Mrs. Gina Rubert
Updated 08/04/2025
Weekly "Newsletter" From Mrs. Rubert:
We made it through our first full week and are already into our second! As we settle into the school year, we are entering our beginning-of-year testing season.
This week, students will complete DIBELS testing with their reading teacher. Please check your reading teacher’s website to see which day your student will be testing. Next week, students will begin MAPS testing. During these testing weeks, please help your student prepare by providing a healthy breakfast and nutritious snacks, encouraging plenty of rest, and making sure they arrive at school ready to do their best.
On Monday, third grade will send out a Sign-Up Genius for donations for our River Projects, which we will begin next week. Remember, families can earn volunteer hours for classroom donations—$25 spent earns one volunteer hour. I will post the sign-up link here once I've emailed it to all families.
Friday will be our first Dress of Choice Day of the year!
With love,
Mrs. Rubert
Upcoming:
8/28: DIBELS - Rubert READING Class
8/28: Dress of Choice
9/3: K-5 Curriculum Night
9/4: Fun Run Pep Rally!
9/7: Labor Day - NO School
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
- Parents please connect to our Class Dojo- this is how to monitor your students behavior (positive and negative)
- Please send your student to school with a filled water bottle as well as a couple healthy snacks for the day. Reminder that we are a nut-free classroom.
- Colorado weather changes hourly so please pack your student appropriate attire for the day.
- We will have PE every Tuesday - and some Fridays. Please have your student wear tennis shoes for those days.
- Library day is Monday
Homework:
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Language Arts:
This week students will be focus on the following items: Using Pear Deck as a classroom tool, Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives. We will also introduce more classic tales such as Aladdin.
Homeroom Read Aloud: Sideway Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Reading:
CKLA Unit: Classic Tales
Reading Skills: Comprehension, Citing Evidence, Theme, Sequence and Perspective
CKLA Read Aloud: Wind in the Willows Adaption
Spelling: None until Unit 2!
This week students will focus on themes, sequencing, and comprehension through our Wind in the Willows read aloud. We will also start to read more independently by reading excerpts from Alice in Wonderland. Starting this week, your student will come home on Monday with their first fluency packet. This is your students homework for the week. Each night your student will read the passage and measure how many words they read correctly. By the end of the week, they should see their improvement. Please send these back on Friday to have your student to turn in as a grade!
Math:
Module 1: Addition and Subtraction Strategies
Lessons we will cover this week 4-7: Using properties to add, Use Mental-Math to Assess Reasonableness, Round to the Nearest Ten or Hundred, and Use Estimation with Sums and Differences.
History/Science:
History Unit: Rivers!
Students will learn the following about rivers: How it Makes Lives Better, The View From Above & the Dangers, and Wildlife on Rivers. We will learn about these by learning about the following rivers: Indus, Ganges, Yangtze, Murray, Mississippi, Ob, Amazon, Orinoco, and Mackenzie.
This week a sign-up genius was emailed out about donating for our Rivers Project. Please check the newsletter above to see if there are still spots to donate!
SPECIALS Schedule:
| Monday | Library |
| Tuesday | PE |
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Wednesday |
Spanish |
| Thursday |
Character Education |
| Friday | Rotation |
STEM Schedule:
| Orange Week | PE |
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Green Week |
Spanish |
| Blue Week |
Character |
| Red Week |
Library |
Bolded Week is what we have for the week.
Daily Schedule - 3rd Grade
| Time | Subject |
| 8:00-8:20am | Unpack & Morning Work |
| 8:20-9:00am | CKLA (Grammar/Writing) |
| 8:45-9:00am | Handwriting |
| 9:00-9:25am | W.I.N Time & Intervention |
| 9:30-10:00am | Math Block 1 (Skills Group) |
| 10:05-10:45am | Specials |
| 10:50-11:25am | Math Block 2 (Skills Group) |
| 11:30am-12:10pm | Lunch/Recess |
| 12:15-12:30pm | SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) |
| 12:35-1:30pm | CKLA Reading (Skills Group) |
| 1:35-2:15pm | STEAM |
| 2:20-2:40pm | Recess |
| 2:45-3:25pm | History/Science |
| 3:25-3:30pm | Pack Up/Dismissal |
Meet the Teacher - Letter from Mrs. Rubert
I am so grateful to be part of the AVA community! This will be my sixth year teaching and third year at Aspen View Academy. I have previously taught fourth grade and kindergarten but third grade is my absolute favorite! I am a Washington State native and have now lived in Colorado for nine years! I received my bachelors degree in Elementary Education at Western Washington University and my Masters of Education in School Guidance Counseling at City University of Seattle. I love AVA! I currently have two of my own children in the building including my second grader, Scarlett, and my eighth grader, Ben. My oldest, Matilda, is attending Colorado Early Colleges as a Sophomore. My husband Tyler and I enjoy jumping in the car with the kids and exploring in the mountains, heading to the lake for kayaking, or discovering a new hike! We have two cats, Kiwi and Henry, a three year old rescue pup named Buckley and a five month old Bernese Mountain Dog named Bonnie. I love country music, attending concerts, sunshine, being outdoors, traveling, and spending time with my family! I am so excited for this school year! Thank you for sharing your wonderful children with me!
