1. Welcome to Fifth Grade

2. Essential Agreements Practice Kindness Respect Responsibility Rights
a. ourselves
b. each other
c. our environment
Responsibility
a. We are responsible for ourselves and our learning
b. We are responsible to each other
Rights
We have the right to:
a. learn
b. be listened to and heard
c. be safe
d. work without being distracted

3. Discipline/Consequences Where can I find this information? Agenda
E – 1-2 cuts/week
S – 2-3 cuts
P – 4-6 cuts
U – 7+ cuts (this will be an office referral)
Automatic
P in conduct and note home for being dishonest or cheating
U in conduct and office referral for threatening another person’s safety (written, verbal, action) or theft

4. First Bell – 7:35am Tardy Bell – 7:45am
Attendance/Tardies
First Bell – 7:35am Tardy Bell – 7:45am
Students not IN CLASS at 7:45 are marked tardy
Attendance is taken at 9:30am daily. Students not IN CLASS at this time are marked absent for the day.
Please or send a note for absences as soon as possible. No note will equate to an unexcused absence.

5. Curriculum Schedule (subject to change…)
MONDAY
7:45-8:45 Specials
9-10:30 MATH
EDC & EDM
10:30-11:45 SCIENCE
Lunch & Recess
1-2 Reading Workshop
2-3 History Alive
TUESDAY
8:45-10:45 ELAR
POETRY READING
Workshops
10:45-11:45 History
1-2 SCIENCE
Lab or Reading/Notes
2-3 MATH
EDM
WEDNESDAY
7:45-8:30 Electives
8:30-10:30 ELAR
10:30-11:45 MATH
AIMS Problem Solving
LUNCH
EARLY DISMISSAL-12:45
THURSDAY
FRIDAY

6. Literacy Writing Workshop
Nancie Atwell
Mini-lessons (grow from observations, what they don’t know, or need to know)
Present ideas, lessons for:
topics, territories: ways to develop ideas for pieces that matter to them and their readers
principles: ways to think and craft to create meaningful, literary writing
genres: free verse poetry, formatted poetry, essays, short stories, memoirs, and book reviews
conventions: what readers eyes and minds need and expect
Writing
Conferring

7. Literacy Reading Workshop Non-Fiction and Content Area Reading IIM
Mini-lessons
comprehension strategies
Monitor for meaning, using and creating schema, asking questions, determining importance, inferring, using sensory and emotional images, synthesizing
literary elements
Plot, characterization, setting, conflict
writing about reading
Book Club
talking and thinking about books
responding to books
Non-Fiction and Content Area Reading
science, social studies, math
IIM
Research and note taking

8. Math Where can I find their work? Math binder
EDC
6th grade concepts
Short daily activities
EDM
A spiral program from the University of Chicago
Reaches beyond the basic concepts and will push every student to a higher math level.
Journals, skill links, study links, and games are all part of the program
EDM is on line for use at home or in school.
Games
Games and activities that connect with objectives-log in binder
Problem Solving
One day a week devoted to hands on, minds on problem solving using AIMS activities
Spacial math
Brain teasers
Patterns
Strategies

9. Science Where can I find their work? Science Journal and Binder
Earth
FOSS Landforms & Topographic Maps
IB: Exploration - landforms, maps, geology, geography
IB: Alternative Energies – Earth’s resources
AIMS
Physical
FOSS Mixtures and Solutions
FOSS Solar Energy
IB: Alternative Energies – Energy
Life
FOSS Environments
IB: Ecosystems
Process
Labs: embedded throughout
IB: Data

10. Social Studies
American History is the focus for the social studies content in 5th grade.
Social Studies Alive
Exploration
IB Exploration Planner
IIM Research
Government and Economics
Colonization of New World
Civil Unrest
IB Planner

11. IB Connection Where We Are in Time and Place (Exploration)
Sharing the Planet (Alternative Energy)
How We Organize Ourselves (Data)
How We Express Ourselves (Exhibition)
How the World Works (Ecosystems)
Who We Are (Civil Unrest)

12. Grading How to access Gradespeed.
Go to: and click on “PARENTS” “PSC LOGIN” and at the top of the page it will give information on how to create a new account and log in.
Green paper folder

13. Homework Math – every night Reading Vocabulary Other… NOT OUR GOAL:

14. Important Dates NNAT – October 26th 5th Grade Camp - November 9-11th
Exhibition - March 8th – 3:30 – 5:30 PM
Field Trips - Energy Hall and Civil War Science Museum
Graduation -TBA

15. Room Parent(s) Questions?