Welcome to

2015-2016
Open House

Mr. Blais has two children and works another job after school.
He is a Cowboys and Yankees Fan. Mr. Blais enjoys taking his
kids for ice cream and he also likes to go to baseball games. Mr.
Blais is the special education teacher in the classroom and is
with us half of the day.

Miss Gaglione works another job after school. She likes to

travel, go for motorcycle rides, go to concerts and scuba dive.
Miss Gaglione is the full time regular education teacher in the
classroom.

Mrs. Passett has two children and enjoys relaxing by her pool
with her grand-dog Bentley. Mrs. Passett is the paraprofessional
and she is with us the other half of the day.

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

Garden City School has adopted a school wide behavior plan

called Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS). This
plan is designed to encourage a positive climate of cooperation,
honesty, academic excellence, respect and safety at Garden City.
PBIS sets clear expectations for student behavior in the
classroom, and in shared areas such as the library, gym,
cafeteria, and the recess yard.

Participation
Respect
Inclusion
Dedication
Excellence

Students earn tickets as

rewards. The tickets are used
once a quarter for raffles.

The class has free time on

Fridays they can earn more
free time and also have it
taken away.

AppWorthy behavior on the

bulletin board

DAILY SCHEDULE

8:50 9:15 Morning Work

10:30 Working Snack (Nut Free)

* We have a working snack every day please make sure it is a nut free snack. I do not
provide snacks for students because of allergies.

9:15 11:55 Reading/Writing Workshop

11:55 12:40 Lunch and Recess

12:40 3:10 Math

Science and Social Studies we switch

Room 8s Itinerant Schedule

Monday

Art

9:00-9:35

Tuesday

Music

1:10 1:45

Wednesday

PE/Health

9:40 -10:15

Thursday

Library

1:10 1:45

Friday

PE/Health

1:15 2:25

* Make sure your child has sneakers on PE days.

Ms. Manca is the new Art teacher

Ms. Hookway is the new Music teacher

Monday Thursday
Read 20 minutes a night
Spelling and Math
Study Multiplication facts nightly
End of October we start multiplication
Record title of the book in Planner
Every Thursday night students read the story for the week
Planner signed by Parent or Guardian

Race Car Projects Completed

at home

Book reports 3-4 completed

at home throughout the year

Holiday Activities

Pumpkin Globes

Special Activities

Field Trips

We have parents as readers

once a week
Please sign up in the back
if you would like to
volunteer to read it is
usually on a Wednesday or
Friday afternoon

Every other Thursday

Empty folder
Sign sheet inside and return on Friday
Sign and return papers put back in the folder.

READING

In third grade, reading instruction is at the

individual students level through one-on-one or
small group instruction.

Students are also required to read at least 20

minutes every night.

All students are required to read twenty-five

chapter books during the school year.

Children need to read regularly in order to

improve their comprehension skills and
fluency/reading rate.

WRITING

This year we will be using FACES to help students write and

meet the common core standards.

Third grade strives to incorporate writing across the

curriculum in all subject areas.

Examples: Reports, Special Projects, etc.

Students will be writing friendly letters to there friends in

other classes at Garden City School through the WeeDeliver program.

We will use the six traits writing model and work on the
process of writing including brainstorming, organization,
rough draft, editing, revising, and peer feed back.

MATH
General Concepts
Place Value
Estimating and Rounding
Subtraction and Addition with Regrouping
Money
Multiplication/Division
Measurement
Geometry

Oncore Book you can look through them in there desk

Math Problem Solving

Math Drills
Once a week students will be given speed drills, we will begin
with addition and subtraction and then move onto
multiplication and division.

Ways to help with math

Addition, subtraction, multiplication flash cards

Multiplication War with a deck of cards

Reviewing math homework with them

Websites with math games there are some on my webpage and here are a
few more just for math.

http://www.multiplication.com/games/play/quick-flash-ii

http://www.abcya.com/math_facts_game.htm

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

SOCIAL STUDIES

SCIENCE

Miss Gaglione Teaches SS

Mrs. Riccitelli

Concepts covered

Concepts covered

Geographic features

Weather

Communities

Earths Materials

Force and Motions

Matter and Energy

Human Characteristics

Characteristics of Living
Things Plants and Animals

Ecosystems and Changes

overtime

City of Cranston

Native Americans

Governments

Responsible Citizens

Laws

COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

Here are links for Math and ELA common core state
standards.

http://www.corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/Math_Standards.pdf

http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_ELA%20Standards.pdf

State Testing on all the standards will be in March.

Here is a site for practice tests if you would like to see what it looks like.

http://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/

Common Core Sate Standards

http://www.corestandards.org/wpcontent/uploads/Math_Standards.pdf

http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_ELA
%20Standards.pdf

Educational websites link will be listed on the classroom website.

Classroom Website

www.missg24.weebly.com

Cranston Public School Website

www.cpsed.net

Best way to contact us

Kgaglione@cpsed.net
Scottblais@cpsed.net

Please sign up in the back of the room if you want to

be on the remind 101 for reminders on tests and
notices. Also if you want to volunteer for parent as
readers or for special activities.

THANK YOU FOR COMING