• Learning logo TEACHER: Craig Miller

    PHONE: 716-407-9250
    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. 
     
     
    Our Schedule of specials for 2019-2020:
     
    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
     
     
    3rd Grade Social and Academic Goals
     
                                                      

    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