1. WELCOME
To 5th Grade

2. My Family
JON
Hunter 12
Noah 10

3. 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

4. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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!!

10. 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.  

11. Other Items: Parent Teacher Conferences Scholastic ~ Class Code: R66CF
Newsletters
Link to Teacher Ease
Birthday Treats
40 Book Challenge
Items in Orange Folder

12. 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!