School Closing Letter from Dr. Montesano
Mrs. Gottlieb's Class
WELCOME TO THIRD GRADE
Mrs. Wendy Gottlieb
2019-2020
Class News
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Google Classroom
My Google Classroom is linked to this webpage under the "Class Resources" section.
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School Spirit Days 2019-2020
Sept 11- Red Bandana/Rd/White/Blue Day
Oct 31- Orange and Black Day
Nov 27- Pajama Day
Dec 20- Favorite Holiday Colors
Jan 17- Dress Like a Teacher Day
Feb 14- Re/White/Pink Day
March 13- Sports Day
April 24- Crazy Hair and Hat Day
May 20- Wacky Wednesday
June 19- Red/Black School Color Day
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PTA Boxtops
The PTA collects Box Tops for Education. Please send in any Box Tops you have so assemblies and field trips can be supported. The class with the most number of Boxtops each month will get to keep the Box Tops' trophy in their classroom and the class who has the trophy the most number of times during the school year will have a pizza party in June. We would like to be that class!!!
https://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/participating-products
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School and Class Events
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D Day
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Chorus Day for 4th Grade @ NHS 9:30-12
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A Day
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B Day
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Kindergarten Moving Up @9:30am
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Specials' Schedule
PE: A & C Days
Music: B Day
Art: D Day
Library: Every Wednesday
A really big help will be to make sure your child has their library books returned to school each Wednesday.
Lunch/Recess: 12:05-12:55 and a daily morning snack
Homework
The students will be assigned homework as needed. Homework assignments will be written in the agenda book each day and it is each child's responsibility to bring the agenda book home at the end of the school day and back to school the following morning. Please check the agenda books each night so that you know the homework that was assigned as well as any important upcoming events. I would greatly appreciate your assistance in making sure any papers in the homework folder are returned to school as needed or kept at home. The folders tend to get messy with too many papers.
Contact Information
Communication is a key component to success and I truly appreciate a strong home/school connection! Please check your child's homework folder and agenda book nightly for any notes from school. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at any time and I will respond to you within 24 hours.
Mrs. Wendy Gottlieb
Email: wgottlieb@nyackschools.org
School voicemail: 353-7165 mailbox # 3112
or write a note in your child's agenda book
***In addition, please make sure if your son or daughter will be absent, from school, you MUST CALL THE SCHOOL NURSE ( ext. 7290) to report an illness or call the MAIN OFFICE (ext. 7280) if the reason for the absence will be other than illness.
Please write a note to me if there's any change in dismissal. Any dismissal changes that happen during the school day must be called into the Main Office.
ELA
Here's a glimpse into what will be happening in our classroom during this trimester:
Informational Reading and Writing
Effective readers use a variety of strategies to make sense of key ideas and details presented in informational text. Readers of informational text read to be informed while writer's write to teach others about a specific topic. Students will enhance their learning about the topic through the use of text and graphic features.
An information writer's purpose is to demonstrate understanding of a topic and for the readers to become informed.Students will be writing informational books that aim to teach others about topics on which the students have expertise.
Math
This trimester the boys and girls will be:
- practicing fluency of multiplication and division facts through 100
- reviewing multiplication and division strategies
- understanding concepts of fractions
- learning to solve measurement problems involving Area
We will also be developing strategies to solve multi-step word problems.
Please be sure your child practices basic addition and subtraction facts daily.
Social Studies
Global Trade
This inquiry leads students through an investigation of economic systems by focusing on the context of trade among world communities. Trading is one of the oldest forms of economic interaction among humans, yet it is also among the most complex. In examining the reasons for international trade and the exports of world communities, students should be able to develop an argument supported by evidence to answer the compelling question “Why do countries need each other?”
Globalization
This inquiry engages third graders in expanding their understandings of our increasingly interconnected world. The compelling question “Is sharing and trading across cultures always a good thing?” is intellectually respectful of third graders who have personal experience with sharing and trading and typically have been told that sharing and trading are positive ways to interact. This inquiry explores that assumption in ways that allow students to engage with several social studies disciplines as students uncover political, economic, and social connections across cultures and analyze the implications of those connections.
Science
This trimester students in third grade will be studying:
- Animal and Plant Adaptations
- Survival of the Fittest
- Plant and Animal Extinction
- The Science of Flight
- Forces In Motion- Simple Machines
Profile
I love teaching and have been here at VCE for 29 wonderful years . I have spent most of my time in the third grade classroom, but I also have loved being a fourth grade teacher for ten years. Teaching is such an incredibly rewarding profession and there's nothing better than watching children grow academically, emotionally, socially and making a difference in a child's life!
I am happily married to my wonderful husband, Jeff, for 34 years and we have two terrific daughters, Allison and Jodi, and a son-in-law, Kevin.
When I am not in the classroom, you'll find me reading a good book, spending time with family and friends, playing the piano and eating lots of chocolate.