Woodland Heights Curriculum Night 5th grade

Mission Statement The mission of Woodland Heights Elementary is to provide a safe, positive learning environment which nurtures all children in their pursuit of academic excellence, emotional, physical, and social growth with the support and cooperation of students, parents, staff, and the community.

From the Iredell Statesville school website: 5th Grade Curriculum Follow the instructions below to view curriculum for 5th grade. From the Iredell Statesville school website: Click on departments Click on curriculum Click on common core essential standards Click on common core wiki to see the curriculum guide

Common Core Parent Connection If you would like to learn more about the common core curriculum and how you can help at home, you can visit the following website. http://pta.org/4446.htm

Testing in 5th Grade Testing consists of one baseline test in reading, math and science. Two benchmark assessments this year in reading, math and science Students will be required to take reading, math and science EOGS in May. With this being the first year of the new curriculum, there will be no retest

Report Card Scale A 100-93 B 92-85 C 84-77 D 76-70 E Below a 70

Weekly Vocabulary and DOL This grade will be hand written on the report card. Weekly vocabulary and DOL will impact whether or not your child meets the requirements for honor roll as well as the other grades on their report card.

Conferences Conference time will be here before we know it. Information will come home within the next month. If your child is on a SSP (student support plan) you will be required to set up a conference. If your child is labeled AIG, you will be required to set up a conference in order to discuss and develop a DEP (differentiated education plan)

Communication E-mail addresses Teachers will communicate through e-mail and weekly Monday or Friday folders. Also it would be helpful if you could send each one of your child’s teachers an e-mail telling them who your child is and the subject taught so they can add you to their e-mail address book. E-mail addresses Kelly Bailey kelly_bailey@iss.k12.nc.us Nancy Banister nbanister@iss.k12.nc.us Erica Bonge erica_bonge@iss.k12.nc.us Patty Clark pclark@iss.k12.nc.us Stephanie Keller s_keller@iss.k12.nc.us Haley Munksgard hmunksgard@iss.k12.nc.us Marie Palma mpalma@iss.k12.nc.us Kerry Storace kerry_storace@iss.k12.nc.us

Flexible Groups Criteria for Movement Students will need to meet two out of the three criteria to test into a different set or flexible group Better than a 95% grade point average on tests/ assessments; in reading students should also have a better than 95% average in comprehension and independent skill work. 15 to 20 percentage points higher than class average on the PAs (predictive assessment) Consistently well above class average performance on class work

Flexible Groups Criteria for Movement Students will need to meet two out of the three criteria for movement to test into a different set or flexible group. Lower than a 70% grade point average on tests/ assessments; in reading students should also have a lower than 70% average in comprehension and independent skill work 15 to 20 percentage points lower than class average on the Pas (predictive assessment) Consistently below average performance on class work

Homework Some classes require 20-30 minutes of nightly reading in homeroom as others are optional. Nightly math and reading homework will vary from teacher to teacher. All classes have a DOL test and a vocabulary test each week. Definitions assigned on Monday and some classes assign vocabulary sentences on Wednesday (Be looking for these to come home) Science Weekly Mon- read and highlight important info Tues- complete crossword, begin worksheet Fri- worksheet due Teachers have gone over their homework policy in class. If you have any further questions, please contact that teacher.

Infractions Any student receiving an infraction will be required to walk for 5 minutes during recess. The infraction is to be signed by a parent and brought back the next day. Homework infractions: Students who forget their homework will receive an infraction slip. Two infractions for missing or incomplete homework within the same week will require silent lunch on Friday. Two homework infractions= Silent lunch Behavior infractions: Students who misbehave will receive an infraction and will have an automatic Friday silent lunch. One behavior infraction= silent lunch

Friends Friday Students who have no infractions or one infraction for no homework will be rewarded with Friends Friday. Friends Friday allows students to sit by their friends from other classes during lunch.

Accelerated Math and Reading Accelerated math has been purchased through PTO funds and will be primarily used for remediation and enrichment. Accelerated reading is not used in 5th grade, however if students still would like to take tests, computers are available.

Thank you for coming and that concludes the homeroom portion Thank you for coming and that concludes the homeroom portion. If you have any further questions, please contact your child’s homeroom teacher for a conference. Go to child’s Math teacher now!