Huddle Newsletter
Third Grade Edition 2014-15
LMSVSD - Welcome Back Third Grade Teachers!
District Resource Teacher Directory:
Assessment - Tracy Olander x6370
BTSA (Regular Ed) - Leah Saunders x6403
BTSA (Special Ed) - Brooke Noble x6420
Cross Curricular CCSS - Ani Asaro x6427
Cross Curricular CCSS - Kristin Gentile x6398
English Learners - Linda Michaud x6306
Language Arts (Elementary) - Tammie Babbitt x6357
Math Resource - Beth Rackliffe x6304
Media Services - Janice Gilmore x6465
Technology - Noelle Suffield x6359
If you need Focus wall materials - contact Nancy Steiger x6387
Did you know?
Everyday Math has a Common Core bridge - the password is CCSS
Instructional Materials Guide
Did you know? The replacement cost of one complete set of third grade teaching materials for the four core subjects is $16,396.18!
All requests for instructional materials should be made through your school Library Media Tech.
- teacher editions
- supplemental materials
- manipulatives
- student textbooks
- workbooks
Not sure what something is called or wondering what you're supposed to have? Here are the answers:
California Model School Library Standards
What should third grade students know and be able to do?
(pages 10-12 of linked document)
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/librarystandards.pdf
Your Library Tech is committed to helping you make sure your students know how to:
A = access information
E = evaluate information
I = integrate information
O = originate information
U = use information safely and ethically
· Lessons may be taken from HM
· Lessons may come from Digital Citizenship curriculum
· Additional lessons could take the form of activity, game, or worksheet
· Teachers should actively engage in lessons and understand the California Library Standards that are being addressed
Depending on the number of hours the Library Tech works, the number of classes that need to visit, and the level of support at the site, you may be able to have both a literature share visit and library & information literacy lessons. This could be one long block of time (45-60 minutes) or two separate visits during a week.
Combination classes might be able to send one grade level at a time since library standards are tied to each grade level.
Core Literature for Third Grade
Use Destiny to order core literature.
1. User name is firstname.lastname
2. Password is teach411
TIPS:
- Make sure you select your school before logging in.
- Make sure you select District Media Services (check the box) instead of your own school library.
- Core literature can be found by entering the keyword search corelit3
Here is the list of Third Grade Core Literature. Each one has a Teacher's Literature Guide that is available for checkout.
Online curriculum resources, logins & passwords
https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com
user name: firstnamelastname
password: teach 411
username: your old district email address (it will still work)
password: you set it yourself, we commended using info411
Have you transferred to a new school? You can change your school yourself from the Games menu
If you need or want to re-register, the registration code is 8332E0A6
Science AND History/Social Science
Pearson's new Online Learning Exchange (OLE) was launched this Fall. This is the new digital path to access all of your Scott Foresman programs. You can activate your account here
Your school code is: 49-51-90
Fill in your information and click on Subscriptions to see your resources.
Find time for these five lessons in 2014-15
Relationships & Communication / Self-image & Identity
Students explore what it means to be responsible to and respectful of their offline and online communities as a way to learn how to be good digital citizens.
Privacy & Security / Information Literacy
Private and Personal Information
How can you protect yourself from online identity theft? Students think critically about the information they share online.
Internet Safety / Cyberbullying
Students consider that they may get online messages from other kids that can make them feel angry, hurt, sad, or fearful. Students identify actions that will make them Upstanders in the face of cyberbullying.
Information Literacy
Students learn strategies to increase the accuracy of their keyword searches and make inferences about the effectiveness of the strategies.
Creative Credit & Copyright / Information Literacy
Students learn that copying the work of others and presenting it as one’s own is called plagiarism. They also learn about when and how it's ok to use the work of others.
Assess their understanding with this online tool once the five lessons are completed
Quick Print Form
Use this form to order stand print jobs. No need to send blackline masters, we have them on file. Please order for only 1 trimester on one sheet. Your School Office Manager will need to issue a standard print requisition.
Is VHS dead?
- Check out the resource lists by curricular area later in this newsletter
- Core literature tie-ins
Teaching Assignments 2014-15
How to use Destiny
https://destiny.lmsvsd.k12.ca.us
Three resources for you
Read Works
- author's purpose
- cause and effect
- compare and contrast
- fact and opinion
- figurative language
- point of view
- sequence
- vocabulary in context
- voice
- ... and more
Achieve 3000
Username: commoncore.teacher
Password: commoncore.teacher
Benchmark Universe E-Book Library Subscription
Login: new district email address
Password: welcome
- ebooks can be opened on computers or iPads
- you can assign titles to students to read
- lesson plans are available for these titles
- use the books whole class with your projector or on the big screen
- books can be printed for student use
Classroom Libraries
Many teachers like to purchase books for their classrooms that will serve as a mini-library right in their room. These books might be purchased with Scholastic Book Club points, at garage sales, or through discount online sites like amazon.com. Sometimes parents offer to purchase books for your classroom. Here are some recommendations for nonfiction books that align to STEM.
Reading levels listed provided by publishers.
