Ms.+Augustinas

__** Quarterly Planner **__

** Reading/Language Arts ** In the coming quarter, the third graders will be using the Open Court Program. Starting in mid-November, the students will be moving onto Unit 2 in this program and its theme of City Wildlife. Spelling, grammar, and reading aloud will still be the main focus of this unit. The students will be getting ready to start a unit on The Tale of Desperaux after the winter holiday. This unit will focus on reading comprehension and teaching beginning analysis of text. The students' spelling words and vocbulary concepts will all be pulled from the text in order to teach through the context of the text.

Writing will be a major focus of the next quarter. Students will be using the 6+1 Writing Program which focuses on ideas, organization, voice, word choice, and sentence fluency. The students will be writing about their experience at the aquarium as well as a persuasive piece on what toys they would like for Christmas and why they should have them.

** Math **

This quarter will be focused on multiplication and division. The students will be given frequent multiplication quizzes in order to assess their abilities as they progress. The rest of the material will be from the Real Math Program. The students will have nightly homework and periodic tests to assess their knoweledge of the material. The class has varying ability levels, and each student has personal goals they are striving to meet during their times table quizzes. Some students are trying to complete the table faster than before, and some are trying to fill it out more completely or more accurately than before.

** Social Studies ** Social Studies will be centered around the concept of immigration this quarter. The third grade is a unique class because every single student within the class is an immigrant. The students will be learning about what it takes to immigrate to the United States, and will also be sharing their own stories and experiences of immigration with each other, and exploring their own thoughts and ideas on immigration from their 1st hand experience.

** Science ** The third graders had a very successful time studying animals in the McGraw-Hill Science Program. In this chapter,the students will begin studying animals. The unit will begin with a poster created by the students outlining everything they know about animals at this point. The students will then recreate the poster at the end of the unit in order to show how much they learned about animals throughout the unit. The third grader will also be doing a mini-unit on the human body. The students will be creating a life-size poster complete with major organ systems.

** IT ** IT will mainly be used as a way to supplement teaching, and to give students a practical knowledge of how to best use technology to assist in their learning. The students will be using Google Maps to locate countries around the world that are studied in social studies. The students will also be using IT time to type a final draft of their realistic fiction story to gain knowledge of how to create and save a Microsoft Word document.