Meet Your Teachers

Terri Cooper– MathRachel Hardin–Reading & Writing Jenny Chapates – Science & Social Studies

• Please leave papers in your student’s binder until we tell them to take them out.

• The binder is the KEY to staying organized! Please help your student keep contents in the same order as on the arrangement sheet at the front of their binder. The homework pocket is the first divider for easy access

For Your Information:• Norton Express Envelopes

go home every Wednesday night. – Memos, PTA information,

and graded work.– Return envelope on

Thursday.– Sign Code of Conduct

each week before Friday – these are kept in the page protector in the front of student binders.

•Mrs. Bernard & Mrs. Crawford teach Reading & Writing

Fifth Grade Schedule

7:55 – 8:10 Homeroom8:10 – 9:35 Block I9:40 – 10:25 Specials10:30 – 11:00 CASTLE Time11:00 – 12:25 Block II12:30 – 1:00 Lunch1:00 – 1:20 Recess1:25 – 2:50 Block III 2:55 Dismissal

Personal Schedules can be found in the front of binders

A Day in the Life of a 5th Grade Math Student

Math Block1. Problem Solving Warm-Up:

Warm Ups - authentic and practical real life application2. Lesson/Content from Mrs. Cooper

Use of manipulatives and technologyTextbook when appropriateMath Journaling

3. Guided or Independent Practice4. Station Activities and Small Group

Current contentDrill practice

MathHomework

Homework:-Will have most nights-No need to do more of what you already know, but math is a skill that needs practice!

Grades: 50% Interactive Workbook-Notes

50% End of Chapter assessments (open book/note)

1st 9 Weeks: Geography, Migration, Exploration and Settlement

2nd 9 Weeks: Desire for Independence, Revolutionary War and Constitution

3rd 9 Weeks: Revolutionary War and Constitution (con’t), Citizenship of a New Country, Westward Expansion, Causes and Effects of the Civil War

4th 9 Weeks: Causes and Effects of the Civil War (con’t), Industrialization, Free Enterprise

1st 9 Weeks: Safety & Scientific Process, Cycles

(Water, CO2/O2, Life Cycles), Ecosystems

2nd 9 Weeks: Adaptations, Physical Properties of Matter,

Force, Types of Energy, Science Fair Dec. 4

3rd 9 Weeks: Earth’s Energy Resources, Landforms

4th 9 Weeks: Space, Weather/Climate, STAAR Review, History of Science

Science- General Weekly Schedule

Monday-Stations, models, hands-on activities

Tuesday- Digging Deeper Day-vocabulary reinforcement, reading in Science, STEMscopes (computer lab)

Wednesday-Lab Experiment

Thursday-Complete Experiment (analysis/conclusion)

Friday- Assess Learning

Grades will be taken on: journal entries, lab experiments, science current event summaries (1 per grading period), homework, assessments, classwork, Science Fair projects

Resources can be found on my website, especially: Edmodo, STEMscopes, Study Jams, and various sites for finding current event articles

Language ArtsReading, Thinking, and Writing

Living the Writer’s Life

• Viewing the world as a writer

• Using a writer’s notebook to generate and collect ideas, stories, and try new techniques

• Taking an idea through the writing process (pre-write, brainstorm, draft, revise, edit, publish).

Areas of Focus

Idea Development

Organization

Voice

Word Choice

Sentence Fluency

Conventions

Word Work• High-Frequency Words

• Spelling assessed through writing

• Prefixes-Suffixes

• Patterns

• Spelling strategies

•Encourage reading! It is the best way to improve spelling!

Reading – Our Year At A Glance1st Nine Weeks - Genre

Study, Focus on Fiction

2nd Nine Weeks – Critical Reading in Non- Fiction

3rd Nine Weeks – Exploring Drama and Poetry, Biography/Autobiography, Real World Historical Reading, Preparing for State Assessment

4th Nine Weeks – Author Study, Literature Circles Study, Focus Historical Reading

Reading – Our Day At A Glance

Mini - Lesson/Content Time – Focus on Current Learning Objective (Whole Group, Guided and Independent Practice)Independent Reading – Time for self selected reading, teacher conference and reading response in RRJ

Reading – Our Requirementso Students must have an independent reading

book in class each day.o Homework – Read 30 minutes each night

and record in reading log.

• Some homework every night. – Math– Reading (30 minutes – 4

days)– Writing/Word Work– Science/Social Studies-

Edmodo or STEMscopes– Unfinished Work – Homework should be written

in the agenda and kept behind the homework divider in the binder.

Sky Ranch Reminders• Due by Friday, September 12th

– Student Permission and Medical Forms

– Chaperone Forms and Background checks

– Full payment for students and chaperones

Thank you for being dedicated parents.

Complete and return your sheet regarding parent

conferencesIf you have general 5th

grade questions, please email your student’s

homeroom teacher. For subject specific questions,

email that teacher.