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Welcome to River Gate Elementary’s Curriculum Night!

Welcome to River Gate Elementary’s Curriculum Night!. RGES and Class Expectations. Be Responsible Be Respectful Be Safe. Consequences and Rewards. *A verbal warning is always given first. Warning Time out to write a reflective paragraph about behavior. Phone call home.

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Welcome to River Gate Elementary’s Curriculum Night!

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  1. Welcome to River Gate Elementary’s Curriculum Night!

  2. RGES and Class Expectations • Be Responsible • Be Respectful • Be Safe

  3. Consequences and Rewards *A verbal warning is always given first. • Warning • Time out to write a reflective paragraph about behavior. • Phone call home. • Office referral. Rewards: • Praise • Feeling good about yourself • Stickers • Candy • Prize box

  4. Writing • Personal & Imaginative Narratives • Poetry • Literary Essays: Writing about Reading • Memoirs • Argumentative/Persuasive Text • Spelling • Grammar • Cursive

  5. GRADING SCALE A: 93 - 100 B: 85 - 92 C: 77 - 84 D: 70 - 76 F: below 70

  6. Literacy

  7. North Carolina Objectives Goal 1- WORD RECOGNITION/VOCABULARY Apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write. Goal 2- Comprehension Apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed. Goal 3- Connections Make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology. Goal 4- Products Apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts. Goal 5- GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS Apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.

  8. TEXTS IN GENRE • Fiction- Legends, Novels, Folklore & Science fiction • Nonfiction- Autobiographies, Informational books, Diaries & Journals • Poetry - Concrete poems, Haiku • Drama- Skits, Plays

  9. EOG Reading Practice Tips Steps to Great Reading Comprehension! 1. Read anything above the title. 2. Read the title.3. Read the questions and highlight key words. 4. Mark whether it is an "eye-ball" question (direct recall, can put finger on the answer in the passage) or a "thought bubble" question (have to be a detective to get answer by looking for clues in the passage)5. Read the selection and highlight anything that helps you answer a question. 6. Look at the answer choices beginning with D and move up. 7. Eliminate answers until you have the best answer left. 8. Mark your answer choice.

  10. Reading Comprehension Practice Web-sites 1) Website that teaches summarizing - http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/storysummaryl.cfm. 2) Reading Comprehension - http://pbskids.org/lions/stories/ 3) Finding Facts -http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/factfrenzy/opening.html 4) Reading Comprehension Worksheets - http://www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm 5) Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions - This is a GREAT site! http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/e/drawconclusionsp.cfm 6) Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences - http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/m/drawconclusionsl.cfm

  11. Math Major Concepts/Skills Number sense 0.01-99,999 Multiplication and division of multi-digit numbers Perimeter and area Transformations Line graphs Median, mode, and range Variables in number sentences Proportional reasoning Students will solve relevant and authentic problems using appropriate technology and apply these concepts as well as those developed in earlier years.

  12. Math Concepts/Skills to Maintain • Whole number computation • Non-negative rational numbers • Length, time, capacity, and mass • Symmetry and congruence • Coordinate grids • Circle graphs • Permutations and combinations

  13. Accelerated Reader 2012-2013

  14. Science 7 Units of Study Force and Motion Matter: Properties of Change Energy: Conservation and Transfer • Earth in the Universe

  15. Science cont. Earth History Ecosystems Molecular Biology Review of all previous units

  16. Social Studies • Our focus is the state of North Carolina. • Landforms, bodies of water, map skills. • Natural resources in NC, and cultural and physical characteristics of NC regions. • Early people and major landmarks, • State symbols and history.

  17. Agendas • Please make sure you sign your child’s Agenda each night. If they do not write anything down, please do not sign. • It is their responsibility to get it to you to sign. Hold them accountable. • Your child should be reading every night for 30 min. in his/her AR book and recording it on their nightly reading log. Please sign this as well.

  18. Thanks for all you do to support your child!

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