SHOAL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of Shoal Creek Elementary, a learning family that is committed to student success, is to ensure that each student performs at his/her highest academic level through a rigorous and diverse curriculum.

We are located on the Purple Hallway and Trailer # 1, 2, and 3.

“THE TEAM” consists of Mrs. Linda Adams, Ms. Krysti Addams, Ms. Laura Bashaw,

Mr. Coley Housworth, Ms. Daphne Ridling, and Mrs. Alicia Watkins.

WE are starting school earlier this year. Students hours are from 7:05-2:10 daily.

Please, make arrangements for your child to be on time so that full instructions can be given.

Please make sure that your child is on time for school daily. They are missing instructional time when they are absent and/or tardy. School start at 7:35. If they come after the bell rings. Parents are to sign them in and supply a written note to the teacher of the tardy.

Please read the handbook with your child.

It is the responsibility of the child to get the work missed when absent.

Parents are to request the work of their child as well. See the Rockdale Handbook.

It is very important that parents please keep teachers informed of the transportation home. If at any time, the transportation changes from the normal way home, please contact the teacher by a letter stating specifically that change. Phone conversations will not be done if there is a change. It must be in writing. We want to make every effort on enforcing your child’s safety to and from school.

Parents, please make sure that you are reviewing the skills presented daily with your child. Reinforcement and repetition is great for the child.

Read 30 minutes or more daily. When working with your child, have them to be problem-solvers. Allow the child to think on a higher level of thinking. Also, when asking questions with your child, advance them to thinking on a higher level. Review Bloom’s Taxonomy of questions to help with discussions.

Mission Statement/Student Handbook—Please, go over this with your child daily.

Agendas---This is a requirement and they need to be checked daily and signed by the parent. Homework and notes home to parents will be written in these agendas. That is why they need to be checked and signed daily.

Behavior Logs: check and sign daily. Homework will be given daily. Please, go over skills that

have been taught for the day. We want each child to start off the new year on the right foot.

Make up homework will be given when parents have a written excuse/emergency for the child not do his/her homework. The child has 3 days to get it in with a written note.

Parents---Mailbags come home weekly (Tuesday). Please, keep any school information. RETURN ALL SCHOOL WORK SIGNED.

If you need to contact the homeroom teacher by note, please DO NOT put it in the mailbags. Please, give notes the child to give to me.

Never place money in the mailbag. Place any money in an envelope, and give it straight to the teacher.

Students brought home a contract on this policy. It is entitled, Shoal Creek elementary 5th. Grade Policies. We will a be following the rules that are set for our classes, school, and county. Please, make sure that you read those in the Rockdale Handbook.

Student behavior logs

WE are going to be having weekly meetings in our classroom to discuss any issues and/or situations that children/teacher come in contact that needs addressing. These are life-long skills to help children adjust to the daily changes that go to understanding life, PROBLEM SOLVING. Having a forum to discuss these issues will help with their understanding of these life-long skills.

Georgia Writing Test: March 2011◦ Note: no official state writing test ◦ RCPS has a county wide writing plan and

test schedule in place. CRCT Test: April 19-28 Unit Pre- and Post Tests Benchmark testing quarterly in ELA

and Math

New grading/scoring scale: RUBRICS Student goal setting Portfolios: formative (on-going) and

summative (final) assessments Interactive notebooks Required county-wide portfolio tasks

◦View example Student led conferences Promotion requirements

Jekyll Island trip will be Nov.15-17, 2010 . More information will be coming home to you regarding this trip. There will also be a meeting with the parents of children that will be attending the trip. The cost of the trip is $200.00. The trip is well supervised by teachers and administrative staff.

PTA MEMBERSHIP---100% (Family: $6 and individual: $4

We need your support. By joining you will help in the success of SCE.

Unit 1 Groovy Graphing.◦ Collecting data◦ Analyzing data in tables and graphs.◦ Choosing most appropriate graph.◦ Determine and justify mean, range, median,

and mode. Unit 2 Divine Decimals

◦ Understand place value◦ Comparing decimals◦ Multiplying and dividing decimals with decimals

less than and greater than 1.◦ Modeling multiplication and division of decimals◦ Rules and relationship for multiplying and

dividing whole numbers also apply to decimals*Year long: Investigate simple algebraic

expressions and understanding word problems.

