Welcome to Fifth Grade! - Clow Elementary School
Welcome to Fifth Grade! - Clow Elementary School
Welcome to Fifth Grade! - Clow Elementary School
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<strong>Welcome</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Fifth</strong> <strong>Grade</strong>!<br />
Curriculum Night<br />
Robert <strong>Clow</strong> <strong>Elementary</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
September 2, 2010
The Fearless Leaders<br />
• Vicki Mulacek 5M<br />
Room 208<br />
• Sara Pewett 5P<br />
Room 210<br />
• Aaron Sovern 5S<br />
Room 211
Grading Scale<br />
<strong>Grade</strong>s<br />
are<br />
achieved,<br />
not<br />
given.<br />
• A 91 -100%<br />
• B 81 - 90%<br />
• C 71 - 80%<br />
• D 65 - 70 %<br />
• F 64 or below
Homework<br />
• Used <strong>to</strong> reinforce skills<br />
taught at school<br />
• About 50 minutes per night<br />
• Includes:<br />
– Studying for tests & quizzes<br />
– Independent Reading<br />
– Math Facts
Organization<br />
• Stressed Highly<br />
• Assignment Notebooks<br />
• Accordion File<br />
• Neat Desks & Rooms
• Harcourt Series:<br />
Trophies<br />
• Guided Reading<br />
Reading<br />
Flexible Grouping<br />
• Literature Circles<br />
• Extended Responses<br />
• D.E.A.R.<br />
• Accountabilities
Accountabilities<br />
• Independent Reading<br />
• Activities (completed at school)<br />
• Book Talk<br />
• Book Review<br />
• Accelerated Reader Test<br />
• S<strong>to</strong>ry Map<br />
• Free Choice for 5 th novel<br />
• Grading<br />
• A = 5 novels read with reading log & activity<br />
• B = 4 novels read with reading log & activity<br />
• C = 3 novels read with reading log & activity
• D.O.L.<br />
Writing<br />
• Book Review (Exposi<strong>to</strong>ry)<br />
• Memoir (Narrative)<br />
• Revision and Editing<br />
• Personal Essay (Exposi<strong>to</strong>ry)<br />
• Poetry<br />
• Edi<strong>to</strong>rial and Commentary<br />
(Persuasive)
• Pre-tests given<br />
Monday<br />
Spelling<br />
• Final tests on Mondays<br />
• Base & Alternate Lists<br />
• Stress spelling rules<br />
and patterns<br />
• Weekly activities<br />
completed in class
Math<br />
• Otter Creek fact practice<br />
occurs daily<br />
• Taught <strong>to</strong> be problem<br />
solvers<br />
• Decimals, fractions, algebra,<br />
geometry, and more…<br />
• EDM Journal, Study Links,<br />
and Student Reference Book<br />
• Extended Responses<br />
(writing about math)
Science<br />
• Digestion & Nutrition,<br />
Astronomy, Small Life,<br />
Weather, & Electricity and<br />
Magnetism<br />
• Text: Scott Foresman’s Science<br />
• Supplemented with Pearson<br />
Success Net, videos, webquests<br />
and hands-on experiments
Social Studies<br />
• Geography, Explorers, Colonial<br />
Times, Revolutionary War,<br />
Constitution & Civil War<br />
• Text: Scott Foresman’s<br />
Building A Nation<br />
• Supplemented with Pearson<br />
Success Net, maps, videos,<br />
webquests and Internet<br />
research projects
Field Trips<br />
• Paramount<br />
Theatre (fall)<br />
• Planetarium (fall)<br />
• Robert Crown<br />
Center (winter)<br />
• Cantigny (spring)
Testing in 5 th <strong>Grade</strong><br />
• OLSAT: Oc<strong>to</strong>ber<br />
• Gates Reading Assessment: December<br />
• ISAT: Feb - March<br />
– Reading<br />
– Math
Communication<br />
• Via letters, phone calls,<br />
e-mail, and conferences<br />
• Link between school and<br />
home is extremely<br />
important<br />
• Voice mail and e-mail<br />
checked daily
Keys <strong>to</strong> Success in 5th <strong>Grade</strong><br />
• Independence<br />
• Responsibility<br />
• Quality<br />
• “Is it good<br />
enough <strong>to</strong> put<br />
my name on it?”
We’re<br />
Looking<br />
Forward <strong>to</strong><br />
a Great<br />
Year!
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