2. Our Schoolwide behavior plan is SOAR
Our Schoolwide behavior plan is SOAR. We use SOAR cards to record daily behavior. Each night students bring the cards home for you to sign. We use these cards for two weeks at a time.
We also earn Red Rockets for individual and class behavior. The cards are given by adults other than me when they recognize outstanding behavior throughout the building.

3. Transportation Changes
Please call the office to make transportation changes after 7:45 am.
If your child’s transportation changes weekly, please send in a calendar designating how your child should go home.

4. Written Response - 2 nights per week
Nightly Homework:
Read for 20 minutes
Written Response - 2 nights per week
Math – 1 column
Spelling – 1 activity
Occasional Projects

5. Daily Warm Ups, Quiz Thursday
Time with Teacher, small groups
Word Work in Spelling Journals
Read To Self, Independent practice based on Mini Lesson
Comprehension Reading Passages/Responses in Reading Journals
iReady Reading

6. MClass Changes
This year the state has made changes to the way students are assessed in reading.
The 5 oral questions asked after oral reading are more rigorous.
The children are NOT required to pass written responses in order to be on a book level.
CCS requires a written response on the child’s instructional level to guide teacher instruction.

7. Daily Warm Ups, Quiz Friday
Check Homework
Independent Practice based on the Mini Lesson
Math Games, Fluency Practice
Word Problems in Math Journals
Time with Teacher, small groups
iReady Math

8. Our Science themes for the year are:
Sound
Changing States of Matter
Weather
Animal Life Cycles
Evolution and Genetics
STEM Journals

9. Civics and Government
Understanding the Past
Geography
Cultural Expressions
Economics
Environmental Impact
SS Journals

10. Writer’s Workshop Making a Plan, BME in Writing Journals
Organizing/Ordering Ideas
Taking ideas and turning them into complete sentences (caps and punctuation)
Handwriting/Spacing
Strategies for Spelling
Adding Details

11. Our Field trip to Frank Liske Park will be on either November 19th or 20th. We will be sending more information soon! If you would like to chaperone you are welcome to. Since we didn’t get class t shirts, students can wear the Red Hawk Run shirt we provide in October or a Patriots t-shirts on trips. An order form was sent home from PTO with your child the first week about ordering a
Patriots t-shirt.
**We will also be having several in
house field trips this year.