Mitchell ROCKS in classrooms, hallways, cafeteria, and at recess!

Mitchell ROCKS!

​R-Respect

​O-Ownership

​C-Community

​K-Kindness

​S-Safety 

Classroom standards are developed in the first weeks of school with the students, are posted in the classroom, and follow Mitchell ROCKS guidelines. Rewards and consequences for following the standards have been explained in depth in the classroom. Rocking Mustang Awards are earned for good thinking, good character, as well as good citizenship. They serve to encourage intrinsic rewards. 

Each teacher uses additional classroom management strategies in their individual classroom.

• Reader's Workshop - We will be continually assessing your child's reading skills in order to guide our instruction in groups and individually, based on students' needs. Jeffco Literacy utilizes Into Reading as a resource which includes guided reading/strategy groups, shared reading, word study, and read-aloud within a workshop model. By third grade your child is expected to read independently, 20-30 minutes each night, at home. Find Into Reading's Family Module Letters here for additional resources/descriptions of each unit.
  
  

• Writing- Jeffco writing includes a Writing Workshop format.  The goal is to give your child a voice, a vehicle in which to express him/herself, a sense of self as a writer, to love writing, and not be afraid of it. Your child will use a Writer’s Notebook for this purpose. Your child will learn cursive handwriting this year. Third grade teaches Contemporary Cursive.

• Word Study- Third Grade uses Into Reading as our spelling and word work resource. This resource provides all students with a foundation for reading and spelling, It emphasizes phonemic awareness, phonics-word study, high frequency word study, vocabulary, and spelling. 

Illustrative Mathematics is Mitchell's math resource, which is aligned with the Common Core Standards. Your child will be learning math in an innovative, problem-based, and rigorous curriculum that makes elementary school mathematics accessible, impactful, and memorable for all students. In this program, your child will learn math by:

• Working with manipulatives and making drawings / models of math situations

• Working with other children and sharing problem-solving strategies with them

• Writing and solving problems and connecting math to daily life and real world situations

• Playing math games and working on a range of  math centers to build fluency

Throughout the year, we rotate through Science and Social Studies curriculum.

 Our Science Units: Forces and Interactions, Inheritance of Traits, Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems

Our Social Studies Units:
Southeast Regional Study, Northeast Regional Study, Southwest Regional Study, Northwest Regional Study 

*All regional studies include elements of geography, exchange/economics, methods of historical study, personal financial literacy, place and regions, change and continuity, personal and civic responsibility