Here are the changes that were just made as of 2/13/14... I'll keep you updated with the future changes I am sure they will throw at us soon enough :/
http://www.wcpss.net/parents/guides/read-to-achieve/index.html
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Monday, February 17, 2014
Arrays
Notes taken as a whole class today 2-17-14
Work that was done with partners today. 2-17-14 I gave them a couple of hits. Students were to finish this tonight for homework along with the journal prompt that goes with today's lesson.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Special Valentine Notes
Everyone drew a name today and took this sheet of paper home as an explanation for our Special Valentine note. I did this last year with my class and it was such a fun and kind experience to have with everyone. Please be sure that your student takes it seriously and spends time (perhaps lots of time because of snow) proof writing, adding to, editing, and decorating.
Special Valentine Notes
On a separate sheet of paper please make a special Valentine
for the friend that you drew from the basket today. You should write a rough
draft and have a parent or sibling read over it and edit it with you.
You may add more information than the outline below, but be
sure to talk about the character traits your friend has and not his or her
appearance (what they look like).
Your final draft is written neatly on notebook paper or on a
card that you have decorated. We will be sharing this out loud with the rest of
the class on Friday (2/14) and then presenting it to them. Please do not share
any information with other students so this can be a fun surprise J
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY,
FRIEND!
TO: _________________________
FROM: ______________________
YOU ARE TERRIFIC BECAUSE
_____________________________________.
THANK YOU FOR
_____________________________________________.
SOME WORDS THAT DESCRIBE YOU
BEST ARE ____________________.
I LIKE HAVING YOU IN MY CLASS
BECAUSE_____________________________.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Area (distributive property)
Notes done as a class on 2/10/14
Close up of the example I did 2/10/14
Close up of the one students did with a partner 2/10/14
Pyburn News 2/10/14
Please check your student's folders
for conference sign-up forms, mclass data and explanation sheet, Valentine
class list, information about the changed skate party date, graded and
non-graded math homework and classwork (sorry I did not get to it all),
scholastic book order forms (due 2/21) AND a Valentine coupon stapled to one,
and a vocabulary enrichment sheet (see below for more information).
In literacy we began a new vocabulary
enrichment study. In the program the
children will be learning tier two vocabulary words that we would like the
children to begin to use in their writing and in their speaking. Along with the program, you will be receiving
a parent information letter each week that tells you about the words for the
week and how to use the words. Our goal
is to help the children to become better readers and writers! :)
Please remember that this Friday is
an early release day 1:15. We will have our 3rd grade eye exam at 9:40, lunch
at 10:30, PBIS celebration from 11:30-12:00 and dismissal at 1:15. We will find
time in there to pass out Valentine's and learn something :)
I have not heard the word on
whether they are going to change Read to Achieve requirements yet but as of now
we are taking the second week of test starting tomorrow. I have added the next
two week objectives below. This shows you which test objective we will be doing
when.
We DO have a snow make up next
Monday the 17th which is a full day of school. The weather looks like we could
be having more snow this week so continue to watch the news to see what is
going on with that.
Thanks for all your support at
home. I could not make all the progress in the class room without your help!!!
Carol Ann aka Ms. Pyburn
Important Dates:
Thursday, February 13th: Field trip money is due
Friday, February 14th:
Early Release at 1:15 p.m., Valentine's exchange
Monday, February 17th:
Now a school day (snow make-up day)
Thursday, February 20th:
UNC Morehead Planetarium field trip
Friday, February 21st: Scholastic book orders due
Thursday, February 27th, 6-7:30 pm: Arts Night at Douglas
Thursday, March 6th, 6-8 pm:
Talent Show
Friday, March 7th:
Early Release at 1:15 pm
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RL3.2
Feb 10-14
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Retell stories, including fables, folktales, and
myths from diverse cultures: determine
the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through
key details in the text.
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When
reading fiction such as The Magic Hat, The Paper Bag Princess, Cloudy
with a Chance of Meatballs, Why Mosquitos Buzz, One Grain of
Rice, Arrow to the Sun: A
Pueblo Indian Tale, etc., ask your child:
·
Identify the central message (lesson or moral)
of the story.
