Welcome to the Mysterious World of 5th Grade!

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Welcome to the Mysterious World of 5th Grade!
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Meet the Teacher

• Education Bachelor Degree Masters
  Degree Major Elementary Education Major
  Reading Minors math 36
  additional graduate credits
  developmental/corrective reading
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• Licenses elementary education, grades
  1-8 reading teacher, grades pre-K 12 CPR and
  first aid certifications math teacher, grades
  1-9
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• Experience four years of 1st and 2nd
  grades twenty-first year of 4th and 5th grades
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• Contact information
• e-mail lipcin_at_holmen.k12.wi.us (school)
• lipkehome_at_aol.com (home)
• phone [phone] ext. 4424 (school)
• [phone] (cell)

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Goals

• Teaching our kids how to tell time is not enough,
  we need to teach them how to manage their time.
• Teaching our kids how to count money, make
  change, etc. is not enough, we need to teach them
  how to manage their money.
• Teaching our kids facts is not enough, we need
  to teach them how to find the facts and then how
  to use them.
• So our goal is to
• teach our kids how to use a weekly planner and
  how to break large assignments into manageable
  bits
• create a classroom banking system and give the
  students an opportunity to open up a class
  business
• create a classroom of independent workers
• create a classroom of students willing to accept
  consequences for their actions

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Managing Money

• Application form (must know their complete name,
  address, and birth date)
• Checks, registers, savings book
• Earning money
• 5 a day for attendance
• Classroom jobs
• Classroom businesses
• Must keep up calendar
• Expenses
• Monthly rent
• Fines
• Shopping
• Consequences
• Property
• Shopping

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Homework Policy

• Not a nightly thing
• School is a full time jobfor the most part, if
  you use your time well during the day, you will
  be able to go home at night to pursue sports,
  music, art, volunteer work, chores, family time,
  and good old playtime!
• There will be a need at timesdifficulty of
  subject, bad day, convenience
• Mantra You have a choice of when to do it,
  where to do it, and how to do it but not WHETHER
  you will do it!
• Math facts nightly until done!
• Using NH to show where the child needed help in
  completing a task.
• Colored pen system

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Curriculum

• 5th grade curriculum has been clustered into
  themes.
• Example Exploring
• Geography (Exploring the world!)
• History (Early explorers)
• Science (controlled experiments)
• Health (exploring the human body)
• Language Dictionary skills (exploring words)
• Reading (exploring the various genres)
• Curriculum calendars

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Nitty Gritty

• Musical devises in school
• Snacks for breakfast and/or milk break
• Lockers, totes

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Communications

• Ask your child!
• Yearly calendar
• Monthly calendars
• Weekly newsletters
• Website www.holmen.k12.wi.us (extra copies of
  permission slips, etc. can be found here)
• E-mail/phone numbers