Mrs. Katie Shahin

• Went to Catholic School K-12

• From Missouri originally

• BA in Elementary Education – UMSL

• Live in Springfield

• Fifth year at St. Ann’s

Communication

• Prefer email- kshahin@stann.org

• Will use Class Story via Class Dojo to help with

reminders and class events

• Friday (Friyay) Folder and Weekly Newsletter

• Class website- stann.org

Morning

Enter and empty backpack.

- prompt on board

- blue backpack

Work on morning work silently.

- punctuality is very important

Students are working on

becoming in charge of

helping themselves be

ready for the day. Empty

folders, give notes, etc

Afternoon

At 3:00 pack up we will use time as study hall if

daily work has been finished.

Students have already written down homework

and can work on “ketchup” work, read silently, or

work on homework.

Grading

• Third Grade- percentages (i.e. 84, 76) except

specials

• Parent Portal via PowerSchool

• No physical progress reports

Management

- Encourages students to do well

- Communicates with you about their

accomplishments and behaviors

- Incentives to do well

- Specials

- Switching Subjects

- Every Other Week--- Spend

- End of Year Auction

• Monthly saint- paragraph and activity

• journal

• Mysteries of the Rosary

• Trinity

• Creed

Religion

Reading- A to Z & Storyworks

- test every other week on comprehension

- Ms. Conques- lconques@stann.org

Daily 5

Read to Self

Read to Someone

Writing

Word Work

Listen to Reading

•Place Value

•Multiplication facts memorized up to 12

•Fractions

•Division

•Geometry

Contact Ms. Fitzpatrick (soon Wyatt) at

kfitzpatrick@stann.org

•Lab Learner Program

Human body

Solar System

Electricity

Summaries under Resources

Sign up Genius to ask for help during Lab

time on Fridays

Quiz every Wednesday following a lab

Participation grades

•In class we will look in depth at the states

through each region. Quizzes over states and

capitals with a complete 50 states and

capitals test at the end of the year.

•Students will pick a state (next week) and

have a choice each quarter to pick from two

projects.

•Overview of the government

•Systems and map skills as well

Each full week is a new Word Study (or Spelling)

list. Each student has a list that is the closest to

their ability.

Please practice sorting words.

Test on Friday is a sort test and a spelling test.

Word Study packet every week due by Friday

Math sheet every day from workbook.

Reading requires 10 minutes each night.

Two Grammar Worksheets each week.

*online component coming soon*

-Spelling City

Graded based on completion.

See stann.org- Third Grade for details

PE- Mondays and Thursdays

Spanish- Wednesdays and Thursdays

Library- Monday

LAE (Language Arts Enrichment) - Tuesday and

Thursday

Art- Tuesday/Wednesday

Computer- Tuesday/Wednesday

Music- Friday

Scantron

- Three times a year (3 week periods)

This week

End of January

Mid May

- Adaptive testing online

- Immediate feedback

First Field Trip- National Zoo

(potentially) October 23

LAE- animal project