Open House 2014 -2015 Grade 5 Hosted by

Open House 2014 -2015 Grade 5 Hosted by: Fifth Grade Team

Common Core Curriculum- Adds rigor to today’s learning! • Reading (Goal: 50% nonfiction) • Writing – Narratives, Opinion Writing, Research • Word Study (Root words, suffixes, prefixes, Greek/Latin roots, grammar and spelling) • Math (Operations with Fractions) • Science Units (Ecosystems, Human Body, Force & Motion, Weather System) • Social Studies (Revolutionary Unit/Government and Westward Expansion/ Economy/Civil War and Reconstruction)

Standard Based Grading Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 “P” Extends targeted grade level standards “Since I can do/get this, I can figure out new things!” Needs support to meet targeted grade level standards. “I almost get it but I need help. ” Insufficient performance of targeted grade level standards. “I don’t get it yet. I need help. ” This work is not being assessed. I am practicing a new skill.

Assessments are today’s means of understanding how to modify tomorrow’s instruction! • DAZE and DORF – A reading program that tracks students’ reading fluency and comprehension. Students are assessed in the beginning, middle and end of the school year. Home connection reports will be sent home to show your child’s progress. • Case 21 – Quarterly benchmark assessments that track students’ academic progress (reading, mathematics and science) and provide data that identifies their strengths/weaknesses. This data is then used to guide teachers’ instruction.

Power Schools New System for Report Cards • Will include the essential standards from The Common Core • Will look different from the previous report card • Will no longer have 3* • Parents will have access to student accounts (TBA) • Information about Power Schools can be obtained on the Sanford Creek Website • http: //sanfordcreekes. wcpss. net/

Attendance/Tardies • Attendance is crucial to your child’s success as a fifth grader. Please be advised that students will receive “Absentee” letters after being absent as follows: 10 days. Parents should send in or email an “Excuse” letter within 2 days of the absence. After 20 consecutive absences, an official doctor’s note will be required. • In order for students to be marked as “Present, ” students must be in school/class for 3 hours and 15 minutes. Students who leave before that length of time will be marked as “Absent. ” • School opens at 8: 45 and ends at 3: 45. Class begins at 9: 15. Please make sure that your child arrives to class on time so that he/she does not miss out on morning work which usually reinforces what is being taught in class. • Students who arrive after 9: 15 will be marked as tardy and will be expected to complete their morning work during “down time. ”

Homework • • Assigned Monday – Thursday Read for at least 30 minutes every night Math homework sheet Occasionally a science, social studies, or other type of homework will be assigned • Should be written in agenda weekly. Homework is posted in the classroom daily. • No HW is assigned when there is state testing

Daily Reading Logs • 5 th graders are allowed to take books home and read daily • These books may be books that we read as a class or books chosen by your child. It is their responsibility to care for these books and return them in good condition. • The purpose behind daily reading is to increase your child’s reading level. Provide your child with ample reading material, help foster the love for reading, provide a means of helping your child strengthen reading fluency, comprehension and retelling skills. • The supervising adult is asked to sign their reading log daily • Our overall goal is to help YOUR child grow as a reader!

School Projects • Science Investigations • Power-point Presentations • Discovery Education • Supplemental Text: » Science Studies Challenger

Home Support • • • Read with your child daily and ask him/her questions about their reading Help your child generate questions about what’s being read Make sure that your child is completing his/her homework. Homework is practice and reinforces what has been taught in class. Homework is not graded but, marked with a “P” for practice. Help your child study his/her multiplication tables 0 -12. Doing so, will make it easier for your child to learn multiplication, division and fractions “Help” your child complete projects and turn them in on time!

Code of Cooperation • • • S how self-control O perate safely A ct responsibly R espect myself and others PBIS-Positive Behavior Intervention System • Quiet Hallways(Anywhere in building when you leave a room)

Tentative Field Trips • Haw River Overnight Outing- Environmental Education Program (Ecosystems/ Weather) • Tracks 3 & 4 – March 19 -20, 2015 • Tracks 1 & 2 – April 23 -24, 2015 • Parent informational Meeting: August 18, 2014 5: 30 pm in the Media Center

Class Management System • Bluejay Bucks Tickets • Treasure Box • Communications thru the agendas, emails, phone calls and texts • Home & office referrals will be given to those students who do not follow class & school rules. • Please remember that rules are in place to keep students safe and ensure that learning is always taking place!

Transportation • • • There is a no walk zone for SCE due to the long driveway, staff helps to walk students to the crosswalk at the end of the driveway. Some parents walk to school to pick up their children and walk them home. Parents must sign their children out in the main office. Please confirm how your child is to go home every day! If your child is leaving early (for an appointment) or going home with a buddy, a note or email should be sent notifying us of such a change. If no note or email is received, your child will be dismissed as usual and will be expected to follow the normal dismissal routine.

COMMUNICATION • • • Weekly Folders Newsletters Principal’s Newsletters PTA Flyers Students’ Agendas Class Website Report Cards & Interims SCE School Website Email: calford-powell@wcpss. net, tstrong@wcpss. net, merle@wcpss. net, solsen@wcpss. net , rholt@wcpss. net • Phone: 919 -570 -2100

Classroom Volunteers • • Copies Weekly Folder Clerical duties Must sign a confidentiality form

It Takes a Village to Raise a Child! • • • We are partners Please work with your child at home Open communication We look forward to a fantastic year! Thanks for coming to Open House Notes of encouragement