Science
A Crash Course in Forces and Motion with Max Axiom, Super Scientist by Emily Sohn 630L
Animal Homes by Angela Wilkes RL 3.0
Baby Animals … by Bobbie Kalman RL 2.4-4.4 (5 books in series)
The Eagles are Back by Jean Craighead George RL 3.2
Fearsome Forces of Nature by Anita Ganeri RL 3.7How the Meteorite Got to Museum by Jessie Hartland RL 3.5
Harsh Habitats by Anita Ganeri RL 3.8
The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery 890L RL U
Water by Ellen Lawrence RL 3.3
What are you Figuring Now? A Story About Benjamin Banneker by Jeri Ferris 910L RL R
What Lily Gets From Bee: And Other Pollination Facts by Ellen Lawrence RL 3.8
Technology
Cars on Mars by Alexandra Siy 1240L RL Z
The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle by Don Wulffson 1080L
Philo Farnsworth and the Television by Ellen Sturm Niz 560L
Robot Voyagers by David Jefferis RL Q
Engineering
The Bionic Hand by Adam Woog 850L RL U
Miraculous Medicines by Helene Boudreau 830L RL Q
Record Breakers: The Biggest by Thea Feldman RLM
Technology: Feats and Failures by Stephanie Paris 660L RL S
Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions by Don Wulffson 950L
Math
7 X 9 = Trouble by Caludia Mills 590L
Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi by Cindy Neuschwander 510L RL Q
Real reading
It's free! And you can print from it or show it on your big screen.
CYRM Intermediate Nominees
The LMSV Educational Foundation funds the purchase of both the primary nominees and the intermediate nominees for each elementary library.
These Intermediate titles are available for teachers that may want to read all the nominees aloud during the school year:
- Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George.
- Wild Wings by Gill Lewis
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio.
And here is the teacher and librarian resource packet
CYRM Primary Category
And the nominees are:
- Miss Brooks Loves Books! (And I Don't) by Barbara Bottner
- Too Tall Houses by Giana Marino
- Exclamation Mark! by Amy Rosenthal
- Randy Riley's Really Big Hit by Chris Van Dusen
- City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Willems
Math Adoption
There are six programs that fit our criteria (K-5) that were adopted by the State Board of Education and announced by the California Dept. of Education.
- Creative Core Curriculum for Mathematics with STEM, Literacy and Arts TPS Publishing
- enVision Math Pearson
- Go Math! Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Math Expressions Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Math in Focus (Singapore Math) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- My Math McGraw-Hill
This is an exciting time as the committee narrows it down to the two that will piloted and then finally choose the new program to implement in 2015-16.
Math Library Books
Don’t forget your school library has the following titles that align with your Everyday Math curriculum. Many of these titles are on the Math Resource shelf and aren’t allowed to circulate to students. As this is the last year of this math adoption these books will be integrated into the main collection in June 2015.
Number Patterns and Counting
26 Letters and 99 Cents
12 Ways to Get to 11
Arctic Fives Arrive
Can You Count Ten Toes?
City by Numbers
Each Orange Had 8 Slices
Less Than Zero
Math for All Seasons
Missing Mittens
One Hundred Ways to Get to 100
Pattern Bugs
Pizza Counting
Six Foolish Fisherman
Twenty is Too Many
Two Ways to Count to Ten
What’s a Pair? What’s a Dozen?
Number Stories and Operations
Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream
Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar
Bats on Parade
The Best of Times
The Doorbell Rang
Equal Shmequal
The Grapes of Math
The Great Divide: A Mathematical Marathon
How Hungry Are You?
If You Hopped Like a Frog
Mission: Addition
One Hundred Hungry Ants
A Remainder of One
Spaghetti and Meatballs for All
Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale
The Warlord’s Beads
Geometry
The Art of Shapes for Children and Adults
A Cloak for the Dreamer
Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres
Grandfather Tang’s Story
The Greedy Triangle
If You Look Around You
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
Round Is a Mooncake
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table
When a Line Bends … A Shape Begins
Place Value
Anno’s Counting Book
Can You Count to a Googol?
Count to a Million
A Place for Zero
Fractions
Apple Fractions
Fraction Action
Fraction Fun
Lulu’s Lemondade
Patterns & Sequences
Grandma’s Button Box
One Grain of Rice
Sorting
The Token Gift
Reference Frames (Time, Money, Coordinates)
All in One Hour
Chimp Math: Learning About Time from a Baby Chimpanzee
The Coin Counting Book
Deena’s Lucky Penny
A Fly on the Ceiling: A Math Myth
Follow the Money
The Great Pet Sale
How Much Is that Guinea Pig in the Window?
Pigs on a Blanket
Pigs on the Move: Fun with Math and Travel
Tell Me What the Time Is
Measurement
Actual Size
How Big is a Foot?
Inch by Inch
Measuring Penny
Millions to Measure
Is It Larger? Is It Smaller?
Estimation
Betcha!
How Much, How Many, How Fair, How Heavy, How Long, How Tall is 1,000?
Wait ... there's more!
Reading Level Assessments
District Website
Here is a link to the 3rd grade resources
You'll need to login as staff with the password info411.
Janice Gilmore-See
Email: janice.gilmoresee@lmsvsd.k12.ca.us
Website: http://www.lmsvsd.org
Location: 4750 Date Avenue, La Mesa, CA, United States
Phone: (619) 668-5700 6465
Twitter: @janiceairplane