Welcome to Back to School Night 2012!

1. Welcome to Back to School Night 2012! Ms. Woody, 5th Grade • Good evening! • Please take moment to grab a snack and begin filling out the Parent Welcome Back Survey, use Google Docs to sign up for your parent conference, and write a note to your child for tomorrow.

2. Agenda • Introductions • Vision • Our Curriculum: Common Core Standards • Our Curriculum: The Nitty Gritty • Scholastic • Field Trips • Volunteering • Behavior policy • Procedures • Website Overview • Collaborize Classroom • Twitter • Donor’s Choose • YouTube

3. Introduction Education: • Bachelor of Arts • Credential • Master of Science • National Board Certification Experience: • Junior Statesmen Foundation • 5th Grade (4 years) • 1st Grade (2 years)

4. A Vision of Teamwork and Inclusion I want us to have a shared mission and goal to assure the healthy development of every child so that each has the knowledge, skills, and resiliency to be successful in our changing world. How do we do that? Each student will: • Challenge themselves in all academic and social areas • Have thoughtful and meaningful conversations • Value diverse abilities and cultural differences, see themselves as part of a bigger community world, one in which they can make positive changes • Build a strong sense of self • Develop critical thinking and collaborative skills • View learning and education as enjoyable and rewarding

5. SRVUSD Framework for Excellence

6. Our Curriculum:State Standards • California specifies that fifth graders need to have certain skills in English Language Arts, Math, History/Social Sciences, Physical Education, Visual and Performing Arts, and English Language Development. • You can find links to these on our website.

7. Our Curriculum:California Common Core Standards • No more is it a mile wide and an inch deep! • Anchor Standards in Math, Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening and Language • For Common Core Myths vs. Facts, cut and paste this into your browser • http://www.corestandards.org/resources/myths-vs-facts

8. Our Curriculum:Common Core Math • Anchor Standards: • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them • Reason abstractly and quantitatively • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others • Model with mathematics • Use appropriate tools strategically • Look for and make use of structure • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning • More explanation, cut and paste this into your browser: • http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Practice

9. Our Curriculum:Common Core Reading • Anchor Standards: • Make inferences and cite textual evidence • Analyze development of central themes and identify key support for those themes • Analyze how and why ideas develop over text • Interpret how words are used in text, including technical, connotative and figurative meanings • Analyze text structure, including how the sections and chapters relate to each other • Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text

10. Our Curriculum:Common Core Reading continued • Anchor Standards Continued • Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media • Delineate and evaluate the arguments in a text, including the validity and reasoning as well as relevance and sufficiency of evidence • Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes • Comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently

11. Our Curriculum:Common Core Writing • Anchor Standards: • Write arguments and use relevant and sufficient evidence • Write informative texts to examine and convey complex ideas • Write well-structured narratives to convey the development of experiences • Produce coherent writing that shows structure appropriate to the genre • Develop and strengthen writing as needed using the writing process

12. Our Curriculum:Common Core Writing continued • Anchor Standards: • Use technology to collaborate with others, produce and publish writing • Conduct research projects based on focused questions • Gather, integrate, and assess the credibility of information from multiple sources • Draw evidence from text to support analysis, reflection and research • Write routinely over extended periods of time

13. Our Curriculum:Common Core Listening and Speaking and Language • Anchor Standards, cut and paste these into your browser: • http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/CCRA/SL • http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/CCRA/L

14. The Details:Math • Curriculum: Envision Math and Investigations • Assessment: Each student will take an online test at pearsonsuccessnet.com. They will also have a paper Mathematical Reasoning portion and other supplemental tasks. If they do not pass, they will be required to retake the test at home within one month. • Website: pearsonsuccessnet.com • Username: firstinitiallastname(1,2,3…etc) • Password: creekside • Highly Recommend: Aleks Math ($35.00)

15. The Details:Vocabulary and Spelling • 20 different chapters that explore Greek and Latin roots • Use Popplet in class and workbook at home • Assessment: Vocabulary tests will be given using a Google Form. Spelling tests will be given in class and the students will email you their results. • Jupiter Grades: I plan to use an online gradebook so that you may see your children’s grades, but have not set it up yet. You will receive login information within the next week.

16. The Details:Reading • Guided Reading Using Core Books • Bud, Not Buddy • Revolution is Not a Dinner Party • Andrew Zimmern’s Bugs, Brains, and Blood Sausage • ? • Reader’s Workshop • Reading Books at the Independent Level • MONITOR THIS: Advanced readers will find inappropriate books!

