EMAIL: cmiller@clarenceschools.org

 

 

 
About the Teacher:  I have been a teacher in the Clarence Central School District for 21 years. This is my 16th year teaching 3rd grade. I am looking forward to helping your child develop both academically and socially. 

 

 

 

Lunch 11:15-11:45

Monday  - Phys. Ed. 8:20-9:05        Keyboarding - 1:45-2:15 (Starting late Sept.)  

Tuesday - Art 8:20-9:05                    

Wednesday - Library 8:20-9:05       Fitness Break - 9:50-10:20

Thursday - Music 8:20-9:05

Friday - Phys. Ed. 8:20-9:05

 

 

 

                                                  

Respect: 

• Students will use proper manners when interacting with peers and adults
  

• Students will be patient and productive when waiting for assistance
  

• Students will work cooperatively with all students
  

• Students will recognize that we all have a variety of strengths and challenges
  

 

Reading:

• Help students enjoy reading
   
• Expose students to  a variety of reading genres through the Readers Workshop format

• Practice various reading skills and strategies to help improve comprehension

• Reinforce decoding strategies and vocabulary development with additional focus on prefixes, roots and suffixes 

• Increase students' exposure to informational texts to help students gain a more in-depth understanding of subject content and to further develop their overall schema

• Utilize Close Reading as a strategy for gaining deeper meaning of texts

• Become more familiar with common text structures found in short stories and articles 

Writing

• Utilize a writer's workshop to develop narrative, opinion and informational writing

• Help students become more adept at writing organized and detailed paragraphs

• Help students apply grammar and writing conventions

Word Study

• Work with increasingly difficult word patterns
• Apply spelling strategies and dictionary skills to written work
• Utilize knowledge of prefixes, root words, and suffixes to determine word meanings
  

Science

• Increase understanding of weather and climate, animal adaptations, systems and simple machines, butterfly lifecycles

• Work in a science lab setting in a safe, responsible, cooperative and productive manner

 

 

Social Studies

• Build geography knowledge and map and globe skills

• Learn about climate, government, economy, culture of the United States and several other countries

Math

• Develop number sense and estimation skills with numbers into the millions
  

• Demonstrate mastery of addition, subtraction, multiplication, & division facts 

• Explore and use elapsed time, customary units of measurment, geometry and fractions

• Apply problem solving strategies in multiple-step word problems 

• Communicate problem solving strategies orally and in writing