Welcome to Open House

September 9, 2015Mrs. Turso & Mrs. Halling

5th GradeRoom 22

Expectations and Goals

• We have high expectations for our students.• Our belief is high expectations equals high

achievement.• We want your child to succeed and will do all

we can to achieve that goal. We expect the students to do the same.

• We expect each student to put forth their best effort in order to reach their fullest potential.

• We believe in personal responsibility as well as teaching independence.

• Students, parents and teacher should all be taking an an active role in education.

Daily Schedule

9:00-9:15- Arrival/Do Now9:15-10:45- Math10:45-11:45- Reading Workshop 11:45-12:45- Lunch/Recess12:45-1:30- Writing Workshop1:30-1:58-Word Study1:58-2:38-Special2:40-3:15- Science/Social Studies3:15-3:30- Pack up and Dismissal

Specials Schedule1:58-2:38

Monday- PE Tuesday- LibraryWednesday- PEThursday- MusicFriday- Art

Classroom Policies and Procedures

• Homework will be assigned Monday-Thursday. Occasionally there will be homework over the weekend. Students are expected to read for 20 minutes each night and fill in their home reading log.

• All homework assignments as well as tests and quizzes will be written in their planners.

• Thursday folders will have any forms/flyers from the schools. Please look for graded work in the folder as well.

Classroom Policies and Procedures cont.

• Inappropriate behavior will be dealt with accordingly. Consequences can include: warning, loss of recess time or privilege, note or phone call home or trip to the office.

• Appropriate behavior will be praised continually and rewarded accordingly.

CurriculumELA• Valley Central uses the Literacy Collaborative

Framework. It includes a Reading Workshop and Writing Workshop. Minilessons guide the students in each of the workshops which will be based on the required Common Core standards. Students will be assessed weekly on these standards.

• Reading Workshop includes guided and independent reading. Assessment is based on observation, anecdotal notes, participation, guided reading assignments and standards assessments. We will also be working on grade level reading passages and questions as well Close Reading.

Curriculum cont.ELA

•Writing Workshop includes a personal narrative, informative/expository, persuasive/opinion, poetry-revise and publish.

•Word Study(Spelling/Vocabulary)- Spelling will focus on one rule/principle per week with daily practice in the classroom and a test on Friday. All work will be in their word study notebook that can be taken home to study. We will also be starting vocabulary with four words per week. Please look for these in the word study notebook as well as • homework assignments.

Curriculum cont.• Mathematics In Grade 5, instructional time will focus on three

critical areas: (1) developing fluency with addition and subtraction of fractions, and developing understanding of the multiplication of fractions and of division of fractions in limited cases (unit fractions divided by whole numbers and whole numbers divided by unit fractions); (2) extending division to 2-digit divisors, integrating decimal fractions into the place value system and developing understanding of operations with decimals to hundredths, and developing fluency with whole number and decimal operations; and (3) developing understanding of volume. Specific standards can be found on core standards.org

The modules we will be following can be found

On engageny.org.

Curriculum cont.Grade 5 Science Curriculum

• Animal Growth & Heredity • Living Things Interact [ Ecosystems, Communities, Relationships among organisms] • Biomes • Protecting & Preserving Ecosystems • Changes to the Earth’s Surface [Within crust and In atmosphere] • Journey to the Center of the Earth [Three layers, Creation of Mountains, volcanoes] • How has Earth’s surface changed [Continental Drift] • Minerals • Types of Rocks [Sedimentary, Igneous,Metamorphic] • About the Earth-moon system • What causes lunar and solar eclipses • How Earth and the moon are alike and different • Definition of: Revolve, orbit, rotate, axis, eclipse Cycles in Solar System • Matter & Its Properties [Physical, Measure Liquids and Solids] • Atoms & Elements Everyday Forces Motion Forms of Energy • Weather & Climate

Curriculum cont.

Grade 5 Social Studies Curriculum

•HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, CANADA AND LATIN AMERICA •

GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES, CANADA AND LATIN AMERICA •

ECONOMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, LATIN AMERICA AND CANADA •

GOVERNMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, CANADA AND LATIN AMERICA

Interactive NotebooksThe purpose of the interactive notebook is to enable students to be creative, independent thinkers. Interactive notebooks are used for class notes as well as for other activities where the student will be asked to express his/her own ideas and process the information presented in class. Our plan is to use

one for reading and one for math.

Interactive Notebooks

New York State Testing2016

• NYS ELA April 5th-7th- This will include short stories, articles and/or poems with multiple choice, short response and extended response questions.

• NYS Math- April 13th-15th. This will include multiple choice, short and extended response.

Extra Curricular Activities

• Chorus takes place on Mondays from 2:40-3:20. It will begin September 21th. This is during our Science/Social Studies block.

• Band lessons take during the instructional day as well.

• Students are expected to seek out and make up all missed work due to either band or chorus.

Open Communication

Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns.

Mrs. Turso- ext. 19251andrea.turso@valleycentralschools.orgMrs. Halling- ext. 19183christine.halling@valleycentralschools.org