·
How does the author share the central message
(lesson or theme)?
·
Retell the story (beginning, middle, and end)
and tell what the author was trying to teach us.
·
Find details in the story to support their
thinking.
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L3.4a
Feb 17-21
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Use the sentence as a clue to the
meaning of a word or phrase in that sentence.
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When reading with your child and he/she comes to
an unknown word, ask the following:
·
Read the
sentence and think about what that word might mean.
·
What clues can
you find in the sentence to help understand or find the meaning of the word?
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Valentine's Day inspired weekly words
Vocabulary words for the week. Not focussing on spelling but the meaning and using these words as much as possible.
mclass data explanation form
Parents,
The
children have made great growth in their reading! Hip, hip, hooray! J I am so proud of
them, and I thank you for all of your support with their reading at home. I wanted to send with your Home Connect letters a brief
explanation of the results. Of course we
can go over this in more detail at our conference!
At the beginning of the year, midyear (now), and at the end of
the year your student completes 3 mclass tests: The DORF, the Daze and the
TRC. This may help to explain the “white
reading/running men” on your home connect letter that tell you if your student
needs most support, some support, goal, or advanced. Please also look at the
information on the side next to the colored areas with the “reading men”.
The DORF (you will
see 3 “reading men” for this test on your home connect letter) focuses on
reading fluency. This is a measure of
how many words your student is able to read correctly a minute. The number of
words per minute is taken on three different stories and the middle (median) score
is recorded. There is also an accuracy portion of the DORF where your student
tells me all that they can remember from each of the 3 passages. They get an
accuracy score based on how many correct words they recount when retelling the
story. The last “reading man” tells of the quality of their response meaning
how many details did they remembered, were the details in the correct
sequence, and did they tell me the main idea of the passage.
The Daze is a 3
minute paper/pencil assessment that is given to the whole class whereas the
other 2 tests are done individually with me. Students are given 3 minutes to
read a passage. After approximately
every seventh word, the student is asked to pick a word from a choice of 3
words to provide the correct meaning in the sentence. Students are scored on the number of correct
words chosen.
The last, biggest, most important, and longest test is the TRC. In this test your student reads an
entire story (fiction or nonfiction). I record “mistakes” made and what type of
mistakes were made such as leaving a word out, adding a word, self correcting
themselves, repeating a word or two, etc. I also add in what cues or why they
made the mistake—it looked like the word, it didn’t change the meaning, it
grammatically still made sense. I then ask them 5 questions orally about the
book in which they can refer to the book to help them with their answers.
Usually 3 questions that have a specific answer and 2 that are open ended. Lastly your student your student must provide
written responses to 2 questions about the book. Written responses are a big
part of reading comprehension. J
I hope this explanation is of help. Please let me know if you have any
questions. Please continue to encourage
your child to read a variety of texts each night for their twenty-five minutes
of nightly reading and also alternate each night between fiction and
non-fiction. Please have your child take
their time and give their best work on the nightly reading comprehension
homework—as this is great practice on the skills we are working on in
class.
Thank you for all of your support! I feel so blessed to be working with such an
amazing bunch of students and families! J
Carol Ann Pyburn
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Make up days for snow last week
Make-up
days for traditional Calendars
Monday, February 17
Monday, April 21
Friday, March 28
Wednesday, June 11
Escuelas
Calendario-Tradicional
Lunes, 17 de febrero
Viernes, 28 de marzo
Lunes, 21 de abril
Miércoles, 11 de junioWednesday, February 5, 2014
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Conferences
I will be sending home a conference sign up form next Monday (2-10-14). Please look in your student's Monday folder to sign up for a time to meet with me.
Monday, February 3, 2014
Monday, January 27, 2014
Pyburn News 1/27/14
Real quick...
Report cards are in your student's monday folders. Please keep report at home ad only return the signed envelope.
Please be sure to send in field trip form and money as soon as possible.
We started read to achieve testing today and our students worked very hard :)
SNOW?!?! Please continue to check the news, your emails, and have the phone of the phone number I have handy. Two yeas ago we had to call every parent to let them know that school was ending early... That wasn't fun and especially when I had the wrong numbers.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Read to Achieve Information
The following information has changed as of 2/13/14 so please see the link given on 2/19/14 for undated information!!!!!!!!
