social Studies and Science Switching!

Science:

*Scientific Method

*Physical Science (Forces and Motion, Electricity and Magnetism)

*Life Science (Life Cycle of Organisms, Traits and Inheritance, Survival and Extinction, Ecosystem)

*Earth and Space Science (Weather, Climate)

Social Studies and Science Switching!

Social Studies: - Eight Strands

• Citizenship

• Geography

• Inventions

• Government

• History

• Science, Technology, and Society

• Culture

• Economics

We are so excited to make this school year a

success!