back to school5cde
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Welcome to Fifth Grade
• Class community
• Differentiated Instruction
• Study Skills/ Organization
• Curriculum, projects
• Parent conferences, volunteer sign up
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Community of Learners
• Respect for self and others
• Student choice in projects
• Integrate technology, art, music as part of themes
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Differentiated Instruction
• Guided Reading• Book Clubs• Independent Reading• Writers’ Workshop• Listening center
• Math - hands on• Science - project
based• Social Studies -
student centered projects
• Art, Music integration• Technology
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Cooperative Learning and Small Group
Instruction
• We work together on class newspaper, Writers’ Workshop, Math activities, Reading, Science and Social Studies projects.
• Support teaching staff provides important resource for small group learning.
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Study Skills / Organization
• Teach study strategies
• Note taking and using SNQRR notes
• Variety of review techniques (index cards, partner quiz, Jeopardy)
• Color coded organization of subjects
• Daily use of planner
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Language Arts
• Writing• Grammar - D.O.L.• Direct writing
instruction• Writers’ Workshop• Student choice,
teacher guidance
• Balanced Reading Program
• Guided Reading• Book Clubs• Independent Reading• Reading Response
Journals• Book letters to
Teacher
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Mystery Festival
• Students explore a CSI crime scene and use scientific tests for solving “crime” scene.
• Students follow up with writing and performing a play based on their solution to the crime scene.
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Math
Using Data, Organizing and Graphing
Place Value
Order of Operations
Addition,
Subtraction, Multiplication, Division
Fractions, Decimals, Per cents
Measurement
Problem
Solving Geometry
Algebraic Expressions
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Gingerbread Geometry
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It’s All Connected !
• We learn in Science and Social Studies the importance of being good citizens and respecting each other and our environment.
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Science
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Ecosystems
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Electromagnets and Inventions
• Students read about and create innovative solutions to everyday problems.
• Three years ago, one of our students was a finalist in the NY State Student Invention Convention.
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Social Studies
• Government - Class Elections
• Assignment: The World –weekly current events issues.
• Document Based Questions
• Qualities of Heroes in Crisis through History
• Canada – research computer lab
tourism commercial
• Mexico - Mural project
• Latin American Ambassadors for Pan-Am Games
• The Great American Rock Band Tour
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Hands-On Learning
• Mexican Mural - We gain an appreciation for the Art, Music, Culture of Mexico
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Latin American Ambassadors
• We do inquiry based research to be ambassadors for the Pan-Am Games in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Great American Rock Band Tour
• Cooperative learning• Students develop
virtual travel itinerary• Math, technology,
map skills, cultures, and music integrated for culminating activity
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What’s new?
• Dignity for All Students Act
• Report cards provide expanded, more detailed information about your child’s writing and reading.
• Improved communication in work study skills.
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Foreign Language
• We integrate our studies of Latin America and Canada with learning Spanish and French language and culture.
• French begins October 22.
• Spanish begins March 25.
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Odds ’n Ends
• Daily snack time• Fun Friday, weekly, monthly, yearly raffle
to reward good behavior, Lunch Bunch• Birthdays celebrated on last Friday of
month - please be aware of peanut allergy/ sensitivity when planning snack
• Outdoor recess when weather permits - for safety, no flip-flops should be worn to school.
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We’re in a Partnership
• Weekly Newsletter
• Parents sign planner, project outlines, and all tests and quizzes.
• Notes in planner are welcome
• Telephone Mrs. Carter 434-1960 x 4156
• Email [email protected]