1. Welcome to Back to School Night Mrs. Hargreaves and Ms. Pipitone Rm. 212

2. Homework Policy Students should spend 1 hour on HW  15 min: looking for the assignment  11 min: calling friend for assignment  23 min: explaining why the teacher is mean  8 min: in the bathroom  7 min. checking what’s on television

3.  10 min. getting a snack  6 min. telling parents that the teacher never explained the assignment  10 minutes sitting at the kitchen table waiting for somebody else to do the work

5. Units of Study  Writing Workshop  Launching Writing Workshop  Personal Narratives  Writing DBQ’s  Realistic Fiction  Literary Essay  Expository Writing

6. Units of Study  Reading Workshop  Launching Readers Workshop  Non-fiction Reading  Independent Reading  Reading Fiction  Genre Based Book Clubs  Talking and Writing About Reading

7. Units of Study  Math  Place Value  Number Sense and Operations  Data Collection and Statistics  Measurement  Geometry  Patterns  Introduction to Algebra

8. Units of Study  Science  Biomes  Rocks & Minerals  Light & Sound  Simple Machines

9. Units of Study  Social Studies  Map Skills & Geography  United States Government  Industrial Revolution  World War I  World War II  Immigration  Latin America

10. Thank You For Coming!  lhargreaves@hewlett- woodmere.net lhargreaves@hewlett- woodmere.net lhargreaves@hewlett- woodmere.net  jpipitone@hewlett- woodmere.net jpipitone@hewlett- woodmere.net jpipitone@hewlett- woodmere.net