Hello and welcome to room 114’s webpage! My name is Miss Santillán and I am one of the two third grade teachers here at Adelante Charter School. I was born and raised in beautiful Santa Barbara. As a child I attended Franklin Elementary School, Santa Barbara Junior High School, and Santa Barbara High. I received my Bachelors degree in Chicana/o Studies and a minor in Spanish from the University of California at Santa Barbara. My college experienced was enhanced when I studied abroad at CEGRI language school in Granada, Spain. I graduated with my Masters degree in Education and with my bilingual teaching credential from the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education from UCSB in 2009.
I love teaching in Spanish and English.
I love working at Adelante Charter School.
I love teaching third grade curriculum.
I love to travel.
I love language and culture.
I love working with children.
Yes we can!
Miss Santillán
Email: [email protected]
Classroom rules/agreements:
Attentive Listening
Appreciation and No Put Downs
Mutual Respect
Right to Pass
Field trips:
“Field trips enable teachers to expand children’s learning beyond the walls of the classroom into the vast community outside. They provide children with experiences that cannot be duplicated in the school, but are nonetheless an integral part of school instruction…a field trip can best be described as a living laboratory in which learning is acquired through active, hands-on experience with the rich resources of the local community.”
Anderson, Heather. “A River Runs Through It: Art Education and a River Environment,” Art Education, November, 2000 (p. 13-18).
Field trip rules:
We are representing the Adelante community when we are out on a field trip and students are expected to follow the classroom rules outside in the community. Therefore we have the one strike and you’re out rule. If a student misbehaves on a field trip they are not allowed to go to the next field trip. They will need to stay at school with a different classroom teacher.
Homework Policy:
Homework is designed primarily to provide the practice that children need when learning to read, write, learn math procedures, and support the learning of a second language. Homework is meant to provide independent practice of skills that have been taught in the classroom. Parents should make sure students complete their homework and their reading each night. In third grade homework is given on Monday in the blue homework folder and needs to be completed and returned on Friday morning.
How we celebrate student success:
Every child will be the star of the week. They will make a five-minute presentation about themselves, their peers will get a chance to ask them questions, and they will receive a book as a gift from their peers with personal letters.
Every time students work together as a team they earn stars on our star chart. When they reach 100 stars students get to plan their 100 Star Party.
Students earn a sticker every week they turn in their homework on time. When they earn 6 stickers they get to choose a gift from the prize box or have lunch with the teacher.
How parents can volunteer in my classroom:
Parents are welcome anytime but for the sake of keeping instruction time sacred we prefer that parents inform the teacher prior to stopping by to help. We have an open door policy at Adelante. Parents should contact the teacher if they can come in on the same time and same day each week so the teacher can plan small groups or one on one tutoring.
If parents have small children and cannot volunteer in the classroom they can take work that the teacher provides to the Family Center and work in there.
Parents can also volunteer on our field trips. Here is a list of our tentative fieldtrips this year. You will be responsible for a small group if you volunteers during a field trip. We will post the dates as soon as they become available:
Pumpkin Patch
Museum of Art
The Watershed – November 30 8:30-1:30pm
Natural History Museum
SB Zoo
Monterey Bay Aquarium- May 23 and May 24
Links for parents and students to access from home:
Math:
http://www.aaamath.com/B/grade3.htm
http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/Pages/studentlinks/math/2-3math.htm
http://www.multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm
Science:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/solarsystem/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/
http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/zoo_animal_information.htm
Language Arts:
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/
http://www.littleexplorers.com/dictionarysubjects/verbs.shtml
Social Studies:
http://www.kids.gov/k_5/k_5_government.shtml
http://www.chumashindian.com/default.htm
