1. Welcome to Parent Night! V. Harris

2. Hoover Mission Statement: Hoover City Schools is committed to programs that result in educational excellence for each student. The School Board believes in providing each student with multiple opportunities to learn and experience success. Through these opportunities and experiences, it is our intent to assist each student in discovering and developing that student's unique talents and gifts. At all times, schools will strive to provide an atmosphere of effective teaching, learning, and growth…This is our commitment to the parents and students of Hoover. In cooperation with parents and community, our students will develop into successful, mature, lifelong learners.

3. JOURNEY to Lifelong Learning My goal is to create a community of readers, writers, thinkers, and problem solvers who have confidence in their individual talents and abilities and view learning as a lifelong process.

4. Community Environment I’m committed to helping children develop: Respect for themselves and others Confidence The desire to encourage others A positive attitude The ability to make wise choices on their own Responsibility for the choices they make Integrity

5. Social Studies: 5 th Grade American Revolution Review Statehood & Constitution Westward Movement Civil War Reconstruction 1900’s

6. Science: 5 th Grade Scientific Process Skills/Variables Landforms Weather Micro Worlds (Observing, Cells, Matter, Atoms) Heat, Energy, Light, Sound, Chemical Changes Ecosystems Human Body – Maturation – A.I.D.S. – D.A.R.E.

7. Math You’re child is a mathematician!! Geometry Probability Statistics Logic Measurement Patterns and Functions Number

8. Language Arts Communication is key! Ways We Communicate: Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking

9. PoetryBooks LettersMusic MagazinesNewspapers WebsitesArt Scripts: movie, theatre, television

10. Reading Self-selected Reading Literature Circles Discussion Groups Whole Class Shared Reading Class Read Aloud

11. Field Trips Camp Cosby:May 7-9 Guest speakers and other opportunities are also being planned.

12. Daily Schedule Specials11:00-11:45 (Music, Art, Library) PE10:30-11:00 Lunch12:07-12:32 Recess12:40-1:00

13. Classroom Management Information Report Card Progress Folders Homework Timeout Conflict Management Class Meetings Transportation Handbook Parties Volunteers Attendance

14. The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done—men who are creative, inventive, and discover. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything that they are offered. The great danger today is of slogans, collective opinions, readymade trends of thought. We need pupils who are active; who learn early to find themselves, partly by their own spontaneous activity and partly through the materials we set up for them; who learn early to tell what is verifiable and what is simply the first idea to come to them. Jean Piaget

15. You are invited to be an active partner on your child’s Quest for Knowledge at Gwin