1. 5th Grade Virtual Curriculum Night 2019-2020
Teachers:
Monica Cupp
Sania Mehroz Emily Kelly
Jordan Smith Stacey Owoeye
Saima Peer Jessica Pierluissi

2. OUR COMMUNICATION WITH YOU…
Communication Folders: Your child’s purple folder will be sent home each Monday. The folder may contain communications from the district, Fielder, and/or the 5th grade team. It may also contain some of your child’s graded papers from the previous week. Please check the Interactive Student Notebook (ISN) and CANVAS for additional graded work.
Conferences: Parent-Teacher conferences will take place between October and November. Conferences will be scheduled through Sign Up Genius. You will receive an with instructions on how to select your conference time. If you feel that a conference is necessary at any other time, please send a note/ to your child’s teacher.

3. CHANGE OF TRANSPORTATION
Beginning this year, all changes of transportation MUST be a handwritten note that includes a parent signature. Please send change of transportation notes to school with your child. You may also stop by the school and drop off a note before 2:30 pm. s will no longer be accepted.

4. EXPECTATIONS FOR BEHAVIOR AND WORK HABITS
The PBIS app contains categories corresponding to the Comment Codes on the report card. The app will reflect the areas your child is excelling in. If your child is struggling in one of these areas, a Falcon Warning will be sent home for you to review with your child. Please sign one of the copies and return it back to your child’s teacher.

5. STUDENT IDs
Each student will receive a photo ID badge at the beginning of the year that he/she will be expected to wear at all times. The badge and its unique student ID number will be used to check out library books, purchase food items in the cafeteria, and provide easy identification of students throughout the Fielder campus. It will also be used to give students points in the PBIS app.
If your child loses his/her ID, a replacement must be purchased promptly from the library, for his/her safety and the safety of others.

6. HOMEWORK AND GRADING
As stated in the Elementary Grading Handbook, late work for both classwork and homework, will result in a 10 point deduction for each school day that the assignment is late. After the third day, the grade will be a zero.
Students should record all homework assignments in their planners each class period. The planner should be with the student at all times and should go home with the student every day.
Students earning less than a 70 on a MAJOR test will be given the opportunity to retest the material covered. The grade that will be put into the grade book will be calculated by taking the average of the original test grade and the retest grade. This does not apply to daily/minor grades. Class work and homework cannot be corrected for a higher grade.

7. GRADING SCALE FOR ALL SUBJECTS
5TH GRADE WEIGHTED GRADING SYSTEM
GRADING
GRADING SCALE FOR ALL SUBJECTS
Other: %
Homework, participation, effort, process, etc.
Minor: %
Class Work, Quizzes,
Daily Assignments, Word Study, and Take-Home Projects
Major: %
Tests, In-Class Projects, and formal assessments A B C D
F below
PROGRESS REPORTS & REPORT CARDS– Progress reports will be sent home in the middle of each nine-week grading period. Report cards will be sent home at the end of the nine-week period.

8. COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY
Use of technology will be strongly encouraged and integrated into the curriculum. Every 5th grade classroom is equipped with a SMARTBoard, and students will have access to classroom computers as well. Students are allowed to bring technological devices to school, but they must stay stored in the backpacks or tubs based on the teacher’s instructions. Technology must be kept on Silent or turned off when not in use.
Internet usage is crucial to research and to remain current in this educational climate. The internet will be utilized consistently with the KISD usage standards, as outlined in the Fielder Handbook. Additionally, students will become more proficient typists and users of publishing software.

9. CANVAS
Fifth graders will be expected to stay up to date with their teacher’s canvas pages as well as the public 5th grade team page, available on the official school website.
The public team page (Meant for parent and student access), will have resources such as weekly newsletters, field trip information, and schedules. No password or log in will be required.
Private student pages will contain a class calendar with important dates, classwork such as quizzes and discussions and content information. This page requires log- in through My Katy Cloud and is for the exclusive use of the student.

10. READING AND WRITING WORKSHOP
Reading and Writing instruction will follow a reading and workshop model. The Units of Study are as follows:
Reading
Unit 1: Launching with Read Aloud & Response
Unit 2: Moving Up!
Unit 3: Nonfiction Studies
Unit 4: Interpretation Book Clubs
Unit 5: Argument and Advocacy
Unit 6: STAAR Reading Test Prep
Unit 7: Fantasy Book Clubs
Writing
Unit 1: Launching with Read Aloud & Response
Unit 2: Moving Up!
Unit 3: Nonfiction Studies
Unit 4: Literary Essays
Unit 5: Argument & Advocacy
Unit 6: Memoirs
Unit 7: Fantasy Writing

11. READING
Students participate in Reading Workshop. The system includes independent reading, goal-setting with students in individual conferences, developing small group instruction based on clusters of students with similar goals, targeting whole-class mini-lessons based on emerging student needs, and fine tuning one-on-one conferencing.
Other Reading Resources-The students will be given the opportunity to read from a variety of sources. Each teacher has many books in his/her classroom that students can read. The students will also be taken to the school library each week to check out books. Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books, as well as magazines, will be utilized in our reading program.

12. WORD STUDY
Word Study is learning about the relationship of letters to sounds as well as the structure of words to support reading and writing.
Such as:
-Prefixes Build words Syllables
-Suffixes Sort words Patterns
-Root/base words Spell words within words
**Students will take a word study assessment every 5 weeks. Students should study from their word study folder to prepare for the test.**

13. SOCIAL STUDIES History (United States) Citizenship English Colonies
American Revolution
Westward Expansion
Slavery / Civil War / Reconstruction
Industrial Revolution / Immigration
World War I / Roaring Twenties / Great Depression
World War II / Civil Rights
Economics
taught through Junior Achievement and within historical context
Citizenship
Culture
Technology
Social Studies Skills

14. SOCIAL STUDIES Government : forming of the U.S. government
structure of the U.S. government
documents
Declaration of Independence
Constitution
Bill of Rights
Geography :
longitude / latitude
physical geography
memorization of states and capitals, along with locations through activities and incremental/cumulative quizzes

15. SCIENCE In science we will investigate the following units:
• Physical Properties • Uses of Energy
• Properties of Light • Ecosystems
• Inherited Traits/Learned Behaviors • Food webs and chains
• Organism structures and behaviors • Earth’s rotation/revolution
• Traits of the Earth, Sun, Moon • Weather and Climate
• Sedimentary rock/Fossil Fuels • Landforms
Students will also use scientific processes to set up and carry out their own investigations.

16. MATHEMATICS • Graphing and Data Analysis • Multiplication and Division
• Place Value
• Multi-Step Problem Solving
• Addition and Subtraction
• Decimals
• Coordinate Plane
• Fractions
• Geometry
• Personal Financial Literacy
In math, we will study the following topics:

17. MATHEMATICS
Students must be fluent in their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts in order to become successful problem solvers.
Making sure that your child practices his/her math facts for at least minutes a night will help enable him/her to work on grade level problems with less chance of error or time consumption that occurs when students are counting on their fingers.

18. We look forward to working with your children this year!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
We look forward to working with your children this year!