Welcome to Back to School Night

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Welcome to Back to School Night

• Social Studies
• Science
• MSA
• Recess
• Health
• Snacks
• Discipline School Policies
• Field Trips
• Volunteers

• Introductions
• Daily Schedule
• GT Opportunities
• Interim Report
• Report Card
• Folders
• Spelling
• Reading/Writing
• Math

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Fifth Grade Team
In alphabetical order, not necessarily ordered by
age, importance, gender, looks or any other
factors

• Rebecca Beall
• Jeff Birdsong
• Lori Carrino
• Debby Dickstein
• Brian Fuller
• Meghan Goetz

• Megan Icenogle
• Jennifer Johnson
• Cindy Meyer
• Audrey Salazar
• Kristen Tilghman
• Larue Yaskowitz

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A Day in Fifth Grade

• 830-850 School opens and morning work
• 850-950 Science, SS, or Technology
• 950-1045 Specials (Art Music)
• 1000-1045 Specials (Media PE)
• 1045 Snack
• 1045-1200 Reading
• 1200-115 Math
• 120-210 Recess/Lunch
• 210-305 Language Arts/Writing
• 310 - 315 Dismissal

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Welcome to the Swansfield Gifted and Talented
Program 2008-2009!
Math Classes Grades 4 and 5, working
two years above grade level Working
on Making Swansfield an
official GREEN SCHOOL (new project
for 2008-2009)
CEUs Curriculum Extension
Units (pullouts during Language
Arts-usually) Seminars During Lunch
and Recess or After School
YOU are your best resource!
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Interim Report

• Sent home Monday 10/12
• No grades
• Satisfactory (A,B,C equivalent)
• Unsatisfactory (D or E equivalent)
• Behaviors
• Early indications of math and reading grade levels

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Report Cards

• Issued Tuesday November 17th
• A,B,C,D,E grading system
• Effort 1 2 3
• Instructional levels - Above, On, Below

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Folders

• Weekly
• Go home on Monday and returned on Tuesday
• Try to get these turned in as soon as possible
• Homework / Planner
• Go home every night
• Reading logs to be signed by parent or guardian
  every night

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Spelling and Vocabulary

• Three Groups
• Weekly homework and classwork
• Weekly Tests

• All one list
• Weekly homework and classwork
• Weekly tests

• Lists online
• http//web.hcpss.org/brian_fuller
• http//ses.hcpss.org

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Reading

• General Reading Processes
• Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension
• Informational Reading Processes
• Text features, organization, comprehension
• Literary Reading Processes
• Text features, comprehension, drama, poetry

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Interventions

• If below grade level, then intervention is needed
• Students possibly being pulled for extra
  instruction, or intervention will occur within
  the classroom

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Reassessments

• Implementation for beginning of the year
• All students re-evaluated
• Notification within first quarter of students
  current reading level (Interim Report)
• Based upon initial evaluations students have been
  working with reading specialists

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Howard County Criteria

• Checklist of reading behaviors
• Fluency and Decoding
• Vocabulary
• Oral response to text
• Narrative and Informational
• Written response to text
• Narrative and Informational
• Positive Reading Attitude
• Criteria is performance based, not ability based

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Writing

• 6 1 writing traits
• Ideas
• Sentence fluency
• Word choice
• Conventions
• Voice
• Organization
• Presentation

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Math

• Curriculum
• 7th grade - GT on report card (Icenogle)
• 6th grade - Above on report card (Fuller)
• 5th grade - On on report card (Birdsong, Johnson,
  Salazar)
• 5th grade - Below on report card (Birdsong,
  Johnson, Salazar)
• Groupings
• Fluid math classes designed to best meet
  students needs
• Interventions occur within the math class
• Number Sense (Greg Tang)
• Most classrooms have multiple adults to meet needs

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Social Studies

• Homeroom teachers provide instruction
• Units
• Colonial Period
• American Revolution
• Building a New Nation
• We the People

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Science

• Homeroom teachers provide instruction
• Curriculum designed to prepare for MSA
• Patterns and cycles
• Matter, water, space
• Earth Matters
• Matter, ecoystems
• What can we do?
• Ecosystems
• Forces and Motion

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MSA Testing

• Reading
• March 9th and 10th
• Math
• March 16th and 17th
• Science
• Testing window is End of April - start of May
• 5th and 8th graders only
• Test administered on computers

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Health

• Violence, Tobacco, Alcohol Other Drugs
• New Program
• Family Life Human Sexuality
• Requires Parent Permission
• Meeting later in year
• Follows strict guidelines
• Students develop an understanding of growth and
  development during puberty

• Mental Health
• Identify causes effects of stress
• Define recognize symptoms of depression
• Safety, First Aid Injury Protection
• Child Abuse
• Strategies and Prevention Intervention

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Recess

• Recess before lunch
• Successes from last year
• Children eat more
• Children are calmer returning to class
• Less instruction time wasted trying to get started

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Healthy Snacks

• Good snack ideas
• Fruit
• Yogurt
• Pretzels
• Crackers
• Cheese

• Not such good ideas
• Chips
• Cookies
• Candy
• Drinks other than water

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Discipline

• Hierarchy of Consequences
• Warning (one)
• 2nd Warning (two)
• Minor Incident Report (three)
• Phone Call Home
• Discipline Referral (signed by parent and
  returned)
• Recess Room
• School Incentives
• Spotlight on Success, Incentive days, and class
  incentives

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County Dress Policy Violations

• Too much exposed skin
• Spaghetti straps, tops revealing midriff, shorts
  or skirts that are too short
• No headwear
• No hats or bandannas
• No distracting clothing
• Sweat bands, clothing with offensive wording or
  pictures

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Unnecessary Classroom Tools

• No permanent markers
• No pens
• No rubber bands
• No paper clips
• Anything that causes a disruption or is
  distracting

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Tentative Field Trips

• DC - October/November
• Science - March/April
• Tree planting
• Philadelphia - May Historical Tour
• Extended Day
• Chaperone policies

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We Love Parent Volunteers!