1. Welcome to 5th Grade Curriculum Night
Parents,
You are your child’s first and most important teacher.
Thank you for sharing your child with us this year.

2. Talk With Your Child(ren) and Us
What can we talk about with our child(ren)?
Use binders, blogs, SCOOPS, and Week Reviews
To receive our information…
s, Wiki SCOOPS, ParentConnect blog, Week Reviews

3. Account Very helpful with our computer usage this year
Use handout to create an account for your child
Can access it from anywhere with an internet connection

4. Homework Using the Daily Folder Setting up a time and a place
Nightly Math and Reading M-Th & signing Week Reviews every Friday
Signing and returning homework slips

5. Read, Read, Read!! Establishing reading habits Ways to share reading
Focus on Comprehension Strategies– Reader’s Workshop & CAFE
20-30 minutes a night
Visit the Library regularly

6. Literacy CAFE CAFÉ is an acronym that stands for: Comprehension
Accuracy
Fluency
Expanding vocabulary.
These become our goals, and the strategies we use to be successful with our goals are posted below them.

7. Write, Write, Write!! Writer’s Workshop – “study” based learning
Share your writing
The “Friday Read Around” and Writing Circles
“Unpacking” our thinking Mondays and a weekly prompt
Word study – look at various figurative language, poetry, and parts of speech

8. Mastering Math Concepts and Computation- Bridges
Ways to Practice – nightly homework/games
Pre-tests, flexible groupings across team, differentiation, clinics
Mastery of Multiplication Fast Facts is a MUST!

9. Math
Conceptual Framework: Thinking about math, the how and why things work. This type of thinking is essential in higher mathematics such as algebra, geometry, calculus, applied mathematics and more
Algorithm: +-x “Plug and Chug” mathematics

10. Accepting Responsibility for One’s Actions
Learning, Leading, Exploring Together – 7 Habits
Credits and debits
Week in Reviews

11. Growing our Garden of Leaders
1. Be Proactive
I am a responsible person, I take initiative., I chose my actions, attitudes, and moods, I do not blame others for my wrong actions, and I do the right thing without being asked, even when no one is looking.
2. Begin with the End in Mind
I plan ahead and set goals, and I look for ways to be a good citizen.
3. Put First Things First
I say no to things I know I should not do, I set priorities, make a schedule, and follow my plan, and I am disciplined and organized.
4. Think Win-Win
I balance courage for getting what I want with consideration for what others want, I make deposits in other’s Emotional Bank Accounts, when conflicts arise, I look for third alternatives.
5. Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
I listen to other people’s ideas and feelings without interrupting and I try to see things from their viewpoints.
6. Synergize
I value other people’s strengths and learn from them, and I get along well with others, even people who are different than me.
7. Sharpen the Saw
I take care of my body by eating right, exercising, and getting sleep, I spend time with my family and friends, I learn in lots of ways and places, not just at school, and I take time to find meaningful ways to help others.

12. Mistakes are deposits in the account of learning - Jim Fay
The Closer
Love them just as much when they don’t succeed as you do when they soar.
Mistakes are deposits in the account of learning - Jim Fay
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi

13. Where to Go Next! 6:05-6:30 Visit Specials Teachers
Art (Room 204) – Mrs. Lichtenauer
Music (Cafeteria) – Mr. Kennedy, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Campbell
Gym – Mr. Mantyla and Mr. Kandes
World Language (Room 207) – Mrs. Szutkowski
Please check the list on the back tables to see if it is correct! If not, please fix in ParentConnect!