Some of you were unable to attend last week's Read to Achieve meeting to obtain information about how this legislation affects your third grader. Here is a very brief run down:
Starting next week (1/27), every third grader will complete 3 reading passages on the same standard. The following week, they will take 3 on a different standard, and so on. These passages are about a page and a half long and have 5 questions on each. They will be graded and kept in a portfolio for your child. If they do not pass all 3 passages for a certain standard, they will have a chance to take another passage. This will go on throughout the school year. By the end, we hope to have built a portfolio that shows your child has mastered each of the 12 standards. For a total of 36 reading passages or more (if they have to take another test on a certain standard that they did not pass all 3 of) by May 16th. This will be very important, because if they do not pass the English-Language Arts EOG test at the end of the year, the portfolio will provide the necessary information to show that they are proficient, what they call a "good cause exemption." ALL third graders will have a portfolio, regardless of their level of proficiency in the classroom.
If they do not have a proficient portfolio and they do not pass the EOG, they will have to go to a summer Reading program and will then move on to 4th grade as a "transitional 4th grader" and will receive interventions next year to support them in literacy. However, if they do not attend the Reading program, they will be retained in third grade.
For more detailed information about this legislation, please read the following document: https://eboard.eboardsolutions.com/Meetings/Attachment.aspx?S=10399&AID=12267&MID=804
Some of you were unable to attend last week's Read to Achieve meeting to obtain information about how this legislation affects your third grader. Here is a very brief run down:
Starting next week (1/27), every third grader will complete 3 reading passages on the same standard. The following week, they will take 3 on a different standard, and so on. These passages are about a page and a half long and have 5 questions on each. They will be graded and kept in a portfolio for your child. If they do not pass all 3 passages for a certain standard, they will have a chance to take another passage. This will go on throughout the school year. By the end, we hope to have built a portfolio that shows your child has mastered each of the 12 standards. For a total of 36 reading passages or more (if they have to take another test on a certain standard that they did not pass all 3 of) by May 16th. This will be very important, because if they do not pass the English-Language Arts EOG test at the end of the year, the portfolio will provide the necessary information to show that they are proficient, what they call a "good cause exemption." ALL third graders will have a portfolio, regardless of their level of proficiency in the classroom.
If they do not have a proficient portfolio and they do not pass the EOG, they will have to go to a summer Reading program and will then move on to 4th grade as a "transitional 4th grader" and will receive interventions next year to support them in literacy. However, if they do not attend the Reading program, they will be retained in third grade.
For more detailed information about this legislation, please read the following document: https://eboard.eboardsolutions.com/Meetings/Attachment.aspx?S=10399&AID=12267&MID=804
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Area
Notes from 1/22/14
1/23/14 Drew yesterday's example in a grid. Doesn't matter which way the rectangle is turned.
1/23/14 hard to see but we compared the 3 rectangles on this worksheet and answered the questions above with our partners.
The Morehead Planetarium Field Trip Information
The third
grade team is excited to tell you about our upcoming field trip on February 20th
to The Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at Chapel Hill. At the field trip the children will be seeing
a show in The Planetarium and also participating in a fun and engaging workshop
class. This experience supports our
third quarter science unit “Objects in the Sky”. The cost of the trip to cover the show, class
and also to pay for our busses is $13 per student. Donations to help the students who financially
cannot pay for the trip are greatly appreciated. Please fill out both sides of the attached
permission slip and send in your payment to your homeroom teacher by Thursday,
February 13th. Please make
out all checks to “Douglas Elementary School”.
You may also pay online through OSP (Online School Payment). You can access OSP directly online at the
Douglas Elementary School website.
If you are
interested in chaperoning, we would love to have you! We are allowed to have two chaperones per
class. Please submit your name to your
homeroom teacher by Friday, February 7th and your classroom teacher
will do a drawing on this date to announce the chaperones. To be a chaperone you must have a background
clearance. The discounted cost for
chaperones is $6.00. Due to parents not
being allowed to ride Wake County busses, chaperones are required to drive
separately and meet us at the Planetarium.
This is a wonderful volunteer experience!
