1. Fifth Grade Mrs. Jana Vermette
Back to School Night
Fifth Grade
Mrs. Jana Vermette

2. Mrs. Jana Vermette 23 years of teaching experience
3rd grade – 8 years
5th grade – 15 years
Live in El Dorado Hills
Enjoy family time, movies, exercise, travel, and all things summer!
Love gummy bears and all things coffee 
Mrs. Jana Vermette

3. My Family Husband Marc City of Sacramento Fire Department Chloe – 11 –
Entering 6th grade
Luke – 8 –
Entering 2nd grade
Sherman – 2 –
Lola – 1 –
Our dogs ;)

4. Common Core State Standards
Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are the academic standards developed to unify learning expectations for students across all states.
We have CCSS’s for these Academic Areas:
-English Language Arts (ELA)
-Math
-Science (coming soon)
Common Core State Standards

5. Consumable “textbook pages” (completed in class) will be torn out and included with each night’s homework pages.
There is online help at k6.thinkcentral.com
Student IDs and passwords are the same as last year
Pages can be printed from home
Mini tutorials are available
I will teach math EVERY DAY and there will be math homework every Monday-Thursday.
Go Math!

6. English Language Arts (ELA)
Wonders Reading Program (main)
Open Court Reading Program (here and there)
Novels (throughout the year)
Accelerated Reader
18 points trimester 1 and 2
24 points trimester 3
English Language Arts (ELA)

7. Writing Directed topics (monthly memories)
Journal responses (personal narratives)
Daily Language Review (D.L.R.)
Essays
Document Based Questioning (D.B.Q.s)
Story Development
Response to literature
Writing

8. Social Studies United States History – Making a New Nation Geography
Native Americans
Exploration
Colonies
Revolutionary War
States
Westward Movement
Social Studies

9. Science Life Science Structure of Living Things Plant Functions
Human Body Systems
Earth Science
Earth’s Water
Earth’s Weather
The Solar System
Physical Science
Types of Matter
Changes in Matter
Science

10. Health/Fitness Taught mainly by Mrs. Davis
Twice a week - 40 minute blocks
20 minutes are instructed by me to total 100 minutes a week
Fitness Gram Test in May
Upper body strength
Cardio
Flexibility
BMI
Water bottle, fruit and veggies allowed in class 
Health/Fitness

11. Grading Policy Every student starts with straight A’s! 
Some assignments are checked off for completion
Grades are a compilation of:
Classwork
Homework
Tests
Projects
Quizzes
Grading Policy

12. Homework Between 45 minutes and one hour a night
Ravenous Readers: read an additional 30 minutes a night – or 120 minutes a week
Students are required to use their Agenda.
Assignments are due at 8:15. No late work is accepted in 5th grade.
Students have 2 emergency “Curve Ball” passes this year. Once they are used, missing assignments become a zero.
Homework

13. Communication Class Website - http://blogs.egusd.net/mrsvermette/
Main source of communication
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE 
Weekly Report:
Behavior and homework feedback
Every Friday – signed and returned by Monday
Progress Reports:
Mid-trimester using Making the Grade
I try to get back to you by the end of my work day.
Communication

14. Behavior Non-verbal redirection Verbal warning
The above are considered “Clean Slate” days.
Log-In (student records date/time/incident in binder)
Time-Out (removal to buddy classroom)
Office intervention
Behavior

15. California Caverns
Planetarium
Exploratorium
Field Trips

16. Your Help is Needed Monday copying Art Docent
Correcting – especially on Thursdays and Fridays
PFO membership
Your Help is Needed

17. Supplies Needed boxes of tissues cleaning wipes pencils
colored pencils
lined paper
Highlighters
Correcting pens – non red 
Supplies Needed

18. Fifth Grade Mrs. Vermette jvermett@egusd.net
Back to School Night
Fifth Grade
Mrs. Vermette