Class Handbook
Third Grade 2023-2024
Letter from Ms. Jones
Welcome to our Third Grade Classroom! I am very excited about this school year. I can’t wait to work with your third grader. I have a lot of exciting activities planned and look forward to a great year.
My name is Haley Jones. I graduated from Drury University with a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and Lindenwood University with a master’s degree in Educational Administration. I am currently attending Mizzou for a Specialist degree in Elementary Math. I have lived in Crocker for most of my life. I have one son. This is my twelfth year teaching. I previously taught first grade for 10 years and third grade for 2 years.
I want all students to thrive in my classroom. Students are expected to do their best. I will do my best to motivate all students. By doing this, I look forward to creating a classroom full of respectful learners. Many of the daily activities in the classroom will consist of students working together in cooperative groups. I want all students to be comfortable communicating with each other and learning from each other, as well as from myself.
3rd grade is a huge transition from the primary grades (Kinder-2nd) to the intermediate grades (3rd-5th). We will spend a lot of time working on developing strong work habits, organizational skills, and increasing student responsibility!
Communication is very important in creating great parent-teacher relationships. Parents I will do my best to keep you informed of your child’s progress, I will be sending home the weekly newsletter, homework assignments, and information on upcoming events every Friday. There will be times throughout the year when parents can volunteer to help out on field trips or help in the classroom.
I know that teaching your child is a huge responsibility and I will do my best to create a safe environment full of discovery and learning. If you have any questions please feel free to send messages on REMIND, notes to school, contact me by e-mail hjones@waynesville.k12.mo.us or by phone 573-842-2150.
Once again, welcome to third grade! Let's work together to make this the
best year ever!
Remind App
Please download the Remind App and join our class to receive newsletters and other communications. Directions are below.
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or text:
text @3f4a9k to the number 81010
Meet the Teacher
Thursday, Aug 17, 2023, 04:00 PM
East Elementary, Waynesville, MO, USA
Free & Reduced Lunch Form
An updated application is required each year. Please only fill out one form per household and list ALL household members and their income. Completed application forms may be sent to school with your child or mailed to: Waynesville R-VI School District, Attn: Food Services, 200 Fleetwood Drive, Waynesville, MO 65583.
Please allow 10 days for your application to be processed. Meal applications are stamped with the date received by the Food Services Office. Meal status changes are effective as of the date the Food Service Office receives your application. Any charges prior to meal status approval will be the responsibility of the family. If you have any questions or need assistance, call the Food Services Department at 573-842-2099
Snack in a Pack Program
If you would like to apply for the snack in a pack program please email me or send me a remind message to request the application form.
After School Program-Club Tiger
East Elementary Club TIGER Afterschool Program provides students in grades K-5 an opportunity to maximize their potential and learn through discovery. Club TIGER lets students explore and develop their talents, while gaining critical thinking skills for learning through the delivery of high quality, hands-on, project-based programs in a variety of content areas. Key content areas include arts, science, sports, technology and communications.
Club TIGER utilizes skilled professionals as instructors who support student growth and development in an meaningful way. By aligning and maximizing the resources of an extensive network of public and private partnerships, Club TIGER is the result of coordinated support and sustainable investment in youth development through school and community-based programming.
At East Club TIGER, there is a strong focus on continuous quality improvement, data-driven and cost-effective decisions strengthening skills to encourage improved academic outcomes and positive impacts for students, schools and the communities served.
Elementary K-5 has an annual enrollment fee of $30. Weekly club fees are $50 for regular lunch status. Reduce lunch status is $40/week and free lunch status is $30/week. Please complete the Free/Reduced Meal Application as soon as possible each year. Discounts are available for multiple children and scholarships are available to those who qualify. Scholarship Form (The Free/Reduced Meal Application must be on file, even if your family doesn't qualify, in order to be considered for a Club TIGER scholarship.)
There is no transportation provided for elementary Club TIGER. Parents must pick up their students by 6:00 PM or late fees may apply.
If you are interested in enrolling your child at East's Club TIGER, please click here for enrollment information and forms.