Thank you for
your support!
The Third
Grade Team
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Bar graph- how far can you jump?
On 1/8/14 I picked 10 students by random (drew numbers) and let each jump. We measured and recorded our data and ranked them from shortest to longest jump.
Also on 1/8/14 I helped start everyone on making a bar graph from the data. they finished it independently or with help from their math partners.
Read to Achieve
Parents and Families,
Many of you are aware that the third grade school year is a critical year because of the state's Read to Achieve legislation. We will have an information session for parents of third graders on Thursday, January 16 at 5:30 in the Media Center. If your child has received 2s or wavers between a 2 and a 3 in Reading (tests and/or report card grades), it is important that you attend. The meeting is for ALL parents of third graders, but especially those whose children are at risk and are not demonstrating proficiency in literacy skills. Again, all are invited because Read to Achieve affects everyone.
Let me know if you have questions about the information session!
Thank you,
Carol Ann
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/12/19/3473307/nc-schools-bracing-for-impact.html
Many of you are aware that the third grade school year is a critical year because of the state's Read to Achieve legislation. We will have an information session for parents of third graders on Thursday, January 16 at 5:30 in the Media Center. If your child has received 2s or wavers between a 2 and a 3 in Reading (tests and/or report card grades), it is important that you attend. The meeting is for ALL parents of third graders, but especially those whose children are at risk and are not demonstrating proficiency in literacy skills. Again, all are invited because Read to Achieve affects everyone.
Let me know if you have questions about the information session!
Thank you,
Carol Ann
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/12/19/3473307/nc-schools-bracing-for-impact.html
Donations
The school is having a "winter wear" drive for the next 2 weeks. We're collecting NEW hats, scarves, mittens and gloves to give to Douglas students in need.
In our class we are in need of new 1 inch binders. Several student's binders are falling apart!!! Today is day 83 of 180 days so we are about 1/2 way through the year so hopefully replacement binders will last the rest of this year :) We are also in need of babywies.
In our class we are in need of new 1 inch binders. Several student's binders are falling apart!!! Today is day 83 of 180 days so we are about 1/2 way through the year so hopefully replacement binders will last the rest of this year :) We are also in need of babywies.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Pyburn News 12-2-14 Welcome Back!!!
I hope everyone had a great break!! It was too funny how quiet our class was this morning... I think they were all a little tired. They were also so cute and thrilled for me and the exciting news of my engagement :)
This week in reading we are going to continue to work on non-fiction text features and questioning. Next week we will be looking at the main idea and supporting details in nonfiction texts. This is BIG unit and very important.
In math, we are continuing to work on multi-step multiplication and division problems. Homework tonight is correcting an assessment that they took before break. This is a great practice to get our students in the habit of doing. Next week we will be working with pictographs and bar graphs so be looking for a little (much needed) change from multiplication and division word problems. Students are going to be staying in homeroom for math until further notice... it is just a change that we are trying.
Thank you so much for all my sweet gifts and cards, it meant so much to me. Here we go 2014!!!
Dates reminders:
Parent Power Night will be Thursday, January 16th 6:00- 7:30pm
Children will be entertained in the gym with a movie and popcorn during the workshop. Thanks, PTA Volunteers!
January 17th is Early release
Jan 20 Holiday and the 21st is a teacher workday
This week in reading we are going to continue to work on non-fiction text features and questioning. Next week we will be looking at the main idea and supporting details in nonfiction texts. This is BIG unit and very important.
In math, we are continuing to work on multi-step multiplication and division problems. Homework tonight is correcting an assessment that they took before break. This is a great practice to get our students in the habit of doing. Next week we will be working with pictographs and bar graphs so be looking for a little (much needed) change from multiplication and division word problems. Students are going to be staying in homeroom for math until further notice... it is just a change that we are trying.
Thank you so much for all my sweet gifts and cards, it meant so much to me. Here we go 2014!!!
Dates reminders:
Parent Power Night will be Thursday, January 16th 6:00- 7:30pm
Children will be entertained in the gym with a movie and popcorn during the workshop. Thanks, PTA Volunteers!
January 17th is Early release
Jan 20 Holiday and the 21st is a teacher workday
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