Welcome to Curriculum Night

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Welcome to Curriculum Night!
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Our Daily Schedule

• 855-915 Students Arrive/Morning Work
• 915-1050 Readers Workshop
• 1055-1140 Lunch Recess
•  1140-1235 Math
•  1235- 120 Writers Workshop
• 120-200 Specials
• 205-235 Science and Social Studies
•  235-255 Handwriting and Read Aloud
• 305-320 Recess
• 320-330 Pack up and Dismissal

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Eagle Period

• Eagle period is designed to create a block of
  consistent time on a daily basis. This time
  allotment is used for intervention and enrichment
  activities, assessments, small group work and
  Destination Reading. There will not be any new
  instruction during this time period due to some
  children receiving extra support outside of the
  classroom.

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Daily 5Readers Workshop

• The Daily Five is a structure within the reading
  block that allows every student to be
  independently engaged in meaningful literacy
  tasks. These research-based tasks are ones that
  will have the biggest impact on student reading
  and writing achievement, as well as help foster
  children who love to read and write. Students
  receive explicit whole group instruction and then
  are given practice time to read and write
  independently while I provide focused, intense
  instruction to individuals and small groups of
  students.
•  The Daily Five is comprised of
• Read to Self
• Work on Writing
• Read to Someone
• Listen to Reading
• Word Work
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• There are very specific behavior expectations
  that go with each Daily 5 component. We will
  spend our first weeks working intensely on
  building our reading and writing stamina,
  learning the behaviors of the Daily 5 and
  fostering our classroom community. I will also
  spend time learning about your childs strengths
  and greatest needs as a reader in order to best
  plan for each students instruction.

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The CAFÉ Menu

• Comprehension- your child will be learning
  various comprehension strategies and review them
  in one-on-one conferences as well as small group
  settings.
• Accuracy- your child will also be learning many
  strategies to help them decode unknown words as
  they read.
• Fluency- your child has been taught to select
  Good Fit Books or books they can read,
  understand and are interested in, which they will
  read during Daily 5. They will be spending most
  of their time actually reading, which research
  supports as the number one way to improve
  reading.
• Expand Vocabulary- this element of the CAFÉ menu
  is important in fostering not only a love of
  words and reading but also is essential in
  children being able to comprehend higher level
  texts.

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Small Group Instruction

• Develops independent readers
• Develops reading strategies
• Works on a specific comprehension and reading
  skills.
• Develops reading comprehension
• Develops oral fluency through phonemic awareness
  and phonics skill work.

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Writers Workshop

• 6 Traits 1
• Ideas
• Organization
• Voice
• Word Choice
• Sentence Fluency
• Conventions
• Presentation
• Rubrics will be sent home (2-3 every nine weeks).
  All of your childs work will be kept in their
  writing portfolio notebook. If at any time you
  would like to come in and view their work, please
  dont hesitate to look at their progress.

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Lunch/Recess

• 1055-1140
• Please send lunch money in an envelope with
  your childs name on it.
• Thank you!

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Math

• Addition/ Subtraction, and Multiplication/Division
  with Mastery Math Facts
• Place Value
• Problem Solving
• Time and Money
• Measurement
• Math Journals
• Math Games
• Differentiate with Math Groups

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Math

• Math Reference Books Please keep these in your
  childs backpack at all times.
• Math Journals These will come home before every
  unit test for you to review. It is important that
  these are sent back the next day.

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Specials

• 120-200
• Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
• Monday- Music
• Tuesday- Library
• Wednesday- Computer
• Thursday- Art
• Friday- Wellness

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Spelling

• Accountability for Priority Words
• Daily writing, activities, cloze and dictation
• Core Words
• Relating spelling to all language skills
  (reading, writing and communicating) is essential
  and appropriate for the spelling curriculum.

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Science and Social Studies
Social Studies History Government Geography Peopl
e in Societies Economics Science Life
Science Physical Science Earth Science Science
and Technology
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Read Aloud
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Prepare for Dismissal

• Put Communication Folder and Agenda in their
  backpacks. (Please check these daily)
• Clean Up

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Homework

• Agenda Books
• Each day the students will write a letter or
  letters beside the day of the week and date in
  their agenda books. Please refer to your Agenda
  Key located in the front of the agenda to
  understand these symbols.
• R - Read 20 minutes - Students are expected to
  read 20 minutes, 4-5 nights a week. Students may
  choose the book or books they read each week.
  They can get books at the public or school
  library, or read books from home. If your child
  is unable to read every night, he or she may
  double-up on reading a night or two. So, instead
  of reading two nights, he or she may read for 40
  minutes on one night. Optional you may write
  down the title of the book in the yellow comment
  box or on the printed lines beside the date.
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• FC Practice Math Facts- Students are to
  practice their Mastery Math Facts practice sheets
  (in folders on M, W, and F) or flashcards/computer
  game at least 3 times a week. A fact is
  considered mastered when the child can give the
  answer in 3 or less seconds. We will not write
  this in at school, please write FC on the nights
  that you have worked on math facts.
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Homework

• LA Literacy Activity-This may consist of a
  reading strategy page taught that particular
  week. These sheets will come home in the
  communication folder.
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• SP Special Project There will be an information
  sheet in the communication folder with a due
  date.
• HL Everyday Math Home Link (Example HL
  1.2-This stands for Unit 1 Lesson 2) The homework
  page will be in the communication folder and will
  come home 2-3 nights a week. It will say HOMELINK
  at the top of the page. Everyday Math homework is
  due the next day.

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Homework

• FC Practice Math Facts- Students are to
  practice their Mastery Math Facts practice sheets
  (in folders on M, W, and F) or flashcards/computer
  game at least 3 times a week. A fact is
  considered mastered when the child can give the
  answer in 3 or less seconds. We will not write
  this in at school, please write FC on the nights
  that you have worked on math facts.

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Rules and Procedures

• 1 verbal warning (these are documented by the
  child in our behavior log notebook.)
• After 1 verbal warning the child signs the
  behavior log. If they have to sign 2 times then
  they move their clip and will write their
  behavior and what better choice they could have
  made on a problem solver sheet at 2nd recess.
  This will come home that day please send it back
  signed.

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Classroom Incentives

• Class Reward- earning marbles on a daily basis
• Class selected award

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Miscellaneous

• Please send a note in if you are picking up your
  child.
• If homework is not completed by the due date,
  they have one free pass and if it happens 2
  times in one week they will complete it during
  their 2nd recess time. If there is a special
  circumstance please send me a note or email to
  excuse your childs incomplete work.

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• It is going to be a great year!
• Please feel free to contact me throughout the
  year with comments questions!