1. WELCOME TO 6 BLUE!

2. Core Values Respect, Responsibility, Honesty and Perseverance CPR Read Aloud Team Meetings

3. Communication Emails Phone calls Parent Teacher Conference: November 1 Wikipage: Newsletters posted kcamerato@shrewsbury.k12.ma.us lryan@shrewsbury.k12.ma.us

4. 6 BLUE SUPPORT STAFF Shannan Rowell, Special Education Chris Wilkinson, Special Education Aide Denise Barre, Aide Liz McGandy, ELL Mindy Miller, ELL Melissa McCann, Math Coach

5. 60-90 minutes Monday- Friday Planners *PLEASE send us a note or sign an assignment if HW Exceeds 90 minutes.

6. 6 BLUE HOMEWORK POLICY 1st missing homework assignment: Each student is allowed one missing homework assignment per subject, per trimester. 2nd missing assignment Lunch pm served the day (or next day for afternoon class) the assignment is missing. 3rd missing assignment: Referred to administration for “Homework Academy” *For any missing assignment, students fill out a “Missing Homework Form” to be signed by a guardian.

7. Language Arts Trimester 1 Goals: Fiction: Importance of setting Non-fiction: Main idea Writing: expository pillar, open response, broad- yet distinct main ideas, overlapping Learning experiences: Fiction reading (Maroo or other fiction texts), non-fiction reading resources, empowering writers lessons. Summary writing, text features, finding the main idea

8. Language Arts Tools and Texts Shrewsbury Writing Project: Empowering Writers Expository, Narrative, Persuasive Writing Fiction Texts: Maroo, Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, Golden Goblet

9. History and Social Sciences Units for History and Social Sciences will be a combination of textbooks lessons, hands-on simulation experiences, study of primary sources, and visual support Archaeology and Early Humans Mesopotamia Egypt Ancient Israel Ancient and Classical Greece Ancient Rome

10. MATH Everyday Math Program Unit Assessments – Study guides – Test corrections Math Games (contact me for materials if interested) Small group work

11. SCIENCE *GOOD SCIENTISTS ARE CURIOUS AND OBSERVANT Earth and Space Science – Earth’s Changing Surface – Inside Earth – Astronomy Science Notebooks