1. Welcome to Back To School Night
Mrs. Dewey

2. Schedule Website Homework Language Arts Science and Social Studies
Writing
Science and Social Studies
Math
Questions

3. Homework Homework is sent home on Monday and returned on Friday.
Your student should be completing the homework independently with your guidance.
Each night your student should do one math assignment, 20 minutes of reading, and spelling homework.
Some nights your student will have writing homework which is to be completed in the white notebook. The white notebook also needs to be returned to school on Friday.
In a few weeks I will be sending zip lock bags home with your students name on them. These bags will have books inside. Please return these books on Friday along with your students homework.

4. Additional Homework Resources
Raz-kids
We Give Books
Beacon Heights Library Page
Spelling City
Search kielydewey or go to our class website

5. Discipline Class rules Listen when your teacher is talking
Follow directions quickly
Keep your hands and feet to yourself
Raise your hand to speak or stand
Be safe, be kind, be honest

6. Discipline
Bucket filling

7. Discipline
Clip Chart
Every day the students have an opportunity to move their pin up the chart or down the chart.
Once they reach the top, if they make another good choice, fill someone's bucket, or set good example they can move their pin onto my necklace for being “off the chart” good.
If the students are on pink by the end of the week they get a sticker on their pin.
Once they have four stickers their pin goes on the hall of fame.
Once they have four pins on the hall of fame they get a prize from the grab box.
Four is the magic number!

8. Assessments
I use continuous ongoing assessment to ensure your students are learning and to ensure that my instruction is effective.
I will go over each assessment in more depth with you at parent teacher conference in October.
PowerSchool

9. Literacy in the classroom
We use the program Story Town.
I read an wide array of literature in the classroom.
We focus on:
comprehension strategies
story elements
reading strategies
genre studies
All of these things impact students’ writing abilities.
I teach using the gradual release of responsibility.

10. Literacy in the classroom
Daily Five:
Read to self
Read to someone
Word work
Writing
Listen to reading

11. Writing We focus on three types of writing Argumentative Opinion
Narrative
Common Core- aims to prepare students for the workforce. The creators saw what graduating high school students needed to be successful in the workforce and created the curriculum based on their findings. The increased rigor in writing expectations is also based on their findings.

12. Science and Social Studies
I teach science and social studies through integration. Students will be reading and writing all day, across all content areas.

13. Math We use the program Math Expressions Hands on Engaging
Integrates literature
Teaches multiple strategies
Math Talk

14. Curriculum Map Language Arts Writing Workshop Social Studies
Science/Health
Math
August & September
Reading Level 1-4
Author Study:
Mo Willems
Donald Crews
Unit 1---6wks
Launching Writing Workshop
Narrative stories
Rules & Procedures-Review Class and School COOL rules
All about Me-Sharing with class
Fire Safety for Fire Drill
Personal Hygiene & Dental Care
Nutrition with school lunch
The Human Body
Unit 1 Partners & Number Patterns Through 10
Unit 2 Addition & Subtraction Strategies
October
Reading Level 6
Author Study: Gail Gibbons
Unit 2---6wks
Nonfiction
Halloween safety and history
Review friendship building
Season: Autumn & Weather
Plant parts & seeds
Unit 2 continued
Unit 3 Unknown Numbers in Addition & Subtraction
November
Reading Level 8
Author Study: Ezra Jack Keatz
Family-Culture-Community Unit
Then & Now connecting to Native American culture
Thanks Giving Traditions
Unit 4 Place Value Concepts
10 more
10 less
1 more or less
Unit 3---6wks
Writing Reviews
(Opinion)
December
Reading Level 8+
Author Study: Jan Brett
Mapping part 1 - symbols
Holiday Traditions Around the World
Season: Winter & Weather
January
Reading Level 10
Genre Study: Poetry
Unit weeks
Poetry
Martin Luther King Jr. lessons
Patriotic Symbols & Songs
Mapping part 2 - Continents, Oceans, NSEW
Physical Science: forces of motion and matter
Unit 5 Place Value Situations
February
Reading Level 12
Author Study: Cynthia Rylant
Unit weeks
Series writing
(Chapter books)
Presidents holiday
Earth and Space Science
Moon, Sun, and Earth
Unit 6 Comparisons with data
Graphing
March
Reading Level 14
Genre study: Non-fiction
Unit weeks
Nonfiction Writing
Procedures and animal reports with chapters
*Extra weeks to adjust unit studies if necessary
Mapping Part 3 - Reading and making maps
Rocks
Living and Nonliving
Season: Spring & Weather
Unit 7
Time, Geometry, Measurement
April
Reading Level 16+
Life Science: Animal & Plant basic needs for survival
Unit 8 Two-digit Addition
May & June
Reading Level
Life Science: Plant & Animal Habitats
Gravity or Australia
Season: Summer and Weather
CRT Review
Unit 9: Money

15. Questions?