For more info, visit the district website or contact Site Administrator Joanie Kampmeier at (573) 842-2174 or jkampmeier@waynesville.k12.mo.us
East Elementary School Counseling Referral
Please complete this form if you would like to refer a student for school counseling services. Each student will be seen as soon as possible. If this is an emergency situation (someone is/was/might be at risk of hurting self or being hurt by other/s) make sure to tell a teacher, parent, or other safe adult about your emergency.
Amazon Class Wishlist
WATER BOTTLE
Student Supply List
Class Schedule
Arrival/Dismissal/Absences/Transportation
Arrival/Dismissal
School starts at 8:30 (Wednesday 9:00) and is dismissed at 3:25 for car riders, and 3:30 for bus riders. If you will be bringing your child to school, he/she will be allowed in the halls at 8:00 to go to class. There is no supervision of students before 8:00. **Late arrival: If your child comes to school late, be sure to sign them in at the office so that it will not be counted as a full day absence. If your child needs to leave early, you must sign them out at the office.
Absences
If your child has to miss school, please send a note letting the office know the reason for the absence. A doctor’s excuse is handy when your child has to miss school and goes to the doctor. I understand that some days have to be missed, but try to keep absences to a minimum. We cover a lot of skills each day in first grade and you don’t want your child to get behind.
Transportation
If your child is parent pickup PLEASE DO NOT arrive prior to 3:10 for the car line.
Please make sure any changes to your child’s afternoon transportation schedule are made in writing. If I do not receive a note from you or the office, your child will go home as usual. This is school policy. I cannot accept remind messages as a transportation change.
Discipline and Expectations
I promote a positive atmosphere in our classroom by modeling appropriate behaviors, having class meetings, and setting limits/classroom rules. Children are responsible for the choices they make in their behavior. When the choices they make are not acceptable, they will be given a consequence. Some consequences may include: discussion, time-out, making a plan, going to the office, calling home or sending a note home. If your child sees that his/her behavior is important to you, he/she will most likely be better behaved at school, and therefore, he/she will learn more!
Classroom Expectations
#1 Follow Directions quickly.
#2 Raise your hand for permission to speak and to leave your seat unless you have an emergency
#3 Make smart choices
#4. KHFOOTY (Keep Hands feet and other objects to yourself) and be kind
#5 Listen while your teacher is talking and use kind words
What We Will Learn this Year
Math:
Use the four operations to solve word problems.
Round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.
Demonstrate fluency with addition and subtraction within 1000 (Regrouping)
Create frequency tables, scaled picture graphs and bar graphs to represent a data set with several categories.
Interpret products of whole numbers.
Demonstrate fluency with products within 100.
Interpret quotients of whole numbers.
Represent fractions on a number line. a. Understand the whole is the interval from 0 to 1. b. Understand the whole is partitioned into equal parts. c. Understand a fraction represents the endpoint of the length a given number of partitions from 0.
Compare two fractions with the same numerator or denominator using the symbols >, =, <, and justify the solution.
Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of minutes. (elapsed time)
Use the four operations to solve problems involving lengths, liquid volumes or weights given in the same units.
Understand concepts of perimeter and area.
Understand that shapes in different categories may share attributes and that the shared attributes can define a larger category.
Language Arts:
Describe the personality traits of characters from their thoughts, words, and actions
Summarizing a story’s beginning, middle, and end determining its central message, lesson, or moral
produce simple and compound imperative, exclamatory, declarative, and interrogative sentences
use complete subject and complete predicate in a sentence
Spell plural words that change ‘y’ to ‘ies’
Capitalize titles of books, stories, and songs
Capitalize names of places
Develop an understanding of vocabulary by: using sentence level context to determine the relevant meaning of unfamiliar words or distinguish among multiple meaning words
Read, infer, and draw conclusions to: identify the details or facts that support the main idea
Read appropriate texts with fluency (rate, accuracy, expression, appropriate phrasing), with purpose, and for comprehension
Read, infer and draw conclusions to: explain the relationship between problems and solutions
Describe relationships among events, ideas, concepts, and cause and effect in texts
Write informative/ explanatory texts that: introduce a topic or text being studied, develop the topic with simple facts, definitions, details, and explanations, use specific, and relevant, words that are related to the topic, audience and purpose
Write informative/ explanatory texts that: uses the student’s original language, except when quoting from a source, use transition words to connect ideas within categories of information, create a concluding statement or paragraph
Write fiction or non-fiction narratives and poems that: establish a setting, situation/topic and introduce a narrator and/or characters, use narrative techniques, such as dialogue and descriptions, establish an organize an event sequence to establish a beginning/middle/ end, use transition words and phrases to signal event order, use specific and relevant words that are related to the topic, audience, and purpose
Write opinion texts that: introduce a topic or text being studied, using connected sentences, state an opinion or establish a position and provide reasons for the opinion/position, use specific and accurate words that are related to the topic, audience, and purpose, contain information using student’s original language, except when using direct quotation from a source, reference the name of the author(s) or name of the source used for details or facts included in the text, use transitions to connect opinion and reason, provide clear evidence of a beginning, middle and a concluding statement or paragraph
for the following week. You should work with your child each night to complete the homework listed. This helps you to know what is going on in our classroom and how your child is doing. Homework is not given for a grade. Each night, I ask that you read the stories for the week and study the spelling words.