These are some of the Math websites we used this summer during the Math Enrichment Camp.

http://www.aplusmath.com/games/ http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/class

rooms/linda/algebra/activities/balance/balance.html

http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_Math

www.firstinmath.com

http://www.k111.k12.il.us/king/math.htm#Beginning%20Math%20Activites

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html http://aimsedu.org/puzzle/index.html http://www.funbrain.com/ http://www.multiplication.com/ http://www.primarygames.co.uk/ http://www.aaamath.com/ http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/

kids0.asp

http://www.okaloosa.k12.fl.us/walker/games.htm

 

Writing Narrative Writinga. Topic, Point of Viewb. Plot, Setting. Conflictc. Organizationd. Plot and Character

Developmente. Stays on Topicf. Character Conversationg. Narrative strategies:

dialogue, tension, suspense

h. Closurei. Effective word choice

Reading- Literary Textsa. Story Elementsd. Settingf. Using dialogues and

descriptionsg. Themesh. Judgments/Inferences

-Vocabulary (spelling)Context CluesRoots, suffixes, prefixesMeaning of prefixesAntonyms, Synonyms, and

Homophones

Conventions (English)

a. Nouns, Verbsc. Verbs, Verb Phrasesd. Types of sentences,

Sentence structure

e. *The 8 Parts of Speech will be covered throughout the year.

Listening/Speaking.Viewing

a. Initiates new topicsb. Asks relevant questionsc./i.Responds appropriate

to questions/commentsd. Language to indicate

levels of certainty/hypothesis

e. Paraphrasing to confirm understanding

f. Turn-taking behaviorg. Discussion of

comments/opinions

h. Offers opinion respectfully

j. Class oral presentation (voluntarily and when called upon)

k. supports opinions w/reasons

l. Provides and asks for response expansions (gives in depth explanations w/cooperative groups)

Responds to Visual/Oral Texts

a. Media in daily lifeb. Evaluates role of

media in public focus and attention

c. Judges media as information/entertainment source

Delivering/Responding to Presentation a. Uses media to persuade b. Uses notes, multimedia, other aids for

structure c. Verbal cues, eye contact to engage

audience d. Individuality/personality (speaker’s voice) e. Prioritize information by importance,

impact (rather than availability) f. Use of technology

Students need to read 25 books and/or 1,000,000 for the school year. Book reports will be given so that children can link the reading, comprehension, and type of book to that of their writing. Each 9 weeks students will read about 6 to 7 books where they be will assigned the type and possibly in the future a report will begin on it. They will report using the Story Map as their guide, find a way to share, which will be provided, and take an AR test on the book. This is a requirement to help tie in all the elements mentioned above. WE will be using various writing prompts to assist in the writing process. We ask that you help your child daily on their writing. Our goal is to have “ALL” children scoring high in all 4 DOMAINS—Ideas, Organization, Style, and Conventions.

There will be a rubric coming home that will explain this more in details.

Unit 1-Using Connecting Themes in 5th. Grade Social Studies

Unit 2:-Effective Citizenship Unit 3: The Civil War: The Nations Divided Unit 4: Reconstruction: the Nation Reunited Unit 5: Bigger, Better, Faster: The Changing Nations Unit 6: Ups and Downs: World War I. the Jazz Age

and the Great Depression Unit 7: Hot and Cold War II and Its Aftermath Unit 8: Overcoming the Past: The Age of Civil Rights Unit 9: Understanding the News: What is America’s

role in the 21st. Century Unit 10: Effective Citizenship: Conclusion

Process Skills: These skills need to be embedded in each 9 weeks period.

Determines sequence of events and identifies cause and effects relationships

Develops and interprets charts, tables, timelines, graphs, diagrams, and other graphic aids

Distinguishes between fact and opinion

Distinguishes between primary and secondary sources and determines respective uses.

Analyzes interpretations of the same event from multiple types of sources

Makes predictions and comparisons based on factual information.

Migration of People-Examines cause and effects of the migration of people

Characteristics of Regions- Relates how natural resources and physical features influence human activity in each region of the US

Maps and Globes- Draws conclusion based on the multiple pieces of information included on maps. Uses maps and globes to explain geographical settings of historical and current events. Makes generalizations about human activities in a geographical region using map information

Translates geographical data into simple box graphs.

Uses grid systems, cardinal and intermediate direction to determine specific locations

Review parallels and meridians on globes and flat maps

CivicsWhat are the duties and

responsibilities of the three branches of government?

Which branch of government is responsible for dealing with specific topics of current events?

How can we keep government responsive to the needs and interest of its citizens?

What concepts are important to US citizenship and contribute to national unity?

How can a citizen bring about change in their government?

How does a bill become a law?

What are the rules of the classroom and the consequences of breaking them?

What are the rules of the school and the consequences for breaking them?

How do you show respect for others?

How can we work this out? What is your opinion?

Economics-How do we decide

what is produced?How are goods and

services distributed?

What are the basic concepts and terms of economics?

What decides what will be produced?

How do we deiced what is produced?

What factors of production will be used and how?

How are goods and services distributed?

How will the results of production be distributed?

Lab SafetyScientific MethodAnimal and Plant CellsClassificationInherited TraitsHealth-Inherited Tendencies for illness and

disease

http://www.georgiastandards.org/

This link will give you a detailed picture of the new Georgia Performance Standards and the frameworks for each subject.