WELCOME To 5th Grade

My Family JON Hunter 12 Noah 10

PBIS Safe Respectful Towanda Bulldogs are: Responsible Character Pillars: Trustworthiness Fairness Caring Citizenship Respect Responsibility Students earn: Character Grams Positive Praise Cards Out of the Blue

Be the best version of YOU that you can be! Classroom Behavior Students earn Bulldog Bucks for getting their planners signed, doing their classroom jobs, and being a first time listener. They can spend their Bulldog Bucks on supplies, on cool pens/pencils/erasers, or a coupon for a special reward. Bulldog Bucks #choosekind Be the best version of YOU that you can be! Keys To Kindness

Reader’s Workshop 90 Min. Block = Reader’s Workshop Interventions (I-time) 60 minutes of Reader’s Workshop + 30 minutes of interventions Whole group mini lesson Grouped on assessment Data driven by MAP scores and Fountas and Pinnell assessments Individual work time on skill taught Students are divided into Guided Reading Groups based on reading levels or interest Running records of their reading Word Work I work with small groups in guided reading groups or collaborative reasoning groups Assessments and grades: Participation, Products, and reading log activity. Work with a partner  Some students may leave the room and work with other teachers   Small group work with me to increase reading skills

Writer’s Workshop Schoolwide (company) lessons Mentor texts that model the skills taught in the mini- lessons Grammar skills We will use a free write/journal notebook, a writer’s notebook for their ideas and works in progress, and a binder for helper notes/pages and published work We will use Google Classroom to publish writing. Words Their Way – Whole Class instruction on the sorts 5th graders need to learn to be ready for Jr. High. Small group instruction will also be provided to help students learn the skills they are missing or struggling in, or small group challenges can be given. Writing Genres For 5th Graders: Fantasy Picture Book Historical Fiction Interviews or Scripts Biography Informational How-To Opinion Essay Business Letter (Persuade, complain, compliment) Book/Movie/Game/Restaurant Reviews

Everyday Math Series -8 Units Math Workshop Students are given a pre test for each unit to determine what concepts they know and what they need to learn. There will be a Mini Lesson each day, followed by small group instruction, independent practice, and partner/group practice. Small groups will change throughout each unit if necessary, and possibly after a new pretest is given. Once students master skills, they will move to the next skill. There is enrichment work available for each unit. Grades will be taken on exit slips, Chapter tests, math journal pages Skills will be assessed using a plus, check, and minus system or Standards Based Grading Everyday Math Series -8 Units Unit 1 ~ Area and Volume Unit 2 ~ Whole Number Place Value and Operations Unit 3 ~ Fractions (Concepts, Addition, Subtraction Unit 4 ~ Decimal Concepts; Coordinate Grids Unit 5 ~ Operations with Fractions Unit 6 ~ Investigations in Measurement; Decimal Multiplication; Division Unit 7 ~ Multiplication of Mixed Numbers; Geometry; Graphs Unit 8 ~ Applications of Measurement, Computation, and Graphing

Science Social Studies We will study: Earth an Space Systems Structures of Property and Matter Matter and Energy in Ecosystems We will study: Geography and how it relates to US History American Indians – their land and culture Europeans coming to the New World Routes of Exploration to the New World Early English Settlements Comparing the Colonies Slavery Colonial Williamsburg The American Revolution and what lead up to it (including the Declaration of Independence) The Constitution and The Bill of Rights The West – settling and people The Civil War – including causes Industrialization of the Modern United States (including **We will need supplies/materials donated throughout the year. Let me know if you can help!!

Assignment Notebook and Homework It is THE STUDENT’S responsibility to ask for your signature daily.   Your signature tells me that they have completed their work. No signature tells me that they have not completed their assignments.   It also helps you, as a parent, to help your child study for upcoming tests & double check for homework completion. If students do not complete homework, they will have to make it up during recess time. If they did not understand something I am happy to help them with it at school. Signatures will be required in order to receive Bulldog Bucks. After a couple of months, the students will have to pay for missed signatures, late and/or missing homework. Double check my website for assignments listed.  

Other Items: Parent Teacher Conferences Scholastic ~ Class Code: R66CF Newsletters Link to Teacher Ease https://www.unit5.org/Page/14174 Birthday Treats 40 Book Challenge Items in Orange Folder

Be the best version of YOU that you can be! #choosekind “Be A Champion...for yourself, your class, your school and your community!” Be the best version of YOU that you can be!