 | Ms. Whitney
3rd Grade
Contact Information
I can be reached via phone before and after school, and sometimes at lunch. My extension is #23 if you get into the answering system.
I can also be reached via e-mail. In an efffort to control spam, staff e-mail addresses are not published on our websites, but it is listed in the school directory you should have received, and is available on request if you don't already have it.
Grading Scale
90%-100% = A
80%-89% = B
70%-79% = C
60%-69% = D
0%-59% = F
Homework
Homework will be given usually on Mondays, and due on Friday morning. Occasionally, students will be given homework on other days. Students should have 45 minutes to one hour of homework each night, Monday - Thursday. Students are encouraged to read at least 20 minutes a night.
Missing Assignments
If a student misses school, they will have one day for every day absent, starting the day after their return, to make up the work. A student will lose points per day for every day an unexcused assignment is late.
Planners
Daily planners are expected to be filled out every day by students with the assignments of the day.
Report Cards
A report card is not a judgment of your child's worth as an individual. It does not measure the delight he or she gives, the humor in those young eyes, or the hope for tomorrow. It measures only one aspect of a young life with so much untried potential. After only a few years of life we cannot judge their lives to be successes nor failures at anything. Please look at your child's report card with love and acceptance of how things are right now. Give it only the importance of the moment - notice and point out the good and positive, emphasize what your child is doing right and build on that to improve what needs improving. Young developing egos are fragile - handle with care and nourish all that your child is and can be.
We are into our 2nd quarter already! Last quarter was mainly review of basic skills, with more depth. This quarter, we will be learning some new skills with review of first quarter skills also. In math, we will cover addition and subtraction up to 3 digits, including zeros, with regrouping (that's borrowing and carrying for many of us), problem solving, adding and subtracting money, estimating sums and differences, properties of addition, using ten to subtract, and timed facts tests. In reading, we will cover: author's purpose, nonfiction and fiction, vowel digraphs, compound words, main idea and supporting details, genre, cause and effect, steps in a process, contractions and generalizations. Our new science unit is Electrical Circuits where students learn the basics of creating a working circuit
using bulbs, batteries and wires. In writing, we are continuing to use our Step Up, 8 sentence accordion paragraph skills, but also adding more: Occasion/Position and Power topic sentences, learning to bury transitions, add better and more word choice, and use a summary conclusion. We will begin writing more detailed story summaries as well. In English, we are learning more about the subject and predicate of a sentence, proper and common nouns, and reviewing other parts of speech, like adjectives and adverbs.
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