1. Curriculum Night Mr. Southwood August 23, 2018
We’ll get started at 7:00.
While you wait, please check out your student’s work in the hallway.
Feel free to move chairs around as needed.

2. Compact
School compact was developed to create a common language between school and home.
Our school compact outlines the responsibilities for parents, students and staff.
Research shows schools are most effective when all parties understand their role and there is cohesiveness between home and school.
Please read and review the compact at home with your student.

3. Staff and Schedules
If your child is absent and you’d like someone to bring his or her work home, please contact me early so I’ll have time to put it together.

4. Individual: Class Dojo points
Rewards
Class: Connect 10!
Individual: Class Dojo points

5. Lose period’s Lotto Ball
Consequences
Warning
Lose period’s Lotto Ball
Cross off SOAR! Letter and lose 3 minutes of Friday free time
Time-out
Letter home

6. Grades
Following standards-based grading for math and language arts, students will receive “Meets” or “Does not Meet” for each component.
5th graders will also receive letter grades for Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies.
90% - 100% = A
80% - 89% = B
70% - 79% = C
60% - 69% = D
59% and below = F

7. Standards-Based Grading
PCCSD202 curriculum is aligned to Illinois Common Core State Standards.
Grades reflect the proficiency levels of each component (skill) providing more detailed information about student achievement.
Students who do not demonstrate mastery will receive additional instruction and assessment in that component.

8. Homework Your child should have homework most nights
This will reinforce work done in school and develop time-management skills
I don’t want homework to become overwhelming, though. If your child is really struggling with something, have them complete what they can and just try their best with the rest
I’ll take problems not completed if I see they tried

9. Assignment Notebooks (Planners)
We will fill these out every day
I’ll check every day to make sure they’ve filled it out
I encourage families to look them over together, but you don’t have to sign or initial

10. Scholastic Orders
If you return the paper order form, checks (made out to Scholastic Reading Club) work best
But, I will take cash if it’s exact
If you order online, use our activation code GQLRL to make sure your order gets attached to our class

11. Lunch Money
Please send lunch $ in an envelope or baggy clearly labeled with student’s name and “Lunch Money”
Hot lunch this year is $2.45
Milk is $0.50

12. Water Bottles and Cough Drops
Please don’t freeze water bottles or put ice in them…they sweat on desks and get everything wet
Students can bring in up to 10 cough drops to keep in the classroom and take 1 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon

13. Cell Phones Cell phones should be off and in backpacks
If out during the day, they will be confiscated
I’ll contact you and you can come pick it up if you would like; otherwise, I’ll give it back to the student at the end of the next school day

14. Shared Reading – Introduce and model strategies
Reading Workshop
Shared Reading – Introduce and model strategies
Guided Reading – Practice in small groups
Independent Reading – Students apply learned strategies

15. Close Reading
Multiple readings to determine what the text says, figure out how it works, and analyze and compare the text
Questions should be text dependent and students will prove their answers with evidence from the text
We don’t close read everything (recreational reading)

16. We’ll write narrative, informative, persuasive, and research pieces
Writing Workshop
We’ll write narrative, informative, persuasive, and research pieces
I use a workshop setting to allow students to develop their independent and creative writing skills

17. Word Study (Words their Way)
We’ll focus on both spelling and vocab
Look in their planner for their list of 10 words each week
Each group will have their test on one of the A-B- C-D-E days
On the test, I’ll also give them 2 extra words to spell to see if they can apply the sort to words they didn’t study

18. Q1: Classification and cells Q2: Animals Q3: Human body systems
Science
Q1: Classification and cells
Q2: Animals
Q3: Human body systems
Q4: Plants

19. Q1: Native Americans and early European explorers
Social Studies
Q1: Native Americans and early European explorers
Q2: Revolutionary War
Q3: Westward expansion
Q4: Civil War

20. Math
Common Core asks students to struggle with complex problems and come up with different solutions
We’ll take notes as much as possible so you can see “how it was taught”
We’ll cover: place value, computation, fractions, geometry, conversions, expresions and patterns, & data

21. Assessments
I-Ready
OLSAT
P.A.R.C.
D.R.A. may be given to select students when more data is necessary to help them improve as readers

22. Read and discuss reading Work on Word Study
At Home
Multiplication Facts
Read and discuss reading
Work on Word Study

23. Stay Connected
Class Website
Remind App
Class Dojo

24. Email e996ge@mail.remind.com
Questions?
Remind:
to 81010 OR