Woodland Heights Curriculum Night

1. Woodland HeightsCurriculum Night 5th grade

2. Mission Statement • The mission of Woodland Heights Elementary is to provide a safe, positive learning environment which nurtures all children in their pursuit of academic excellence, emotional, physical, and social growth with the support and cooperation of students, parents, staff, and the community.

3. 5th Grade CurriculumFollow the instructions below to view curriculum for 5th grade.curriculum guide.pdf From the Iredell Statesville school website: • Click on departments • Click on curriculum • Click on elementary education • Click on grade 3-5 • Click on 5th grade • Click on parent friendly curriculum guide

4. Testing in 5th Grade • Testing consists of one baseline test in reading, math and science. • Two predictive assessments this year in reading, math and science • Students will be required to take reading, math and science EOGS in May.

5. Report Card Scale A 100-93 B 92-85 C 84-77 D 76-70 E Below a 70

6. Weekly Vocabulary and DOL • This grade will be hand written on the report card. • Weekly vocabulary and DOL will impact whether or not your child meets the requirements for honor roll as well as the other grades on their report card.

7. Conferences Conference time will be here before we know it. Information will come home within the next month. • If your child is on a SSP (student support plan) you will be required to set up a conference. • If your child is labeled AIG, you will be required to set up a conference in order to discuss and develop a DEP (differentiated education plan)

8. Communication Teachers will communicate through e-mail and weekly Monday or Friday folders. Also it would be helpful if you could send each one of your child’s teachers an e-mail telling them who your child is and the subject taught so they can add you to their e-mail address book. E-mail addresses Kelly Bailey kelly_bailey@iss.k12.nc.us Nancy Banister nbanister@iss.k12.nc.us Erica Bonge erica_bonge@iss.k12.nc.us Patty Clark pclark@iss.k12.nc.us Stephanie Keller s_keller@iss.k12.nc.us Haley Munksgard hmunksgard@iss.k12.nc.us Marie Palma mpalma@iss.k12.nc.us Kerry Storace kerry_storace@iss.k12.nc.us

9. Flexible GroupsCriteria for Movement Students will need to meet two out of the three criteria to test into a different set or flexible group • Better than a 95% grade point average on tests/ assessments; in reading students should also have a better than 95% average in comprehension and independent skill work. • 15 to 20 percentage points higher than class average on the PAs (predictive assessment) • Consistently above average performance on class work

10. Flexible GroupsCriteria for Movement Students will need to meet two out of the three criteria for movement to test into a different set or flexible group. • Lower than a 70% grade point average on tests/ assessments; in reading students should also have a lower than 70% average in comprehension and independent skill work • 15 to 20 percentage points lower than class average on the Pas (predictive assessment) • Consistently below average performance on class work

11. Homework • Most classes require 20-30 minutes of nightly reading in homeroom. • Nightly math and reading homework will vary from teacher to teacher. • All classes have a DOL test and a vocabulary test each week. Definitions assigned on Monday and Cursive Sentences assigned on Wednesday (Be looking for these to come home) • Science Weekly • Mon- read and highlight important info • Tues- complete crossword, begin worksheet • Fri- worksheet due Teachers have gone over their homework policy in class. If you have any further questions, please contact that teacher.

12. Infractions Any student receiving an infraction will be required to walk for 5 minutes during recess. The infraction is to be signed by a parent and brought back the next day. Homeroom- I don’t write out infractions, I will indicate it on their weekly report if they didn’t do their homework (it still counts toward silent lunch) • Homework infractions: Students who forget their homework will receive an infraction slip. Two infractions for missing or incomplete homework within the same week will require silent lunch on Friday. • Behavior infractions: Students who misbehave will receive an infraction and will have an automatic Friday silent lunch.

13. Friends Friday Students who have no infractions or one infraction for no homework will be rewarded with Friends Friday. Friends Friday allows students to sit by their friends from other classes during lunch.

14. Accelerated Math and Reading • Accelerated math has been purchased through PTO funds and will be primarily used for remediation and enrichment. • Accelerated reading is not used in 5th grade, however if students still would like to take tests, computers are available.

15. Thank you for coming and that concludes the homeroom portion. If you have any further questions, please contact your child’s homeroom teacher for a conference if you feel it is needed before October. Go to child’s Math teacher now!

16. Math • The first 10 minutes of Math the students work on ACC Math or daily skills • We then check homework from the previous days lesson • We review the day’s lesson and take notes, then do practice on their whiteboards • Students then generally have 1 workbook page to complete every night, they do have some time in class to complete it so they may have it finished before coming home • They then work on ACC Math (They have a certain number of objectives to meet before the end of the nine weeks. First nine weeks is 7 objectives to have mastered). ACC Math does get counted into their grade, but only tests and the percent of the goal they met. I do not take a grade on ACC Math practices. • They also have a weekly word problem packet with 5 problems due by Friday and then we check them together. The skills in these packets will become harder as each nine weeks progresses. • PDSA and Celebrations (pretest, quizzes throughout lesson, reviews day before the test, and test at the end of the unit) • Grades consist of ACC Math, quizzes, quick checks, tests, and double-sided worksheets • Homework should not take more than 30 minutes, if it does contact me! • Multiplication Tests will be given periodically, students are expected to know their facts by fifth grade and should study them at home if they haven’t mastered them yet

17. Reading • The first 10-15 minutes student silent reads book of their choice. They are required to do a book report by the end of the nine weeks. Reading contract with more details will be coming home. • We begin with stories in the 5th grade basal Reading book. We read it and do vocabulary, comprehension, reading skills, and grammar skills that go along with the story. Homework may be 1 to 2 worksheets on a certain skill. They usually have time in class to complete some of it. They will almost always have a test on Thursday or Friday over the story that we read (this includes vocab and comprehension) • We will do novel studies starting second nine weeks (Sign of the Beaver, Night of the Twisters, Jackie Robinson) • We focus on Reading strategies through weekly EOG passages. We will start with one EOG passage a week and as the year progresses work our way up to more of them and to some harder nonfiction passages • We cover figurative language, biographies, and poetry later in the year • Students are not required to do AR but they are set up and do have that option. I will also be giving Reading STAR tests throughout the year to monitor their Reading progress • We will also be doing Reading fluency practices or Reader’s Theatres on Fridays to help the students become more fluent/ • Grades consist of skill worksheets, quizzes, tests, and projects