1. Woodland Heights Curriculum Night
5th grade

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. Report Card Scale A B C D
E Below a 70

7. 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.

8. 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)

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Homework
Some classes require 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.

13. 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

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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!