Open House 2015-2016

Meeting Norms:
Cell Phones on vibrate
Questions on Postits for end of meeting.
Wiley Way

We VALUE a safe and respectful learning community of innovative:

*Risk Takers

*Creators

*Collaborators

*Communicators

*Critical Thinkers

*Problem Solvers

that fosters growth and global understanding.

Our Mission is: The Wiley community empowers innovative learners to explore and enhance our changing world.

We are looking forward to a great year with our students and families. Fifth grade is a year of growth and change for your child as they get ready for middle school.

We’ll continue to set high expectations for EACH student—academically, socially, and with their organizational/study skills.

Classroom Rules—
Wiley Way

Respect Yourself
Respect Others
Respect Property

PBIS and Conscious Discipline Models

Communications

• Monday Folder – weekly
• Assignment Book – daily, parent initial Monday nights
• The Global(grade level newsletter) – monthly
• Content Newsletters- monthly
• Wiley World Review Blog(Mrs. Taylor) – weekly

Teacher Contact & Info


E-mail – mprice3,cstockert, or gross2@wcpss.net
Wiley- wileyes.wcpss.net

Teacher Websites:
http://stockertstars.weebly.com
http://pricelessfifth.weebly.com
http://msgrossclass.weebly.com

Remind
To stay in the loop:
Text @3ead34 to 81010 or
980-404-2086

Digital Tools

• Edmodo
• Discovery Education
• Web Tools
• *Students will need access to device with internet for homework and classwork.

Parent Internet Supervision Suggestions:

• Be aware of your child's internet activites and be clear about your expectations.
• Remind them to not give out identifying information.
• Keep track of their passwords of things other than Edmodo and Discovery Ed.

Parent Internet Supervision Suggestions:

• Consider filtering software like Cybersitter or Cyber Patrol.
• Subscribe to Parent Internet Safety sites and blogs like CyberAngels.org/parents/tips.php and SafeKids.com and

HOMEWORK
-60 minutes max
30/30- ELA/SC/SS and Math
-Check Agenda
-Time and Assignment Management is KEY

Homework is practice of classroom content and is not graded. It is to be reviewed after it is completed together, students correct their own papers.

Homework may include some projects from Reading, Science, or Social Studies—oral presentations of the work are graded.

Assessment of Student Progress:

-Common assessments

-Teacher created & standard based assessments

-Classroom observations

-Formative Assessments-mCLASS

-Interims – go home 9/28 for all

Field Trips:
Mountains to Sea Tour-----
Outer Banks- Early November
Grandfather Mountain- Late April/Early May
TBA-College Tour
March- Museum Of Natural Sciences
June--Poe Health Center
June ----- Pullen Park – year end celebration

ELA- Writing

ELA- Writing

We will cover different types of writing this year:


Narratives

Informational

Opinion

Persuasive

Research

Elaboration
-Is your story developed with specific details that are related to the main event?

-Do all of the details move the story? SALT

-Does your story have enough elaboration for your reader to see and feel what is happening?

-Can you show me an example where your reader can see or feel what is happening?

-Students are given a rubric that guides them on needed elements for all writing assignments.

Organization
-Does your story have a clear beginning, middle, and end? Does it have a bold beginning?

-Are the ideas and actions connected to one another?

-Can your reader follow the story logically from beginning to end? Correct sequence?

-Is the story complete? Does the story feel finished?

-Did you tie the ending back to the beginning?

Conventions

CUPS—Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, and Spelling

PATS—used for paragraph changes:

Places, Actions, Time, and Speakers


SALT-- Similes, Adjectives, Lots of details, and Transition words

ELA- Reading

Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational

Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

Students have journals--work is done/kept in journals that remain in the classroom

Students will use Edmodo for review, quizzes, vocabulary building, etc.

Informational Text
Balancing Informational & Literary Texts
Students read a balance of informational and literary texts like essays, speeches, opinion pieces, biographies, journalism, and historical, scientific, or other documents.

Various NOVELS are read that are both fictional and nonfictional

FLUENCY
(mClass, spelling benchmark (phonics)
Running Records on each student, as well as informal assessments each quarter)

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension, and read on-level text with purpose and understanding.

Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

Use context to confirm or self-correct word
recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas



-Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.


-Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).
-Fifth grade students match reasons and evidence with particular points made by the author of a text.

-Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

MATH

Overview: Quality mathematics instruction provides students with real world problem solving strategies that promote deep conceptual understanding. As a resource, we’ll use the district approved lessons connected to CC and essential standards for instruction. We’ll encourage collaboration through the use of math talk and student leaders. Students work together and grow as leaders while learning to solve multi-step, higher level thinking problems. Students practice basic math facts and skills through the use of quick practice and building concepts. Integration of calculators/other appropriate technology will also be implemented.

Number & Operations in Base Ten – 1st Q, 2nd Q (decimals)

• Understand the place value system.

• Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths.

Operations and Algebraic Thinking – 2nd Q

• Write and interpret numerical

Expressions, including use of parentheses, brackets and braces

• Analyze patterns and relationships.

Geometry – 2nd Q

• Graph points on the coordinate

plane to solve real‐world and

mathematical problems.

• Classify two‐dimensional figures

In a hierarchy based on properties

Number & Operations—Fractions – 3rd Q

• Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.

• Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide
fractions.

Measurement and Data – 4th Q

• Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system.
• Represent and interpret data.
• Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume
and relate volume to multiplication and to addition

Social Studies

American History:
(Pre-Colonial- Reconstruction)


History

Geography & Environmental

Literacy
Economics &
Financial Literacy
Civics and Governance
Culture

Quarterly Breakdown


1st Q- Economy

2nd Q- 13 Colonies & American Revolution

3rd Q- Government & Westward Expansion

4th Q- Civil War

Science

Science Content:
Forces and Motion

Matter, Properties, and Change

Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Earth Systems, Structures, & Processes

Structures and Functions of Living Organisms

Ecosystems

Evolution and Genetics

UNITS BY QUARTER

Q1-Ecosystems
Q2-Investigating Weather Systems
Q3-Investigating Human Body Systems
Q4-Motion and Design

June-Human Growth and Development

All science units are taught using an inquiry method where students investigate a focus question using hands-on material. All experiments and discoveries are recorded in a science notebook. The goal is introduced, focus questions are written and predictions are made. Then the fun begins.

Studying for Science Assessments is key. A variety of study strategies will be taught this year.

KEY WEBSITES:

www.Edmodo.com
www.discoveryeducation.com
www.studyjams.com

Conferences-

Sign-Up Genius
*Check your email & please sign-up online tonight*

Conferences...
We begin conferences this week, and hope to see all of you at your scheduled times.
Conferences will be 15 minutes per child with all 3 teachers.
Please be on time.

We appreciate all of your support. We couldn't do it without ALL OF YOU!
Let’s Embrace the Possibilities

Together!