Homework should seldom take more than 20 minutes each night. If it does, it may indicate that your child needs extra help in the area of difficulty. The story that your child reads at home is not the only reading that takes place in our class. Every week your child will be reading leveled readers and fluency passages based on their reading ability at school.
Homework is not mandatory and only given as extra practice. Homework serves several purposes:
-Keeps parents informed about what is going on in our classroom.
-Helps parents know how children are progressing.
-Prepares students for the future.
-Helps reading and spelling through additional practice at home.
Orange Communicator Folder
Specials Schedule
Our special class schedule will be on the weekly newsletter. On days that our class is attending P.E. please provide appropriate shoes so your child can participate safely. Your child will start bringing home library books from our school. These are for you to read at home and can be used to fulfill their reading requirement for Accelerated Reading quizzes. Even though your child is able to read some of the books themselves, it is still good for them to hear books being read to them. This is an important part of literacy development. * These books are property of the school. If one is lost, misplaced, or damaged you will be responsible for its replacement.
Day 1: P.E.-Coach Pimentel
Day 2: Typing/Library-Young/Wilson
Day 3: Art
Day 4: Music-Fleming
Tests and Quizzes
- Each Friday we will take a reading test.
- Common pre/post assessments based on each standard taught.
- Accelerated Reading quizzes over books that they read.
- STAR Assessment on the computer at least 3 times a year.
- Spring MAP Assessment (Math and ELA)
Spelling Words
Class Celebrations
- Christmas Party
- Valentine's Party
- Other celebrations will happen throughout the year that will be send home when the times comes.
- AR Celebration
- End of the year-Behavior Celebration
- End of the year-AR Celebration
Nurse/Medical
Medical
Please inform the teacher if your child has any allergies or serious medical conditions. If your child needs medicine administered at school, you will have to have a doctor fill out a medicine authorization form, available in the office, before we can administer the medicine. This includes prescription or over the counter medicine. Only the nurse may administer medications, so please do not put medicine in your child’s backpack.
Allergies and Food Restrictions:
Please let me know as soon as possible if your child has any food allergies or food restrictions for health or religious reasons. If we are having treats, I would like to know so I can look at the ingredients in the treat to be sure your child can safely enjoy the treat. It is very important that I have this information, and that you have shared it with the school nurse so your child is safe at school.
Restroom & Water Breaks
As a class we will take restroom and water breaks throughout the day. If a student needs to use the restroom outside of the scheduled break he or she may use our classroom restroom anytime. Your child may bring in a water bottle. **PLEASE LET ME KNOW IMMEDIATELY ABOUT ANY HEALTH ISSUE THAT WOULD CAUSE A FREQUENT USE OF THE BATHROOM (URGENCY, FREQUENCY, UP SET STOMACH, ETC).
Outdoor Recess Weather Guide
Scholastic Book Orders
I will send home book orders periodically. These book orders offer children’s books at very affordable prices. Ordering is completely optional, however, the more books our class purchases, the more points we earn for classroom books and materials. Books normally arrive within 2 weeks after the order is placed.
https://clubs.scholastic.com/ Our class code is: J9QYB When you order from Scholastic Book Clubs you are also supporting our class with FREE books!
