1. To Curriculum and Expectations Night!
WELCOME
To Curriculum and Expectations Night!
Mrs. Stokoski
Grade 5 RM 209

2. Your Child’s Teacher Mrs. Stokoski
Graduated from Illinois State University
Have taught for 28 yrs.
14th year teaching at Walker
I have a grown son pursuing a career in cinematography and a daughter that is a senior in high school.

3. Other Teachers Your Child Sees
Mrs. Hobbs- Language Arts/Soc. Studies Rm. 211
Mrs. Grzymski-Rm 203
Mrs. Lewkow-Music-Rm 113
Mrs.  Dominik-Art -Rm 224
Mr. Acevedo, Mr. Chrusciel, Ms. Crick, Mrs. Mucha-P.E.-Rm 125
Mrs. Boers -Technology

4. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS)
Walker’s School Wide Behavioral
Intervention System
Students can earn “Paws” as a classroom for appropriate behavior.
Students also earn “Paws” that they can accumulate and turn in at the school store or for a special treat like nachos or popcorn.
~Be Respectful ~Be Responsible ~Be Safe

5. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support
My Discipline Plan
Students will be expected to follow classroom and school wide procedures.
Should a student violate any of the expectations, a proper consequence determined by the teacher and/or administration, may be issued.

6. Consequences Consequences may include, but are not limited to:
visual cues
verbal warning
conference with teacher
phone call(s) home
change of seat
detention(s)
referral, and/or visit to the office.

7. Positive Rewards
Various rewards will be given throughout the year. Some may include, but are not limited to:
Verbal praise
Positive notes/phone calls home
Team incentives
Paws tickets (to purchase items at Paw-Mart)

8. Homework Policy
Assignments that are brought home for completion are usually class work assignments that are not finished during the school day.
Your child is responsible for writing daily work in their assignment notebooks.
If an assignment is not completed by the following school day (or its due date), it will be considered “missing/late.”
A notice of the missing/late assignment will be sent home for a parent or guardian’s signature. The signed notice is due, along with the completed assignment, the next day.

9. Homework Policy Repeated Late Work
Students may be sent to study hall during lunch/intramurals to finish late, missing, or absent work.
If an assignment is not completed due to a family emergency, please send me a note/ stating so; otherwise it’s considered late.
Repeated Late Work
If a student has had five missing assignments, they will be required to attend study hall during lunch/intramurals for two days a week. Subsequent missing assignments will result in an additional day added up to 5 days.
After 4 weeks, if a student has not had any additional missing assignments, they are no longer required to attend study hall.

10. Math “Go Math” Common Core based
Encourages students to dig deeper/think outside the box
We will be having mini assessments after every few lessons rather than an end of the chapter assessment. These will be counted as summative grades.
Students need to practice their multiplication/division facts daily!

11. Science Matter and Energy in Plants Food Webs Earth’s Systems
Teachers at the 5th grade level are using “Next Generation Science Standards” (NGSS).
5th Grade Science Units:
Matter and Energy in Plants
Food Webs
Earth’s Systems
Water Sources
Matter is Everywhere
Observing our Sky
We will be using STEMScopes as our guide and will supplement with other resources as needed.

12. Organization Student Organization
Assignment notebook should come home every day.
Notes are generally sent home on Friday along with graded papers from the week.

13. The Summit Hill School District #161 Grade Composition
Grading
The Summit Hill School District #161 Grade Composition
Formative Assessments
25% of Grade
Examples:
Summative Assessments
75% of Grade
Homework
In class assignments
Practice problems
Short quizzes
Examples:
Final project
End of unit portfolio
End of unit test
End of skills test
Chapter test

14. Equal Interval Grade ScaleB C D F
​If a student receives a 27% on an assignment, a 50% will be recorded in the grade book and a comment can be made to indicate the 27%  ​

15. Reassessments for summative tasks.
Reassessments will be offered for students earning a D or F on
Summative Assessments.
For students earning an A, B, or C, one summative reassessment
opportunity (per subject, per quarter) will be made available.
The student will need to complete a “Request to Retest” form.
Students will need to complete additional activities to prepare for retest.
Retests may be completed during lunch/intramurals time slot within one week of original assessment.
The most recent score will be recorded, as stated by district policy. ​

16. Parent/Teacher Conferences
Please note that parent/teacher conference sign-ups will be available online this year beginning in October.
Reminders will be sent home prior to conferences.

17. If your child is absent…
Please make sure to call the office to notify them of your child’s absence.
Let the office know if you will be coming to pick up any missing work, or if work should be sent home with another student in the school.

18. Summit Hill’s Website http://www.summithill.org Hilda Walker School
Teacher Pages
a Stokoski
Here I will post important classroom news and any homework assignments I have given.
If your child does not have me for a certain class, please check their teacher’s website.

19. Please make sure to read over the parent/student handbook
Please make sure to read over the parent/student handbook. Especially the district’s policy on school appropriate clothing and the weapons policy.
Thank you for taking the time to visit our classroom.
Have a great evening!