Curriculum Night
The third grade
curriculum night will be held on Wednesday, September 10 from 7:00 to 7:45.
We will have half an hour together in the classroom together before we
gather with the other third grade parents and teachers in the multi-purpose
room. I do hope you will come. We will talk about this exciting
new year in your child's educational journey.
My Email address is
kochl@issaquah.wednet.edu.
This is really the best way to reach me is you have questions or concerns.
You can also reach me at 425-837-7251. I don't pick up the phone
during class and you will be directed to voice mail. If you need to
urgently reach me or your child during class time it is best to call the
office at 425- 837-7230.
We are a peanut free
classroom.
Kids work hard, and they get
hungry! We will have snack time after the morning recess each day.
Please try to make this a healthy, easy to eat snack. I would
appreciate it if you would avoid sending candy and soda.
Specialists
We go to PE
on Thursdays at 1:05. It really helps Ms.
Patton out if the children wear gym appropriate shoes that day.
Sandals and leather soles make for unplanned slipping and sliding on the gym
floor.
Mrs. Wangeman is our library specialist. Our
library day is Wednesday. Our time is 10:10. This is the day the students
receive instruction on the various resources available in the
library. This is also the day students, individually check out and return
books. Books are due (or
must be renewed) two weeks after the checkout date. We use the library
services and resources often, outside our scheduled time.
Computer lab is Thursday at 12:35
The children spend half an hour with Mrs. Muller. Mrs. Muller saves
all the students documents in a portfolio. they will bring the
portfolio home in June. One big unit is full-finger keyboarding, which
they begin soon. This is know the keyboarding unit works. The students
come to the computer lab 3 times per week for 3 weeks from October 3rd to
20th. They go once during their regularly scheduled time with Mrs.
Muller, and twice with me. Students are encouraged to practice at home
with the software we will provide ( a take-home license privilege is granted
by the software company "Keywords") This is Mrs. Muller's webpage,
where you can find the district keyboarding benchmarks.
Art class with Mrs. Moring is on alternate Wednesdays at 8:25. That is
first thing in the morning so we are going to have to be careful about
getting here on time. The students learn
art history, art appreciation, technique and production in Mrs. Moring's
class.
We attend music class with Mrs.
Hirtz
on Mondays at 9:15, and sing our little hearts out.
http//www.cougar.issaquah.wednet.edu/teachers/Muller/Keyboard
benchmarks.htm
Our spelling program is designed to
adapt to each students needs. The words are high frequency words.
The goal of the program is to facilitate student writing. You will
receive one list for the school year. After your child has been
assessed he will receive a list. Your child can work through the lists
at his own pace. (Check the homework page)
Our reading groups are pretty flexible in class.
Sometimes your child may come up twice in a day. The groups are formed
to accommodate current needs or interests of the students. Right now I
am still working on assessing those needs and interests. We have just
begun reading groups. We work on all aspects of reading to help students learn, word
recognition through context clues, phonetic analysis and semantics. We
work on comprehension skills, both literal and inferential through
discussion of books or stories we are reading. We perform in class
plays, write our own stories, research and create reports, posters and
books.