17. Reading Assessment • Beginning and End of Year: Gates-Miginite (Vocab and Comprehension) Section • New Your Reading and Writing: To determine reading level • EasyCBM-Fluency and Comprehension • Other informal tests and conferences: To differentiate instruction and help with report cards

18. Homerun Readers and Parent Conferences • All fifth graders participate in a reading challenge. The reward that is reached is a trip to an As Game in the Spring. • Students must read at least 30 minutes each night and log it in their Google Docs account. • Website: creeksidecomets.org and go Student Links and Fifth Grade. Click on the Google Docs Link • Username: cr.firstinitiallastname (This sometimes deviates) • Password: ID#idnumber (NOTE: This is case sensitive) • Please sign up for parent conferences if you have not done so.

19. Our Curriculum:Science • 1. Life Science • 2. Human Growth and Development (Please Sign Form) • 3. Earth Sciences • 4. Physical Science • Assessment: • Weekly Cloze Test • Chapter Test • Lab Grade given by science teacher

20. Our Curriculum:Writing • 1. Personal Narratives • 2. The Lens of History: Research Reports • 3. Shaping Texts: From Essay and Narrative to Memoir • 4. The Research-Based Argument Essay • Assessment • Formal Essays during and at the End of Each Unit • Conventions Quizzes (mostly on Fridays) • District Fall and Spring Writes • Conferences

21. Second Step • Second Step is a program that helps increase children’s safety skills and well-being by teaching them skills that reduce their aggression and increase their social competence. Over this year, we’ll be covering three units: • 1. Empathy Training: identifying their own and others’ feelings, taking others’ perspectives, and responding empathically to others • 2. Impulse Control and Problem Solving: Apply a problem-solving strategy to social situations, practice behavioral social skills • 3. Anger Management: recognize angry feelings, use behavioral techniques to calm down and think

22. Procedures:Homework Nature of the homework: • Daily work that may not have been completed in class • Independent practice • Review and study materials for tests and quizzes • Book reports • Research reports • Other types of projects

23. Procedures:Grading Policy • Homework is not checked everyday and my philosophy is that it is a method of study. A student can choose to do as much or little as possible, but if they are not keeping up in class, I notify you via email and conferences. • Graded Assignments: tests, quizzes, projects and writing assignments • Non-graded assignments include those that are meant for practice only. When students are given work that will eventually be graded, they will be notified. • Please review the Tuesday folders because they will contain important announcements and student work.

24. Procedures:Other Assessments • 5th Grade Math Placement testing-Math is no longer leveled at the middle school. If you need more details, please send me an email or just ask. • Star Test vs. Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium • May

25. Website • Getting to the Website • Discipline and Incentive Policy • Classroom Schedule • Academic Resources-RWP, Math, Science • Homework

26. Collaborize Classroom, YouTube, and Twitter • Collaborize Classroom: Link is on the website • Facilitate argumentative and accountable discussion • YouTube Channel: Link is on the website • Flipping the Classroom • Safe Mode and Quiet Tube • Twitter • Instantaneous communication • Follow me at MrsLoya@MrsLoya1

27. Volunteering • WE NEED A ROOM PARENT OR MANY!

28. Volunteering • Each person who is in the classroom or on a field trip at all should fill out the Volunteer form and provide a current ID. • If you have not ever filled this form out for our district, you must cut and place this url into your browser and watch the video: http://www.srvusd.net/parents/volunteer_video • All documents must be received by October 19th.

29. Volunteering and Driving • If you would like to drive, you need: • 1 Volunteer Form • 1 Chaperone Form FOR EACH TRIP YOU ATTEND • 1 Driver Form • Write on the form, how many children will fit in your car • 1 copy of your current ID and INSURANCE

30. Field Trips • The following field trips are planned for the year: • Camp Arroyo 1/29/14-1/31/14 • We must have at least 10 male and 12 female chaperones • Specific Parent Meeting will be announced • Lawrence Hall of Science TBD • Walk Through Revolutionary War TBD • As Game TBD • DVMS-walking TBD • Little Hills 5th Grade Picnic TBD accommodations

31. Other: New Office Procedures • All forgotten lunches, homework, water bottles, and instruments will be kept in the office for the students to come and pick up.  We will not be calling classrooms to let the students know when a parent drops them off.   Let your children know that if they forgot something at home, they should come to the office at recess or lunch to check and see if it was brought in.  Also, please make sure that your student’s names are clearly written on the outside of anything dropped off.  Please make sure that your students know how they will be picked up each day.  Calling the classroom to let the teachers know about changes for play-dates and such is disruptive to their learning time and we are trying to eliminate the interruptions.  If there is an emergency change of plans, by all means, let us know and we will get a message to the teacher.  If your child will be leaving school early for any reason, please let the teacher know ahead of time.  This will help cut down on your wait time when you arrive at Creekside to pick up your child.  When planning their pick up, please refer to our bell schedule to avoid pick up during recess or lunch periods. 

32. Other • Announcements and Questions • Donorschoose.org-Please Sign the form • Do any parents have announcements? • Questions

33. Thank you! I appreciate the time that you have taken out of your busy schedule. Please do not hesitate to call or email and don’t forget to sign up to volunteer and for your parent conferences next month!