Other Topics
Money
All money sent to school needs to be in an envelope labeled with your child’s name and purpose. That will help to ensure that all money is spent only on what it was intended to be used for.
Box Tops
Our class will collect box tops from General Mills products. You will find Box Tops on hundreds of your favorite General Mills and participating products. Your participation will help our school earn cash to purchase equipment and materials for our school and our students. You can have family members and friends join in the fun, too. You may send box tops to school with your child at any time.
Toys
Children are not allowed to bring toys or electronic games to school. They may get lost or broken. Any exceptions will be in writing from the teacher.
Labels
Many children do not remember what they brought to school. Please help them (and me) by labeling everything! All clothing, backpacks, lunchboxes, jackets and snow pants should be labeled clearly with your child’s name.
Celebrating Birthdays
We love to celebrate birthdays here at school but they must be kept simple. We can have birthday celebrations towards the end of our school day. Cookies, cupcakes, or some other small treats work the best. I am usually very flexible but occasionally there may be a conflict in our schedule, so please let me know as soon as possible if you plan to send treats. If a child is having a party at home, invitations may be sent out from school if the child will be inviting either the whole class or at least all students of the same sex. Please place the invitations in the take home folder and I will place them in the backpacks of the students who are invited. If only select students are being invited, please mail the invitations from home, so that there will not be any hurt feelings at school. As you know, children of this age find it very upsetting to be "left out". This is the best way to avoid the birthday party "blues". Thank you for your cooperation with this.
Chromebook Insurance
Insurance (damage waiver fee) for Chromebooks
Each student in the Waynesville R-VI school district in grades K-12 is issued a Chromebook and parents are encouraged to consider insurance, also known as the damage waiver fee, for their children’s Chromebooks.
Insurance is optional for students in grades K-12; however, without insurance parents are responsible for the full cost to repair or replace their child’s Chromebook.
The insurance fee is $20 per each device for the 2021-22 school year for those who would have fully paid for lunches last school year had charges been assessed; or, $10 per device for the school year for those who would have qualified for free and reduced lunches last school year. The maximum damage waiver fee for each family is $40. (See example below).
Example
The maximum damage waiver fee for each family is $40. For example, if you normally pay full price for lunch and you have three children enrolled in our district, then you will pay for the first two children ($20 each for 2 children = $40) and the cost for your third child will be $0.
Purchasing the insurance/coverages
Please read the Insurance information, including deductibles and exclusions before making your purchase.
Insurance may be purchased directly through Gallagher’s one2one risk solutions at https://www.one2onerisk.com/ using a debit or credit card (see step by step instructions below). You will need to know each of your children’s student ID number, which is a six-digit number in Tyler. (Returning students should know their student ID number. Information about the Tyler student system is at https://www.waynesville.k12.mo.us/Page/12459)
Step by step instructions for purchasing insurance
Additional information
If your child receives free and reduced lunch and the $40 maximum poses too great of a hardship for your family, please contact projectedge@waynesville.k12.mo.us.
More information about the district’s use of technology is in the handbook at https://www.waynesville.k12.mo.us/Page/10211
In addition, you may view the video at https://www.waynesville.k12.mo.us/Page/10533. Please note that the insurance program has been expanded to grades 2-12, since students are now allowed to take home the devices.
If you have additional questions, please email projectedge@waynesville.k12.mo.us
Contact Me
Parents I believe in direct communication with you concerning your child. Good communication between parents and teachers is vital to your child’s academic success. Communication will include parent-teacher conferences. I will schedule conferences as needs arise throughout the year. Parents may request a conference at any time. If you need to speak with me during the day, please call the school and leave a message. I will return your call during my planning period. I also check my e-mail daily, so feel free to e-mail me at hjones@waynesville.k12.mo.us.
A weekly newsletter will be sent home through the Smore website attached to a REMIND message each Friday. This will include skills and concepts we are learning in class, specials schedule, homework, important dates and school information. Please check your child’s orange folder daily.Email: hjones@waynesville.k12.mo.us
Website: https://www.waynesville.k12.mo.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=800
Location: East Elementary School
Phone: 573-842-2150