Room 124 Curriculum 2016-2017

 Third Grade with a Twist of Moxie

Communication:

• wingel@riverview.wednet.edu
• 425-844-4566 (8:00 – 6:00)
• Class Blog: Room 124 Cowbell Chronicles (Life in Room 124 and valuable learning links). Please sign up!

https://wingel.edublogs.org/    

Classroom Volunteering Opportunities: “Any Day, Every Day”

Monday – Thursday, 9:15 – 10:55, 11:00 – 12:25

Monday – Thursday, 1:05 – 3:30

Friday – 9:15 to 11:15

Weekly “Un-Homework” Monday to Monday:

Parents/Guardians:

• Math – fact fluency practice, Reading – 20 minutes per night, Keyboarding – 15 minutes per night
• “Unhomework” Menu and tickets

Grading Policy: Growing as a learner!

• Growth Mindset – Becoming a learner!
• Common Core State Standards (Not always for mastery)
• Pre and Post Assessments, Projects, and Targeted Benchmarks (Formative and Cumulative)
• Grading 1-4

Curriculum Integrated: All subjects are integrated in order to encourage learners to make relevant connections with their education.

Reading Curriculum Notes:

• Nonfiction – (Text Features and Comprehension)
• Fiction – Reading Workshop (Comprehension and Story Elements)
• Phonics and Vocabulary – GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design)

Writing Curriculum Notes:   Lucy Caulkins

• Informational, Narrative, Fiction, and Opinion
• Research Note Taking

Math Curriculum Notes:     

• EngageNY https://www.engageny.org
• LearnZillion https://learnzillion.com

Social Studies Curriculum Notes:

• TCI – Geography and Mapping Skills
• Northwest Native Americans – Storypath Simulation

Science Curriculum Notes: Inquiry Based Learning/Environmental studies

www.nextgenscience.org/next–generation–science–standards

• Inquiry Field Studies (Rivers and Forest Habitats)
• Puget Sound, Salmon and Plant Life Cycles
• Sound Waves
• Raising Salmon in the Classroom

Technology Curriculum Notes:

• Keyboarding , Research and Information Gathering, PowerPoint and Multimedia (Storyboard/Photo Stories)

Art Integration: Movement, Drama and Visual Arts

Greetings Families of Room 124,

Welcome back to school and third grade. This week, learners will be introduced to school and classroom routines in regards to physical and emotional safety. These simple routines enable our classroom community the opportunity to explore, share and learn. Many routines, incorporate Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences to ensure that each learner’s strength is activated (over and over again).

On the first day of school, your kiddo will come home with a black secret agent binder. This binder is divided into important sections. If possible, please look through the binder together with your child. Inside the binder you will find information regarding the layout of the binder: My Reading Life, “Unhomework”, Mindful Moolah, Secret Agent Notes, and the important folder with paperwork labeled as “Leave Home” and “Bring Back”. The only section of this binder that needs to be activated is the important school paper work that every parent and guardian around the country needs to fill out and return to school. Paperwork goes right back into the “Bring Back” folder pocket. Please return all paperwork by this Friday. I appreciate your help! If not, this is what I will hear from our wonderful secretary, Joyce, “Elizabeth, do you have the student’s forms? Do you have their student fees ($45?)? Do you remember where you put them?”. My friends, this is a scary place to live in Carnation Elementary limbo!

Please note that students have PE on Monday and Thursday, Music on Tuesday and Friday, and Library on Wednesday. This week, the young scientist, writers and actors will immerse themselves into zoology and geometry, acting and writing, and self-care (learning to breathe) and different forms of integrated art. Our week will cover every form of multiple intelligence, especially kinesthetic.

Above, is a photograph of your child’s teacher in the country of Namibia, Africa. This is my fourth summer zoology field study (Belize, Guyana, Thailand and Namibia). This photo will remind the students that I love to have fun and be goofy as I learn too. With my lioness hair, I was pretending to camouflage in the savanna grassland (while acting out a scene from the movie, “Little Miss Sunshine”). Just at this photo was taken, a male lion (twenty feet from my left), lifted his head, looked at me, yawned, and went back to sleep. I guess I was too bitter to eat! Let the third grade learning adventure begin!

Have a safe and happy Labor Day! All my best to you and your family – Elizabeth Wing

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