Welcome to Curriculum Night

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Welcome to Curriculum Night

• Mrs. Powells
• 5th Grade
• 2007 - 2008

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Daily Schedule

• 750 820 Morning Work
• 820 845 Spelling/English/Wordly Wise
• 845-945 Reading
• 945-1025 Writing
• 1025-1050 Recess
• 1050-1100 Bathroom Break
• 1100-1130 Lunch
• 1130-100 Math
• 100-145 Science/Social Studies
• 145-155 Agendas/Pack Up
• 200-245 Specials
• 245-300 Dismissal

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Specials Schedule

• Monday Music
• Tuesday PE
• Wednesday PE
• Thursday Art
• Friday - Spanish

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Homework Expectations

• 50 minutes a night for 5th grade
• Wordly Wise
• Math homework workbook page
• Read for 20 minutes
• Projects or special presentations

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Behavioral Expectations

• Follow directions.
• Raise your hand before talking.
• Respect others.
• Change tasks quickly and quietly.
• Respect the teacher while she is talking by
  listening.
• Obey all classroom and school rules.

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Grading

• Tests
• Wednesday Reading Comprehension Tests
• ThursdaySpelling Tests
• Friday Wordly Wise, Writing, Grammar
• Tests/ Projects/ Performance Assessments In 5th
  grade every nine weeks your child will be given a
  skills assessment in every subject.
• Classwork- literature packets, math practice
  problems, various worksheets

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Communication

• E-mail
• Web page
• Weekly Friday Folders
• Newsletter
• Voicemail
• Parent Portal

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Additional Important Information

• Medicine- Must be brought in by a parent.
• Transportation- Changes can not be from bus to
  bus. They can be made from bus to car rider.
• Absences- Notes must be sent in to excuse them
  within five days.

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When your child is absent

• When a student is absent you may email me and I
  will email the lesson home. This is very
  important to remember, because getting behind is
  stressful.

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Standardized Tests Given in 5th Grade

• ITBS Testing
• - a national standardized test containing
  questions that are below, on, and above
  students ability levels
• - compared nationally
• COGAT Testing
• - an intelligence test that measures students
  overall logic and reasoning ability

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• CRCT Testing
• - a state standardized test that assesses your
  childs mastery of Georgias 5th grade
  curriculum
• - schools are graded based on these scores
• -students must pass the reading and math
  section in 5th grade in order to be promoted to
  6th grade
• Georgia Writing Assessment
• -The writing assessment for grade five consists
  of an evaluation of each student s response to
  an assigned prompt.. Students are assigned a
  topic from a prompt bank representing three
  genres narrative, informational, and persuasive.
  Students are allowed approximately 120 minutes to
  write their essays. The writing assessment must
  be administered in one day. A make-up is also
  given the following day.

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Reading

• Novel Studies
• Literature Circles
• Study Skills
• Leveled Readers
• Main grades come from the following
• Reading Comprehension Tests on Wednesdays
• Literature Circle Packet

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Language Arts

• Spelling Tests will be every Thursday over
  Wordly Wise words
• Grammar Weekly worksheets and Daily Oral
  Language
• Wordly Wise Lesson exercises every week with a
  test every Friday

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Math

• Houghton Mifflin Math Georgia and Math
  Expressions Curriculum
• Spiral Curriculum
• Tests
• Quizzes
• Classwork
• Homework workbook pages
• Multiplication timed drills

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Social Studies

• Civil War
• Reconstruction
• WWI
• 1920s
• The Great Depression
• WWII
• Our curriculum is Houghton Mifflin United States
  History Civil War to Today.
• Your student will be assessed on projects and
  small quizzes that are aligned with the Georgia
  Learning Standards.
• Please visit www.georgiastandards.org

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Science

• Our curriculum is Harcourt Science.
• We will be studying Earth Science, Physical
  Science, and Life Science.
• Assessments will include hands on activities,
  projects, and tests.

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Responsibility

• All students are required to help clean up the
  classroom at the end of the day. Classroom jobs
  will be shared all year long.
• Students are responsible for books that they lose
  textbooks and literature books.
• Students must copy their homework assignments
  from the board into their agendas and the
  homework is due on the due date.

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All About Me

• April Powell
• I am a Toccoa Falls College graduate with a
  degree in Early Childhood Education.
• I have been married for three months.
• I enjoy reading especially mystery and suspense
  novels.
• I love to ride roller coasters.
• I have recently become an Auburn football fan.

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• Thank you
• for coming!